To Loose the Fateful Lightning

Season 1, Episode 3, Aired

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Andromeda finds a High Guard Station inhabited by children who think Dylan is their savior.

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      • 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.

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      • 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.

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      • 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.