• 9:08 -- He has a black omega on his shoulder. That's from Babylon 5 - (1994 show).
• 33:23 -- Reuse of footage. How sad.

• holy fuck that woman is hot.
• 17:00 -- Loreena Blodgette? Is that a play on John and Lorena Bobbitt?
• 17:40 -- Trilithium field?

• 2:30 -- A handy-dandy portable universe-gating device.
• 3:15 -- Why would Becca and Tyr be in that other universe? Why would they be off the ship?
• 8:45 -- Detritus
• 11:00 -- Cyborg
• 15:30 -- "Fate is a hunter"
• 20:00 -- "My demons".. they meant to say Daemon (computing)
• Trance displays a superpower.

• 27:30 -- Depressurize (Uncontrolled decompression)

  • How do you depressurize the command deck, is it right next to the outside?
• 36:45 -- I thought that got shot, was it repaired?
• 41:00 -- Girl talk? Well let me regale you with all the guy talk men have. There's. Uh. Then that other. No wait, there's this time. Right, men aren't allowed to have a safe space and expect to be left the fuck alone.
• 41:15 -- Romi looks a hell of a lot better without that shitty blue fembot hair.
• 42:00 -- If only there were some sort of way to help people with memory recovery. Some sort of ps.. psy something or other. Oh, it's not important, nevermind.

The loyal heart
has hidden treasures.
In secrets kept,
In silence sealed.

Commander Zing Bex,
"The Art of Secrets".
Approx. CY 2575

• 0:30 -- Singapore drift (named after Singapore)
• 0:30 -- "You've Got Mail" was an email notification played for AOL[doesn't exist] users, back in their dialup-internet days.
• 1:00 -- Holo novels. Women and their porn.
• 1:15 -- "Constantine" (Constantine)
• 2:00 -- "More like fellen hellen fellen handbag" doesn't make any sense to me.
• 2:30 -- You'd think they'd have had this talk on the way there.
• 3:30 -- Harper wasn't told to bring a weapon?
• 4:15 -- Constantine dies, Dillan is framed for it.
• 8:45 -- "Oh frigates" (Frigate). This expression can be heard as "oh frig it", and frig is another word for fuck.
• 9:45 -- Wouldn't the Maru have tracking mechanisms on it? Hell, wouldn't it have been locked down, impounded and guarded?
• 16:00 -- "Zeus" (Zeus)

• 16:45 -- Drama, Theatre

  • The comment to Tyr is that the actor portraying him, Keith Hamilton Cobb, was an actor from 1994 to 1996 in the drama All My Children (1970 - 2011-09-23).

• 17:00 -- "They also serve those who stand and wait." (First-come, first-served

  When I consider how my light is spent
  Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
  And that one Talent which is death to hide
  Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent
  To serve therewith my Maker, and present
  My true account, lest He returning chide,
  "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?"
  I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent
  That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need
  Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best
  Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state
  Is kingly: thousands at his bidding speed,
  And post o'er land and ocean without rest;
  They also serve who only stand and wait.
  -- John Milton
  When I Consider How My Light is Spent (somewhere between 1652 to 1655-10), first published in Milton's 1673 Poems (1645)

• 17:30 -- That was an unnecessarily-fancy landing.
• 17:45 -- Split-screen confusion.
• 18:15 -- Take his weapon? Kill him or tie him up or something.
• 19:45 -- First appearance of Zeus.
• 21:30 -- I couldn't find any information on "the Arklin system"
• 22:30 -- Why not accept an inspection team onto Andromeda. It might help delay things.
• 25:15 -- Why would there be an animation of the shard being added, when a shard hasn't been recovered by Dillan? Also, there was a hole in the thingy that got filled in while it was reattached. That's annoying.
• 27:00 -- Wouldn't it take time to prepare dessert? Wouldn't it also be served after the meal?
• 27:45 -- Why is nobody pulling a gun? There was a threat that innocents would be hurt.
• 30:00 -- So apparently portable holographic communication technology is no longer limited to local ship stuff from an AI.

• 31:00 --

  Where are you going, my fine young knight?
  Where are you going, cross land and sea?
  To fight for what is good, stop what is bad
  all for the vase of Remni.
  -- (fictional)

• 32:30 -- But since others know about the shards, and have found them, this means those other Highguard Black Ops members broke their oath.

  • Or perhaps one or more returned their pieces to the Commonwealth.
  • Or perhaps there was a leak at the Commonwealth side of things.
• 33:00 -- "All that glitters is not gold"
• 33:30 -- I would have sent androids.
• 33:45 -- Harper's slide over their back is directly from a move in Hercules - The Legendary Journeys - (1995-1999 show).
• 35:45 -- Harper does a little breakdancing.
• 36:30 -- I would have thrown the piece into a star or black hole.
• 37:45 -- Romy's breasts look great in that top.
• 38:30 -- Cynicism
• 39:00 -- No, you're never past innocent until proven guilty (Presumption of innocence)
• 41:45 -- "on the run with his gun in the sun" is a phrase I couldn't place.

The Rabid Dogs of Gallaphron
Can be trained to drool
At the ring of a bell.
Doesn't stop them from biting.

Karlos El Greeta-Stirra,
"Reflections of Rim-Salt", CY 4389

(the quote a reference to classical conditioning from a dog experiment done by Ivan Pavlov)

• 1:15 -- You'd think the pursuers would break off when up against Andromeda.
• 1:45 -- The ship explodes, taking Andromeda out with it. Roll credits.

• 2:45 -- Hypoxia (medical)

  • There seems to be a lot of this. Maybe I should stop linking it.
• 6:00 -- Big strong man saved me, I must fall in love with him.
• 6:15 -- Euphoria, also a reward for saving the princess.
• 7:30 -- Pillow, Lumbar
• 9:00 -- Jigsaw puzzle, Jigsaw (tool)
• 11:45 -- Jumpsuit

• 13:00 -- Orientals are all great at martial arts.

  • That zoom thing is taken from the era Bruce Lee movies.

• 15:00 -- As she turns in the towel, she has a bra on.

  • Yes I was looking.
• 16:15 -- Tyr's jealous.
• 17:15 -- I would have stowed them and locked the door.
• 17:45 -- So about those internal defence weapons.
• 19:15 -- If only they were in a ship that had internal sensors.
• 20:15 -- Internal defence, called it.
• 22:00 -- What happened to the woman with the box of brains?
• 24:45 -- The tooth brushing thing reminds me of something else.
• 26:30 -- Rock garden and probably a reference to the Pet Rock.
• 30:30 -- I'm told Spartacus (1960 film) has an "I am Spartacus" scene.
• 31:00 -- War criminal (War crime), Cranial surgery (Neurosurgery), chemical injections, radiation, Electroshock (Electroconvulsive therapy), Josef Mengele
• 32:00 -- Oh look Harper, free woman!

• 33:30 -- It's obvious the old man is the doctor, since he's been doing specific things.

  • Called 34:00 -- it.
• 35:15 -- But he died during the rescue.
• 37:15 -- Word salad

You're never more alive
than the first time
someone points a gun
to your favourite head
and asks you to dance.

Major Korgo Korgar,
"Last of the Lancers", AFC 32

• 0:45 -- What the hell, the tone of the shot has changed.

  • Also, Tyr looks terrible.
• 1:45 -- Lock him the fuck up. Or lock her up. Then roll credits.
• 5:15 -- Oh god Tyr looks terrible. Distractingly terrible.

• 5:45 -- Wow, his assistant is hot.

  • On second thought, she's not.
• 10:45 -- Stuff in his port.. maybe he records his senses or something neat.
• 12:00 -- No, you don't need to find out who did this by risking him. Maybe he'll recover..
• 15:00 -- Sid could have arranged this as a way to eliminate business competition.
• 16:00 -- Can't you both go in?
• 19:15 -- "And don't even get me started on the fish people" seems to be dubbed over at the end. His lips don't match.
• 33:45 -- The codes which she changed years ago?
• 34:00 -- How the fuck did Becca get on board? Also, how did the ship leave the Andromeda.. aren't there doors and such?
• 34:15 -- He did it to himself, called it.
• 36:30 -- Uh, isn't boarding a ship a hell of a lot harder than shooting it down? How the hell did they get on board without her being all evasive and stuff?

"More than a mere ship of exploration,
The Bellerophon embodied humanity's last,
great effort to tame the universe
through our own will alone."

dr. paul musevini, father of drago
musevini, a farther shore, CY 8401.

• 0:30 -- Oh hell Tyr's facial hair.
• 2:15 -- For one big engine, that thing is stupid-manoeuvrable.
• 6:00 -- Why are the ships a problem now when they are completely out-manoeuvred before?
• 6:45 -- So they're out of fuel after saving the Maru?
• 9:30 -- Shouldn't 50% of the people dying be female? Patriarchy!
• 11:00 -- Just how big were those boarding ships that they brought that many soldiers?
• 11:30 -- Should I be keeping track of "I hate" comments?

• 12:30 -- Coast of High Barbaree (American version, date unknown), by author unknown.

  With cutlass and gun,
  we fought for hours three;
  Blow high! Blow low! And so sailed we.
  For the ship it was their coffin,
  and their grave it was the sea.
  A sailin' down the coasts
  of High Barbary

• 13:30 -- Why would they be trapped out there? Just.. come back into the system..
• 15:30 -- New Jersey, United States
• 16:00 -- Humpty Dumpty
• 16:30 -- They're on the equivalent of damned comfortable submarine. Discussing sanity is a stretch.
• 19:15 -- Bucking, Bronco
• 22:45 -- Boston United States, Baseball, Fenway Park

• 24:30 -- They could easily make their way back, and have six thousand years of data. If the universe of people never discover a non-slipstream method of travel then their information would be quite interesting.

  • Of course the Magog world ship would have already swept in and all stars would have been consumed. Perhaps Dillan should have explained all of that.
• 26:45 -- "Negtive Kelvins", hehe.
• 31:15 -- So .. everyone should be at least enlistment age + 20 years? Or have they been out for less time, and she was his XO from before the Bellerophon?
• 30:45 -- Smooth jazz

• 31:00 -- Sexy black man gets all the ladies.

  • She's taking his access card.
• 32:30 -- Access card. Called it.
• 36:45 -- Divine Comedy (1320), by Dante Alighieri
• 38:00 -- By the way, Magog.
• 39:00 -- I suppose the technology to repair androids will remain. Except Magog.

• 39:30 -- So they're going the long way back.

The Bellerophon had three women. The one main one, one who spoke across a loudspeaker, and one in the background for one scene.

The moth wants a star
The night wants tomorrow
The King wants what's far
Outside his sphere of sorrow

Takes of Queen Kysella, CY 5647

• 1:30 -- No, things eventually break down into heat (Entropy).
• 5:15 -- Voltarium is fictional.

• 6:45 -- Of course, the Andromeda could hang out and keep pelting asteroids. Maybe that wouldn't be much of an irritant either.

• 9:00 -- Who, the two blondes? They don't have DD breasts..
• 10:30 -- It does leave traces of Voltarium.. and those shock waves. That's something.
• 26:30 -- Why not take the social route, and just.. get in on a trade vessel or some such.
• 27:00 -- Jump rope (Skipping rope)

Walk without footprints.
Breath without breath.
Our lives leave no trace.

--Motto Of The Assassins' Guild.
CY 3455

• 18:30 -- Avril(?) Port (Port wine)
• 19:30 -- For the.. well the best reason would be being horny. But I guess that's just me for that character.
• 28:00 -- Nebula
• 29:30 -- I still think she's The Leper.
• 33:15 -- Oh, called it.
• 34:00 -- Or if she leaves the Maru she's going after her brother.
• Oh, un-called it.

To the question of life after death:
Not whether such a thing exists,
but... What manner of life?

"A Wayist Practicum"
Reverend Bem, CY 10090

• 5:15 -- Bunny (Rabbit)
• 8:00 -- "Anti oxidation field".. haha
• 12:30 -- The Garlic / sharp stick (stake) are regarding Vampires.
• 15:30 -- Flying the ship out and EVAing back would have worked.
• 22:00 -- Or you can exit EVA the ship and bug-bomb it.
• 27:30 -- Mass hysteria
• 28:30 -- "Hell hole", as in "hell mouth", see Buffy the Vampire Slayer - (1997 show)
• 31:30 -- So... there are ghosts in this science fiction show?
• 32:00 -- "El fresco" means "outdoors". A reference to them eating outside of those boxes.
• 33:00 -- Narcissism is the very best personality disorder, and they are the best people who we should all pay attention to RIGHT NOW.
• 36:30 -- Uh, why can't The Andromeda's avatar fight it?

She wounds you
as a rose will wound you --
Not with her thorn.

A rose will always wound you
with her beauty.

Harry Martinson, CY 6862

• 1:00 -- They have rad shields, now?
• 12:00 -- The most beautiful.. well, I guess to each their own.
• 16:15 -- Oh shit, I take that back.
• 17:30 -- Tyr has his bone blades removed. Somehow.
• 24:30 -- Why don't they have eyes on him?
• 40:30 -- She's not a real Nietzschean if she doesn't want babies..

"It matters little how we die,
so long as we die better men than we
imagined we could be --
and no worse than we feared."

- Drago Museveni CY 8451

• 1:00 -- Boy scout (Scout (Scouting))
• 25:00 -- Oh boy that parry special effect sucked.
• 38:30 -- His uniform is in perfect condition.

What clings to a wall,
But travels all the world?

- Unsolvable Riddle of Ski,
Patriarch of Jill. CY 1111

• 2:30 -- Cats have been extinct for thousands of years.

  • NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.
• 4:30 -- She's not heavy, and doesn't even have magnetic boots.
• 7:30 -- Couldn't she read the guy's lips?
• 10:00 -- I don't remember what she's talking about.
• 10:45 -- Oh, those things. The super-teleporting invisi-aliens from another dimension.
• 17:00 -- Dillan is technically much older than Tyr.
• 19:00 -- Why would it just play with him.. instead of stealing him or killing him?
• 39:30 -- Search for survivors and mop up. Are there stowaways?

You might say reality is
the result of complex
negotiations between the
observer and the observed.
But that is simply a
point of view.

MICHIO VON KERR,
"The Apotheosis of Reason,"
CY 11542

• 2:00 -- Second appearance of the bonzai tree.
• 7:45 -- Does it know Becca is "the one"?
• 10:45 -- I thought those tubes were sensitive, and he clearly shot and almost hit one.
• 11:15 -- Uh, what? They have ninja?
• 29:00 -- Uh, what? They have people in places?
• 37:30 -- It's killing people, but they're just extras so it's okay.

"The universe is bound in equal parts
By arrogance and altruism.
Any attempt to alter this
Would be suicide."

DR. WALTER GILES, "The Value of Value,"
CY 11543

• 16:00 -- Oh, I know that actor.
• 23:00 -- Well she was saving herself too..

"Any fool can be honest,
for it is only what he knows.
A wise man is aware of
when to share the truth."

Vedren Empress Yoweri XXIII
CY 2932

• 7:45 -- I know that actor.
• 30:15 -- Speed metal

Are you a monster?
Are you a freak?
Will you be my friend!
Or have you lost your way.
With trouble to pay,
When you come to your joyrney's end?

Empyrium Lullaby, CY 8745

• The reappearance of Rev. Bem

• 21:15 -- I think I recognize that lead actor.

  • Hmm, no.
• 32:30 -- Why would there be an end to his journey?

"I've always found a fully deployed
battle group to be the most
effective negotiator."

Admeral Costanza Stark,
High Guard Chief-of-Staff,
CY 9758

• 1:00 -- Umm, no. Don't attack Pyrian equipment. Find and talk to them.

(Trance sent Tyr the plant?)

"I can no more endure to view;
Wonderous sight of so celestial hue."

-Final diary entry of Capt. Oswald Pierce,
CY 1116
Regarding his only love.

• 14:00 -- The Vault of the Heavens

  • Mythology, see things like Etymologiae
• 21:00 -- Jumper cable
• 33:30 -- Nietzscheans are not suicidal.
• 33:45 -- Gamma-ray burst
• 37:15 -- So Tyr has two friends who have fathered their own race.
• 38:00 -- Apotheosis
• 40:30 -- Oh, Trance didn't give the seed to Tyr.
• 41:00 -- Aurora
• 41:30 -- Sigh.

"The universe is perfect.
You cannot improve it.
If you try to change it,
you will ruin it.
If you try to hold it,
you will lose it."

Notes to Odo Chan,
CY 9101

• 0:30 -- That's the vine he was recently given. It seems quite large.
• 15:00 -- Why would they be bringing the captive along?
• 38:30 -- It would take time for a solar flare to get to them.

"We all wear the twin masks of emotion,
Happy or sad, haunted or hunted,
You choose the mask, you choose the risk.
You choose your own poison."

Last words of Plete the Pirate CY 3902

• 4:15 -- Why would they back off if The Andromeda picks her up first?
• 9:15 -- Oh.. bewbz
• 41:00 -- I'm really sorry about your studio, we'll have to do that episode over.

"Gentlebeings, I bid you welcome.
Welcome to the blood, to the sweat,
to the tears.
Welcome to your places on the wall."

Admiral Costanza Stark,
"Address to War College Graduates,"
CY 9764

• 1:00 -- Tyr didn't react when the rock got hit.

• 1:15 -- "I hate ambushes"

  • Should I note all of these "I hate" comments? That would make for a hilarious supercut.
• 2:30 -- Michael Ironside! Always a welcome actor.

• 14:30 --

Know your enemy as well as you know yourself, and you will always be victorious. -- Sun Tzu
(unconfirmed quote)

• 16:15 -- That was an extraordinarily dizzying cut.

  • Ugh, this episode is full of these.
• 17:45 -- "It's never easy."
• 20:00 -- Well seeing as you're now trading people, you should have killed him (so he can't be interrogated) and left his body there.. so you can egress with the rest of his team.
• 20:30 -- Why wouldn't they get more to reinforce? It's a major research facility, and one which supposedly has an extremely important project. Don't they have super-ships and such?

"The great blessing
of the AI is that we are
gifted with the power to
touch our Creator.
This is also our Curse."

The Clarion's Call,
"Out of The Abyss,"
CY 11475

• 8:15 -- Why trust Hector?
• 15:45 -- Since when was this hand data-transfer thing possible?
• 28:15 -- Why wouldn't the Restorians wonder why there are two people in that ship?
• 30:45 -- Uh. Haven't all AIs know about the eraser, for a long while?

"The Kingdom was called Contrary.
The Castle was called Doubt.
The Twin Giants who lived there
were named Deceit and Despair.
Every change in the weather
brought Rain and Hope."

THE CAIRN OF DARKNESS AND THE LIGHT,
CY 1015

• 28:15 -- Don't they have subdermal communications or something?
• 34:15 -- Yes, Tyr has laughed out loud.
• 36:45 -- For some time now I've thought the entire Commonwealth fleet was faked, and they're all fighting one another. The outcome would be to reveal who are the actual allies of the Commonwealth.

• 41:00 -- So what weren't they telling Harper? .. and why?

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