Andromeda

- Season 1

(2000)

The Commonwealth vessel Andromeda, captained by Dylan Hunt, responds to a distress call only to find it's a trap. Warships surround them and open fire. In a last ditch attempt, Capt. Hunt evacuates the ship and it gets trapped in the gravity well of a black hole where time slows dramatically. Centuries later a scavenger party wants to pull the ship from its position but they're not counting on there being anyone left alive onboard.

Captain Dylan Hunt attempts to drive the invaders from his ship. He manages to scare Gerentex off, but he leaves many of his employees behind. He takes the Maru and uses it to send the Andromeda, still without engine power, on a course back into the black hole. The remaining scavengers work with Dylan to regain engine control and break free from the gravity well. Once free, they regain control of the Maru from Gerentex and Dylan invites the survivors to join his crew and reestablish the Commonwealth.

Andromeda find an old High Guard station inhabited by the teen descendants of the original crew. Though they want to rebuild the Commonwealth, their understanding of history's been corrupted over time, and their beliefs are very deadly to all.

Andromeda's attacked by the Restorers - a group which is against space travel. Bella's brother appears, and she smells trouble.

The Andromeda tries to help in a conflict between the Than and a Nietzschean pride. Tyr, the last of his pride is offered a chance to join with the pride and a bride. Will he side with his people or with the Andromeda.

Trance tries to pilot the Andromeda through slipstream, and the crew ends up traveling back in time, to the time just before the Commonwealth fell. The crew must decide whether to take actions that could endanger the future.

Answering a distress call from a Wayist vessel, Beka is surprised to find her brother aboard. Most of the crew seem suspicious of the pair of newcomers, most of all Rafe Valentine, given his sleazy history. When he steals the Maru to visit a monastery, Beka's warnings seem to be true. However, when she finds him at a Wayist monastery, she believes that he really has turned a new leaf.

When Andromeda runs experiments on a black hole, Dylan sends a message into the black hole saying goodbye to his loved ones. The message is received by the woman he left behind, 300 years earlier, a side affect of the experiment. When they find a way to transport him back to that time, he knows he cannot stay and prevent the fall of the Commonwealth. But can he bring his fiancée with him to his new time?

While attempting to get the Arazians to rejoin the Commonwealth, he is arrested for sedition and sentenced to life imprisonment. In prison, he is forced to defeat a Magog prisoner in battle to win his share of the food. He wins the respect of the woman who appears to be in charge and finds Romy caged. Meanwhile, the crew of the Andromeda is anxious to find their captain.

A chancellor visits the Andromeda, Tyr disrupts his visit by bringing up some past deeds the chancellor committed against Nietzscheans. Dylan orders Tyr to apologize, as Tyr visits the chancellor, the chancellor is killed and Try is found unconscious. Andromeda's crew must find the culprit.

Upon nearing El Dorado Station, Beka receives a message from her 'uncle' Sid, who's in urgent trouble. She goes to meet him, with Trance in tow; . Beka finds Sid's message was sent 3 years prior, and now the situation's drastically different.

Whilst Trance has taken off on unannounced expedition, Beka alerts Dylan to a lead she's discovered of her former client, Gerentex is about to go on; the remains of a derelict High Guard starship, the Pax Magellanic, and find the last of the crew over 300 years old, but seemingly unaffected by age.

Tyr has lost his memory. He is befriended by a small family. Some Nietzscheans arrive searching for Tyr and what he stole from them. Tyr must figure out what they're after, and regain his memory.

After Harper's attacked by a dying Perseid, he gains a level of intelligence much greater than usual. A bounty hunter arrives for the dead Perseid, and Dylan looks into why the Persed was wanted. Unable to sleep, Harper begins to speak in various foreign languages, repair the ship, and invent new gadgets. The bounty hunter returns - to recover the information the Perseid lost.

A mission that Dylan performed for the old Commonwealth comes to haunt him. He and his partner deposed a tyrannical despot on Mobius. His replacement turned out much worse, a person Dylan that inadvertently put into power. The replacement is still alive. Now Dylan must eliminate his replacement, or is there another way?

Andromeda is boarded by a drone from the Consensus of Parts, a mythical mechanical society. While friendly at first, the drone tries to force the ship to join the Consensus.

Whilst Trance and Harper are on the Maru, they're surprised to find Gerentex aboard. He forces them to help with his latest scheme.

Dylan and Rev respond to a request for aid from Rev's former master. There Dylan prepares them for defending themselves against the bandits in the event that the Andromeda does not show up to scare them away. Rev's master is concerned about the effect that teaching them to kill will have on their children, as these humans have a genetic memory, passing down their memories to their children at birth.

2 competing Nietchean prides will form an alliance and free 2 systems... if Andromeda will escort the bride-to-be to her wedding.

The Andromeda attempts to defend a freighter from a Restorian fighter, but in its last moments the fighter rams the freighter, destroying it and all 536 aboard. However unlikely, one escape pod escaped the explosion carrying a humanoid android named Gabriel, who claims to be a teacher fleeing from his oppressors. An admiral representing the Free Trade Alliance arrives offering information on the Restorian flagship, a refurbished Commonwealth destroyer. Dylan puts a plan into motion to destroy the flagship, while Andromeda's avatar develops a relationship with Gabriel.

For Dylan's birthday surprise, Harper overrides some of Andromeda's protocols to spring a surprise party. Beka gives him a unique gift; the map to Tarn-Vedra, the Commonwealth capital of legend, which is where Dylan was born? There's anxiety amongst the crew as they prepare their journey.

An unknown old core memory of Andromeda'accidentally activated, and takes the crew on a secret deadly mission.