I missed this episode this weekend so I do not have a summary for it. I hope it was better than the premiere.

It was okay, but nothing special.

Cute that the bad guy was named Zeus. Maybe Dylan should have quipped, "Call me Hercules."?

Zeus tells Dylan that if he causes any trouble in the restaurant that his henchmen will cause carnage & that innocent people will be hurt. However, when Dylan does the pie thing Zeus' henchmen don't really do much carnage & no innocent people seem to be threatened.

All that fighting and the shards were not broken into smaller pieces???

Well, first a summary. Dylan receives a mysterious package (looks like the Commonwealth mail delivery system has been restored anyway) after which he mysteriously leaves the ship, mysteriously taking Harper with him and they are off to a mysterious destination to meet a mysterious man, who is already dead when they arrive and just as they do, law enforcement officers show up to arrest them for the crime. Then, mysteriously, a jailer sets them free, only to be killed (as Dylan predicted). Now the fugitives, Dylan and Harper mysteriously travel about, meeting another mysterious character hiding in a cave. He convinces Dylan that evil Zues is trying to get all the shards together. On to more mysterious planets, meeting more mysterious people, as the pieces of an object seem to be coming together in a much more cohesive fashion than this plot. Zeus seems determined to have all the pottery shards, threatening lives: "I'm serious, Dylan. I really, really mean it this time. You really, really better have those shards on you or I'm really, really gonna kill someone..." All the while, Harper is begging to be let in on what's going on, as I'm sure we all are. Finally, at the last possible moment, saving me from tearing out the last of my hair, Dylan quite off-handedly reveals what the hell has been going on for the past 50 minutes. The shards are part of a piece of pottery designed to give the owner some sort of incredible power. Dylan has had a piece for 310 years. After the third obligatory fight scene, the pieces are reassembled and....nothing happens. Bad guys confess; Dylan is exonerated; and they all live happily ever after.

I need to add that in the midst of all this we have the Andromeda and her crew being chased by the Commonwealth fleet (or a good portion of it) who are convinced that Dylan is aboard. Gives everyone else the opportunity to spout a few lines.

Okay. I think that this just might be it for me. This series started out pretty interesting, but it has now degenerated into a weekly slug-fest. I never saw Hercules, but I'm wondering if this is following that formula: Dylan goes off with one comerade on an adventure of the week. Lots of fist-fighting ensues. Hero conquers all. Sorry, not interested.

This episode:
1. Dylan just up and leaves the Andromeda after getting the shard in the mail. Does this guy have no responsibilities to the Commonwealth? He's always flying hither and yon on his own personal missions. I mean, come on! He gets Shard #2 in the mail, he should figure that no one can reassemble the thing as long as he stays put! They would have to come to him.
2. So we have a Commonwealth fleet that Dylan has no control over. Well, why would he? Seeing as he just runs off to do his own thing.
3. The incident with the jailer really bothered me. He told Dylan that his life had been threatened; Dylan told Harper that the jailer was probably already dead, which we find out is true. It just seemed a little bit too callous for me. If you know someone is going to be killed and you do nothing to stop it, doesn't that make you culpable in some way?

The show has tanked. There's barely a plot to hold the show between the fighting. A pie in the face? Who didn't see that coming? Or Zeus snatching up the shard conveniently sitting on the rock. Hello???? I have an IQ!

I guess I'll just have to go back to being miserable about not getting Enterprise in my area...

Generally, Hercules had better written plots than this ep. ;-)

I get the feeling the writer was trying to do a Maltese Falcon-style story, without any real idea of how to pull it off.

I liked your summary. :-)

I was a bit suprised that there was a new Commonwealth Fleet. What previous episodes would a fleet have come in handy in? You'd think it might have been mentioned in previous episodes. Nothing big, maybe a "Well, the fleet now has (number) of ships", or a "Can we contact the fleet?" "No, they're too far away.". Although I have missed a number of eps, so maybe they did.

And speaking of the fleet, who trained them? The Keystone Kops? Okay, it's understandable to assume that Dylan MIGHT have gone back to Andromeda, but at the same time it's not a certainty. So this brain dead captain DEMANDING Andromeda hand over Dylan... ugh. Has this captain ever heard of DIPLOMACY? Phrasing nicely the need to examine Andromeda to be certain that Dylan isn't on board.

The fleet has been mentioned off-handedly in previous episodes. In "Lava and Rockets" from last season, we see Dylan send his tourist-ship-pilot girlfriend to Mobius with a letter of recommendation so she can train with "the fleet." This was the first time I remember hearing anything about it. Then in "The Knight, Death and the Devil", Dylan rescues a group of old Commonwealth ships that have been held in a prison camp of sorts. In the end, some of the ships sacrifice themselves so that the rest can escape. (They all have AIs). The surviving ships go off to join the fleet. I think 25-30 ships survived.

And there's always Tarazed, the planet colony that Sara (Dylan's old fiance') established in secret 300 years ago after having heard future Dylan talk about restoring the commonwealth. They were pretty organized, but were also pretty paranoid about joining the "new" commonwealth and in the end declined.

The last time there was a battle, it seemed that everyone was sending their own fleets and that there wasn't a central command.

It makes no sense that Dylan has nothing to do with how the new fleet is run. Well, from the show's standpoint, they can't turn it into "Mobius Academy." And of course, it would seem that even if they didn't put him in charge of the fleet or training that they could train a cadet or two to be assigned to the Andromeda! I mean if you can have people captaining ships, you gotta have something better than a drone to serve on the most powerful ship in the galaxy--is Andromeda even considered the flag ship? -

I missed Lava & Rockets & only caught part of TKDATD.

Still you'd think that as the only surviving member of the the High Guard Dylan would stop by the Academy every now & then to make sure they are coming up to High Guard standards.

Speaking of cadets, what about those kids from a first season ep (which I missed as well.)

Shame that what should be the central theme of the show, restoring the Commonwealth, seems to get short shrift.