Dylan is captured by a race knowns as the Mobius and is forced to admit that he killed the Mobius leader 300 years earlier.

Dylan killed French artist writer Jean Giruad???


;-)

No, he killed Sonic the Hedgehog. And good riddance, I say! ;-)

(BTW, the writers who post at Slipstream BBS all say this one is going to rock the house.)

I thought Dylan sang "Like a Rolling Stone"?

Not a bad episode. At least it was not another murder mystery episode. It would be interesting to find out how much time had passed between the incidents in the flashback and the Nietchean uprising.

I thought Tyr's response to Beka's question about Rommie being in love with Dylan was interesting: "They're different species." _Not_ "But she's a machine." That implies that in this universe, AI's are regarded as people rather than simply machines.

Under what we have found out about the characters we now know that Dylan's serial number was H.E. 509-5c-2-1922

Thankfully no, Kam. He just killed a twisted strip of paper.
At least we got more background on Trance.
Whick leads me to this. Why don't we get a full cast each week. This episode didn't have Rommie (in any form), Harper, or Rev Bem. Is there a budget problem with the show or what? I think everyone but Dylan has gone missing for a week at least. They even made a joke about it a recently.
Still, we did get a little more background on Dylan anyway. Now if the writers can just avoid contradicting themselves in future. Of course this would mean fewer nits to pick, so that's maybe a mixed blessing.

An interesting episode.

Is anyone wondering if Dylan might not be a good representation of the Commonwealth. In this episode we've learned that not only did the Commonwealth send him on a secret mission to either abduct or kill the leader of a non-Commonwealth planet. And then when the mission is botched (I don't care what the Admiral [whose appearance after all the name dropping of the last few week was a bit of a let down] said, if you mission was to abduct someone for trial [which in its self is questionable] and you murder them instead I wouldn't call it a success.) he still still commended and given a promotion.

Given the high ideals of the Commonwealth we've heard does this mission seem less than good to anyone. Abduct (kidnap) the leader of a non-member world and put him on trial (or murder him instead).

Also I found Rommie's disapperance in the episode rather odd. Even if she went will Rev and Harper which would be very odd, since if she went with anyone I would have guessed it would be Dylan, her holo-avator would still be around on the ship wouldn't it. But I guess her disappearance in both places makes the plots work so more power to them.

I noticed something interesting Tyr's cooking, after he chops up the meat rather nicely we see him go ghinzu on some veggies. and well to be blunt for a 'great chief' he does a horrible job cutting them up. Normally if some one cuts one item some uniformly you would expect them to use the same kind of percision on the other stuff on the wild mix of huge chunks and tiny bits I saw.

And one last thing, what is the deal with Commonwealth uniforms? It's almost as bad as Starfleet and the designer Admiral uniforms. I personally would rather have seen Admiral Starky in a normal collared uniform rather than the number she had that showed off her boney old wrinkly collar bones. On another fashsion note, maybe she should take some advice from 'April' (a lowkey reference to TOS's Captain April? although I doubt it) and 'March', because their civilan attire was pretty cool.

I thought April was a Trek ref. ;-) (Robert April was Roddenberry's first choice for the name of the Enterprise captain, but it was only used on air in the Animated Series.)

Why is Dylan taking the Maru instead of one of those fancy flyers we've seen before?

Probably cargo space, KAM.

True. However, didn't they just stock up on parts in an previous episode? Why the sudden need to get more. Sure Andromeda took quite a bit of damage in Harper 2.0, but the ship seemed to be functioning fine at the end. Here the situation was apparently such that Rommie couldn't make an appearance in any of her forms.

Also a potential explanation for why we don't see those little craft more is maybe they have been canabalized for spare parts.
But 1. There's been no dialogue to back this up & 2. If they did that, they why couldn't they fly Andromeda to a port for additional parts?

And speaking of canabalizing, will the architect's unique method of immortality ever be mentioned again?

I just realized that this episode did not end with the heart to heart talk between two characters looking out into space. Interesting.

Well, apparently a key component blew out and they weren't able to buy one the other week. Remember, the Andromeda is an OLD ship. Its probably like trying to find parts for a Model T. "You want a WHAT?! Jeez, try the antique store down the street!" I figured that the ship couldn't move for one of two reasons. 1. Rommie was offline. 2. The missing component was a vital piece of the engines.

Actually..wouldn't it be more like trying to find a spare chariot wheel in the middle of the Dark Ages? From everything we've seen, science has NOT advanced in the last 300 years, it's REGRESSED. Knowledge has been lost. Devestating war has caused resources to be devoted to survival rather than advancement. Andromeda appears to be AHEAD of anything out there now.

Actually I believe they have advanced in some areas & regressed in others.
The Maru's being able to pull the Andromeda away from the black hole, I believe, was because they had a more powerful engine.
I believe in The Ties That Blind nanobots had infiltrated Rommie's systems. If nanotechnology had regressed, I don't imagine this would be a problem.
Also certain culture's, like the Perseids, seem to have kept their focus on science while others struggled to survive.

Maybe we need a board to list what was lost & what was improved on?

Not only surfing but Christmas and hopscotch have survived through the centuries as well.
The Commonwealth was definitely out of its jurisdication in this episode. Neither the aggressor nor the victim planet were members of the Commonwealth. They really had no right to send in Hunt and Rhade.

It was interesting that both Beka & Tyr know that Andromeda is in love with Dylan.
One wonders, though, if Andromeda actually listened in on that little conversation.
Or did she respect their privacy since they were trying to have a romantic dinner?

In regards to the nanobot technology advancing. Probably nanobot tech was lost in the dark ages as well. The only reasons the Restorians had is because of the Balance of Judgment.

Good idea, but in The Pearls That Were His Eyes we learn that Beka's hair has nanobots that her dad made.

Dataport date: 10.2-10.7.10087

At the end of the flashback scenes, when Stark gives Dylan command of the Andromeda, she says words to the effect of "this isn't optional."
In other words, Dylan MUST accept a promotion?
Yes, Star Trek has done this(Crusher going to Starfleet Medical in TNG's 2nd year, Jellico getting command of the Enterprise), but those were temporary assignments.
It doesn't sound like characters like Picard & Riker(who've been known to turn down promotions) would like the High Guard if they gave you no choice but to accept a new assignment like that.

In "All Good Things" Picard states that he is hereby requested and required to take command of the Enterprise as per order of Rear Admiral Norah Satie.

\off-topic{And boy did she regret that later!} OK, back on topic now.

Keep in mind, though, that Picard had been a captain for several years before he got the Enterprise-D. Hence, it wasn't a promotion for him, whereas Dylan was still a commander before the end of the flashbacks in this episode.
Hence, Jared's comments are valid.