Beka endangers the crew after taking mind altering drugs while attempting to pilot the ship to Tarn Vedra and return Hunt to his homeworld.

Wear a protective equipment for this one people. They'll hit you over the head 3 or 4 times over with the message.

DRUGS ARE BAD. SO VERY BAD.

Even Tyr gets into the act.

Not that it matters. This was a quality episode.

Although, if the drugs were the only reason for turning around, why not try the trip again after Beka's over the stuff. She should be able to do it normally if she's a good a pilot as she claims to be.

A question: Is this series 10,000 years into the future or has it been 10,000 years since the formation of the commonwealth? I noticed that the quotes at the beginning use CY (Commonwealth Year) instead of AD. Just wondering.

Great lines:
HARPER: "Here is one black hole. Let's call it rock. Here's another one. Let's call this one a hard place. We are right here in the middle."
TYR: "Drugs create dependency. Dependency is weakness. Weakness is death."
DYLAN: "I was just checking out your figure..."
DRUGGIE BEKA: "You aren't even a real captain! Who here is a real captain? Hmmm... yes.... I see.... it's ME!"
REV: "Some say that the galaxy is God and that the slipstream is his brain."
DYLAN'S REPLY: "Then he must have had a seizure and forgotten about Tarn Vedra."

Sorry if I've remembered these quotes incorrectly.

The series is starting to grow on me. I just don't like Andromeda herself. She always seems perpetually pissed.

See ya later
TUE

I'm enjoying the series. Actually, I liked Tyr's attitude toward the flash:

Dylan: Why didn't you tell me? [about Beka using flash]

Tyr: It was working.

The top of Rev Bem's nose was falling off in one of his close-ups early in the show when he was talking to Beka.

I found this episode to be a little disappointing. I actually thought they were going to visit Tarn Vedra. Silly me. It's still the first season.

They could have, however, made the forty-six step trip over a period of forty-six or even twenty-three days, which would greatly have reduced the stress for everyone. And now they know how to get out of the black hole and quasar gravity wells.

Trance's mystrious background crops up again
as she gets seriously ill when they spend too
much time in slipstream.


Are we gonna find out what species she is,or
for that matter anything about her background?
It seems that we've learned everything about
everyone else except Trance,she still remains
the big enigma of the series.

Becca claims that flash was created for the
situation they're in,that is to help pilots;
yeah and if you really believe that...!

Sooo how old exactly IS Dylan?

TUE: 10,000 years after the formation of the Commonwealth. Apparently, humans joined in 7085 CY, thirty years after contact with a Perseid "mentoring mission." Since the website says that Neitzsche published his first work in 6811 CY, or around 1885 AD, that means humans joined around 2159 AD.

Not his first work: the last volume of Thus Spake Zarathustra.

Maybe they created flash thinking it would help , or otherwise in small enough monitored doses it does help (ala morphene and its deriviates) and people being people overuse and addiction started in.

Q: So by your calculations, the current year for ANDROMEDA is somewhere between A.D. 5300 and A.D. 5400. (Assuming Commonwealth years equal Earth years) Thanks. I thought we seemed a little primitive for 10,000 years in the future.

To anyone:
My next question: Did these Vedrans create the slipstream? Is it even an artificial creation or is it natural?

Another question: Is Dylan a human or a Vedran or just a human who happened to be born on Tarn Vedra?

Yet another question: What is with the uniforms? We've seen our fearless leader wear a red leather one, a white one, and the commonly worn black one.

My final question. I promise: Are Neitchiens (sp) supposed to be aliens or are they some kind of human offshoot?

See ya later
TUE

Dylan is human--half heavy-grav (apparently engineered) half regular stock. He lived in the human quarter of Tarn Vedra (or says something like that)

The N's (I can't spell them either) are a human offshoot (based on what Dylan said in The Honey Offering). They seem to have bred themselves to the point where "normal" humans are not considered worth mating with.

I _think_ the slipstream is supposed to be natural.

I was puzzled, too, at the speed with which they took the jumps--as Dylan said, Tarn Vedra had been lost for 300 + years, what was the rush?

I wonder, too, what the "it" was that Harper & Beka wanted. And, did she take the flash to get to "it" or because she was worried about Trance? I thought she took it b/ca of Trance, which gave her more reason for taking it than the usual anti-drug story gives people.

Rev says, "There is a fine line between gleaning & pillaging." Gleaning is picking up the still useful bits that have been left behind. Pillaging is the act of plundering & laying waste. Pretty wide line to me. ;-)

So why do they have to follow the 46 slipstreams? Are there only two slipstreams for each 'way station'? Also I thought where you exited the slipstream was dependent on the mind of the pilot? Here it's implied that there are entrances & exits & once you enter you can only leave at the exit. (Not to mention Harper's tying a slipstream in a knot in Harper 2.0. *ugh*)

Andromeda appears to be rather high above the black holes of the Andromeda galaxy's cores. A little too high to be affected.

Beka says, "I just need a taste." At first I thought that was a nit, but then I remembered years ago when I had to take an eye medicine and about a minute after taking it an awful taste would form on the roof of my mouth.

Earlier Beka said 12, no 10, more jumps, now she says, "5 more jumps & we're home free." Why the change?

KAM, I believe that the change was caused by overcomficence. Beka was ODing on flash, felt invincible, and was not thinking clearly.

Under the topic of what we know about the characters Dylan's father worked in the Imperial gardens and his mother was a heavy gravity shuttle pilot.

Maybe the slipstream entrance and exits are actually the ends of the quantum wormholes that Quantum Theory allows. Although they certainly look bigger than quantum scale when the ship enters or exits. althouhgh that could be a visual display rather than the actual interface between wormspace and realspace. By display I mean the flash bang like the gas being funnelled into a black hole rather than something on the screen.

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