Dylan's High Guard access code is Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771.
This episode features the first mention of Earth, which is now in ruins after constant attacks by Nietzscheans and the Magog.
Andromeda's AI is downloaded (or more precisely, copied) into an android body known as an Avatar.
The Magog lay their eggs in living beings; the newly hatched larvae eat the host from the inside out.
Rommie uses her artificial gravity field to disable an invading army, a brilliantly effective and (for a sentient machine) effortless tactic. Yet, despite being helpful numerous times later in the series, she'll never do it again.
Dylan: (feeling awkward with Rommie "in the flesh") I'm, uh, so used to talking to you on the holo-screen. Waking up in the morning, having breakfast, you seeing me... Rommie: Getting out of the shower. Dylan: (even more embarrassed) Can we just say, on many occasions? Rommie: Of course.
(The kids come aboard Command) Rev: Suddenly my ribs hurt again.
(Dylan's nanobot injection/paralysis plan fails) Dylan: You took NI before you boarded? Hayek: We're not children. We're Holy Warriors.
(A very naked woman enters Command) Hayek: Who are you? Rommie: I am Andromeda, the ship made flesh.
(Andromeda puts the AG field up and the kids fall) Harper: Oh, anti-gravity field. Don't it just suck?
Rommie: Dylan may not be a God, but on this ship...I am.
Dylan: Andromeda? How? (turns to Harper) Your secret project?
Harper: That is the Andromeda I know, love...and gave human form to.
(To Rommie) Dylan: Nice work. Harper: Hey, don't forget. I created her. Now who's the God?
(Dylan reaches out to touch a dead Magog and Harper shouts for him not to) Dylan: You can't get infected by a dead Magog. It's a myth. Harper: I prefer to think of it as a cautionary tale.
(Holding Magog talons and teeth) Rev: These children are in desperate need for spiritual guidence. Tyr: Seems to me they're doing just fine without it. Beka: Yeah, they're really in touch with their inner savage.
(Dylan denies Rev's offer to go planetside and they try to think of a new way to introduce them to other species. Trance enters and the room quiets) Dylan: But I think I know how. (he smiles at her) Trance: Why are you smiling at me?
Andromeda: Have fun looting? Harper: You know it baby.
(Opening the "sanctuary", a docking bay) Dylan: Beautiful. (smiles) Type 2 R-Glide Slipfighters.
Dylan: I have a dream of a restored Commonwealth. Children: Victory! Victory! Victory! Victory! Victory! Dylan: Victory over ourselves!
Rev: Right or left? Dylan: Right. Trance: Left! (they alook at her) Um, it's just a choice. You know, 50/50. Dylan: You heard the lady.
Mapes: (returning from his Slipfighter) Why did you stop me?!
Trance: You're welcome.
Beka: Those kids committed genocide. It's wrong. Harper: Not when it's justified.
(Harper tells Beka about his two cousins' deaths)
Harper: So, you know what? I say, good on these kids. Good on them!
(Dylan tells about how she destroyed an entire Magog system) Nassan: No one's going to cry over their deaths. Rev: I will. (she pulls a gun on him)
Nassan: We thought you came here to save us. Dylan: I came here to save you from yourselves. Nassan: We don't worry about being eaten or getting raped by ourselves.
Beka: Want to tell me why your locked up in here with all the sensors cut off? Harper: I can't tell you. It's a secret. Beka: Oh, come one, Harper. We're friends, we have no secrets. Harper: Oh, yeah? Then what's your real hair color? Beka: I can't tell you. It's a secret. Harper (pretends to talk to someone): Hey! (Beka turns away and Harper pulls out a strand of her hair) Beka: Ahh! Harper: Huh, I guess this'll help me find out.
Harper: What a popular destination. It must be on all the tourist maps.
Trance: You have 4 broken ribs and a hurt something that only Magog have.
Rev: It's a (says something in Magog) pancreas.
Trance: Oh, okay! What's a pancreas?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it; those who fail to learn history correctly -- why, they are simply doomed. Achem Dro'hm, The Illusion of Historical Fact, CY 4971.
International Airdates:
-This episode aired in Canada on October 21, 2000 on Global.
-This episode aired in the UK on October 23, 2000 on Sky One.
-This episode aired in Australia on August 17, 2002 on Fox 8.
The Guard Station Number, GS92196, is a reference to the wedding date of writer Matt Kiene (9-21-96), according to Ethlie Ann Vare.
Rommie's first appearance was voted #8 in the Top Ten Scenes at the official site.
Title: The episode title comes from the first stanza of Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic, written for the Union during the American Civil War.
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