When Beka and a couple of lancers visit a remote colony contact is lost so Dylan and Trance head down to help. Beka finds no sign of settlers and soon it is obvious why; the planet is crawling with Magog. The lancers are lost but Dylan manages to rescue Beka, just in time to see a massive Magog ship arrive. Rommie sees it and orders Andromeda into slipstream. Dylan is rather surprised but hides the Eureka Maru in an asteroid field until Rhade returns in a slip-fighter to guide them back. Their problems are far from over though; Andromeda has determined that Rommie, her autonomous avatar, is becoming too emotional so disconnected her from the system before running a complete scan of the ship's systems. While this is going on Andromeda refuses all orders; this makes it hard for those on the Maru to get back aboard and once they do get back they have to figure a way to fight off the Magog when they inevitably arrive.
This was a really solid episode for reasons I didn't expect. The opening scenes made it look as if this will be all about fighting the Magog. While that is important it isn't as major as the problems between the Rommie and the ship's more integrated AI. This leads to a series of dangerous situations. While I'm sure nobody will think it will end in disaster there is the real possibility that the Rommie we, and the crew, know will have her personality deleted. Lexa Doig is on great form as Rommie bringing a sense of poignancy as her character contemplates deleting her personality to save her friends. Overall a surprisingly emotional episode that also delivers plenty of action.
This was a really solid episode for reasons I didn't expect. The opening scenes made it look as if this will be all about fighting the Magog. While that is important it isn't as major as the problems between the Rommie and the ship's more integrated AI. This leads to a series of dangerous situations. While I'm sure nobody will think it will end in disaster there is the real possibility that the Rommie we, and the crew, know will have her personality deleted. Lexa Doig is on great form as Rommie bringing a sense of poignancy as her character contemplates deleting her personality to save her friends. Overall a surprisingly emotional episode that also delivers plenty of action.
