Harper was infected with Triangulum Measles. It is a protozoan infection of the skin, which, if left untreated, will eat away the skin and internal organs, leaving nothing but bleached bones. However, a combination of radiation therapy and antibiotic ointment can clear it up within three weeks.
The Commonwealth had weapons called Nova Bombs, which are capable of destroying an entire solar system. According to Dylan, they had never been used in combat.
Beka: (when Tyr suggests going into stasis to survive the black hole) Look, even if your plan works, and we don't get torn apart by the tides or fried by radiation, we'd be frozen in time like Hunt was. By the time we get out, hundreds of years may have passed.
Tyr: I don't care if we wake up when the suns have all burned out and the universe is winding down to die, so long as I'm there to watch!
Gerentex: (referring to the Nova bombs Dylan's just used) 40! God, they're insane!!
Rev: Another of the Universe's little jokes....at our expense.
Harper: The ship! She's alive! And she is ticked off!
Harper: Mind if I ask you a question?
Hologram Andromeda: No.
Harper: When Trance got shot, how did you fix her?
Hologram Andromeda: I don't know. She didn't show any vital signs, so I brought her down here and monitored her, and then...she got better.
Harper: That's our Trance.
Hologram Andromeda: She's done this kind of thing before?
Harper: The whole coming back from the dead thing? No, that's a new one. But, uh, let's just say it's not out of character.
Hologram Andromeda: That should sterilize the protozoa. Apply this three times a day for a week and you'll recover.
Harper: Just out of curiosity, what would've happened if you hadn't treated this? Would it have, uh, left a scar?
Hologram Andromeda: No. It would've eaten every inch of your skin away until it was gone. And then it would have started on your muscles, organs, eyes, and brain. You'd have lived about five more weeks, and then all that would've been left are bleached bones.
Harper: Three times a day for a week.
Hologram Andromeda: Don't miss any spots.
Harper: OK, I say we kill 'em.
Rev: Gerentex?
Harper: Who do you think? I can rig up an explosive using your shock wand.
Rev: Violence begets violence.
Harper: Yeah, well, I say it's time we started begetting.
Beka: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold it. Even if we could take out Gerentex, and I have my doubts about that, what do we do about his posse?
Harper: Well, I was thinking a REALLY big bomb.
Rev: Harper, I advise you. Consider carefully this path that you would choose. The place to which it leads is very dark. If you murder Tyr and the other mercenaries, you'll be no better than Gerentex.
Harper: Of course I will. He'll be dead.
Tyr: You're working too slowly. The longer we stay in one place, the more likely we are to face a counter-attack.
Harper: Look, I appreciate paranoia, but if I don't get this right, we lose the entire ship.
Rev: (Rising and moving toward Tyr threateningly) What my young friend is saying is give us some space.
Tyr: (aiming his gun at Rev) Did I ask your opinion?
Rev: The universe does not always provide what you ask for. The universe provides what you need.
Harper: Hey, if you guys are gonna kill each other, go ahead and be my guest, but don't get any blood on my gear, okay?
Tyr: Don't test me, Magog.
"Some scholars argue that the Commonwealth might have fallen even without Nietzschean treachery. In one breath, they underestimate both the Nietzscheans and the Commonwealth."
Yin Man-Wei, The Rise and Fall of the Systems Commonwealth, CY 11942.
International Airdates:
-This episode aired in Canada on October 14, 2000 on Global.
-This episode aired in the UK on October 16, 2000 on Sky One.
-This episode aired in Australia on August 10, 2002 on Fox 8.
Shawn and Lori Stewart, as well as Darryl Quon, all appeared in the TV film Futuresport, written by Robert Hewitt Wolfe.
Rev: (as the Nova Bombs detonate) Fiat lux.
Rev Bem is quoting part of Bible verse Genesis 1:3 from the Latin Vulgate version, which translates as "Let there be light."
Tyr: If you stare too long into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you.
This is a paraphrase of the famous quote by Nietzsche, "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." This is Aphorism 146 from his work Beyond Good and Evil.
Anasazi: Navajo word, often translated as "ancient enemy", generally (and controversially) used to describe a cliff-dwelling native culture in the American southwest
Tyr: Tyr is the Norse God of War, best known for having his hand bitten off by the wolf Fenris.
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