Andromeda: Double Helix
Episode score
8.9
Great
Double Helix
- 5.
- Season: 1
- Episode: 5
- First Aired: 10/30/2000
- Prod Code: 106
After Dylan saves a ship about to be destroyed by the Nietzscheans, the Nietzscheans try to persuade Tyr to join them. Add a recap »
- Writers:
- Joe ReinkemeyerMatt Kiene
- Director:
- Mike Rohl
- Stars:
- Kevin Sorbo (Captain Dylan Hunt)
- Lisa Ryder (Beka Valentine)
- Keith Hamilton Cobb (Tyr Anasazi)
- Laura Bertram (Trance Gemini)
- Brent Stait (Rev Bem)
- Gordon Michael Woolvett (Seamus Harper)
- Lexa Doig (Andromeda/Rommie)
- Recurring Role:
- Steve Bacic (Gaheris Rhade)
- Guest Star:
- Paul Johansson (Guderian)
- Dylan Bierk (Freya)
- Marion Eisman (Olma)
- Stuart O'Connell (Dimitri)
- Elizabeth Thai (Than Pilot)
- Instead of a ring, Nietzscheans signify marriage by an armband with a stylized DNA double helix pattern. edit »
- International Airdates:
-This episode aired in Canada on November 4, 2000 on Global.
-This episode aired in the UK on November 6, 2000 on Sky One.
-This episode aired in Australia on August 31, 2002 on Fox 8. edit » - Elizabeth Thai (Than Pilot) also played Refractions of Dawn in Under the Night (1) and Twilight in The Banks of the Lethe, both of whom were also Than. edit »
- Dylan: I'm sorry your decision cost you the status of husband and father.
Tyr: It was part of the plan. I was always on your side.
Dylan: If it had been necessary, you would have killed me. You played your options right to the end. Guderian was set to kill me.
Tyr: I wasn't on Guderian's side.
Dylan: Of course not. You'd never serve Guderian. You'd have turned and killed him, sent for Freya, and used the Andromeda to found your own pride.
Tyr: Really?
Dylan: Isn't that what's best for Tyr?
Tyr: I'm proud of you.
Dylan: Why?
Tyr: You're thinking like a Nietzschean.
Dylan: If I were thinking like a Nietzschean, I'd kill you.
Tyr: Why don't you?
Dylan: Because my mission is to restore civilization. And if I can't persuade you, a member of my own crew, how can I win over the rest of the galaxy?
Tyr: Just when I thought you'd controlled your blind idealism, you say
something like that. So. Are you endeavouring to trust me, then?
Dylan: I trust Tyr...to be Tyr. edit » - Harper: Why didn't they kill ya? I mean, not that I'm not glad to see you or anything.
Tyr: I got them to accept me into their pride.
Harper: Hey, aren't we the smooth talker. So, uh, any chance they'll negotiate?
Tyr: None. The Than fleet is two days away, and the only way Orca pride can defeat them is by using the Andromeda. And they think I'm going to help deliver it to them.
(Harper stops walking, immediately suspicious)
Harper: Ummmmm. I hate to ask, but...
Tyr: ...Am I?
(He growls menacingly, then half-lunges at Harper, who starts to run away. Tyr laughs.)
Tyr:(Highly amused) Come on, boy. Let's go have a look at this.
(He holds up a data chip, continuing to laugh as he walks away. Harper follows.)
Harper: Funny guy. edit » - Rev: You called?
Dylan: People in your faith, do they practice confession?
Rev: If they like. Why?
Dylan: I have something to confess. I'm here to make peace with the Nietzscheans, but inside me, I want to kill every single one of them. Because of him. {He tosses the flexi onto his desk for Rev to see} Gaheris Rhade.
Rev: The first officer of your ship.
Dylan: More than that. My friend. He was supposed to be the best man at my wedding. And then he betrayed me. Because I trusted him, the Nietzschean invasion got past my ship and the Commonwealth was
destroyed. I lost my crew, my family, my friends...my fiance. I lost the time and age I belonged to, Rev. Hell, I lost civilization itself!
Rev: And now you're wondering, is it worth reaching out to Nietzscheans?
Dylan: They're genetically engineered to be paranoid and selfish and
treacherous. Am I right to be prejudiced?
Rev: As a Magog, my own genes predispose me to slaughter indiscriminately, eat my victims, lay eggs in the paralyzed bodies of sentient beings. I think if you were truly prejudiced, you would have shot me on sight.
Dylan: It's not the same. You're a Wayist. You're the most peaceful person I know.
Rev: Ahhhh. Then in each species, no matter how horrible, there's room for improvement. You don't have to forget. You don't even have to forgive. But you must look for the good in the beings you encounter. Otherwise, your restored Commonwealth will be founded on distrust, and it will be over before it even begins. edit » - Freya: My great-great-grandfather Bolivar was also an Alpha. As was his father's father, all the way back to Salidin.
Tyr: Salidin? Salidin Cree?
Freya: Founder of my line. Olma says that my offspring can't help but be Alpha's. And what about your pride, the Kodiak?
Tyr: My lineage was also proud. The Kodiak were entrusted with the remains of the original Progenitor.
Freya: You've actually seen the body of Drago Museveni?
Tyr: As a child. His mummified remains were enshrined in our fasthold.
Nietzscheans from all over the known worlds would make pilgrimages to
see it. We lived under a permanent truce, and our allies guaranteed our safety. Until the Drago-Kasov pride claimed they were the Progenitor's rightful keepers. We fought so very fiercely. Foolishly,
we thought our allies would protect us, but on the day of battle, the other prides abandoned us. Those of the Kodiak that weren't killed were displaced – exiled. I saw my mother...He pauses, fighting back emotions...she was slow. I became a mercenary. And I gave up looking for a home. edit » - Olma: Mmmmmm...strapping. Strong shoulders. And your calf muscles –
very impressive. You might be a good addition to our pride.
Guderian: Muscles aren't everything.
Olma: True. {To Tyr} So, why don't you release Dimitri and tell me your
lineage. {Tyr pauses, considering} What's the matter? Genes inferior? Let him go and talk to me.
Tyr: Talk, perhaps. Let him go? I don't think so.
Olma: Very promising. But I still need to know what pride you're from.
Tyr: I am Kodiak.
(Various laughter and disbelief heard from the gathered Neitzcheans)
Dimitri: Kodiak? That pride was destroyed 20 years ago...
Tyr: Destroyed, yes. Betrayed by our allies – allies including Orca
pride, if memory serves me. Kodiak is gone, but I survive. And I am
Tyr Anasazi. Out of Victoria by Barbarossa!
Freya: Barbarossa, son of Hannibal, or Barbarossa, son of Temujin?
Tyr: {smiling, impressed} Temujin.
Olma: He has good lineage. I approve. If Freya wants him, I have no
objections.
Tyr: Assuming I accept. edit »
- Lost Knights of Teutonia VI:
Reference to the Teutonic Order, German crusaders who would later influence the development of the Nazi Party. edit » - Cree:
North American native culture, largest of the First Nations. edit » - Saladin:
Named for renowned Muslim leader 'Salah Ad-din Yusuf Ibn Ayyub, most famous for his victories against the Crusaders. edit » - Bolivar:
Named for South American revolutionary Simón Bolívar. edit » - Hannibal:
Carthagian general, most famous for his daring crossing of the Alps and his victories against Rome during the Second Punic War. edit »
Double Helix
The Bottom Line: "Pivotal"09/11/05 01:18pm | report abuseA wonderfully written episode that manages both to explore Tyr's character and to set the pieces for future plot develompents. ...Continue »
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