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->''The long night has come. The systems commonwealth - the greatest civilization in History - has fallen. But now, one ship, one crew has vowed to drive back the night and rekindle the light. On the starship Andromeda, '''hope lives again'''.''
-->-- OpeningNarration

There are some people who view the [[{{Skiffy}} sci-fi]] show ''Creator/GeneRoddenberry's Andromeda'' as, essentially, an unbranded ''Franchise/StarTrek'' spinoff. It is perhaps more accurate to describe it as ''Star Trek'' in reverse. The show lasted from October 2000 to May 2005.

The story opens aboard the titular starship, the ''Andromeda Ascendant'', a "warship of the line" for the Systems Commonwealth, a government founded by a race of {{Sufficiently Advanced Alien}}s called the Vedrans, which kept the peace among their worlds spanning three galaxies--emphasis on the past-tense. Though their technology was vast and their captains were noble and compassionate, they ran into a mess of problems all at once. First a race of cannibalistic savages known as the Magog invaded by the billions, wiping out entire Commonwealth worlds. And just after fighting the Magog to a standstill and making a peace treaty with them, one of the Commonwealth's member races rebels, the fractious [[NietzscheWannabe Nietzscheans]], genetically engineered humans obsessed with eugenics and following the chilly philosophy of Creator/FriedrichNietzsche. The first battle of the Nietzschean Rebellion ends up with the ''Andromeda'' evacuating its crew and trying a slingshot around a black hole to escape, freezing ship and captain in time.

Three hundred years later, the Commonwealth is a distant memory, and [[BadPresent a dark age has fallen over the known worlds]]. The ''Eureka Maru'', a salvage ship crewed by a rag-tag team of minor-league criminals, happens upon the ''Andromeda'' and tows it to safety, thinking this will be the score of a lifetime. Mostly through his own strength of character, the revived Captain Hunt convinces the crew of the Maru to join him and try to re-unite the Commonwealth (or, at least, ''try'' to be of marginal assistance to his quest as they mooch off the ''Andromeda's'' resources).

The show has its origins in a combination of two separate Roddenberry story ideas from the 1970s, one about a [[LivingShip sentient starship]] and a second about a man from the past trying to piece the remnants of civilization back together after it has crumbled. The former never made it to the air prior to ''Andromeda'' (except a sci-fi parody, ''Series/{{LEXX}},'' that aired only a little earlier in the US) but Roddenberry (who died in 1991) used the latter concept in no fewer than three separate unsuccessful pilots -- two of which actually included a main character named "Dylan Hunt" -- before giving up on it. Undoubtedly these ideas were [[strike:scrounged from the trash can]] further developed by the ''Andromeda'' creative team. As a consequence, it's difficult to see Roddenberry's hand in this hard-boiled, dystopian future. ''Andromeda'' also had a heavy spiritual bent radically unlike anything seen in ''Trek'', except perhaps in the GodGuise aliens of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''.

'''The initial core crew is, approximately, a FiveManBand:'''
* Captain Hunt -- TheHero, a human from the now-lost Commonwealth capital on Tarn Vedra (He eventually turns out to be not-quite-human after all: he's a [[HalfHumanHybrid Human-Vedran hybrid]], or rather Human-Paradine: Vedrans who have [[GoalOrientedEvolution become something more]]), and his human half comes from a genetically-enhanced {{Heavyworlder}})
* Beka Valentine -- TheLancer, hotshot pilot, recovering drug addict, and captain of the Eureka Maru. Secretly the genetic matriarch of the entire Nietzschean race via TimeTravel.
* Tyr Anasazi -- TheBigGuy, ProudWarriorRaceGuy, and TokenEvilTeammate, [[LastOfHisKind last survivor]] of a vanquished Nietzschean clan (and at times, straddles the line between a NietzscheWannabe and an {{Ubermensch}})
* Trance Gemini -- TheChick, cute and naive WaifProphet and medical officer, who later gets DarkerAndEdgier via TimeTravel
* Seamus Zelazny Harper -- TheSmartGuy, TheLabRat, MrFixit, a bit of a CasanovaWannabe, and more often a FatalAttractor, the only member of the crew actually from the ghetto planet Earth, technician and hyper-active genius engineer who (re-)builds Rommie's body.

'''With three additional regular characters:'''
* Rommie -- The ship's [[RobotGirl female-shaped android avatar]] ("Andromeda" refers specifically to the ship's holographic AI, and also to the three individual entities of the ship (Andromeda Ascendant), the AI ([[SpaceshipGirl Andromeda]]), and the android (Rommie))
* Rev Bem -- aka. Behemial Fartraveller aka. Red Plague. A [[TheAtoner reformed Magog]], scientist, sociologist and pacifist priest
* Late in the show when Rommie is believed destroyed Harper builds a new RobotGirl named Doyle as a ReplacementGoldfish, who has identity issues and who thinks ''she'' is the rightful avatar of the Andromeda Ascendant. HilarityEnsues (not).

Midway through the second season, the showrunner has a falling out with the male lead and is replaced. Rev Bem leaves the ship when his actor [[RealLifeWritesThePlot develops an allergy]] to the Magog makeup. This is when things start to get a little zany. After the third season, Tyr Anasazi is replaced by Telemachus Rhade, the IdenticalGrandson of Hunt's original first officer. This is when things get [[strike:a little]] ''more'' zany.

In the universe of ''Andromeda'', every celestial body has an "avatar", a humanoid counterpart of vast power. Such beings crop up from time, including the moon of Tarn Vedra, the black hole (who turns out to be the universe's greatest [[ClingyJealousGirl clingy ex-girlfriend]]), and, most importantly, Trance, who, it is eventually revealed, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld despite her youthful appearance and character]], is the wayward sun of Tarn Vedra, the oldest star in the universe. Halfway through the second season, Trance is replaced by an [[DarkerAndEdgier older and moodier]] version of herself (not an [[TheOtherDarrin other Darrin;]] it's the same actress in different makeup).

Subverting the FailureIsTheOnlyOption trope, Dylan and his crew actually ''do'' restore the Systems Commonwealth, though internal politics promptly gets Dylan and his crew kicked out of it.

For most of the series, an approaching Magog worldship serves as an impending [[TheDragon Dragon]], guided by TheManBehindTheMan, a shadow-cloaked avatar known as "The Spirit of the Abyss", a powerful chaotic force. When this comes to a head in the fourth season finale, Dylan is forced to escape through a NegativeSpaceWedgie to the timeless, isolated Seefra system, really the massively transformed Tarn Vedra system.

''Andromeda'' was inordinately fond of the NegativeSpaceWedgie, depicting a universe rife with temporal anomalies -- in fact, the Andromeda Ascendant itself incorporated dimensional anomalies into its very construction. For a starship crew the cast also spent a great deal of time underground, presumably because somebody in the first season [[ShootTheMoney invested money in a tunnel set]] that had to be re-used over and over again.

In addition to the obvious ''Franchise/StarTrek'' parallels, ''Andromeda'' clearly owes a lot to ''Series/BlakesSeven''.

Technically set approximately 3 millennia into the future (Figure from ep. Harper^2), though effectively ALongTimeAgoInAGalaxyFarFarAway: Earth exists, but is hardly ever mentioned, except to say that it's not a very nice place to hang out these days.

Sometimes described as "Herc meets Kirk", because Kevin Sorbo, best known for his role as Hercules in ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'', is playing the role of a kind, wise and mysteriously super-strong character in the role that Captain Kirk filled in the original series of Star Trek, which this show so closely resembles.

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!!This series provides examples of:

* AchievementsInIgnorance: Trance has a natural talent for this. At the end of "Forced Perspective", her report of how she rescued Dylan is "I wondered where you were, found you, and brought you back."
* AIIsACrapshoot: Most of the ships' artificial intelligences are fairly sane and lucid, but the ''Balance of Judgment'' is an eco-terrorist and the ''Pax Magellanic'' had a mental breakdown.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Assumed of the Nietzscheans and the Magog by most people in-universe, but subverted in both cases.
* ApocalypseHow: Many different ways, starting with High Guard ships of the line, such as the Andromeda, that are said to be capable of de-civilizing an Earth-like planet in six minutes with their conventional weapons, and moving on to the planet crackers that are talked about and occasionally seen or the target-dependent Nova Bombs that the Andromeda carried 40 of as part of her class's standard load out (they destroy planets and stars by nullifying the gravitational pull of the target). Then there are the Magog whose designed goal of ridding the universe of pain and suffering by horribly killing everything that can feel pain and suffering lends them from disasters from "mere" genocide to the destruction of entire solar systems. And the mount point singularity projectors, which fire ''miniature black holes'' at their opponents that can tear through ships and planets like they weren't there, and whose sole defense is to open a slip point in the way (which if done too close to a planet can cause major geological instabilities).
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Hawkins reads off Harper's rap sheet:
--> '''Hawkins''': Seamus Harper...Grand Theft Spacecraft, and Interstellar Flight to Avoid Prosecution, and Public Lewdness.
* TheAtoner: Rev Bem, although he personally hadn't done anything to feel sorry about except eating through his human mother, which he couldn't help but do at that age.
* BadassArmy: Nietzscheans think they are but they're really not.
* TheBattlestar: Most High Guard ships, including the Andromeda Ascendant.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: two sentient entities you ''never'' want to piss off, introducing Rommie and Trance.
--> '''Rommie''': I'm a warship, and I ''don't'' like running away from a fight.
* BitterAlmonds: The cyanide [[DeadlyGas gas trap]] in ''In Heaven Now Are Three''.
* TheBlackDudeDiesFirst: Thompson, first on-screen death, inaugural episode.
* BlatantLies: Does ''anybody'' believe that Trance is just a lucky guesser? Seriously?
--> '''Dylan''': You told me there is always a perfect possible future, so what is it today, Trance?
--> '''Trance''': [[ImplausibleDeniability It's not that easy]]...[[DoWellButNotPerfect sometimes I have these 'flashes']] but [[CoverBlowingSuperpower it's not something I can make happen all the time]]. I'm very sorry, Dylan, but if there is a way out of this ''[[IWasNeverHere it has to come from you]].''
* BoardingParty: The Magog use Swarm Ships to punch holes in the attacked ship and swarm in.
* BoomerangBigot: There was a radical group bent on destroying space travel in order to preserve planetary ecologies. It was founded by a warship's AI.
* BrainComputerInterface: Harper has a jack on his neck.
* BrainInAJar: Referenced when the crew have to fight the Consensus of Parts, a robotic civilisation. They're sure the Consensus can't follow them into slipstream because you need an organic mind to pilot a slipstream drive, but it turns out they use these to achieve it.
* CargoCult: The child descendants of High Guard personnel from ''To Loose the Fateful Lightning''.
* CatharticScream: Rev Bem mentions that when he studied at the Wayist school, there was a cliff nearby for such screams.
* ChekhovsTimeTravel: Harper has to use time travel/warping several times, including to cure himself of an infection by altering time-space.
* ChestBurster: The Magog reproduction method.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: [[PlanetOfHats Congenital]] in the Nietzscheans. Tyr has a particularly bad case which Dylan takes advantage of several times
* ComingInHot: The Eureka Maru, or other visiting ships, occasionally crash-land in the Andromeda's launch bay.
* CoolStarship
* CrewOfOne: The Andromeda Ascendant originally had a crew of over 4000, apparently she can make do with six or fewer.
** The thing is that technically, the ship doesn't NEED a crew at all. Andromeda has full control of all of the ships systems, as well as her android avatar and a wide variety of other less sexy robots, from giant shooty war machines to nano-bots. She can run herself just fine. However, the Commonwealth was kind of not cool with AIs running everything, so its in her nature to take orders and respect the chain of command. Also, AIs can't navigate slipstream, so in a sense the absolute minimum crew size is literally one.
*** Sometimes subverted, sometimes not. Crewmen seemed to appear whenever expendable redshirts were needed, and vanish afterwards.
*** Also lampshaded, at least in the early seasons, with it often being mentioned that the Andromeda would be much tougher in a fight if she had a full crew. It's less because she can't totally run herself (she can) it's that the crew provide a lot of man-power to fly slipfighters (which are seriously powerful)and perform repairs. Also, a lot of the original crew weren't really crew, they were Lancers (IE: SpaceMarines). Having a few thousand heavily armed men on board turns out to be pretty useful too.
* CriticalStaffingShortage: The ''Series/{{Andromeda}} Ascendant'' originally had a crew of thousands, but in the first episode everyone but Captain Dylan Hunt either abandons ship or is killed as it gets stuck in orbit around a black hole. For most of the series the crew consists of the captain and the five (later four) former crew of a salvage ship who pulled the ship away from the black hole 300 years later (due to TimeDilation). Other characters join as well, and the crew varies between 6 and 7 for most of the rest of the series. Andromeda's {{AI}} can fill most crew roles herself so they get by, but it's pointed out several times that the ship is way less effective in combat -- or anything else -- than it would be fully crewed.
* CyborgHelmsman
* TheCycleOfEmpires: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbhxKrBe0AA The long night has fallen...]]
* DarwinistDesire: Nietzscheans are a species of [[SocialDarwinist Social Darwinists]] who compare pedigrees when courting, seeking to breed only with the fittest and strongest.
* DataPad: "Flexis" that resemble overhead transparencies.
* DeadlyGas: The cyanide gas trap in ''In Heaven Now Are Three''.
* DerelictGraveyard
* DoAndroidsDream: The main conflict in "Star-Crossed" is the romance between Rommie and another android.
-->'''Rommie:''' All sentients seek to establish a connection with their own.\\
'''Tyr:''' Love is merely a trick the DNA plays to replicate itself.\\
'''Rommie:''' I don't have DNA.\\
'''Tyr:''' My point exactly! Are the two of you planning to procreate?
* EarthAllAlong: Seefra-1 is Tarn-Vedra.
* EleventhHourSuperPower: Hunt, from his half-Paradine heritage.
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Tarn Vedra as Seefra-1, then literally with the destruction of Earth.
* EvilIsVisceral: Aspects of the Magog that are not already covered by the subtropes: they spit on people, and have exposed noses.
* ExactWords: Tyr once tricked an enemy into thinking he'd joined them. When he inevitably betrays them he points out he didn't say he was on their side, only the ''winning'' side.
* {{Expy}}: Dylan Hunt is an expy of Dylan Hunt from ''Genesis II''.
** Bartolome Naz in And Your Heart Will Fly Away is an expy of Film/DrStrangelove.
* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: The [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Magog]].
* FantasticAesop: in "Forced Perspective" Dylan is tortured by a dictator for a mission that he had good intentions with but ended badly, with him getting shot by the bad guy while he was trying to negotiate and him having to return fire to survive. The lesson that Trance is pushing the entire episode is that in the chaotic nature of the universe control is an illusion and all we can do is control our own intentions, especially when justice and the fate of a people are concerned... so Dylan ends up being ashamed and apologetic for the mission that went badly despite his good intentions and offers the dictator a way to wipe the slate clean, ignoring his crimes of oppression and despotism that needed to be brought to justice.
* FantasticRacism: Not just for/against aliens, either; the Knights of Genetic Purity hunt down all modified human-offshoots.
** As Dylan points out, only 12% or so of the humans in the ''entire known universe'' fall under their definition of "pure".
* FantasticShipPrefix: ''Andromeda's'' registry is XMC-10-284. Each High Guard ship class has its three letter code, but the personal number is given for only a few.
* FasterThanLightTravel: Slipstream, not the best way to travel faster than light, just the only way. Organic pilot required.
* {{Flanderization}}: Oh, so very much, primarily after Wolfe left and any pretensions at character balance went with him.
** In a meta-sense, the entire Nietzschean race. At the time of the fall of the Commonwealth, the Nietzscheans, intended by their progenitor to be a race of WarriorPoet-[[{{Ubermensch}} Übermenschen]] had, if not reached that level, at least a reasonable claim of striving towards it. By the time the series rolls around three-hundred years later, the intellectual and spiritual aspects of the progenitor's vision have all fallen by the wayside and the Nietzscheans have degenerated into little more than roving bands of [[MoralMyopia morally myopic]] supremacist thugs.
* FlatCharacter: After Season 2, all of them. Robert Hewitt Wolfe planned major CharacterDevelopment for the ''Andromeda'' crew. After he was fired, StatusQuoIsGod took effect in regards to their emotional growth.
* {{Frameup}}: One episode had a conspiracy try to pin an assassination on Tyr. Although Tyr was in fact enraged at the man for something he'd done, the crew doesn't believe it for a minute. Tyr is a professional assassin, and it was far too incompetent and obviously him to be true.
* FreudianSlip: In "It Makes a Lovely Night" when Dylan is talking to Beka after she got out of the shower, wearing nothing but a towel:
-->Dylan: "I was looking at your figure... I mean, figures..."
* [[GaiasVengeance Gaia's avengers]]: The Restorians, lead by the Balance of Judgment, a KnightTemplar [[SapientShip warship AI]].
* GainaxEnding: The final episode of season 4.
* GalacticSuperpower: The Commonwealth before its fall, in three galaxies.
* GambitRoulette: The events of season 5 are essentially the last phases of a plan the Vedrans came up with centuries previously [[spoiler: to use their own sun to destroy the Abyss]].
* GenericanEmpire: The Systems Commonwealth.
* GiveMeASword: Tyr and Seamus just before their LastStand against the Magog, once Seamus has stopped panicking and agreed that fighting back is probably a good idea. Once he's pulled himself together Tyr has a little grudging respect for him and gives him one of the knives he just happened to have about his person.
* GodOfEvil: The Magog worship the Abyss, and it's heavily implied the Abyss engineered their creation.
* GoodBadTranslation: A certain DVD release suffers from this. The entirety of Season 2 and some episodes of season 3 are the worst offenders by far. So what if the subtitles don't remember proper punctuation in season 1? And there are no capital letters, except the first in every line, even when not supposed to be there. The subtitles in season 2 are way worse than that, by being translated... from an Asian translation. And they're not even correct most of the time.
** One very horrible offender is in a scene, where Dylan says "Tyr, try not to destroy the warship." The subtitles say "Tyr. Get rid of the warship."
* GoodIsNotDumb: Trance Gemini.
** Not even when she pretends to be. Maybe especially not when she pretends to be.
* HoneyTrap: Inverted. A Nietzschian assassin bride in an arranged marriage beds Dylan because "For one night [she'd] like to pretend [she] was only human"...and it leads her to a sex face turn. She even sends Dylan a message saying that his idea of peace over war "seems to be the better one".
* HostileTerraforming: The episode "Point of the Spear", the Pyreans (aliens that live in Venus-like environments) tried to forcibly pyroform a Commonwealth world. A large battle breaks out, and to prove that the Commonwealth is not one to be messed with, Dylan orders the planet's destruction via [[EarthShatteringKaboom Nova Bomb]].
* HumansAreSpecial: AIs are horrible at guessing, which makes humans and other organic life forms are far better at slipstream navigation. Also, ship AIs seem to make poor commanders, are more effective in combat when working with a crew.
** Averted partly when the AI Ryan is given command of... well, himself, aka the Wrath of Achilles.
** Also averted in that it's not humans in particular: it's ALL biological sentient beings, supposedly due to "something having to do with collapsing quantum wave fronts." It is, however, noted that an AI can navigate the slipstream if they have biological intuition... even if that intuition comes from harvested brains in a jar attached to the computer system.
* HumongousMecha: Planetary Defense Bots. ''Andromeda'' has two of them nicknamed "Tweedle-dee" and "Tweedle-dum".
* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: The Slipstream is not ''scary'' in the sense of horror, but it's scary in the sense that it's a highly complex, ever-shifting maze with only a few HyperspaceLanes being permanent routes and most everything else requiring intuition (which is why humans are so good at navigating unlike any given AI). Things become really scary when one eventually gets lost, which happens at least once to the Andromeda.
* HyperspaceLanes: Several star systems are strategically important because you need to travel through them on your way from one slipstream to another. Just the place to lay in ambush, or place a {{BFG}} InSpace
** In one episode, they're trying to get to Tarn Vedra (the lost capital planet of the old Commonwealth) by following a ridiculously complicated sequence of slipstram routes. Several of the steps are jumps between ''different galaxies!'' The lanes were purposefully scrambled this way to keep away the Nietzscheans after the Commonwealth lost the war.
* HypocrisyNod: the wayist in "The Devil Takes The Hindmost" who is trying to stop a gentle, innocent people with genetic memory from having to kill in order to defend themselves against slavers, acknowledges the hypocrisy of asking Dylan to kill the enemy for him with Andromeda... Unfortunately, he has a point: if even one of these people kills, then [[FridgeHorror their children will be born dealing with the guilt and memory of killing someone, tainting their immature and unformed minds from the very moment they come into the world]] for generations onwards until their genetic line dies out.
* IAmXSonOfY: The Nietzscheans will give their given name, family name, name of pride, and name of both parents when introducing themselves formally. For example: "I am Tyr Anasazi of Kodiak Pride, out of Victoria by Barbarosa." Considering the importance of lineage to the Nietzscheans, this makes sense.
* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: In "The Knight, Death, and the Devil", Michael Hurst (previously [[Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys Iolaus]]) plays Ryan the AI.
* IdenticalGrandson: "Genetic reincarnation" is a proven phenomenon for Nietzscheans due to their low genetic diversity (The original Nietzschean population was only about 8000, the Nietzscheans deliberately stripped their genome of a large number of "genetic defects" such as haemophilia and predispositions for diabetes and various cancers, and breed for [[ProudWarriorRace a very specific set of traits]]). Telemachus is played by the same actor as Gaheris and Tyr's son was apparently the reincarnation of the first Nietzschean (and therefore their Messiah). It's lampshaded that the odds of this are still in the trillions, but since there are trillions of Nietzscheans (with more being born every day) it still happens often enough.
** Beka Valentine once encountered a female Nietzschean who looked as close to exactly like her as a Nietzschean could look, which doesn't make sense until Season 5 reveals she's the genetic mother of all Nietzscheans.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Justified and lampshaded in an episode where it is revealed that most small arms ammunition are smart bullets whose guidance system is jammed by man portable jammers, causing them to miss.
--> '''[[SmugSnake Gerentex]]''': Why am I the only one who seems to attract bullets?
* [[ImplacableMan Implacable Android]]: Rommie, Andromeda's humanoid avatar, is nearly indestructible and incredibly strong, which she often demonstrates by simply walking through scores of Mooks and tossing them aside like ragdolls.
* InappropriatelyCloseComrades: Rules against this apply not only to people but, apparently, to [[{{Robosexual}} warship AIs]].
* InformedAbility: Despite being lauded as a tactical genius, Drago-Kazov Fleet Marshall Cuchulian Nez Perce sure gets his ass handed to him by Dylan and company. Twice.
* InfiniteSupplies: subverted in that despite the huge supplies of military arsenals the Andromeda Ascendant can fit in storage (keeping in mind she was fully stocked at the beginning of the pilot and she is a ''huge'' ship), a lot of episodes deal with the crew trying to salvage parts and supplies for her. It is mentioned, though, that as long as they can get a supply of the raw materials, Andromeda can manufacture or repair quite a lot of weapons tech etc. It's usually delicate and highly complicated parts of ship hardware that they have to find.
* InstrumentalThemeTune
* InterfaithSmoothie: Wayism is a religion that seeks to blend all the good bits of the religions that came before it. Rev Bem is a cleric of Wayism, and the religion was founded by another redeemed Magog.
* IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow: Beka and Harper call out Rommie on her opportunity to "interface" with another sentient android.
* KaleidoscopeHair: Beka has nanomachines that can change her hair to any color she wants.
* LadyOfWar: Rommie. Being an avatar of a heavy cruiser counts doesn't it?
* LargeHam: Tyr, and, to a lesser extent, Dylan and Harper.
** Definitely not all the time. Just when they feel especially diabolical, idealistic or enthusiastic, respectively.
** As for guest characters, there's Bartolome Naz.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Tyr Anasazi in an episode in Season One. Subverted in that it's not natural in the least--it's the result of infection by nanobots designed to scramble memory systems, both biological and electronic.
* LastNameBasis: Harper.
* LiteraryAllusionTitle:
** An improbable number of episodes were named after lines from W. B. Yeats' poem "The Second Coming". Some examples: "The Widening Gyre"; "Pitiless as the Sun"; "Its Hour Come 'Round at Last".
** In general episode titles were influenced by literature, such as "The Pearls That Were His Eyes" (Shakespeare), "To Loose the Fateful Lightning" (Julia Ward Howe), and "Fear and Loathing in the Milky Way" (Hunter S. Thompson).
** TheBardOnBoard: "Star-Crossed" has a tragic love affair between Rommie and the avatar of an enemy ship. It ends about as well as it does for ''Romeo and Juliet'', and Rommie begs Dylan to have her dismantled.
* MadeOfExplodium: That command bridge is a fireworks display and a jarring violation of all worker safety protocols, for crying out loud!
* TheManBehindTheMan
* MatrixRainingCode
* MeaningfulName: ''Eureka Maru'' is a composite name. "Eureka" is Greek for "I have found (it)"; "maru" is Japanese for "nothing". Prior to finding the ''Andromeda Ascendant'', the ''Maru'''s crew had attempted to find several other derelict Glorious Heritage Class ships with no success, and before that they were barely eeking out a marginal living while searching for the next big score.
* MostWritersAreHuman: While the Commonwealth consisted of many, many species, humans are apparently the most populous of them. The background information specifically notes humans as among the most prolific breeders and colonizers, as well as the source of most androids and genetically-engineered spin-offs like nietzscheans.
** Humans seem to have been the most widespread because they were easy to engineer (or no-one cared enough to stop them) and pretty much anywhere that life could exist, there is an engineered form of humanity to plunder it. From high gravity worlds to under the sea, humanity is all up in nature's face eating her resources.
* MrFanservice: Tyr Anasazi.
* MugglePower: The Knights of Genetic Purity ([=GenKnights=] for short) who oppose and hunt down human genetic variants such as Nietzscheans.
* MundaneUtility: Beka Valentine's use of nanomachines for [[HairColors instant hair dye]].
* MySkullRunnethOver: In "Harper 2.0", Harper had a database downloaded into his brain, via the computer port on his neck, and the information made him super smart, and also kind of crazy. Besides speaking dozens of different languages and being terrified of Rev, Harper began and abandoned dozens of projects.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast:
** Nietzscheans tend to give themselves names that are [[BadassBoast Badass Boasts]], like ethnic groups with a warlike reputation [[BadassIsraeli (Sabra)]], military leaders (Guderian) or even [[WarGod War Gods]](Tyr).
** Three Magog names we've heard are [[PinkMist Blood Mist]], Red Plague (Rev. Bem's real name) and Bilethroat. Even the name "Magog" itself is one with its Biblical connotations.
** The Siege Perilous class destroyers like the ''Balance of Judgment'' were designed for one purpose.
--->'''Beka Valentine:''' [[SarcasmMode Sounds friendly.]]\\
'''Dylan Hunt:''' They weren't really going for friendly.
* NationalWeapon: The force lance.
* NegativeSpaceWedgie
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Harper, when Andromeda has a secure protected file or copy of herself that even she doesn't know about, that was obviously secured and hidden for a reason, ''[[TooDumbToLive why do you keep trying to access it?]]''
* NietzscheWannabe: Tyr and the rest of the Nietzscheans.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Although Harper is said to be from Boston, Gordon Michael Woolvett delivers all his lines in his regular Canadian accent.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Purple Trance often uses a "Naive Girl" routine to fool antagonists.
* ObstructionistPacifist: An episode involves Dylan and his crew trying to save a pacifist colony from SpacePirates. When one of the pacifists deliberately blows up the crate of Smart Lances that the crew brought along (and he justifies it as [[SuicidalPacifism better off dying than allowing the colony to be "tainted" with violence]]), Dylan has to do a TrainingThePeacefulVillagers montage and play guerrilla. More justified than most examples; the colonists have perfect genetic memory, and all children born after the battle will remember the act and emotions of killing ''from birth''.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Rev Bem. His full name, "Brother Behemial Fartraveller" is a bit of a mouthful. His birth name is Red Plague.
* PeopleInRubberSuits: Than-Thre-Kull, Magog, Ogami.
* PhlebotinumBreakdown
* PlanetSpaceship: The Magog come from worlds (yes, that's plural--''twenty'' of them) locked together in some kind of structure. The whole thing is mobile, and even contains an artificial sun! Oh, and it can survive having its sun blown up by a Nova Bomb.
* PlotHole: At the end of Season 1 Rev Bem gets outed as an infiltrator among other Magog because he refuses to partake in a gang's kill. Early in Season 2 an episode's drama is built around the fact that as a Magag he physically ''can not'' eat anything hasn't just killed himself.
* PsychoSerum
* PunchClockVillain: Beka refers to Nietzschean slavers as "9 to 5 bad guys."
* RapeAsDrama: Harper gets a FaceFullOfAlienWingWong from the Magog, getting the young'uns out without killing their host requires a PolarityReversal.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Due to Brent Stait's makeup allergies, his character, Rev Bem, got a less prominent role, and was finally PutOnABus. Lexa Doig's pregnancy was one of the reasons for Rommie's absence in early season 5.
* RecapEpisode
** Especially during the fourth season. Christ.
* RecycledInSpace: The basic premise is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_II_%28film%29 Genesis II]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Earth_(TV_pilot) Planet Earth]] in space.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath
* TheRemnant: Dylan Hunt is this for a while; trying to restart the Commonwealth despite being the last soldier of the High Guard in existence.
* RevisedEnding: sort of. The original series developer, Robert Hewitt Wolfe, wrote a non-canon (technical FanFic) one-act-play of an outline, entitled [[http://www.roberthwolfe.com/Coda/Andromeda___Coda.pdf Coda]] (warning, PDF) for how he envisioned the series to play out past the point of his departure.
* ARiddleWrappedInAMysteryInsideAnEnigma: Seamus calls Trance "an enigma wrapped in a riddle with a tail in the middle."
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots
** Rommie is {{squick}}ed to discover that Harper engineered her humanoid body with "certain parts" which, strictly speaking, aren't necessary for her normal operations, and asks to be assured that he used gloves while handling said parts.
** Doyle was designed to pass as human and programmed to believe she was human, when one of her hands is damaged in ''Decay of the Angel'', she sees the white superconductor fluid as red blood.
** Carter of All Too Human managed to get a job in the security forces of the android-hating world of Machen Alpha.
* RisingEmpire: The new Systems Commonwealth.
* RobotBuddy
* RobotsEnslavingRobots: The Consensus of Parts. Also, the Balance of Judgment controlled his rebellious android avatar Gabriel, who he tried to [[GrandTheftMe take over with a virus]] when his ship-self was destroyed in battle.
* RubberForeheadAliens: Perseids, technically rubber chin.
* SapientShip: ''Andromeda'' and the other Commonwealth vessels, while not biological, are capable of emotion and treated by their captains and crews as living persons.
* ShoutOut: At least OnceAnEpisode.
** In the very first episode, Harper compares Dylan Hunt to [[Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys a Greek god]].
** When hailing the others over the radio, Harper imitates the [[Franchise/StarTrek boatswain's whistle.]]
** The Knights of Genetic Purity were lifted directly out of the classic role-playing game ''TabletopGame/GammaWorld.''
** Also, Seamus '''[[Creator/RogerZelazny Zelazny]]''' Harper.
** The crew of the Bellerophon had [[Franchise/StarTrek red, blue, and gold uniforms]]
** [[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Johann Fletcher and Flux]].
** Just about all of the drifts or space stations seen, when you look closely, have the saucer of the [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Enterprise D]] as their foundation.
* TheSocialDarwinist: All Nietzscheans, even the "good" ones.
* SoProudOfYou: In "The Fair Unknown," the crew meets a Vedran admiral, the first time anyone has seen the legendary race since the fall of the Commonwealth. At the end of the episode, she tells Dylan that the Vedrans are well aware of his efforts to restore the Commonwealth and they're very proud of him.
* SoundEffectBleep
* SmartGun: Many of the firearms and lances featured autonomous features such as {{Homing Projectile}}s.
* SpaceshipGirl: All of the larger Commonwealth warships have AIs and many of them have robotic avatars. Many cultures prefer female avatars for their ships (though avatars are not exclusively female).
* SpoilerOpening: The pilot contains the opening sequence, which was a bad call since at the point where it plays, the Andromeda hasn't even gotten caught in the gravity well of the black hole yet.
* SpotTheImposter
* StealthPun: The Resident Magog Priest is the Reverend Bug Eyed Monster.
* StockFootage: The same space battle shots are re-used over and over. This creates a number of minor continuity errors, since the limited pool of "minor power ships fighting each other" shots means that a race's distinctive ships will frequently be swapped out for the ships of their enemies between episodes.
* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: The Vedrans. They are between a solid type 1 to borderline type 2 on the Kardashev scale; they created multiple artificial suns. Not only that, but they have mastered the ability to tesseract and move between dimensions. Their evolved counterparts, the Paradine can time travel at will without any technological assistance.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Rhade for Tyr.
** Doyle for Rommie. And odd example in that Lexa Doig, the actress who played Rommie, remained with the show as Andromeda's AI.
* TalkingToThemself: Andromeda/Rommie occasionally has debates between her humanoid avatar and herself. Sometimes she loses.
* TempleOfDoom: The temple in ''In Heaven Now Are Three''.
* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Justified. Compared to the original crew complement of ''4500'' people on board, as it stands, the current skeleton crew operating Andromeda is (usually) just ''6''.
* ThemeNaming: Commonwealth ships often have names like ''Salient Debate'' or ''Continuation of Politics''.
** Which in itself is a ShoutOut to the [[Literature/TheCulture Culture]] novels.
* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: From Season 1's ''Fear and Loathing in the Milky Way'':
-->'''Gerentex:''' There are two kinds of people in this universe, Mr. Harper. The kind with loaded guns and the kind who open doors. ''You'' open doors.
* TimeAbyss: Trance is the avatar of a ''sun''. Other stellar objects also have avatars, all with memories as old as the celestial objects they represent.
* TimeTravel: Frequently.
* TimeForPlanB
* TomatoInTheMirror: Doyle. She's fine once she gets over the initial shock.
* TooDumbToLive: In [[http://andromeda.wikia.com/wiki/Immaculate_Perception "Immaculate Perception"]] Tyr says sending the DNA of Tamerlane Anasazi for comparision with Drago Museveni's could not be kept a secret. He says that he is leaving with his son and wife while the rest of the pride can perish from it's stupidity. He invokes it himself in the same episode by acknowledging a "whatever you do don't send a message" message, although that was intentional.
** Tyr tells a story about a previous employer who had him functioning as combined bodyguard, personal assassin, and chef. Then the idiot decided that actually paying him for his work was optional, and it goes like you'd expect from there.
* TrailOfBreadCrumbs: Seamus Harper leaves one behind the ''Eureka Maru'' in the pilot episode.
* TroubledButCute: The entire crew of the ''Andromeda Ascendant'' has checkered pasts.
* UsedFuture: Averted with the ''Andromeda Ascendant'' and her sister Glorious Heritage Class ships; played straight with the ''Eureka Maru'' and other modern cargo ships.
* VehicleTitle
* VestigialEmpire: The Systems Commonwealth, which once spanned a million worlds in three galaxies, is now reduced to a single ship and a few out-of-the-way CargoCult [[CultColony Colonies]].
** The Nietzschean Empire shattered in a big way after Witchhead, with the separate prides going their own way. Large prides like Drago-Kazov and Sabra-Jaguar are still significant intergalactic power-players, but in general the Nietzscheans spend more time jockeying among themselves for power, resources and mating rights than doing anything else. Besides, even if a single leader could re-unite the Nietzscheans, a resurrected Nietzschean Empire would still be a far cry from the force that shattered the Systems Commonwealth.
* WaifProphet: Trance Gemini.
* WeaponOfMassDestruction: Nova bombs.
* WeaponizedExhaust: The ''Bellerophon'' lacks any conventional weapons (it was built in the 22nd century, before humans knew of the existence of aliens). Instead, she uses its massive fusion drive to vaporize enemy ships before accelerating away. However, this use of the engines rapidly drains the ship's gas supply.
* WhatTheHellHero: When the New Commonwealth kicked Captain Hunt out they listed several from over the course of the show. It was played like a biased kangaroo court, but most of them were genuine atrocities he had committed that the show had earlier glossed over.
** Dylan returning to Andromeda to mope that he had accidentally given children access to 80 Nova Bombs in ''To Loose a Fateful Lightning'' instead of ordering them to stand down and surrender control over the weapons to Andromeda. Keep in mind, at this point Dylan knows they revere him as [[MessianicArchetype "The High Guard"]] and would likely ''easily'' have done so. Instead, his inaction causes one heavily populated neighbouring system to be destroyed and only narrowly averts them doing similar kamikaze runs with the rest of the arsenal.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Beka and Tyr -- never a relationship, though they did do each other. Twice.
** In an alternate timeline [[MindScrew which may have been the original timeline]], she did enter into a relationship with a Nietzschean... namely, ''Gaheris'' Rhade.
* XanatosSpeedChess: Dylan is a master of this.
** Tyr was able to play at almost the same level in the first season and a half, very nearly defeating Dylan a few times before switching sides at the last minute. This peaked in the episode ''The Prince'' where both reached heights they never had before and never would again by working together on such a project. After the original creator "left", Tyr suffered a horrible case of BadassDecay and quickly became a more straight-forward villain type.
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