Drive Back the Night

No one likes a Know-it-all. As if Harper isn't already too freaky smart, this week he gets an upgrade. But, like any other upgrade, this one isn't without it's bugs and glitches. Also, Rev Bem get's angry. Slimer from Ghostbusters guest stars in "Harper 2.0"

This week on Andromeda: Tyr changes his name to Nemo while Dylan and Beka have to go find him. There's also amnesia, a mummy and dragons. There's a little bit of everything in this one, folks... except for Harper, Trance and Rev Bem. Some of this show description may be inaccurate, but the nanobots will fix it eventually. It's "Music of a Distant Drum."

Rommie goes to visit her big sister, Maggie, a High Guard ship lost for 300 years. Good news: the crew is on board.  Bad news: they're all android replacements of the real people and the ships AI has gone crazy and tries to kill the Andromeda crew.  Just another day at the office for Dylan and the gang. How good are your Arithmetic skills? Enjoy this story problem and try to figure out, "The Mathe...

This week Beka visits her Uncle Sid... I think I've seen him before somewhere... What happens when her uncle, who's not really her uncle, turns out to be rich, evil and is trying to kill her? Man, that guy looks familiar.... Also, what is the exchange rate of a Trans-Galactic Guilder for a Triskelion Quatloo? All this and much more as we discuss "The Pearls That Were His Eyes."

This week on the Andromeda, Captain Hunt hosts a fish fry.  Okay not really, but they do enjoy a nice dinner party with water breathers. Tyr makes a big scene and then kills the Castalian President... Or does he... ? Everyone loves a good whodunnit. See if this episode holds water as we examine, "All Great Neptune's Ocean."

We've all inherited undesirable or strange genetic traits: Your uncle's prominent overbite, your grandma's thunder-thighs, that weird second toe that's longer than your big toe, and of course your mom and dad's propensity for lying, cheating, stealing and murder. Dylan and Rommie find themselves sentenced to life on a prison planet where the Co-ed inmates are allowed to reproduce little criminal b...

Someday in the distant future I will decide to not send a piece of fruit back to this exact moment in time proving once and for all that time travel is real and it actually works. See?  No fruit. What further proof do you need? Were you expecting a message from 300 years in the future from your long lost love? That almost never happens!  Almost never... But when it does you might be near, "The Ban...

It's always fun when family drops in for an unexpected visit. Especially when your con-artist brother finds religion, but is actually a terrorist, but is actually a double agent, but is actually just there to steal your 3,000 year old CD collection. We've all been there, right? How deceiving are family ties?  "The Ties that Blind."

If you could go back in time, would you do it the same all over again?  It turns out you may not have a choice. When Trance misses a left turn at Albuquerque she lands the Andromeda crew 300 years in the past. See what choices Captain Hunt makes in "Angel Dark, Demon Bright."

What's more important to a Neitzschean than family? Can anyone trust Tyr? What do space pirates look like in the far distant future?  When one helix just won't do, we give you "Double Helix."

In this special edition of Drive Back the Night, Ryan and Ethan talk with Robert Hewitt Wolfe, the developer and writer of Andromeda. Listen as he talks about how he developed the show from Gene Roddenberry's notes, the creation of the characters, his untimely departure from the show and so much more. There's some good stuff here. Thanks again to Robert Hewitt Wolfe for sharing his time and his st...

Change is hard. Everyone in the new Andromeda crew is experiencing this displeasure. They're also under a surprise attack by an unidentified ship. Will the friction between them cause the destruction of the ship and her crew? Will they learn a valuable lesson about team work and hug it out in the end?  What's a star ship's favorite beer? Find out as we count down "D Minus Zero."

Do you love children?  Neither do we.  Well, at least, not in our Sci-fi. But maybe there's more to this story than just the annoyance of the kids. (spoiler: there is.) What happens when the Andromeda crew encounters a commonwealth remnant clan of adolescent survivalists bent on destroying all their enemies?  Find out as we examine, "Too Loose the Fateful Lightning."

Captain Dylan Hunt has put it upon himself to reestablish the System's Commonwealth. But first things first... He has to get his ship back. And It wouldn't hurt to recruit a new crew. After two episodes we are also starting to get to know our characters. Who are they?  What are they all about? Is the furry one going to eat the purple one? Join us as we discuss what we pulled out of "An Affirming F...

"The long night has come."  In this premier episode of Drive Back the Night we review the premier episode of Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda. What is the System's Commonwealth? How did it fall? Who's the purple girl?  Join us as we begin to explore these and many other questions as we examine "Under the Night."