William B. Davis known as the Cigarette Smoking Man from X-files will guest star in this episode. He will play Professor Logitch who is determined to discover the origins behinds Trance.
That's because he knows that behind Trance is quite a tail.
Trance is held captive while Dylan and the others try to find out who is responsible for a series of attacks on cargo ships.
---Perhaps this is the return of the Restorians.
NOW Trance is beginning to get interesting! I like the new edginess and implied menance to her character. I guess she really is as old as hockey.
Why did the leiutenant wait so long to reveal himself as a Pirion agent? It took Rami to prompt him to confession, all the while the ship's facing imminent destruction. Doesn't make much sense since we know the Pirion's aren't going to want to kill their informant.
"Beka, open the pod bay doors." What a line! Too bad she couldn't come back with "I'm sorry, Dylan. I'm afraid I can't do that."
I kept expecting William B. Davis to pull out a Morley!
The Cigarette Smoking Alien!
Missed the beginning of this. No real nits, but the name of the planet (Onaria? Honaria?) sounded suspiciously like the planet Onara in the NextGen ep Symbiosis. Especially when it was revealed that the Onarians were dealing drugs.
I finally watched this show, is worse than the Best Episode of MST3K. bad acting, bad makeup, bad story, bad SFX, is Just bad, not even kitch bad, just bad. Amazing people have time to discuss this drivel.
Excuse me, I forgot Bad Music. Is so Bad even the sponsors have generic commercial endorsements.... 'This Show" is brought to you by........... Thank Gene Roddenberry's 'other lost shows' remain lost , this and Final Conflict just ***** BIG TIME
I see someone caught the "open the pod bay doors" reference but did anyone else catch the second reference when Beka's reply included "I have the greatest enthusiasm for the mission" reference?
Yes! That was great! I knew there was a NANJAO I wanted to post, but I couldn't remember it!
Was it just me, or did the Pirions look like the Melkotians from the episode "Spectre of the Gun" from Classic Star Trek?
Isn't a prion a type of bacteria or microbe or whatever that looks a lot like what we saw of the Pirions?
AAAAAAH! WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO TRANCE?!
I liked her powerful but innocent. That's unusual in sf, and enjoyable. Her optimism and enjoyment of life was great! Yes, I knew she had power she wasn't admitting to, but I really, really, really dislike the idea of a nasty Trance. Her conversation with the professor was a _completely_ new side to her character.
On a less hyper note, isn't it odd that a character with purple skin wears bright red lipstick? I'd expect a more purple tone (her blood can't be red, which means her lips probably wouldn't be, and she'd want to enhance her normal color, wouldn't she? Besides, it clashes).
The Beka/Dylan conversation was fun.
Why can't Trance's blood be red? Lots of animals have brightly colored skin, but we're all red blooded. It does clash something awful though.
Maybe thats the idea. Maybe its kinda like the Goth look for her people or something. Bright red lips symbolize something with her.
Finally saw the beginning.
If Trance can see possible futures then why didn't she realize that this would be a trap? She walks into the room, gets trapped and looks surprised. It's not like this was a low probability scenario. The only reason she had been invited was to catch her.
The only possibility I can imagine is that she knew it was a trap, and they wouldn't stop until they caught or killed her, so she decided to go along & manipulate events so that she might survive. Although if that is what she was doing then I think the stories she was telling could have been done better to show manipulation.
I thought Grape Girl would get Cronenberg on
Cancer Guy - make his head explode, turn him inside out - stuff like that. Whoever thought
up that teaser should be keelhauled; not since
the teaser for Voyager's "11:59" (Easily the
most dishonest in that show's storied history)
was I so misled.
The teaser _was_ misleading. _I_ thought that when she showed him who/what she was, he wouldn't be able to handle the information & would go mad.
a misleading teaser? gee. imagine that??!
Ok. I take it back.
I have spent the last couple of episodes watching Trance and wondering why she is on the Andromeda--what her motives are--and enjoying it.
So--the complaint is revoked.
(but not the one about the bright red lipstick; there are other shades they could use)
(And not the one about the multiple hairstyles that seem to be trying to head toward 'sexy').
Here the name of the Pyrean race is pronounced 'pie-ree-an'; in subsequent episodes it's pronounced 'pirr-ree-an'.
Great line (after Hunt declares that he doesn't think it's worth spending time on sorting out the Onarians' problems)
Beka: All right, who are you, and what have you done with the real Dylan Hunt?