KSJAA - Andromeda 4 Season notes

Answers Given To Questions Never Asked
"Down where it was tangled and dark. Down where the spirits feasted on carrion. Down. Down. Down. It was there, yes, the High Hatted ones forever screamed, 'Eureka.'" Yolin's Narrows of Decline, CY 1015

Robert Engels: "We'll find out who cause all this ruckus and why [in Season 3 finale]. And Dylan will begin to set things straight and will begin this year-long conflict of the Commonwealth versus certain enemies, all of whom are probably in cahoots with one major enemy, which is probably agents of the Abyss. There's a being that did this to Andromeda and to the Commonwealth." ( 10.03 Sci-fi Mag)

"Prior to Double or Nothingness, Doig and her fellow castmates filmed season opener. "The thing that I loved most about working on this episode was that everything was explained," she says. " I thought it was very funny that the title of the story is Answers Given to Questions Never Asked. I told this to Bob Engels and he said to me, 'You got it'. I said, 'Absolutely'. What we were talking about was the story synopsis that Bob has started putting at the beginning of every script. When he joined the show last year we had to get used to his writing style. Bob has a very unique style and one that I quite enjoy, but it's different from what we were used to. So sometimes you'd be reading a script and think, 'I don't understand this. This needs to be fixed.' What we didn't know that it was going to be fixed but in a later episode. Now that Bob is including a mini-explanation with each script, we can see the through-line to the story and are able to better understand where it is going." (08.03 Cult Times #95)

Kevin Sorbo: "The Collectors have all the information. They know a lot, and Dylan has to play more of a brain game than a muscle game this season, which is fun for me to play as an actor." (11.03 Dreamwatch #110)

Andromeda: I have a minimal amount of information on Paroo -- his uniform. -- Dylan: Ah, well, they say clothes make a man. -- Andromeda: Specifically, the locket on his uniform. Apparently he's a collector . -- Dylan: Ah, OK, we've met one of these guys... but the insignia is different. -- Andromeda: Correct. As you know they were founded in secret to collect and preserve the knowledge of the old Commonwealth after the fall, but now, according to contemporary accounts, they use their knowledge for power. -- Dylan: Well, knowledge is power.

Beka: Who started it? It couldn't have been Tyr alone, or just the Nietzscheans. -- Trance: The universe is just too big for it to have simply been them. -- Harper: All right, well I for one don't want to talk about it anymore, okay? And I particularly don't want to talk about the lovable, absentee, not-so-young-and-restless Nietzschean you-know-who.

Harper: It's the Hole of Hell, the Fjord of Fruitlessness, it's the Nadir of Nothingness! No one comes back from there! ... If it exists, of course. -- Dylan: It exists and we have to find it. -- Beka: And if we find it, we die.

Dylan: Look, uh Paroo, I don't know whether you're acting or insane, I really don't care.

Trance: The fate of the universe is in your hands. -- Dylan: Thank you for sugar-coating that, Trance.

Pieces of Eight
"The tyrant and the rebel hold the same creed: to act is to live." War Heretics of Auden, CY 9015

Dylan (to Trance): How's our leafy friend?

Rommie: Dylan, you're not a very popular person down here. -- Dylan: Yeah, I know. I feel like a politician.

Rommie: Harper, why don't you find yourself a nice girlfriend? -- Harper: I tried building one, but she doesn't want me!

Citizen Eight: You are only as good as the universe allows you to be. -- Dylan: I only have to be better than you.

Waking The Tyrant's Device
"Fear drives the universe. You will find dread among the galaxies. You will find horror in the heart of a star. You will find your fate in a heap of dust." The Diktat of Septa Parisis, CY 9015

Dylan: The good news is that we're stuck but alive. -- Harper: What's the bad news? -- Dylan: We're stuck.

Trance: But remember - what you're looking for is also looking for you.

Harper (sitting her down): Give your batteries a rest. -- Rommie: Thank you Harper. It feels like you care. -- Harper: Only in the worst way.

Kroton: That is why we brought you here to die. -- Dylan: Oh, no-no-no-no. You're not supposed to tell me the end, now you've spoiled everything!

Kroton: Darkness is my ally. -- Molly shoots Kroton. -- Molly: How's that for darkness? -- Dylan: You have some anger issues.

Molly: Now on to Plan B? -- Dylan: Well, I was a little further along in the alphabet, but yeah.

Double or Nothingness
"When they are dying tell them a riddle. And when they laugh, Let the Gods of Nature Finish what we have started." Sigma Te: Director, Cultural Archives; University Library, CY 760

Lexa Doig: "Lisa, Laura and I are having a great deal of fun shooting this episode's B-storyline. Basically, the ship is constantly being hit with an electromagnetic pulse, which has an adverse effect on anything non-organic. So Andromeda is acting kind of strange and one of the things she does is release a hallucinogen into the ship's atmosphere. Of course, Trance isn't affected but Beka gets high. Meanwhile, Rommie keeps passing out. I think we had a little too much fun doing those scenes. In fact, this week an executive from Tribune called me and said, 'I've been watching the dailies'. I thought, 'Oh God, we're going to get yelled at'. I mean, I was doing pratfalls and Lisa was making faces. He said, 'No, it's all funny. We're going to keep it in.' The episode's main storyline finds Dylan Hunt an unwilling participant in a series of mind games, and there are people who are betting on whether or not he'll survive. That's quite serious, so the B-storyline on the Andromeda could afford to be on the lighter side." (08.03 Cult Times #95)

"Dylan Hunt is not having a good day. Forced to eject from his damaged slipfighter, the captain of the Andromeda Ascendant finds himself marooned on the surface of a strange planet. As he makes his way slowly through the dense fog, Dylan abruptly stops in his tracks and listens to the sound of approaching footsteps. "This story is very cool," enthuses Kevin Sorbo. "It deals with what's real and what's not and the viewer won't be able to trust what he or she is seeing. What's fun about this particular episode is that Dylan is confronted with a very different type of Nietzschean." (09.03 TV Zone #167)

Andrew Jackson (Lipp-Sett): Like most television shows, there was very little time to prepare for my role. <...> I quickly began tapping into some of the experiences I'd had at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival playing fops. I chose to counter balance the fop-like quality with a dark-edged psychosis. (31.01.04 RommieWeb)

Harper: Rommie, when did you change the colors of the walls down here? -- Rommie: Harper! Oh, Harper, use a respirator. I had a gas leak... hallucinogens... -- Harper: Ah! I knew it. That's why I have 7 fingers on my left hand.

Thug: Are you awake? -- Dylan: Well, I certainly hope so, or this would be one sucky dream!

Dylan (to Evil Dylan): She [Rommie] is way out of your league, pal.

Harper / Delete
"And the Prides shall stand as one, powerful in the light and supreme among beings." The Nietzschean Prophecy Drago Museveni, CY 8424

Rommie: Alert. Magog just entered the sector.

Harper (to Dylan): You're going to kidnap the kidnapped kid?

Harper: My heartbeat is like the Divine. It is the air, it is the water.

Trance (to Dylan): I have always wanted to be a star.

Harper: Sheesh. He's graduated from gambling with our lives to playing Roulette. -- Dylan: Well, I had to change games, you were the one who said I was a lousy at playing cards. -- Harper: Me and my big mouth.

Malea: I'll win. -- Dylan: Really?

Dylan: Magog are the polar opposites of Nietzscheans.

Dylan: I've decided to keep File D here on the Andromeda where I can keep on eye on it.

Soon The Nearing Vortex
"Once you give in to the void, space itself becomes time. Once you give in to the void, many are the mouths of reality." New Century Manifesto, CY 4001

You're still guest-starring on Andromeda? -- Keith Hamilton Cobb: It's great when you only have a few episodes a year and they bring you up basically as a guest artist. Everything is on their dime. They fly you up and put you up in a nice hotel, as compared when you're doing 22 episodes full-time and have to get your own place. Vancouver is a great town. It's great just to go up there and hang out. (01.04 TV Guide)

Steve Bacic: "As far as the two-parter with Tyr, in some ways that was a very happy experience for me and in other ways rather sad. I mean, here was Keith Hamilton Cobb returning to the show for what would likely be his last appearance. So this was very much a time of closure for him and a sort of passing on the torch to me. There's a finality to this business and people are constantly moving on to do other things, but still you can't help but feel a little emotional twinge when that happens." (03.04 Cult Times #102)

Tyr: When we parted, you asked if we would be friends or enemies when next we met. -- Dylan: I think I've got my answer.

Aurelia: The map knows only truth.

Trance: Do the Collectors really have that much power? Could they start a secret war inside the Commonwealth?

Dylan: Our job is to play along until his intentions are clear. -- Harper: We're gonna do exactly what he wants us to do? -- Dylan: Tyr needs to think that he's smarter than we are. That's a lie I can live with.

Telemachus Rhade: I know what my ancestor Gaheris Rhade did to you. You tried to sheild me from the truth. But it is my greatest regret that his actions have brought suspicion on my own. -- Dylan: What's past, is past.

Telemachus: It is my hope to earn your trust. -- Dylan: Well, my last Nietzschean never quite cut it. -- Telemachus: Your last Nietzschean was a fool. -- Dylan: He did have a - habit, of leaning on his - morals. -- Telemachus: A true Nietzschean evolves. Tyr Anasazi is static, a legend in his own mind. He had the opportunity of a lifetime, and he squandered it. -- Dylan: Opportunity of a lifetime? -- Telemachus: Serving with Captain Dylan Hunt. -- Dylan (little chuckle): Nobody likes a suck-up, Rhade. --Telemachus: I am a Nietzschean - and a realist. Only one man has defeated our supposedly superior race. Only one can teach me to be a better Nietzschean. And that is you, Captain Hunt. You simply happen to be human. -- Dylan: I'll take that as a compliment. And a major-league suck-up. Either way, I look forward to our next encounter.

Tyr: Dylan and his crew in their limited way are good at what they do. I am confident they will solve the puzzle for us.

Telemachus: You are an embarrasement to all Nietzschean Prides. -- Tyr: I am the reincarnation of Drago Museveni! -- Telemachus: The Progenitor would not shoot a blind prophet. You are what's wrong with the Nietzschean race. Selfish. Self-absorbed. Unaware of your own limitations. Your career will end here. I will end it.

Tyr hologram: There's a first time for everything.

Dylan: I am beginning not to trust certain aspects of the Commonwealth. And I don't like that one bit.

Aurelia: Are you lost? -- Dylan: Aren't we all. -- Aurelia: You are Dylan Hunt. And through me, you are found.

The World Turns All Around Her
"Beneath the web-thin simulacrum, inundating and fecund, live myth and manifold truths. Not one point of view can embrace them at a glance." Council of One, CY 2333

Lisa Ryder: "As we all know, Beka is secretly attracted to Tyr. For a while she was torn as to whether or not she should side with him or do what's honourable and stand by Dylan. Here, Beka's loyalties are yet again tested and the situation gets a little bit steamy." (11.03 Cult Times #98)

Dylan: So, did you enjoy the show? -- Harper: I've seen it before.

Harper: The last time I saw you you shot a defenseless blind woman, awfully brave of you. -- Tyr: I could have you shot as well. And I just might if you don't mind your manners. -- Harper: This conversation goes any longer and I'll demand it. -- Tyr (smiles): It would be a waste of ammunition.

Tyr: The portal offers a method of entering and exiting the Abyss. Weakening it without being caught. Many millennia ago it was used in just that way.

Tyr: She [Beka] will bring you Dylan Hunt. In return you can get me out alive.

Dylan: Trance, who are you? What are you? -- Trance: I am the Avatar of the sun, a star.

Trance: Are you ready to sacrifice everything? -- Dylan: If the sacrifice pales against that which we will gain... -- Trance: You will put your trust in me to destroy you? -- Dylan: And remake me? Yes.

Conduit to Destiny
"Destiny is the promise I give to you. Hope, the part you play, is trusting me to keep this promise." The Prophetic Tetraglyphs, CY 9573

Beka: I apologize for the pointless detour. -- Dylan: I bet you say that to all the boys.

Siara (angry): Revenge is all I have left.

Warden: Things are completely out of control. They've been rioting four days. The guards are afraid to go in. -- Dylan: We're not.

Telemachus: You were a purse snatcher? -- Beka: Well, actually, the term we preferred was 'active second-hand salvage removers'.

Guard: Captain Hunt was seen entering a suspected safehouse of the Ch'kadau. -- Warden: That means he's found her. -- Guard: But will they still bring her back, once they've told him who we really are? -- Warden: He'll bring her back no matter what.

Harper: Guess how old she is? -- Dylan: She's three-hundred-and-fourteen years old.

Dylan: I am that soldier. And I promised to take care of this.

Trance: Did you know you are the conduit? -- Dylan: Yes. -- Trance: You must be very proud. -- Dylan: Not proud, no. Lucky and honored. -- Trance: And a little more peaceful? -- Dylan: Well now that you mention it, yes. A little more peaceful.

Machinery of the Mind
"Regarding the cerebellum, there is a culture and a presentation. Both hold power and sway." Cuisine of the Lost Empire, CY 9905

Telemachus: They have our access codes. -- Dylan: Who invited them? -- Rommie: They're High Guard bailiffs, full security clearance. Apparently they don't need an invitation. -- Dylan: Oh, I think they do.

Dylan: We're on the clock here, Harper. -- Harper: I thought we were on a ship.

Harper: Hey, did you hear? Doctor Professor Kor-Kavo's going to be there. She's got the finest frontal lobes in the tri-galaxies. She would look hot as fusion in a bikini! -- Dylan: Yeah, picture that bikini with a Magog stuffed in it.

Harper: Most geniuses are geniuses at arguing with each other.

Rommie (to Kor-Kavo): Say 'artifact' one more time...

Dylan: Again with the Abyss. -- Doctor Kor-Kavo: Soon we will make all that is, not be. -- Dylan: You know all those brains you stole? Sure didn't make you any smarter.

Exalted Reason, Resplendant Daughter
"Around, around and underneath, the Trickster flies. Catch him, catch him - If he doesn't lose you, lose you when he flies!" Perseid Child's Game, CY 3040

Telemachus: I would be more comfortable with Captain Hunt along.

Dylan: Time for talk might be over.

Telemachus: Nice footwork. -- Beka: I'll take you dancing sometime. -- Telemachus: I thought you'd never ask. -- Beka: But I like to lead. -- Telemachus: Ever the Matriarch.

Telemachus: We have no idea where they've gone. -- Dylan: Well, somebody in that room does.

Trance: How are you going to explain it to them? -- Dylan: Well, we'll be at Tarazed for a couple more months - gives us plenty of time to come up with something.

The Torment, The Release
"All Military, rank and file, are subject to the word and intent of the Commonwealth Triumvirs. There is no exception. There is punishment accordingly." Commonwealth Charter, 0957

Interview with Gordon Verheul, Director of photography, was made in May whilst filming the episode "Double or Nothingness". The interviewer describes the scene which has Dylan facing off against a seductive but menacing alien Amazon named Narra-Saya played by Apollonia Vanova. She is standing on the side of the set pracicing with a Nietzschean whip which she uses to 'tame' Dylan and Kevin is joking about with the film crew as smoke is pumped into the darkened studio. (07.03 Cult Times) That scenes were deleted from the "Double or Nothingness", but got used in "The Torment, The Release" in one of the 'clips'.

Trance: You knew this was going to happen. You have betrayed the Commonwealth. -- Dylan: I have not.

Dylan: Trance, just because someone feels betrayed doesn't prove me guilty. Any more than their disliking the color gold makes you evil.

Pish: This is our enemy - the Worldship, the Abyss. This is it's weapon, the Magog. (indicating Dylan) And there is it's ally. -- Dylan: Oh, please.

Pish: Don't get scared and run away. -- Dylan: Oh, I'm not running, until I take care of you.

Dylan: You tried to kill me six times! You know, I can't believe that you're taking the word of these Nietszcheans.

Dylan: Why? -- Tri-Lorn: You are my hero.

Telemachus: What's our first move? -- Trance: We travel into the future. -- Dylan: Exactly, because it belongs to us.

The Spider's Stratagem

"I'm finding this episode really interesting. Let's just say that something comes over Beka and she definitely makes a decision for the worse," laughs Lisa Ryder. "We've spent the last three seasons asking, 'Is Beka on Dylan's side or not?' And she's had to work hard to prove her loyalty. Well, in this episode she decides, 'Screw it! I'm not on your side. What do you think of that? In fact I'm just plain evil.' I think that's quite an 'out there' choice for Beka. Also, when you make a choice to be evil and adopt that screw-it mentality, it gives you a whole new perspective on things and, dare I say, a slighty more twisted sense of humour." (10.03 Cult Times #98)

The Warmth of An Invisible Light

The Others

Fear Burns Down To Ashes

Lost In Space That Isn't There

Abridging the Devil's Divide

Trusting The Gordian Maze

The Symmetry Of Imperfection

Time Out Of Mind

The Dissonant Interval - Part One

The Dissonant Interval - Part Two

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