"The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats:

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand. <...>

Rev is quoting Dante's Inferno - Rev: Behold the fiery beast with razor tail that cuts through mountains, trampling castles down. Inhale the stench that makes the whole world wail.

It's from the beginning of Canto XVII and is spoken by Virgil about the monster Geryon. In Greek mythology Geryon was three-bodied giant, herd of red cattle on island Eurytheia, in the distant West. He was killed by Herakles on one of his labours. Transforming Geryon in "the disgusting image of deceit", Dante followed the latest tradition in which Geryon by the mild face, gentle speeches and all treatment of the visitors undermined their vigilance and then killed the people who entrusted him.

Beka (In the first part): Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. + Dylan (In the last part): Objects in motion tend to stay in motion, don't they?

Isaac Newton's First Law: "An object at rest stays at rest, an object in motion stays in motion with a constant velocity, if there is no net external force between the object and the environment."

It's a poem by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816):
Had I a heart for falsehood framed,
I ne'er could injure you;
For though your tongue no promise claimed,
Your charms would make me true:
To you no soul shall bear deceit,
No stranger offer wrong;
But friends in all the aged you'll meet,
And lovers in the young.
For when they learn that you have blest
Another with your heart,
They'll bid aspiring passion rest,
And act a brother's part;
Then, lady, dread not here deceit,
Nor fear to suffer wrong;
For friends in all the aged you'll meet,
And lovers in the young.

Austrian physicist Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961) has thought up modelling experiment which now is wandering all over textbooks on quantum physics and has the name "Schroedinger's Cat" - for that famous feline of theoretical physics who may be dead in a box or alive in a box, but until you open the box and observe him, he is neither alive nor dead. Classical logic has "yes" and "no". Quantum mechanics has third logical element - "perhaps". Good sobriquet for the elusive Leydon. And really good shade of meaning Beka-Leydon relationship.

Dylan: Good, that's everyone. You may be wondering why I've called you all here today. It's time to return the Hegemon's Heart to its rightful owner.

It is very nice classic line of many detective stories.

"The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats

<...> Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. <...>

Zack Stentz (writer): "It was originally supposed to be Rev Bem in the chair! In fact, it was Rev being interrogated through most drafts of the script. And it was terrific stuff, too, with Rev talking about how it feels to eat another sentient being, the deep pleasure he must deny himself, and so on. It would have been wonderful to see Brent go toe-to-toe with William B. Davis. Unfortunately, this was the script that had to be totally rewritten because of Brent's reaction to the makeup. So Emily, eight months pregnant and flat on her back due to enforced bedrest, turned around a complete rewrite in three days, changing Rev to Trance.

Okay, just for fun, here's a snippet from the script when it was still Rev in the chair:
INT. UNIVERSITY - GUEST QUARTERS
Something about Rev Bem is a little off. He's not quite feral, but the dark side is starting to seep through, and it appears he's enjoying it.
Rev: ...I had not killed in several days, and as the hunger grew, so did the anticipation of its satiation. The excitement of the hunt, the scent of blood and fear...The riot of sensations was almost...overwhelming.
Rev stops for a moment, and his eyes shift over to Logich, who stares intently at his monitor's readout.
Logich: Go on. Go on.
Rev: We came upon their drift during their sleep period. I was at once heartened, and yet disappointed that the kill would be so easy. But we had gone too long without feeding, so the decision was clear.
Over the next, Rev slowly moves toward Logich, and begins circling him, predatorily.
Rev: They were so warm with sleep, so innocent and unsuspecting. So sweet.
Logich is now staring at Rev, somewhat horrified, especially by Rev's proximity.
Rev: And as I gorged myself upon all that muscle and flesh and cartilage, I could feel the transfer of vital lifeforces as these beings now became part of my being. Do you understand what I mean, Professor Logich?
Logich: I....I'm not sure.
Rev: Of course you don't. Humans and other species naively believe that the act of mating is the ultimate experience. How foolish they are. If joining with another is so stimulating, can they not see how much more so it is to devour?
Logich drops his monitor and backs away from Rev, speechless. Rev stares at Logich hungrily, his eyes wild. Then he reaches out an arm and Logich practically jumps. But Rev merely picks up Logich's monitor. Hands it to him. And suddenly, Rev is back to being plain old Rev, albeit a bit smug at having scared the hell out of this guy.
Rev: You look tired, Professor. Perhaps we should each take a short break.
Before Logich can respond, the door bursts open and two Security guards enter and a VOICE rings out.
Voice: Put him in the chair."
(05.11.01 Slipstream BBS)

Kevin Sorbo: We had, um... There were some aliens called the Pyrians, which is a cool name for aliens. And they were sort of - we never saw what they looked like through the entire first season. And then we saw them for the first time. And it was really, really disappointing. They looked like squid with little strings on the back. And when they came on, you were kind of waiting for basically, for uh… (starts humming) A little dance. You know, they're gonna hate me back up in Canada now for saying that. (14.02.02 Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, TV)

Richard Lewis (Production Designer): Since the Pyrians were CGI and produced AFTER we finished principal photography on that episode, none of us saw them until it aired. Kevin Sorbo of course was looking at a blue-screen when he talked to them on the set. (15.02.02 Slipstream BBS)

The phrase 'Last Call at the Broken Hammer' contains numerous familiar references.
A) "Last call" is an idiom with meaning: last chance to buy a drink or come in for supper.
B) "Operation Broken Hammer" was the code name for NATO operations against the Serbs in 1999.
C) Planet's name "Svarog's Anvil" in combination with the name of the bar can be taken as a hint to the slavic idiom "between hammer and anvil" (with the same meaning as "Rock and a Hard Place"). -- In Slavic Mythology Svarog was the God of Fire, similar to Greek's Hephaestus.
D) There is saying that one can be or hammer, or anvil.

Prior to landing Tyr was reading "The Book of the Five Rings" by Miyamoto Musashi (17th century). One of Japan's great samurai sword masters penned in decisive, unfaltering terms this certain path to victory, and like Sun Tzu's The Art of War it is applicable not only on the battlefield but also in all forms of competition. Always observant, creating confusion, striking at vulnerabilities--these are some of the basic principles. Most important of all is Miyamoto's concept of rhythm, how all things are in harmony, and that by working with the rhythm of a situation we can turn it to our advantage with little effort. This book is used as a tool by modern management, and is filled with philosophy as well as actual martial doctrine.

Trance: What happened here? -- Tyr: The Kalderans happened, apparently. -- Dylan: Carthago Delenda Est. (Beka gives him looks) It's Old Earth. It means total destruction.

"Carthago Delenda Est" (Latin for "Carthage must be destroyed") was a saying by the Roman Senator Cato, who got annoyed that Carthage's success in trade was hurting the Roman economy. The Romans did utterly destroy Carthage.

The Kalderans, a race of militaristic pack hunters, were the ancient enemies of the Vedran Empire and its successor, the Systems Commonwealth. In a way, they were the Carthage to Tarn-Vedra's Rome. (05.03.01 From the Story by Robert Hewitt Wolfe for this episode - on his official site)

The title bears an intentional nod to the Nietzsche's book "Human, All Too Human" (1878). In it, Nietzsche had broken off with his former values: christianity, metaphysics, Wagner and Schopenhauer... So we have a possibility to chain the idea not only to "Too Human" Rommie, but to the wide gap between the Uber's principles and almost a sacrifice made by "Too Human" Tyr.

Trance: Captain Hunt, the sensor drones are fully deployed and the missile launch has just been completed. We're five-by-five with HTE. -- Dylan (surprised): Why, thank you, Trance. -- Beka: Five-by-five? -- Trance: Military talk.

Zack Stentz (writer): Five by five is actually an old military radio term. The fives refer to the signal's strength and clarity. Five by five means everything's good and you're hearing the person loud and clear.

Zack Stentz (writer): Harper's proven himself a useful little man on several occasions. Tyr considers him an investment. And Nietzscheans protect their investments very carefully. Or so Tyr tells himself... (13.11.01 Slipstream BBS)

Zack Stentz (writer): Actually, there are a few Russian references that we manage to slip in to "Andromeda" now and again. The Tyr/Rev B-story in "All Too Human" was indirectly inspired by the sad story of the submarine "Kursk" and its brave sailors, for example. (30.09.02 Slipstream BBS)

Ashley Edward Miller (writer): The shot-but-never-seen actual final scene of "All Too Human":

REV BEM'S QUARTERS
Rev Bem in meditation. Tyr enters. Rev doesn't look up, but he knows that Tyr is there.
Tyr: I have a question.
REVERSE ANGLE
Through the doorway, on Tyr's back and Rev's thoughtful repose. As the door slides closed on their conversation…
FADE OUT. THE END
(21.11.01 Slipstream BBS)

The title comes from Virgil's "Aeneid". The themes of this classic poem are duty and sacrifice; it talks about the 'Roman Mission' to civilise the world. The concrete quote is from the Aeneas' speech which marks the last attempt of Trojans to stop Greeks forcing their way into the town: "Una salus victis nullam sperare salutem."

Dylan: Una Salus Victus. -- Tyr: Una... The one hope of the doomed? -- Dylan: The unit motto of the Argosy Special Operations Service. "The one hope of the doomed is not to hope for safety."

The literal translation would be "The one salvation of the conquered is not to hope for salvation". "Victus" means "conquered" - "doomed" is taking liberties with it. But for the Argosy motto version stated by Dylan sounds far more ravishing.

Zack Stentz (writer): The Aeneid is a lot harsher than many people think. Remember, it's not just the desperate flight from Troy, but the war along the banks of the Tiber against Turnus, an implaccable enemy who isn't actually such a bad guy. The Aeneid ends with Aeneas mercilessly slaying Turnus. Likewise, the Iliad is, in the midst of the brutality, a lot more humane than often believed. Achilles does his whole descent into berserker vengefulness, true, but by the end he's sitting in his tent weeping with Priam over their mutual losses. Aeneas never re-connects with his humanity the way Achilles does-- IMHO, of course.
And we did try to humanize Nietzscheans with subtle touches like Cuchulain checking pulses and helping wounded soldiers to their feet, to emphasize his concern for his troops. The inclusion of the Beka/Quechua subplot was an intentional counterpoint, as you noticed, to emphasize that these spaceships that explode so beautifully are actually piloted by living, feeling beings-- many of whom are actually pretty decent folks. To get pretentious and meta for a second (please excuse me!)-- it was our strange little attempt to do the Homeric thing -- humanize the enemy even as you describe his death. But while Homer was able to do it for nearly all his soldiers (providing lovely little thumbnail biographies of fighting men before describing their violent deaths in excruciating detail), we only had time for one....but Quechua, in her own way, was meant to stand in for the rest of the Nietzschean soldiers, pilots, and technicians killed in the episode.
We're no Homer, of course, but like him we're trying to achieve that elusive balance in war story telling between sadism and sentimentality. And I hope we succeeded just a little. (11.11.01 Slipstream BBS)

"And… cut!" announces director Allan Kroeker. It's day four on "Una Salus Victus". <...> As the show's FX team begin resetting their pyrotechnics for another take, cast members Kevin Sorbo and Keith Hamilton Cobb take a moment to relax. "That was even better that I had imagined," Kroeker tells them. "It's almost a Western, isn't it?"
<...> Kevin Sorbo: "Tyr and I have gone down to a planet that used to house the High Guard station, Acheron, which during the heyday of the Commonwealth was like the Pearl Harbor of the fleet. The Nietzscheans have now taken it over, and these are the Drago-Kazov, so there are plenty of bad guys there. All the Nietzscheans in this time frame are pretty bad guys, but even the other Nietzschean prides don't like the Drago-Kazov. We are down there as saboteurs; we're going to set a bunch of explosives and blow the place to kingdom come. In the scene we are doing now, I have a map of the entire place, because it has been part of my High Guard thing forever, so I have a map of the corridors, caverns and chambers and how to get around the place. They have defense systems put up everywhere, and we have got to take them out, so that's what we're doing today. It's a great show for us. We did a day on location, rappelling, flying around and doing fight scenes. Keith and I had fun. It has been a really good relationship between our two characters, because they are very adversarial, but there is a grudging mutual respect between them." (11.01 Starlog #292)

Tyr: We might let God sort them out, but (laughing) someone told me he was dead. -- Dylan: Heh...that Nietzsche. What a comedian.

"Kill them all, let God sort them out," is a military slogan, which Tyr may gather from some book...

Two references introduce Friedrich Nietzsche's idea about the death of God. In "The Gay Science" (aphorism "The Madman") Nietzsche first proclaimed the death of God: "Have you not heard of that madman... <...> 'Whether is God?' he cried. 'I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are his murderers. <...> God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him! <...> Shall we not ourselves have to become Gods, merely to seem worthy of it?" In "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" (chapter "The Pitiful"): "Woe unto all loving ones who have not an elevation which is above their pity! Thus spake the devil unto me, once on a time: 'Ever God hath his hell: it is his love for man.' And lately did I hear him say these words: 'God is dead: of his pity for man hath God died."

Cuchulain: My task force has just engaged the Andromeda Ascendant in the outer solar system. From all reports, she's not acquitting herself very well. -- Dylan: Andromeda's a big ship. She can take care of herself. -- Cuchulain: Ever seen a pack of wolves take down a grisly bear, Captain? Oh, sure, the bear can dish it out at first, but the wolves attack and attack and attack. Sooner or later, the bear loses. -- Dylan: My money's still on the bear.

Although both of them seem to be speaking about the ship, it will not hurt to remember that Kodiak is a breed of grizzly bear native to Kodiak Island, Alaska (the biggest on Earth).

Orpheus (member of the Board): Dylan's gambit reminds me of Nikita Khrushchev, who used to bang his shoe on his desk during UN session to interrupt other speakers, when the USSR was just starting to become a nuclear power. The US had more nukes and raw military power, but the world worried more about the possibly unstable Soviets - who milked it for all the concession they could. I have a photo that shows Khrushchev at his desk at the UN, with a shoebox visible at his feet. He didn't take off his shoes in rage and beat the desk. It was a planned strategem. (20.11.01 Slipstream BBS)

Zack Stentz (writer): Our take on it is that Dylan knew Tyr took SOMETHING that riled up the Dragans, but he didn't think Tyr would have the sheer audacity to pilfer Drago's bones until confronted with the evidence of Cuchulain's single-mindedness. It's the only explanation that explains why Dylan didn't confront Tyr long ago over his harboring such a magnet for hostile Nietzscheans. (20.11.01 Slipstream BBS)

Keep the Home Fires Burning,
While your hearts are yearning,
Though your lads are far away they dream of home.
There's a silver lining, through the dark clouds shining,
Turn the dark cloud inside out, 'til the boys come home.

Overseas there came a pleading,
"Help a nation in distress."
And we gave our glorious laddies, honor bade us do no less,
For no gallant son of freedom to a tyrant's yoke should bend,
And a noble heart must answer to the sacred call of "Friend."

This song was written in 1914 with music by Ivor Novello and lyrics by Lena Ford.

Rommie: So what are you going to do? -- Dylan: The same thing General Sani nax Rifati did six thousand years ago. I'm gonna get the military out of the republic. Time to give Telemachus Rhade a little history lesson.

4279 CY: The Conclave votes to officially dissolve the Empire and replace it with a fully democratic Systems Republic. The Imperial government resists, and civil war seems imminent. The tense standoff ends when High Guard supreme commander Sani nax Rifati brokers a compromise. The Vedran Empress will remain as titular leader of her former empire, but with political power ceded to an elected government. The Systems Commonwealth is born. (from the Timeline of All Systems University)

In the episode "The Mathematics Of Tears" Dylan said that Sani nax Rifati was his lifelong hero.

Tyr and Beka are roaming the decks of the Andromeda. At one crossing, they are joined by Dylan.
Tyr: I see we're leaving Tarazed.
Dylan: Yeah, for now. But they'll have new elections next year and by then the Magog World Ship will be that much closer.
Beka: And the booters will be highly motivated to endorse Commonwealth membership.
Tyr: You trust Admiral Rhade to hold down the fort at the interim?
Dylan (casually): Absolutely.
Beka and Tyr watch him leave.

Kevin Sorbo is 6'3 tall, but not everybody else is. That was the problem facing James Marsters (Charlemange Bolivar), when he headed up to Vancouver, Canada, last May to film a guest appearance. "When you're trying to be as tall as Kevin Sorbo," says Marsters, "you need a little help."
Lexa Doig: "James was wearing what we call the KISS Army boots, these major platform boots. It was so funny, because you see him walking around, and he's very lithe, then you see these galumphing, six-inch platform boots."
James Marsters: "Sorbo's a great choice for it, obviously, and what a great person. If you're going to have a lead on a show, they set the tone for the whole thing. If they come in on time, with their lines done, have a good, professional, crisp, happy attitude, it just runs all through the set and makes the day go like butter. I'm very lucky to work with Kevin, who was just marvelous." (27.11.01 zap2it.com)

James Marsters: I was horrified by my costume. When you're playing a dangerous dandy, the best thing you can say is Tim Roth, right? He got it on the nail. He got all the social, all the airs that are put on from the Aristocracy but he created a character that was truly dangerous. I wanted to be in that mold and they just wanted the frooffy and the costume reflected that. I fought them a little on that frankly. I didn't think that character should be unmanly. I thought he should be very manly. You know, having said that, Kevin Sorbo was really cool, you know. It was a hard-working cast. (29.08.03 Dragon Con - transcribed by talkenglish2me)

Ashley Edward Miller (writer): <The Xener yell, done by that white-mummy character right before it attacked.> Personally, I thought it was pretty damned hilarious. It made the Diet Coke come out of my nose when I saw it. (Kudos, Allan Eastman -- you da man, dawg! )
And credit where credit is due on another issue -- the action scene at the end was all us. We wanted it in there, because a) we're a damned sci-fi action show, b) we literally wanted all chaotic evil hell to break loose at the end and take Harper to the edge of a personal apocalypse and c) we wanted a moment where Charlemagne steps up and shows us what a bad-ass he is. And I thought it worked pretty darned great. (03.12.01 Slipstream BBS)

At the end, when Charlemagne and Dylan are exchanging lines about a sea of troubles and opposing them to end them, they share the quote from Shakespeare's "Hamlet":
"To be or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing, end them. ...."

Ashley Edward Miller (writer): Hamlet was wrestling with regicide/patricide -- the consequences on his immortal soul of taking action vs. standing back and allowing the chips to fall where they may. (6.12.01 Slipstream BBS)

Zack Stentz (writer): written but never shot scene from "Into the Labyrinth" that I thought I'd share. It picks up right at the tail end of Satrina's attempted seduction of Dylan:
And then he steps back.
Dylan: But I'm afraid I'll have to stop somewhere short of public scandal. Enjoy the rest of your stay.
With that, Dylan EXITS. Satrina watches him go, amused.
Charlemagne: The lovely Satrina's charms fail her. That can't happen very often.
Satrina whirls around and sees a smiling Charlemagne Bolivar emerge from the shadows. He's been here the entire time. She's shocked, but only for a moment.
Satrina: Archduke Bolivar. I've been wanting to see you.
Charlemagne: I don't doubt it. Well, here I am. So mix me that drink you promised Captain Hunt and tell me how you've come to tempt me.
Charlemagne strolls up to Satrina, circling her while she pours them both a drink. The air is heavy with the mixture of seduction and threat.
Satrina: You're a direct man. I appreciate that. So I'll come right to the point: your war with the Drago-Kazov isn't going well. The Sabra-Jaguar are outnumbered and outgunned, and you're hoping joining the new Commonwealth will change that equation. It won't.
Charlemagne: Astute strategic analysis... from an "archivist." <It's obvious from how he pronounces the word that he knows she's anything but.> So let me guess: you're here to offer me access to new technologies. Equipment more advanced than the Drago-Kazov...the Perseids...even the Andromeda herself. Is that the general idea?
Satrina's not daunted. In fact, she smiles coquettishly.
Charlemagne: Tempting indeed. Still, that sounds like the kind of deal that comes with a price tag attached. Or so I've heard.
Satrina: In this universe, nothing's free. You of all people should know that.
Charlemagne: I do. But sometimes...sometimes even a devil knows better than to make a deal with one.
OFF Charlemagne, looking suddenly like the most dangerous person on the ship.
(17.12.01 Slipstream BBS)

Keith Hamilton Cobb: "That story seemed to me to be getting back to what my character is and does. In "The Prince" you see some of the politics and inner working of Tyr's mind played oat for what he perceived was the good of someone else. Both he and Dylan take their job as regent very seriously but for different reasons. One could look at Dylan's and say, 'Yours is the less noble because you are trying to put this guy in a position where he is going to be amenable to your new Commonwealth. So you are playing politics for your own good and not necessarily for the good of that world.' Tyr, on the other hand, is trying to put the prince in power because he was asked to and also because Erik is the rightful heir. He also wants to make certain that he stays in power, so he is teaching him sort of Machiavellian 101. It is assignment, though, that he would embrace because it is a challenge and something interesting to sink his teeth into. 'Take this guy and turn him into a real prince - you bet!' He took great pride in helping do that, and I relished the acting opportunity as well." (11.02 TV Zone #156)

Eric: United, we are a great nation. Divided, we shall fall.

The formula "United we stand, divided we fall" can be attributed to Aesop (6 c. BCE) who used it in the fable "The Four Oxen and the Lion". In American history it regained popularity with political orators from Benjamin Franklin to Abraham Lincoln.

Eric: A government elected by the people, and for the people.

"It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- <...> and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." President Abraham Lincoln (The Gettysburg Address, 1863)

Dylan: Tyr, those people you told Eric to study, Sun Tzu, Hedonis of Thonia, Machiavelli, I've read them too.

Sun Tzu (Sunzi) (c. 4 century BC) - name used by the unknown Chinese authors of the sophisticated treatise on philosophy, logistics, espionage, strategy and tactics known as "The Art of War", the worlds first military classic. Sun Tzu tells us "The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." And: "All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near. Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him." Sun Tzu’s teachings have remained timely because they accept human faults as both unavoidable and useful in any strategy.

Keith Hamilton Cobb: "While I will take into account that you are probably not getting the full version of the episode as it was written or performed, what remains, I believe, still has value as a greater insight into Nietzschean thought-to-action processes than anything I've seen thus far. Maybe I'm blowing my own horn, but I believe I'm playing on pitch. For no other aspect of the ep. can I speak, but if you'll look a bit closer, you may see that the writer is attempting to give his audience more credit rather than less.
What's left to say? I love Tyr and everything he does in this episode and most. What's more, Tyr loves Tyr and the gift of his Nietszchean mind, body and soul. Most importantly, we would both hate his sorry, one-dimensional guts if all he were simply ever trying to do was steal a spaceship from his year old family, or something equally unevolved, and failing miserably every time. One hint to use in the answering of your test questions: He's not." (25.04.02 KHCobb Message Board)

The first shot of Boston shows lying in ruins obelisk -- that's the Battle of Bunker Hill Monument (which is proudly standing in present-day Boston).

Rommie: I cannot believe we are going to war to help Elssbett and the Jaguars. -- Beka: Well you know that old expression 'Politics make strange bedfellows.'

Beka uses common saying, which comes from Shakespeare's play "The Tempest". A storm has shipwrecked a group of the people on an island. Trinculo, a jester, is forced by thunder into the nearest shelter, which is cloak of Caliban, a deformed native. As Trinculo puts it, "misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows". (Act 2, scene 2)

Harper: Great, "start the revolution without me". Anything else I can do for you? Transmute the elements? Reverse entropy? Make you a sandwich?

"Start the Revolution Without Me" (1970) is a comedy set in revolutionary France, which can be considered a parody of a number of works of historical fiction about the French Revolution.

Rommie: No plan of battle ever survives the first engagement with the enemy. + <later> Dylan: You know, a plan of battle rarely survives the first engagement with the enemy.

"No plan survives intact the first encounter with the enemy." Formula by Helmuth von Moltke (1800 -1891), famous Prussian general. Moltke recognised the increasing need to delegate control to subordinate commanders and to issue directives rather than specific orders.
It is interesting to note, that human mind of Captain Hunt adds "rarely".

The ancient symbol for eternity, often depicted as a serpent biting its own tail and thus forming a closed loop, is known in a host of mythologies: Babylonian, Egyptan, Phoenican, Greek, Hindu, Chinese, Norse. Greeks called it the Ouroboros, which means devouring its tail. The ouroboros has several interrelated meanings. Foremost is the symbolism of the cyclic nature of the Universe: creation out of destruction, life out of death.

Harper: Engineer heal thyself.

It is an alteration of the phrase "Physician, heal thyself", known from the Gospel of St. Luke (4:23): Jesus returned to Nazareth. The people were not impressed by him. Jesus said to them, "Ye will surely say unto me this proverb: 'Physician heal thyself!' Do here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in Capernaum." Some interpret it as "prove your reputation", some as "one should address his own faults before trying to fix someone else's".
Harper cut off the hope for biological cure made by Trance and realized he can find the cure in his own, mechanical, sphere.

Harper: I cogito, therefore I sum, and I sum to cogito that damn machine right out of existence!

Cogito, ergo sum (Latin) - Descartes' fundamental basis of philosophy: "I think, therefore I exist".

Zack Stentz (writer): I'm surprised no one caught the "Bunker Hill" followup in "Lava and Rockets," when Beka clearly states that Dylan's mission to the Haukon system was to arrange purchases of weapons to arm and equip the new Commonwealth. So Dylan's quite actively pursuing a course to make sure that they'll be better armed in their next encounter with the Drago-Kazovs. (01.04.02 Slipstream BBS)

Zack Stentz (writer): To clarify a point: At least in the script, ONE cop gets shot. In the leg. Everyone else is bopped on the head or chased off by the heroes. No one is killed. Onscreen, they sparked the one guy a little bit uncomfortably high on his thigh, but none of the cops are supposed to have been killed, either. (02.02 Slipstream BBS)

A kiss for luck never hurts... Okay, it felt slightly overused, but it works and it's progression was authentic: once as a scam, once in reply, once as a mutual endeavor, the fourth, in the denoument, was optional.

Ashley Edward Miller (writer): <that blonde was playing possum to get Dylan to give her mouth to mouth> Molly was legitimately injured -- if something else came across on screen, blame the director. (02.02 Slipstream BBS)

The title comes from the end of the famous 'To Be or Not to Be' soliloquy from Shakespeare's "Hamlet":
Hamlet: The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remember'd.

Although Sorbo didn't provide any spoilers, the actor mentioned that two episodes had to be rewritten following the September 11 terrorist attacks because they dealt with "anthrax-type virus and terrorist" themes. (04.12.01 Gabereau Live, Canada TV)

Kevin Sorbo: <We had an episode> dealing with somebody hijacking our spaceship and trying to use it on a suicide mission to fly us into a planet to destroy a city. That script was written nine months ago! We changed that one because it was a little too close to home. (26.12.01 ET Online)

Dylan (on screen): Good luck on Hazen-Brown. Tyr, you've got command. I know you'll display the appropriate sensitivity and diplomacy in dealing with the Chichins. -- Tyr shuts off the comm.

Helpful quote from the episode "The Pearls That Were His Eyes" =

Rev: Oh oh, the drift trader that you're meeting is called Grask. Now he's a… Chichin.
Dylan: Oh great.
Rev: Yes, they never buy what they can steal.
Tyr: They're scum. They eat their own young. I'll thank you to see that he comes nowhere near me.
Rev: Mmm... probably a good idea.
Dylan: Yeah, make a note of that.

Rommie (needling Tyr): Dylan did that!

At Gallifrey Convention (2002) co-writer Jill Sherwin said that it was a Lexa ad lib.

Based on an early version of the script, sources were able to provide the following plot information for this episode. <...> Raising his one robotic arm, Bobby demands Dylan's force lance, and when Dylan refuses to give it up he moves blindingly fast to grab Harper and break his arm. <...> The reason Bobby wanted Beka to come to Cascada Sueno is because many years ago, this was the planet where she thwarted his plans to deliver weapons to the natives. Bobby still blames Beka for this, and says she is the reason they lost a war against the colonists. <...> In one of flashbacks, the ship is being attacked by the so-called Ganymede Tong. At the same time, Bobby is beating up Harper, with the approval of Beka, who suspects Harper of having revealed the ship's location to the Tong. Harper quickly admits that he did so, but angrily adds that he really is the least of Beka's problems - after all, wouldn't the Ganymede Tong always have come after whoever stole 500 surface-to-air missiles from them? <...> The Maru ejects its cargo, and the Tong ship moves to retrieve it - only to be destroyed when the Eureka Maru's cargo explodes! Harper explains he removed the guidance computer systems from the missiles, turning them into big bombs - so not only did the bad guys explode, they've also still got the computers. Bobby asks Beka how she can possibly trust Harper, who she barely knows. But Beka replies that she knows Bobby only all too well. As a last resort, Bobby says he loves her. "I know. I love you, too," says Beka, but then adds, "Go. Go before I shoot you." After a long look, Bobby turns and leaves. (18.10.01 Slipstream News)

Although Sorbo didn't provide any spoilers, the actor mentioned that two episodes had to be rewritten following the September 11 terrorist attacks because they dealt with "anthrax-type virus and terrorist" themes. (04.12.01 Gabereau Live, Canada TV)

Kevin Sorbo: Months ago, we shot a couple of episodes, one that dealt with an anthrax-type virus that was being spread, <...>. (26.12.01 ET Online)

Rommie: How do they [humans] make friends, have relationships? Fall in love? How do they connect knowing that nothing is permanent, that even love dies? -- Dylan: See, that's where you're wrong. Love doesn't die. It's the only thing that lasts forever. I mean, your body could be destroyed, or run out of power but when the universe ends and the last star burns out, the only thing that will be love.

The love Dylan speaks of obviously is not love in the romantic sense, it is love for an individual for the being that they are. And here our military commander sounds suspiciously very much alike famous nonviolence advocate Mohandas K. Gandhi, who said: "Hatred ever kills, love never dies, such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time."

"The true quarry of any great adventurer is the undiscovered territory of their own soul." Lady Aenea Makros "The Metaphysics of Motion" CY 6416

Celeste [Chan Wolfe, screenwriter] says that Dylan, Beka and Trance are parallels to Brahma, Shiva and Vishnu in Hindu mythology. (04.03.02 Slipstream BBS - posted by Cardie)

So, the title refers to the famous Hindu triad. Brahma is the originator and director of the universe, the balance between the opposing forces of Vishnu and Shiva. Vishnu is the protector and preserver of the existent universe. Shiva is the destructor and restorer, his duality comes from the rhythmic nature of the universe: creation out of destruction, life out of death.

This episode is based upon a story by Robert Hewitt Wolfe and his wife Celeste Chan Wolfe. The teleplay was written by former "Xena: Warrior Princess" writer Emily Skopov. First draft teleplay by Emily, second draft by Matt Kiene and Joe Reinkemeyer, final draft by Matt Kiene and Ashley Edward Miller.

Celeste [Chan Wolfe, screenwriter] explained that in its original version, the episode would play like a light-hearted, Indiana Jones-style romp. There are some fairly silly scenes of Dylan in tourist garb, and a running gag about him playing the guitar very badly. He also goes fishing at one point and returns with several fish hanging from his force lance. He really thinks they are on vacation, even though Beka is all gung-ho to find this treasure. It would only be as the series unfolded according to Robert's plan that we would look back and see the episode's importance-which is that destiny required that Dylan and Beka come together as a team with Trance's aid, because it is the three of them that will be able to save the universe from the total extinction planned by SotA. The artifact that is recovered, a scepter, turns out to be a part of some very powerful machine that can create and destroy universes-but we don't know that in the original script. It's just a cool artifact that can bring Beka a good price. (04.03.02 Slipstream BBS - posted by Cardie)

"When Kevin had a break in filming, the three of us went to his dressing room (a huge motor home, really), and we chatted for a while. In his dressing room was his guitar - he said he was scheduled to play it in an upcoming episode, so he had to practice!" (05.01 Andulasia's Vancouver Adventure)

Lisa [Ryder] is off book more than even Kevin when it comes to rewriting the existing lines. He tends to add things not there at all [which fortify the thruth of him been the high professional - additional lines can be easily cut off if director or screenwriter will dislike them.]. Here is apparent on-set ad libs in additon to existing dialog:
Dylan: What's wrong with this spot? <He looks at the map: Eyes of Blood and Peril> This is a bad spot.
Beka: Souvenir. (As she hands Dylan the dart.)
Dylan (to Beka): After you. (When Trance finds the Temple of Spirits.)
Dylan: Well, that was... fun. (After he barely escaped shurikan.)
Beka: They don't look very penitent to me. (About three statues.)
Dylan: That stuff's not good for you. (About Cyanide gas.)
Dylan: Can't have too many. (Beka volunteers to go through a contest of Fire and Pain. Then Duran. Then Dylan, then Fletcher.)
Dylan: It's never easy. (Some later, when he hears sound of the gun near his head.)
Dylan: I just thought my way was quicker. (In a jailroom awaiting the trial. Beka reprimands Dylan for the way he was acting in the scene with "land mine".)
Dylan: I know what this is about. (In a jailroom awaiting the trial. Dylan: I know what is this about. I wasn't your first choice.)
Dylan: I think Tyr would have something to say about that. (In a jailroom awaiting the trial. Beka: I can't manipulate you like I can manipulate Tyr. -- Dylan: Yeah, well, I think Tyr would have something to say about that.)
Dylan: That must be Shinta for showtime. (In a jailroom just before the trial.)

(05.03.02 Slipstream BBS - posted by Cardie)

These are line substitutions. First is the original line in the final draft script. The second is the one actually uttered in the episode.
Trance: Because if you tell him, Tyr will die. -- Tyr: Then by all means, don't tell me. ^^^ Tyr: Then, by all means, leave me in suspense.
Dylan: So where in the tourist brochures did it mention a flying, killer shurikan? ^^^ Dylan: Is this on the regular tour? [As to me, the short phrase seems more suitable for situation. - Lana]
Flux: She says you need to go through the ceremony of Fire and Pain. -- Dylan: Such a gentle people, these Shinta. ^^^ Dylan: Is that anything like spin the bottle?

(05.03.02 Slipstream BBS - posted by Cardie)

The title may come from the lines of the well-known Serenity Prayer: "God, grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and the Wisdom to know the difference."

But I prefer to think that it has more to do with the famous quote -- "Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed." Why I cling to this explanation? It fits nicely not only with the episode storyline, but with all Dylan's post-Fall life. Above-cited phrase is from the novel "Debt of Honor" by Tom Clancy, US novelist, the master of a series of military thrillers. Well, Dylan IS contradicting the idea that things cannot be changed on daily basis.

"Home is the sailor, home from the sea And the hunter home from the hill." - Fragment of Ancient Earth Text, c. CY 6800

These are the world famous lines of the 'Requiem' written by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) which are on the bronze plate of his tomb:

Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.

I really appreciate the skill of the writers effortlessly throwing epigraphs over the shoulders of the episodes. And this one comes to the point of impact giving at first the good feeling of safety and peace, but after you remember the death-dealing context of the poem it sends the shiver down your back.

Episode has strong connection with classic novel by Kurt Vonnegut "Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade" which combines science fiction elements with a deep psychological analysis. World War II. American soldier Billy Pilgrim is captured by German soldiers and placed into prison altered from a slaughterhouse in the city of Dresden. For unsure reasons Billy has become "unstuck in time" so he knocks about his life. He is visiting random days, turning from deep snow in Germany before his capture to living married in America after the war, or from his murder on the Earth to him been exhibited in a zoo on the planet Tralfamadore. One of his Tralfamadorian captors says that out of 31 inhabited planets, only on Earth is there the idea of free will. Little by little Billy has adopted Tralfamadorian fatalism and spread this philosophy to humans. The narrator notes that Billy had a copy of the Serenity Prayer in his office. "Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future."

Q: What was the significance of the color of 's clothing cycling from black to grey to white, while Dylan's underwent the opposite change? -- Ethlie Ann Vare (writer): You'll have to ask Jorge Montesi. That wasn't in the script. Directors often find a visual image system to heighten or complement the story. This was his. Also, notice that the furniture kept disappearing... (17.04.02 Ethlie Ann Vare's Question & Answer Forum)

John Parry (writer): In one of the meetings Zack [Stentz] had this great epiphany and just blurted out that the story was all about a guy running home to his parents only to find out they're just as f****d up as he is (the original idea I pitched was very, very different and a whole lot darker). <...> While I think the guys saw the Vedrans as classic Roddenberry aliens (intelligent *and* rational *and* superior), no one ever said that they were "nice." Without giving too much away, just because Dylan wants a New Commonwealth doesn't necessarily mean they do. <...> I think Dylan very possibly did go there sooner and didn't find any Vedrans, perhaps instead the beginnings of Kalderan strip mining ops. Facing a good portion of the Kalderan fleet with just his ship probably didn't interest him, so he bided his time. The moment a Vedran was rumoured to be there, the situation changed. <...> Uxulta did say that "Tarn Vedra is aware of Dylan's efforts and approves." So I guess you could say that even *if* (and that's a big *if*) she didn't come from there, she's definitely in contact with them. Or she's a damn good liar. And, when she tesseracted the system out of the universe, it had to go somewhere... (30.04.02 Slipstream BBS)

Beka: I've been around the moons of Nibia and through perdition's flame, but I've never heard of the place.

A nod to the movie "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" (1982). Many years ago Khan Noonien Singh was forced by captain James T. Kirk to stay on the desert planet. Now Khan has escaped his exile and seeks revenge on Kirk. Khan is quoting lines (sometimes modified) from the novel "Moby Dick" he'd read during his days on the planet. "Khan: I'll chase him round the moons of Nibia and round the Antares maelstrom and round perdition's flames before I give him up!" ("Ahab: I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up!")

Ashley Edward Miller (writer): <I wish someone had let Tyr say "I told you so..." because he was suspicious of their motives right from the start...> Tyr doesn't have to say a thing. Again, why beat you over the head with something you should be able to figure out for yourself? That's condescending to both Dylan and the audience. And by the way... has it occurred to you that Tyr might be frelling wrong? Or that Dylan's cognitive dissonance -- i.e., perception of Vedrans vs. reality -- might (gasp) be the point of the episode? Huh. Imagine that... In any event, Dylan's discovery that he's unable to blindly follow orders anymore (again, re: perception vs. reality) is the point of the episode. The fact that he ultimately agrees to obey the order is clearly far more than a knee-jerk response to the Admiral's rank. And it's equally clear that he still harbors doubts at the end, even though he decided to have faith in the Vedrans. That's what faith is -- having questions, but believing anyway.
<since when was it All! About! Dylan? I don't mind his character development, I do object when it's contrived and at the expense of the other characters.> Newsflash: it's been all about Dylan for quite a while. Say, since "Under the Night". All of the characters are important, and they all have their stories, but the overall story is Dylan's. And in what way is it contrived to focus an episode about the apparent return of the Vedrans around Dylan? A story like that has to belong to him. (21.04.02 Slipstream BBS)

Zack Stentz (writer): I hope to God that a military commander being faced with an order from an alleged superior claiming to represent a government that hasn't been seen for three centuries and demanding a horrifically destructive weapon without explaining why, would at the very least question those orders. For Dylan to have done otherwise would have been a gross dereliction of duty. (21.04.02 Slipstream BBS)

Dylan and Beka walking Andromeda's corridors.
Beka: It's not at all what I expected here.
Dylan: What's that?
Beka: The Vedran. When I was little I used to spend hours tracing them for pictures. Who could imagine they could be so brutal?
Dylan: Oh, they weren't. But they weren't a wan either. They simply priced wisdom and freedom over everything else and they were willing to do whatever it took to secure them.
Beka: Including war with the Kalderans?
Dylan: The Vedrans made peace for them, made them part of the Commonwealth... but I suppose for the Kalderans old wounds never heal.
Beka: I know some people like that...
Dylan: T...don't we all... Still, the Vedrans created an egalitarian society that spanned the galaxies and they gave us 12 centuries of peace.
Beka: Sounds like paradise...
Dylan: It's...more like civilization.
Beka raises her eyebrows at that comment. They arrive at Command.

The title of the story is reminding of the Jonah's sea creature from the Old Testament (Book of Jonah); while the story itself has more to do with the sea monster Cetus from the Greek myth.

Jonah disobeyed God's order to go to Nineveh and prophesy disaster because of the city's wickedness. He even tried to move in the opposite direction. But when a storm was about to destroy the ship, Jonah admitted to the crew that it is his fault. They threw him overboard and Jonah was swallowed by a great fish and stays inside it for three days and three nights. After been vomited onto land he went Nineveh. The biblical story of Jonah suffering in the belly of the beast has become a metaphor for being trapped, imprisoned, etc.

Poseidon sent the sea monster Cetus (sometimes known as simply a whale) to ravage Ethiopia. The god decided to punish the king Cepheus and his wife Cassiopeia, who claimed that her daughter was more beautiful than all the Nereids. Cetus wasted Cepheus's kingdom and he was forced to sacrifice his daughter: Andromeda was chained to the rock for the monster. She was rescued by Perseus, who used abnormal weapon - he turned Cetus into stone showing him the head of Medusa.

Harper: A conduit, a conduit, my kingdom for a conduit! (He opens door to room full of fire and jumps in.)

I had a hard time trying to imagine Harper reading Shakespeare's tragedy "King Richard III", but here he is altering the classical line "A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!" Well, that's interesting... in the episode of the 1 Season "The Sum Of Its Parts" he was paraphrasing the line from another Shakespeare's play "Julius Caesar"...

Harper: Call me Ishmael, but the rad patterns from Dylan's bomb created a juicy target…

"Call me Ishmael" is the opening line of "Moby Dick", introducing the only character who survived, young romantic. "Moby Dick or, The Whale" by Herman Melville (1851- First American edition was published by Harper & Brothers, NY) is the story about Captain Ahab's obsessive pursuit of the malevolent snow-white whale. In his end, exterminating personification of the World's Evil, Captain takes his crew with him. The only survivor is the narrator, who is rescued by a passing ship. Ishmael, Ahab and crew battle reshaped some of most complex questions: Is it better to fight evil or promote virtue? Where is the line between honorable justice and blind vengeance? Do bad things happen because the universe is evil or just indifferent? ...Just another story to keep in mind while watching this episode.

The title of the episode comes from "The Knight, Death and The Devil" (1514) - copper engraving by Albrecht Durer, painter and printmaker generally regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist. This etching has the Knight and his faithful dog continuing on in pursuit of their quest, despite the temptations to abandon it (the Devil), and the fear of failure (Death).

In "The Knight, Death and the Devil" the lighting plays symbolical role. The sheet of engraving is divided into two plans. The first - dark. The Knight courageously moves forward through gloomy gorge, being between Death and the Devil. The second plan is flooded by light. Two different worlds, and to get in the second, it is necessary to overcome gloom and horrors of the first.

Not for certain, but it is possible, that Clarion's Call, once a Ground Troop transport for the High Guard Lancer Corps, now retrofitted as casino run by Nightsiders, was mentioned in the 1 Season. "Admiral Shura: What, you think this is the only High Guard relic still tooling around out there? Over Neiture-3 (sp?) they got a Shimmering Diamond Class troop transport rebuilt as a casino." (episode "Star-Crossed")

A clarion is a medieval small horn. "Clarion call" means a sharp, clear, calling for battle sound, war-cry.

Ryan: Welcome to the Clarion's Call. We've got it all here, sir. We've got games, spa, flesh rooms, and don't forget our new Iolausian buffet.

"Iolausian buffet" was said to be Michael's ad lib. There are two meanings of the simple word "buffet": 1) refreshment bar and 2) blow.

With deference to Michael Hurst and "Hercules" fans the writers slipped some amusing H:TLJ references in the story.

Dylan: You look like the right guy to me. -- Ryan: Well, I don't care what I look like. I can't help. -- Dylan: I'm disappointed.
Goes both to Jester (alternate-twin of Iolaus) and unforgettable Sovereign's "Disappointed!"

Ryan: They're in Tartarus. -- (Dylan's weird look on face) -- Ryan: Something wrong? -- Dylan: Deja Vu.
In the Greek mythology Tartarus is the worst place to be. The term "Deja Vu" is French and means, literally, "already seen." Those who have experienced the feeling describe it as an overwhelming sense of familiarity with something that shouldn't be familiar at all.

Dylan (to Ryan): You watch my back and I'll watch yours.
"Best friends, fighting back-to-back." - It was started in the first movie "Hercules and the Amazon Women" and carried through to the last act.

Oh, and on the sidenote - amongst the works by afore-mentioned Albrecht Durer one can find "Hercules at the Crossroad", "Hercules" and "Hercules fighting the Harpies".

Rommie (to Tyr): We're hell on wheels with dirty limericks. Wanna hear one? There once was a man from Nan...

Obviously she didn't finish this classic limerick. Limericks are, generally, nonsense poems that are written with a particular pattern: "There once was..." - "There once was a man from Nantucket, Who kept all of his cash in a bucket, But his daughter, named Nan, Ran away with a man, And as for the bucket, Nantucket."

The name of "The Wrath of Achilles" is well-aimed. Achilles is the hero from the legends of Ancient Greece. His most famous adventure is told in the "Iliad". He became the fiercest fighter for the Greeks at Troy, but in the last year of the Trojan War he refused to fight any longer after a quarrel with Agamemnon over the woman. Angered Achilles turns to his mother, goddess, and at her request Zeus makes the war to go badly for the Greeks. Achilles's manner of behaving results in the death of his friend Patroclus by the Trojan prince Hector. Achilles reentered the battle and killed Hector in return, he desecrates Hector's corpse and is going to deprive it of burial. Only in final song of "Iliad" Achilles softenes witnessing the woe of Priam, Hector's father. Achilles gives out the corpse for burial and cries together with old Priam over it.

Zack Stentz (writer): Actually, the point of the Beka story was much more that the idea of the Commonwealth is more important than any one person. Before, Beka did it out of loyalty and friendship toward Dylan (plus her own personal agenda to retrieve the Engine...) while now, she believes in it as a worthy goal unto itself. See the difference? (28.04.02 Slipstream BBS)

The title of the episode comes from the name of the chapter of Friedrich Nietzsche's 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra'.

<Series co-producer Ethlie Ann Vare said that> Robert Wolfe was heavily involved in developing 'Immaculate Perception'. ((03).12.01 SyFy Portal)

Zack Stentz (writer): "Immaculate Perception" wasn't really a post-Wolfe script. First draft of this one was already completed when Robert Wolfe was fired. (22.04.02 alt.tv.andromeda)

While the opening quote is turning our attention to the baby, unmasking words of Nietzsche's Zarathustra seem to indicate that the major event of the episode is appearance of the Knights. "Oh, ye violators of noble names! But it shall be your curse, ye immaculate ones, ye pure discerners, that ye shall never bring forth, even though ye lie broad and teeming on the horizon! Verily, ye fill your mouth with noble words: and we are to believe that your heart overfloweth, ye cozeners? <...> A God's mask have ye hung in front of you, ye "pure ones": into a God's mask hath your execrable coiling snake crawled."

Dylan: Rule one - 'Know your enemy'. -- Tyr: Rule two - 'Know yourself'!

They share a quote from "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu (which was mentioned in the episode "The Prince"): "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."

Tamerlane (1336 - 1405) - His original, Turkic, name is Timur. European version of his name was derived from the Persian "Temur-lang" (Timur the Lame - as he was lame in the right leg after serious injury). He has conquered more than anyone else except for Alexander the Great. Timur: "All expanse of the populated part of the world is not worth having two rulers." His armies crossed Eurasia, he built a powerful empire with Samarkand capital and became the last of great nomadic leaders. He declared that he had restored the Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan. But in contrast to Genghis Khan, Timur has not found in the descendants neither reliable assistants, nor continuers of the affair. His life's work appeared, therefore, even less durable, than result of efforts of the Mongolian conqueror.

As to the lying to Dylan about his family, Keith [Hamilton Cobb] said he wanted to work off on the scene on Tyr's loss in order to make the lie based in truth. The scene that was cut was after Dylan walks away from Tyr in the corridor, Tyr says the name Freya and breaks into tears at the loss, just shaking at the pain of the loss of his wife, who chose him and was the mother of his child, and that he would not be around his child as he would like. (06.02 Tulsa Convention - Report by movieimp)