The episode title was taken from a rock song "Do It" (by Jesse Winchester):

If the wheel is fixed,
I would still take a chance.
If we're treading on thin ice,
Then we might as well dance.
So I play the fool,
But I can't sit still,
Help me get this rock
To the top of this hill.

Kevin Sorbo: "I think that the cliffhanger from last year, 'The Tunnel" is going to make an interesting two-parter. My personal feeling is that "Tunnel" and the following episode should be shown like a two-hour special and should air back to back to give them their full effect because individually they are great and together they'd be tremendous." (09.02 Cult Times #84)

Trance: It's an invitation. Whatever it is it wants to play, to fight, or to make love with us. -- Dylan: RSVP.

RSVP originates from French 'repondez s'il vous plait' - please reply (used at the end of invitations).

Dylan: Why is it we look for luck every time we're in danger? -- Harper: Cause that when we need it most.

Gordon Michael Woolvett: "The other day I stopped Kevin in his tracks when I had an ad lib. Unfortunately, I didn't do the line while the camera was rolling, I only did it during a rehearsal and then we were rushing so I didn't get a chance to get it in. Kevin's line was, "Why do we always think about luck when we’re in danger?" and the line that was scripted was, "Well, because when you're in danger you need it most" and so during rehearsal instead I said to Kevin, "Well, 'cause when you're kissing your ass goodbye, a little luck makes it taste better." Kevin just had to stop. He got the visual and then he thought and said, "All right, okay, we have to stop." (08.02 Cult Times #83)

Rommie: You know what, I'm tired of blue. -- She shakes her head and changes her blue streaks in her hair to red ones. -- Beka: I can do that.

Harper used a strand of Beka's hair, including hair color-changing nanobots, to put Rommie's together - details in the episodes "To Loose the Fateful Lightning" and "The Pearls That Were His Eyes".

Dylan: Harper, you're staying here. -- Harper: What?!! but… ah. They also serve who stand and wait...

Harper is almost punctually quoting last line of the poem "On His Blindness" by John Milton (1608-74):
<...> But Patience, to prevent
That murmur, soon replies: "God doth not need
Either man's work or his own gifts: who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best.
His state is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed
And post o'er land and ocean without rest:
They also serve who only stand and wait."

Harper: That's right. Sing like a canary.

canary = a person who tells the police about his partners, a squealer.

When the shards are finally put together, the vase assume very peculiar form. That form, in combination with the colour, makes good correlation with one of the most ancient sacred images of the Indo-European (and even wider) mythology - miraculous red-golden bird, reborn through fire, representing the sun. It's Garuda of Hindu epos, Simurgh of Iranian, Phoenix of Greek myths or the Fire-bird of Slavonic fairy tales. A bird that never dies - symbol of fecundity, protection and prosperity in the antique religions, in Christianity is often used as an allegory to the resurrection.

(Sidenote - at the zero stage, one of two undeveloped Gene Roddenberry's properties had working title "Phoenix Rising".)

Not without interest is the pattern on the vase - spiderweb. Spiders did not get into mythology (aside from Arachne, but her story is more dramatical piece, then real myth). However in the cosmology term "cosmic web", coined in 1996, rooted well. Richard Bond from the University of Toronto used it to describe the invisible tangled structure of clumps and filaments naturally formed by dark matter. The gravitational tug reveals dark matter's presence when it distorts light from luminous stars and galaxies beyond. This theory is supported by new findings - researchers of the Institute for Astronomy in Edinburgh, U.K., have found the first firm evidence of such filaments by mapping the dark matter in a small part of the sky. (according to American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2001)

The title comes from the passage by Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), one of the major Beat authors: "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved."

Kevin Sorbo: "[romance for Dylan] There were a couple of episodes where I really enjoyed the reasons why it happened, but there were others where it was written into this episode, and it was toned down because I didn't quite understand it. I said, 'What, am I going to become like the intergalactic slut?' How are we setting this up with this girl who's a total psychopath?' so they toned it down quite a bit." (Summer 2002 Starburst Special #53)

It's early in Season Three for the cast of "Andromeda", and everyone is in good spirits. The episode being made is called "Mad To Be Saved", and it's the second to enter production. As far as can be ascertained from the scenes being filmed, it tells of the search for a scientist who is responsible for many deaths. It seems that the 'Andromeda' is affected as a result of this search and becomes schizophrenic. (07.02 Cult Times #82)

Nice slice of the draft script (ending):

Dylan and Tyr pull a handcuffed Dr.Yanomani to Hangar 16 where Tyr pushes him inside.
Tyr: Perhaps you'd like to discuss... orbital "defense systems."
The crazies swarm on the Yanomani and Dylan with a satisfied look of justice on his face, walks away and Tyr locks the door behind them.

Deleted scene:

Beka marches toward Med Deck, gun in hand. But before she gets there, Tyr appears. Beka stops.
Tyr: I can't let you do this.
Beka: I don't remember asking permission.
Beka resumes her march. Tyr physically blocks her. Beka tries to push him out of the way. He won't go.
Tyr: I'm trying to protect you.
Beka: I don't need protection from Sid.
Tyr: Not from him. From you.
Beka: (aims her gun at him) Get out of my way, or I swear...
Tyr: You swear what? You'll shoot me?
Beka: No.
Beka takes a swing at Tyr. He blocks. She kicks. He blocks. Beka rains blows against Tyr, but he's too fast. Too strong. Finally, he grapples her, pins her down.
Beka: Dammit... let me up!
Tyr: Not until you understand what's really waiting for you in that Med Deck.
Beka: Sid. Dead. Works for me.
Tyr: You think it's that simple. You can just walk away once the deed is done, and that will be the end of things. Think again, Captain Valentine.
Beka: Regrets, Tyr? Spoken like a true, cold-blooded killer.
Tyr regards Beka, still pinning her to the floor.
Tyr: The first time I killed in cold blood, I was seventeen. A contract hit. I was to provide security for my mentor, Tuco Sentenza, as he entered a drift restaurant and put bullets in the chests of three Nightsiders.
Beka: Something went wrong.
Tyr: No. Everything went right -- just as Sentenza planned. He walked in, fired three shots, and a second later there were three dead Nightsiders on the floor.
Beka: Wait. If he shot the Nightsiders, who did you kill? Their bodyguards?
Tyr pauses a moment.
Tyr: No. I killed Sentenza.
Beka: (stunned) Tyr, I... I mean, why...
Tyr: Why... I have no clearer memory than the eyes of Tuco Sentenza, silently asking the same question of me.
Beka: But you learned to live with it.
Tyr: This isn't about learning to live with your acts. This is about fear -- fear of the questions you have and the answers you might receive. (rises, lets her go) Don't be afraid of those answers. Seek them out. Embrace them. And learn to live with the truth.
Beka considers this, then tentatively gives Tyr her gun.

Harper seems to be uncertain on proceedings when Dylan reached out to tap on his data port.

Helpful quote from the episode "Be All My Sins Remembered" = Harper: You see that, huh? Bobby hit me. -- Dylan: Well, you know, you don't like people touching your dataport either. -- Harper: Yeah, but when I hit them it's with love.

The Lone And Level Sands

The episode takes its title from the famous poem "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), in which a traveller from an ancient land describes the broken remains of a mighty civilization - ruined monument:
<...> Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Dylan: And now we do what unknown lifeforms are supposed to in situations like this: tell them… "We come in peace. Take us to your leader."

Helpful quote from the episode "The Sum Of Its Parts" = HG: What is it you humans say? "Take me to your leader." <...> Ah. I have neglected part of the ritual greeting. I come in peace. <...> I come in peace. Take me to your leader.

Ship "Bellerophon" = In Greek mythology Bellerophon was the heroic son of Poseidon, who had to leave his native town after he accidentally killed a man. Later he killed the Chimaera, a fire-breathing monster, subdued the violent warriors Solymi, fought against the Amazons. His glorious deeds were widely sung. He became the king of Lycia. But it wasn't good enough for him. Eventually he tried to ride his winged horse Pegasus to Mount Olympus and join the gods. Pegasus hurled Bellerophon from his back and the crippled hero spent the rest of his life hated by men and wandering alone. Some say he went out of his mind...

Force-Lance outtake = There is a closeup of Dylan after he just shot some Ogami. He said the line "I hate Ogami". Force-Lance seemed to be smoking and he made this gesture of blowing on it to cool it off. Like a six shooter! (03.11.02 Andromeda Forum, set visit report by Calico and Calamity-jcck)

Zack Stentz (writer): [I got the voice message from Tony Todd, who was cast to play Metis] He actually cited passages that he particularly enjoyed - "The part where he talks about Dante's Divine Comedy and watching the sun rise over Kampala". But he had only one problem. He wasn't sure how to sing the song - an old sea chanty called "The Coast of High Barbary." (22.05.02 Slipstream BBS)

Metis: It's amazing that you're still sane. -- Dylan: Well, that's what the voices inside my head keep telling me.

Irrelevant quote from the episode "Vault of the Heavens" = Dylan: Who is curious about this voice? -- <...> Harper: Finally, I'm not the only one with voices in my head!

Tyr (to Dylan): Risk is your business. -- Harper: Yeah and business has been pretty good lately.

Star Trek fans can easily remember the quintessential speech of the Captain James T. Kirk (episode "Return To Tomorrow", 1966): "I'm in command. I could order this, but I'm not. Because Doctor McCoy is right in pointing out the enormous danger potential in any contact with life and intelligence as fantastically advanced as this but I must point out that the possibilities, the potential for knowledge and advancement is equally great. Risk? Risk is our business."

Deleted scene (shot-but-never-seen):

Docking bay.
Beka: Thank God you're back.
Trance: We've really missed you.
Dylan shrugs modestly.
Dylan: Well, I...
Beka and Trance pass Dylan and swarm Harper, hugging him.
Beka: As first officer, I proclaim a new rule: Harper never leaves the ship.
Trance: Ever.
Harper: Alright, twist my arm already.
OFF a smiling Dylan, letting Harper enjoy the attention.

The title of the episode is a play on the line from Shakespeare's play "Julius Caesar" (III, 1): "Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war." (Dylan calls slipfighters "The Dogs of War".)

"The Leper's kiss" seem to be kind of idiom, in which the word "leper" (a person who has leprosy) takes a meaning "outcast, a person who is strongly disliked and avoided by others because of bad things that he/she has done".

It is possible that name of the episode was taken from the Francois Mauriac's novel.

The title comes from the sermon by English poet and preacher John Donne (1623): "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

The specific phrase is widely known as the title of Ernest Hemmingway's novel.

9784 CY = The Andromeda Ascendant is sent on a 60-day deployment aimed at training new personnel in the context of a treaty verification and general patrol mission... The same year, responding to a false distress call, the Andromeda Ascendant escapes from a Nietzschean attack, and gets trapped in the event horison of a black hole in the Hephaistos System. (Andromeda Ascendant website)
One of the new addition to the crew was Eddie Aldrich, a talent for misdirection of sensors, working on stealth and illusion creating technologies.

Nice touch -- android Eddie appears in the officers uniform, nor his rank combat uniform.

Bartolome Naz had designed a lot of dangerous yet wonderful things. The most impressive are eidolons. The term come from Greek, meaning "an image, likeness". This word is as old as Homer. While Odysseus was in the Underworld seeking an oracle, he met Herakles (his eidolon, that is) (The Odyssey, 11.601-604). In the translations the term is usually replaced with "phantom" or "ghost", which is not strictly done. Eidolon of Ancient Greeks had the same notable attribute as Naz's creations - ability for physical contact with living beings.

Trance: How was your trip to Elba 9? -- Beka: Stupid.

The planet was named for the island Elba, site of Napoleon's first exile -- the one from which he returned.

Tyr (on meteorite strikes): The sky is falling.

"The Sky Is Falling" is a well-known fairy tale: Once upon a time there was a tiny, tiny chicken named Chicken Little. One day Chicken Little was scratching in the garden when something fell on her head. "Oh," cried Chicken Little, "the sky is falling. I must go tell the king." <She gathered some company. They met Foxy Loxy who promised to show the way to the king's house.> And just as he was about to lead them into his den to eat them... the sky fell on him. "Oh dear," said Chicken Little. "We're too late," said Henny Penny. "Poor Foxy Loxy," said Ducky Daddles. "No sense in going to the king," said Goosey Loosey. "Nothing to do now but go home," said Turkey Lurkey. And they did.

Zack Stentz (writer): "The Unconquerable Man" examines the Nietzschean race and what's happened to them over the past three centuries. That, and having Tyr and Rhade -- two men with very different ideas about what it means to be a Nietzschean -- onscreen at the same time is just a lot of fun. (30.09.02 Slipstream BBS)

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

He's sitting in a director's chair on the set, taking a break from filming "Delenda Est," the 11th episode. Invisible aliens are menacing the ship, and both Sorbo and Cobb are dressed for battle in form-fitting black flight suits that look like leather. For the moment, Sorbo has his suit unzipped to the waist, revealing a long-sleeved undershirt. "Otherwise, I'd sweat to death," he explains. (11.10.02 Zap2it.com)

Tyr: How are you? -- Rommie: I'm hanging in there. -- Dylan: That's not funny.

After several takes standing spread-eagled, her costume in tatters and with glowing tubes plugged into her at various places, Doig takes a cigarette break outside in the late-afternoon sun. "We're having a little more fun with it," she says, "because I was getting bored last year. It's getting to where now you almost have to, because some of the situations we're finding ourselves in. It's either be mocked or mock ourselves. It's science fiction ... so you're like, 'Let's acknowledge the absurdity of the situation.'" Situations such as being strung up and hung with lights like a Christmas tree. "Dylan says, 'How are you?'" Doig relates. "I say, 'I'm hanging in there.' What do you want me to say?"
"You want people to laugh with you instead of laughing at you," Sorbo comments. "So we want to make sure we keep the action going, but at the same time, let's have fun." (11.10.02 Zap2it.com)

Harper wonders aloud what's on the other side of the tunnel. -- Trance: Vedrans. The Abyss. There are bubbles in time and in the universe.

The only famous "bubbles" are in William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" (I, 3). Macbeth and Banquo met three witches who foretell that Banquo will be lesser than Macbeth, yet much happier, and that Macbeth will become king, though unhappy. After hailing the two they vanish. Banquo: "The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, And these are of them." Hmm... Now think about Dylan and Tyr...

The title is likely a reference to Shakespeare's play "The Tempest" (I, 2). Prospero asks his daughter Miranda: "What seest thou else in the dark backward and abysm of time?" (abysm = abyss).

Dylan: Where there is life, there is hope!

It is an old saying, most often used in a moralizing context. Can be derived from Erasmus of Rotterdam, or traced back to Seneca.
Positively, Dylan and Tyr are reading the same books... In the episode "Its Hour Come Round At Last" Tyr says the exact line to Harper: "Where there is life, there is hope!"

Trance asks Dylan how he lives with it, choosing one life over another. -- Dylan: All we control is our own choices. The rest is fate.

Helpful quote from the episode "Forced Perspective" = Trance: Dylan, the only thing you can control are your own intentions. All the rest is just a roll of the dice.

Before gaining the "Andromeda Ascendant" Dylan Hunt was in command of the "Crimson Eclipse" (Andromeda Ascendant website), so it is not inconceivable that New Commonwealth deliberately gave their first warship similar name.

Nice slice of the draft script:

Woman's Voice (on Comm): We're safe. Bring us in, please.
Dylan and Tyr exchange a glance. They both like this woman.
INT. EUREKA MARU - AIR LOCK
Beka listens to Dylan and Tyr. They're waiting for the woman.
Dylan: She space walks to manually unlink the pods. Kicks them away, just before they explode. And she still survives. She's a superior soldier.
Tyr: With the courage of an Ubermensch.
Beka (less enthused): She's remarkable.
The door opens, revealing...Errin. And she's beautiful, athletic and smiling at both Dylan and Tyr.
Beka (realizing): She's Nietzschean.
Beka turns to Dylan and Tyr to find them both smiling back at Errin.
Tyr: What do you know. I'm Nietzschean.
Dylan (smiling): I saw her first.
Tyr: But I'm Nietzschean.
Dylan: Yeah, pal. But I'm Captain.
Errin crisply salutes Dylan.
Errin: First Officer Errin Shohashi.

Nice slice of the draft script:

Beka: According to the Commonwealth's analysis, the Crimson was done in by a comet. Yep. A little comet.
Dylan: So... no sabotage.
Beka: That means Errin was Commonwealth all the time.
Dylan+Tyr: We knew that.
Errin kisses them both on the cheek.
Errin: Maybe we'll run across each other again. It's a small universe. (sotto to Dylan) And I'll tear you to pieces.
Dylan swallows. She almost scares him. As they watch her leave...
Tyr: What did she say to you?
Dylan: That she always liked you best.

The title of the episode is an incomplete idiom "to back the right horse" (to stake on a winning horse).

Dylan: Beka can vouch for me. I'm very good with a force lance.

Kevin Sorbo: There's a line today that I was supposed to say, one of Beka's old lovers pulls a gun on me, he gets distracted for just a second, and in that fraction of a second, I pull out my gun. The line was reading, "Beka can vouch for me. I'm a better shot that you are. Don't test me," something like that. So instead I said, "Beka can vouch for me, I'm very good with a force lance." So it's an inside joke. The crew and cast laugh. (09.10.02 Zap2it.com)

The title of the episode is a takeoff on the very famous poem by Langston Hughes (1902-1967):
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore-
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over-
Like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
Like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?

Outtake = At the last scene Rev is saying goodbye to Dylan. Brent walks off stage and the camera is on Kevin. Kevin looks over at Lisa (or possibly Lexa) and says "I thought he'd never leave" and hurries over to hug her. From offstage, Brent yells out, "I HEARD that!" (02.03.03 Andromeda Forum, set visit report by Calamity-jcck)

Tyr: They make a desert and call it peace.

Tyr quotes Roman historian Tacitus (circa 55 - 117 AD), specifically a speech of British chief, urging to battle against invadering Romans, from "Agricola".

Dylan: We sent them a message - we'd rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

"Better to die on you feet than live on your knees" - battle catchword of Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, peasant leader and champion of agrarian reform in the Mexican Revolution.

Gordon Michael Woolvett: "The Ice Queen" wasn't my proudest moment. It got a little botched up visually... believe it or not it was supposed to be scary. (18.02.06 GMW Web Chat)

One of the inspiration sources for the writer seem to be remarkable novel by Jack London "Hearts of Three" (1916), with its story about the unknown race and their hidden city. The little company of four in a search for legendary treasure by accident are taken prisoners in a secluded valley which no one have ever heard of. Their lives will be saved if one of them marry a beautiful, mysterious and powerful White Queen, the Lady Who Dreams. She is making the choice herself.

Ymir = In Norse mythology -- the first antropomorphous being. Ancients believed that at the beginning of time there were three worlds: icy, fiery and a large void. Over time the heat of fiery world warmed the ice and generated water collected in the void. In the warm water two beings were formed -- giant Ymir and a huge cow called Audumla. Ymir was killed by the high god Odin, who led all of his kin against giant. The gods used Ymir's body to make our world. His flesh became the earth, his blood the sea, his bones the mountains... Ymir's skull Odin placed over earth as the sky.

Buri = In Norse mythology -- one of the first gods, grandfather of Odin. He originated from the primeval ice, when the cow Audumla licked the salty ice and gradually a new creature came into being. On the third day the body of a new giant, called Buri, was ready.

Rommie: You have extremely high serotonin levels in your brain, fluid in your middle ear has become unbalanced. Somehow these creatures manage to mentally disorient you.

Serotonin is one of a group of chemical messengers known as neurotransmitters that is known to modulate mood, emotion, sleep and appetite and thus is implicated in the control of numerous behavioural and physiological functions. Serotonin secures firmness to physical activity and nervous stress, reduces pain and boosts energy and positive emotions.

"The hour approacheth: O man, thou higher man, take heed! this talk is for fine ears, for thine ears -- what saith deep midnight's voice indeed?" - Friedrich Nietzsche "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" (chapter "The Drunken Song").

Rommie: Welcome to a system so remote, the Perseids forgot to name it. -- Dylan: Whats in a name anyway?

Dylan's line comes from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2, scene 2. Juliet: "What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet."

Plot information, based on an early draft of the script:

<...> Tura awakes and demands to know who has brought her out of hibernation. Dylan boldly steps forward to take the credit. Unexpectedly, Tura slaps him across the face, before quickly recovering, claiming that she was still recovering from being in hibernation for so long.
<...> Dylan orders Rommie to investigate Tura. "If she's royalty I'm the Squorm tooth fairy," he tells her. Rommie says she's already accessed their ship's computer and discovered that Princess Tura disappeared as a child during a revolution, only to reappear a year ago in a convent. Although the Prolon computer says her DNA matches that of the lost princess, Dylan orders Trance to scan Tura and report back to him.
While Dylan is giving the Prolon company a tour of the ship, Trance approaches him and subtly hands over a flexi. The captain glances at it quickly, then puts it away. Using all the charm at his disposal, Dylan tells Tura they can give her entourage the slip, and they run off, hand in hand.
The pair end up in the engine room, where they catch their breath. "How would a royal princess ever learn how to slap a man that hard," Dylan asks Tura, luring the woman into a trap. Tura claims she's been trained in Bo-lan Fencing, Equinoid horseback riding and Shintaidan martial arts, but when Dylan asks her to show a "basic dragon stance," Tura fails to deliver the goods.
Dylan now lays his cards on the table. He challenges Tura with the information Trance gave him - she used molecular masking to fake her DNA. <...>
(09.02 Slipstream News)

Kevin Sorbo: We just finished an episode that Peter DeLuise directed, first-time director. Great director, had a blast. I'm saying this without seeing even just the first cut of it. I think it's by far and away our most entertaining and funniest show that we've ever had. <...> We end up in a system that we didn't want to go into. It's literally the garbage dump of the universe. <...> And Peter made it just hilarious and a howl. Everybody reacts to each other, and in the middle of this all, I'm obviously very attracted to the princess. I kind of like the bad-girl image she's got, because she's also very hot. And it was just a fun episode, and Peter brought in a lot of humor to it, which I like, because we always did that in Hercules. <...> Hercules in Space is what that episode is. It was fun. (23.10.02 Science Fiction Weekly)

Ashley Edward Miller (writer): "Twilight of The Idols" is a specific nod to one of Nietzsche's works by the same name, which refers to the death of God, morality and truth. With regard to the episode, well... let's just say that Zack [Stentz] and I are no stranger to the double entendre. (01.05.03 Ex Isle)

Tyr and Dylan couldn't find any colonists. -- Dylan: Croatoan. -- Tyr: What?

Croatoan = In 1587 a large group of men, women, and children under the governorship of John White left the Old World and sailed to the coastal North Carolina. Colonists formed up a fort on the Roanoke Island, got housed and homed and managed rather well with local Indian tribe. White departed to England for the support and replenishment. When the Governor returned, he found that the fort was abandoned. All colonists disappeared. The only clue to the colony's fate was the word "Croatoan", inscribed on a tree. Short and fruitless search didn't show nor someone alive, nor any corpses. Some historians believe that colonists were killed by aboriginals. Those, not agreeing, point out that "Croatoan" was the name of a neighbouring tribe of friendly Indians. Then, the name is popular in the geographical nomenclature of the region. The fate of colonists is perhaps the most enduring mystery of American history.

Ashley Edward Miller (writer): <I'm skeptical that a native of Tarn Vedra would be familiar with a piece of American-history trivia like Croatoan.> That's because you didn't realize that on Tarn-Vedra holovision there was a channel devoted entirely to "In Search Of" reruns. Young Dylan Hunt and his parents used to watch it every Saturday night. (05.05.03 Ex Isle)

The Knights Templars are marked in history by their unassuming beginning, marvellous growth and the tragic downfall in 1307. Monastic-military international order "The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon" (the Knights Templar) was formed during the crusades, in 1118. It quickly win support of secular and clerical authorities. Pope subjugated the Order, excluding them from common jurisdiction. But Templars didn't serve him, preferring to choose on their own goals and means of achievement. Under the black-white banner {notice the basic black of Templars and basic white of Genites in the episode} the Knights Templars have started their mysterious game. In military campaigns they were the first to attack and last to retreat, always duteous to their leaders, adding the obedience of the monk to the discipline of the soldier. However, step by step, the Order transmuted into closed to outsiders organization inside Christendom, one of the most powerful financial infrastructures of Europe, and an assembly of members of influential families. Current politics became more important than religious fervour. No wonder that wealthy and potent Order incurred many enemies. Among the most dangerous was another monastic-military order - Order of St. John of Jerusalem. Hospitallers started as imitators and later turned into relentless rival of the Templars.

Patriarch: If I didn't know better, I'd swear we are back on the "Crimson Eclipse" running insertion teams into the Quarantine Zone. -- Dylan: Seems you keep files on everybody.

Before gaining the "Andromeda Ascendant" Dylan Hunt was in command of the "Crimson Eclipse", an Asceticism of Action class Low Observable Special Warfare craft (Andromeda Ascendant website).

Dies irae, dies illa (Latin) = "That day is a day of wrath". Beginning of a famous medieval Catholic hymn, used as a part in the Requiem Mass. Hymn describes the day of the Last Jugement, when Christ will come again, as the Judge who will separate the righteous men from the wicked, the saved will be delivered and the unsaved cast into eternal fire.
This is on one hand. On the other - unjust "Balance of Judgement" and unwrathful "Wrath of Achilles".

"Resolution of Hector" = Hector - personage of Greek mythology, the Trojans' greatest warrior, the main adversary of the Greeks-Achaeans. He is the hero, ready to die and giving his life to save his city.

The avatar of the new Resolution of Hector A.I. looks just like the Wrath of Achilles A.I. (from episode "The Knight, Death, and the Devil"). Which is weird, considering the story of their ancient namesakes. The leading Achaean warrior, Achilles, killed Hector in single combat after Hector killed his friend Patroclus in the fight. Zeus took care of it personally, he weighed the fate of each hero on golden scales. But the death of the Trojan prince didn't alleviate the wrath of Achilles and for twelve days he dragged Hector's corpse behind his chariot, not allowing to bury the body.

Perseid doctor: Ah, welcome. You must be Mr. Jericho, the Nietzschean.

Helpful quote from the episode "Music Of A Distant Drum" = Yvaine: Well, at least you know your name. Barabbas Jericho: Owner and operator of the Klondike Trail. -- Tyr: Faked.

Remiel / Ramiel - "Mercy of God" or "God Raises Up" = one of the seven archangels listed in the Book of Enoch, the guide for the souls of the faithful, leading them into Heaven, and the one, responsible for true divine visions. Usually hold as identical with Jeremiel, who is portrayed with balance in a hand.

Dylan: We can't eject the slipcore, there are thousands of slaves on Enga's Redoubt.

Enga's Redoubt - the homeworld of the Drago-Kazov Pride, who maintain the most powerful military force in known space. <...> Enga's Redoubt is also famous as the current resting place for the remains of Drago Museveni, the Nietzshean Progenitor. Population: 237 million (30% Nietzschean, 64% human, 6% miscellaneous). (All Systems University archives) As Dragans consider non-Nietzscheans as slaves, there are millions, not thousands of them on the Enga's Redoubt.

Harper: I knew you were just another backstabbing Nietzschean, Tyr.

Suitable quote from the episode "The Symmetry Of Imperfection" = Dylan: What were you thinking, putting in a program like this behind my back? -- Harper: Well, boss, I do things behind your back all the time…

Tyr is looking on display and pressing the buttons on the pad - maybe setting up something, maybe just getting familiar. But Harper has resolute opinion.
Harper: Wait a minute, that's three years ago. He waited for three years to betray us.

Suitable quote from episode "It Makes A Lovely Light" = Dylan: You installed overrides to bypass Andromeda's security system. -- Rommie: Overrides which you said you disconnected! Overrides which - if memory serves, and it always does - you disconnected under my personal supervision! -- Harper: OK, so maybe I didn't disconnect every single little override. I mean, we had only met you. Dylan was all very impressive, and uh, for the most part we were buying this "Restore the Commonwealth" game, but, uh, for all we knew, he coulda been some wacky trying to take us on some insane quest.

Tyr: You'd like an explanation? The universe is changing, and we're changing right along with it.

Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis (Latin) = medieval proverb: "The times are changed and we with them".

Harper: You know, I have only one question about all of this: So who gets Tyr's stuff?

In the episode "The Dissonant Interval - 2" we get to know who is the new owner of at least one item -- Beka on the Maru, ready to leave, is sorting through some of her stuff... including Tyr's chain mail shirt.