Doomsought
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I remember hearing that Roddenberry originally wanted to make it set in the far future of Star Trek, but couldn't because he no longer had control of the IP.
Originally it was supposed to be about a Federation starship dealing with the fall of the United Federation of Planets.
Also Tyr's comment about how he hadn't had so much fun in years ... Wagner and hand to hand combat!THEN it got even better with an episode I actually did remember. Slipfighter the Dogs of War. Now this episode is what Andromeda should've been all about. It's the TV series at its most memorable best, taking those slipfighters in an era of smart missiles and combat probes and stealthing their way into a heavily fortified space equivalent of North Korea to prevent the illicit construction of Nova Bombs.
I'm not sure people can blame Sorbo for this, as Dylan Hunt's character was fucked up the rear harder than Tyr's was.
And you can tell he stopped caring by how dead the opening narration sounded.
Anyone else imagine the best fix would've been to have Dylan outright die at the start? Rhade wins their fight, Rommie doesn't take it well and she reenacts her trick with her body's artificial gravity controls* then gets stuck for centuries because her entire biological crew abandoned ship or died so she can't go to Slipspace until the Eureka Maru crew show up to try to salvage a supposed derelict which ends up press-ganging them into helping her rebuild the commonwealth.I started a story based off the Episode Unconquerable man. Where Rhade was Captain of the Andromeda. Thanks to the Tesseract device Somehow Rhade was in two places at once, on the Andromeda fighting Dylan in the past but also in the present with the crew at Sintii. Reality is crumbling around them but Trance has a plan to save them. Reality in the Andromeda verse is set thanks to Rhade and Dylan, but maybe....this version of them could go somewhere else and start anew and build something new.
One of the weirder fanfic crossovers I have seen is Dylan Hunt is Hercules. Yes I know a Hercules/Andromeda crossover would be I don't know easy to fuck up? But still it was a fun bit of fiction.
Lexa Doig in a catsuit.
That is generally my first association when I hear that name.
But it was quite good, it had very nice space combat, and an interesting universe.
It is a shame that they did not do a few spinoffs or a few more book series or a game or two.
I think the Magog were going to be Klingons or was that Nietzschians? I think the Nietzschians were supposed to be augments.
Make 'em the Vulcans? They were all in on the Federation so long as being so led to an outcome beneficial to their species and civilization. Once it started putting ideology above practicality with the Magog, cue the Maquis version 2.0.The Neitzcheans would have been Khan like Augments who had found a way to live peacefully with the Federation and eventually become one of their most influential members...well, before the fall. The Maggog weren't changed at all. Just switched from one Roddenberry setting to another. They would always have been an extra-Galactic threat.
Get rid of the Ship Made Flesh gynoid body. She's a sentient space warship, she doesn't have hands or the ability to really interact in any manner between talking over the ship's communications system and blowing stuff up with its weapons.Wouldn't that fail for the same reason Rhade failed? Because Rommie is fundamentally a supersoldier.
The point of the gynoid is not combat potential. The smartest way to keep an AI from rebelling is to give it a highly gregarious personality, make it desire interpersonal interactions. That is why she needs the gynoid body, it allows her to socialize better and thus prevent her from deciding to bombarding a few planets because fuck the meatbags.Get rid of the Ship Made Flesh gynoid body. She's a sentient space warship, she doesn't have hands or the ability to really interact in any manner between talking over the ship's communications system and blowing stuff up with its weapons.
Get rid of the Ship Made Flesh gynoid body. She's a sentient space warship, she doesn't have hands or the ability to really interact in any manner between talking over the ship's communications system and blowing stuff up with its weapons.
I have actually been rewatching Andromeda these past few days and the whole comments about the captain looking like a Greek god caused me to have a chuckle. For you kids who don't know that actor played Hercules back in the day.
Oh yeah, Kevin Sorbo made jokes like that all the time. Meta humor done right.