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Andromeda Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 2002 - 2003
Episode 1
If the Wheel Is Fixed
Sat, Sep 21, 200243 mins
Dylan attempts to rescue Tyr and Beka by taking the Maru back towards the tunnel, but is forced to abandon it due to a large field of debris being sucked into the tunnel. When he returns, Beka and Tyr appear on Andromeda for no apparent reason. Now that her crew has been reunited, the Andromeda attempts to break free from the gravitational pull of the tunnel. During the attempt, Beka tries to slip too early, causing the Andromeda to be pulled into the tunnel. Dylan quickly takes control of the helm and pulls the ship out, but Tyr and Beka both seem to be acting strangely.
Episode 2
The Shards of Rimni
Mon, Oct 7, 200243 mins
Dylan receives a package, and takes Harper with him on a secret mission. Soon Dylan's a wanted man, and several ships go to the Andromeda to bring Dylan back.
Episode 3
Mad to Be Saved
Mon, Oct 14, 200243 mins
Andromeda receives a distress call from a freighter, and manages to get it into the docking bay, but it is venting oxygen and the bay doors are jammed open. Dylan and Tyr manage to save most of its crew from suffocation, but they all exhibit signs of brain damage. Their leader informs Dylan that they have escaped from a hellish slave world that no one has ever escaped from before.
Episode 4
Cui Bono
Mon, Oct 21, 200243 mins
Dylan and the Andromeda are ordered by the reformed High Guard to transport and protect a candidate for election to Second Triumvir in the New Commonwealth. To the crew's surprise the candidate is none other than Beka's "Uncle" Sid, a sneaky and sleazy "businessman" who used to work with her father. Both Beka and Dylan are concerned that Sid may become part of the ruling body of the New Commonwealth, but when they find Sid unconscious and bleeding in his office they are forced to protect him from his assailants.
Episode 5
The Lone and Level Sands
Mon, Oct 28, 200243 mins
Whilst being chased by Ogami, the Maru's saved by a large ship which is the Bellerophon, a long lost starship from Earth.
Episode 6
Slipfighter the Dogs of War
Mon, Nov 4, 200243 mins
Trance mourns the loss of her relative, Mesmer, but in the middle of the ceremony the Andromeda is hit by many massive shockwaves, sending the ship reeling. They discover that the shockwaves emanated from a star going supernova, and signs point towards the use of a weapon similar to a nova bomb. The crew comes to the conclusion that Marduk, a rogue planet, is the source of the weapon, but the Andromeda needs help to achieve its goals.
Episode 7
The Leper's Kiss
Mon, Nov 11, 200243 mins
Another "founding father" of the New Commonwealth contacts Dylan to help in taking down a very deadly assassin named "the Leper" who is currently targeting him. He has Dylan keep this mission top secret, even from his superiors. In order to get information on the Leper's whereabouts Dylan promotes himself as an agent of the Leper looking to hire talent for a hit. He manages to catch the Leper's sister, Sasha, in his trap and milks her for information.
Episode 8
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Mon, Nov 18, 200243 mins
During a solar storm, Dylan's forced to leave Beka and Harper planetside. When he manages to pick them up, he also picks up a creature which devours the Maru's electronics, They must find a way to stop the creatures before they do permanent damage to Andromeda.
Episode 9
And Your Heart Will Fly Away
Mon, Nov 25, 200243 mins
An unknown armored man appears on the command deck of the Andromeda and proceeds to engage Dylan in combat with a katana. After Dylan comes out on top, Tyr leaves in Harper's new and improved slipfighter without a word. The Andromeda encounters a kilometer-tall version of Dylan that opens fire on the ship, but when the Andromeda retaliates the giant replica vanishes. Dylan investigates who attacked him and whom Tyr left to find.
Episode 10
The Unconquerable Man
Mon, Jan 20, 200343 mins
While preparing the corpse of Dylan's former first officer and friend, Gaheris Rhade, for transport to the remainder of his clan, the Andromeda experiences something strange. A live Rhade appears before Beka and Trance to destroy the tesseract machine. Trance warns him against it and sparks a flashback to this Gaheris's past, in which he killed Dylan at the onset of the Nietzschean rebellion, but was trapped in time like Dylan. In this alternate timeline, Rhade takes command of the Andromeda and attempts, with the aid of the crew of the Maru and a hologram of Dylan, to reestablish the Commonwealth and drive back the Magog threat.
Episode 11
Delenda Est
Mon, Jan 27, 200343 mins
While undergoing a physical, Dylan's monitor starts showing parts of his goodbye with his fiancée. Harper and Rommie encounter a cat on-board, a species that has been extinct for hundreds of years. General malfunctions and space-time distortions plague the Andromeda and the surrounding space, and Rommie has now gone missing. Dylan leads the search for Rommie, believing their foes to be using the devices from which Harper made the tesseract machine.
Episode 12
The Dark Backward
Mon, Feb 3, 200343 mins
Trance sees a probable future that results in the deaths of the entire crew and the destruction of the Andromeda. She trims a bonsai tree, resetting the scenario to try a different approach. An object approaches the Andromeda and is not swayed from its intended target, even by the Andromeda's defenses. A mysterious man in black armor appears before Harper, damaging systems he had just finished repairing then disappearing. He reappears on the bridge and kills Beka before disappearing again. Trance again trims her bonsai, again resetting the incident.
Episode 13
The Risk-All Point
Mon, Feb 10, 200343 mins
While on their way in the Maru to the launching of the first new Commonwealth starship in over three hundred years, Dylan, Beka, and Tyr rush ahead to warn the new battleship, the Crimson Sunrise, of an incoming Nietzschean battle group. They suspect that there is an agent on board the Sunrise, and their suspicions are confirmed when the engines go critical and the Sunrise is destroyed. Many on board the Sunrise survived in escape pods, but they discover the pods are leaking air. As they rescue the survivors, they also investigate the sabotage and realize that the saboteur may still be among them.
Episode 14
The Right Horse
Mon, Feb 17, 200343 mins
Beka is called as a character witness for a friend on a planet where lying and deception are punishable crimes. Dylan is away at a strategic defense summit. Beka manages to get into a fight with the authorities and demands to see her "friend". She and Tyr break him out of prison and hide him on board the Andromeda. He was under arrest for crimes against the defense conglomerate Techno-Core, but the crew of the Andromeda, especially Beka, believe him to be innocent.
Episode 15
What Happens to a Rev Deferred?
Mon, Feb 24, 200343 mins
The Andromeda is supervising an evacuation of a planet doomed to explode when the crew sees a ship crewed by looters moving towards the planet instead of away from it. They receive a garbled message from the last remaining inhabitant of the planet, their old friend, Rev Bem. The crew mounts a rescue operation for Rev, planning on taking out any looters in their way, but their plans are changed when the Andromeda detects a point singularity bomb inside the planet.
Episode 16
Point of the Spear
Mon, Mar 31, 200343 mins
A newly colonized planet of the Commonwealth comes under attack by Pyrian "pyroformers", but when Dylan destroys the machines, the Pyrian fleet arrives to defend its property. Dylan hopes to talk them out of their goals, but they are not deterred. Dylan is forced into a battle he did not want, one where he is outmatched.
Episode 17
Vault of the Heavens
Mon, Apr 7, 200343 mins
While in command of the Andromeda during the night shift, Harper decides to initiate a little race with a friendly Nietzschean vessel to the nearest slip-point. When he tries a trick he calls "Harper's Afterburner" to beat his rival to the slip-point and into slipstream he causes a malfunction in the engine that could cause the destruction of the Andromeda. The Andromeda receives a communication from a system thousands of light-years away, but the signal appears to be only a few days old. Dylan hears voices telling him to pursue the signal to its source on a planet of "Fire and Ice" and he takes the Andromeda to the source, traveling through hostile Nietzschean-controlled space to do so.
Episode 18
Deep Midnight's Voice
Mon, Apr 14, 200343 mins
The Andromeda gets caught in the middle of a battle between two Nietzschean prides, one of which is the Drago-Kazov. They manage to capture a hostile fighter from the unknown pride. He reveals that the Drago-Kazov believe that his pride has in its possession a legendary Nietzschean slip-scout, the Midnight's Voice, claimed to have mapped billions of transit points in the slipstream, as well as the slipstream itself. Dylan looks into the near-mythic tale of the Midnight's Voice while Tyr interrogates their Nietzschean captive.
Episode 19
The Illusion of Majesty
Mon, Apr 21, 200343 mins
After exiting a rather turbulent part of slipstream, the Andromeda finds itself in the middle of the Prolon system, an area full of radiation and dangerous materials, including corrosive waste. The Andromeda saves a hibernation capsule from destruction, but sustains heavy damage at the hands of its pursuers, who demand that Dylan return the inhabitant, their princess, to their custody.
Episode 20
Twilight of the Idols
Mon, Apr 28, 200343 mins
Andromeda encounters a group who has secretly been supporting them. Their leader claims to have a connection to the old Commonwealth. When Dylan hears the claims, he starts to have doubts.
Episode 21
Day of Judgement, Day of Wrath
Mon, May 5, 200343 mins
Tyr leaves the Andromeda while it is in dry-dock for repairs to seek out other survivors of his pride. Dylan and the rest of the crew remain to see off the newest Commonwealth battleship, the Resolution of Hector. The AI to be installed in the Hector was derived from Andromeda and the former AI of the Wrath of Achilles, who was destroyed in a prior mission. Matters become complicated when Romy leads a strike force to take control of the Resolution of Hector.
Episode 22
Shadows Cast by a Final Salute
Mon, May 12, 200343 mins
Tyr makes his move. He has convinced the Nietzscheans he's the genetic reincarnation of Drago Museveni - progenitor of his race. The Nietzscheans break away from the Commonwealth, and Tyr tries to force Dylan into a decision to either save his crew or sacrifice Andromeda.
