Outstanding season opener! (This was the opener, wasn't it? I didn't catch the title.) If this is any indication, season two should be great.

I've already got a favorite line: "Magog s u c k."
Or maybe "That's me, Capt Idiot."

Can't say the opening theme is quite so great though. Much as I like the closing theme, I don't think it's strong enough to open the show. Oh well, at least they got rid of that terrible electro-c r a p thing they had last year.

Awesome episode. I spent all summer wondering how they were going to get out of this. I was expecting the new Consensus to show up and saved the day but it did not.

Summary- The scene opens to find the ship torn apart after the battle with the Magog. Trance, Dylan, and Beka are on the bridge, both Beka and Dylan are injured. Tyr and Harper have been taken to one of the Magog worlds with Rev Bem in pursuit. Andromeda's personality has reserted herself with memories of the first mission. Rommie manages to pull the piece of metal that had pierced her from her abdomen and make it to the machine shop to make repairs.
The five reunite where Dylan announces that he and Rommie are going to rescue Tyr, Harper, and Rev Bem from the planet. He leaves Beka in command with instructions to fire the nova bomb if they have not returned in two hours and take the Andromeda back to the known worlds.
On the planet Tyr and Harper find themselves infested with Magog eggs. The two are "glue" to a wall and Harper sees no hope of escape but Tyr encourages him not to give up. During this time we learn of sixteen year old Tyr's capture by slavers and how he was trapped in cave in that he managed to crawl his way out of and then fled into a desert. He later returns to take revenge on his slavers.
On the Andromeda the time to launch the bomb is approaching and Beka feels she is in over her head. During this time Beka tells Andromeda to tell her what happen on the first mission. Andromeda reveals that she was sent on a mission to find the source of the Magog invasion when they reached the remains of the M-86 galaxy. The only survivng thing in the galaxy was the Magog world ships. The Andromeda was attacked by Magog and the pilot iniated the slipstream jump. But the crew was killed and Andromeda wandered the slipstream blind for 13 months until she was able to force herself out of the slipstream. She was found by Than traders and returned to the Commonwealth intelligience group. There the events of the mission were supress from the ship's memory.
While on the worlds Rev Bem meets the leader of the Magog. A creature of fire that the Magog worship. He seems to fall under his influence and he and the Magog commander from last season go to find Tyr and Harper where Bem claims he will give them trancedance.
On the Andromeda time is up and the nova bomb is fired hitting the sun. The explosive is fired careening through the worlds burning millions of Magog (possibly more). Then to their suprise the explosive enery is drawn back into the Magog leader leaving the crew and several Magog untouched.
The Andromeda manages to make it out with her crew intact. Harper finds that he larvae have nested inside of him and if there is an attempt to remove them they will begin attacking the host. He is given a drug which will cause the larvae to remain dormant until an alternate treatment could be found. But that the larvae will eventually become immune to the drug and begin growing again. Haper does not take the new too well.
On the bridge the crew discusses that the world ship's sun was destroyed but that in three years it will build up enough hydrogen to have another one. And then it will be within striking distance of the known worlds. And the only there only chance of possibly winning is to have all the known worlds in a unified front.

I also liked the fact that the warbots that we saw in the first episode were finally used. I had wondered if we would ever see them again. And they are affectionately called Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum.
Good character developement and character interplay.
It will be interesting to learn more about the creature as the season progresses and were exactly the Magog originated from.
I wonder though what is the third galaxy called. We known that Andromeda and Milky Way are two. What is the the next closest galaxy to the Milky Way.

Okay I heard it mentioned in Andromeda's story but was not sure it was a galaxy until I did little reasearch on our local group and found that M-33 aka the Triangulum galaxy is the next closest major galaxy. And is probably the third galaxy with M-32 considered part of Andromeda.

I loved how the tweedle brothers sorta went yeah after the attack on the magog puncture ships. That was cool. Very cool. What is it with Trance and the tail. She has no life signs according to Rommie but when Beka pulls her tail she "wakes up". Maybe its somekinda (registerd trek trademark) pull start like on my lawnmower. :-) Cool that Rommie knows some of Trance's abilities. Very interesting on what they're doing to Harper wonder if it will resurface and what they are going to do about it. That's one thing I'm happy about Andromeda they have the hero factor going but it isn't the trek none of the senior staff get seriously hurt kind, more the win by the skin of their teeth kind. Although I must admit I liked the music from last season better than the opening for this season. Oh well. To each their own. Only thing I'm hoping now is that thye don't get rid of tall dark and fiery by tlking to him the way Sheriden got rid of the Shadows on B5.

Rev's make-up looks different to me for some reason.

When talking about how there's always something bigger & more powerful, Rommie says that she didn't think it applied to her. Ummmm, what about the Warship destroyer that showed up in a previous episode?

I'll have to check my astronomy books, but IIRC Rommie said that M86 was 68 million light years away. I believe the Andromeda galaxy is 200 million light years away.
Also she said that we don't know when the stars in M-86 died. Actually just drop out of slipstream every know & then, look at M-86 and if the lights start disappearing figure out how far away you are.

Several times it was mention that they should use "maximum PSL". No wonder they have Artificial Intelligences that can fall in love. They need to harvest the Perverse Sexual Lust that the AIs feel for their captains. ;-)
(For those who don't get the joke, PSL is a term, IIRC, coined on the online comic strip It's Walky, and since been picked up & used by fans of various Keenspot comics to refer to their affection for various characters & people.)

FINALLY...Andromeda has come BACK...to WGN, Channel 9(Plug, plug).
After three weeks of disappointment with Enterprise, THIS is the old-school Trek-style @$$-whippin' I've been waiting for.
I miss the March, though - "Bagpipers on Crack", the Cynic's Corner's David Sluss called it. Otherwise...
If you thought this episode DIDN'T bite it, gimme a Hell Yeah!

The Andromeda Galaxy M31 is only 2 Mly away.

2.2 million according to my reference book. Not sure why I thought it was 200 million. Couldn't find anything on M-86.

Those 68 Mly seem to be roughly okay for M86.

Dataport date: 4.1.10088

The Dataport Date for the previous ep was 3.15.10088. Didn't seem like 15 days had passed between the two eps.

The only explanation I came come up with is that Harper took some time off before creating the journal entry; I don't blame him... if I was infected with Magog, I wouldn't think about it unless necessary.

The three-hour deadline that Dylan gave to Beka for launching the nova bomb seemed very false to me. Why any deadline at all? The Magog worldship wasn't going to reach known space for quite a while, was it? If Dylan had failed to retrieve Harper and Tyr, then Andromeda should have simply retreated, gathered some allies perhaps, and attacked later. The dramatic countdown it was trying to create was kind of silly, since it was unnecessary. (The change in music was disappointing to me, also.) Otherwise, this ep was was a good conclusion to part 1...