Andromeda (TV series)

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The featured ship of the Andromeda television show, the Andromeda Ascendant

Andromeda is a science fiction television series, a posthumous creation of Gene Roddenberry. It stars Kevin Sorbo as High Guard Captain Dylan Hunt. The series premiered in the fall of 2000 and as of April 2004 was in its fourth season.

The universe is divided between the Systems Commonwealth, a group of planets led by Tarn-Vedra, and the Magog, a race with a rather violent method of reproduction. The Commonwealth's member species the Nietzscheans at one point become disillusioned with the peace with the Magog, and try to overthrow the Commonwealth. In the first battle, Dylan Hunt is forced to evacuate his crew, but his ship, the Andromeda Ascendant gets caught on the edge of a black hole's event horizon. Over 300 years later, a salvage crew rescues him. However, the Systems Commonwealth fell, leading to a dark age known as The Long Night. Hunt recruits the salvage crew to join him in an attempt to restore the Systems Commonwealth and "rekindle the light of civilization".

Season one of the series shows Hunt assembling the crew and adjusting to the new universe, while pursuing the creation of the Restored Systems Commonwealth; the second season shows the crew reacting to the sudden necessity of the Restored Systems Commonwealth after the discovery of the Magog Worldship, as they continue to make sure the dream comes true. Season three shows the Restored Systems Commonwealth implemented and the crew preparing for the impending fight against The Spirit of The Abyss and the Magog, while season four shows the new Commonwealth corrupted by its enemies, thus making survival against said enemies more difficult.

Andromeda is one of two TV series (to date) based upon concepts Roddenberry had created as early as the 1960s and 1970s. The name Dylan Hunt had also been given to the heroes of two TV movie pilots Roddenberry had produced in the mid-1970s. Another series postumously "created" by Roddenberry is Earth: Final Conflict.

See List of Andromeda Episodes.