The BEST episodes of Andromeda season 4

Every episode of Andromeda season 4, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Andromeda season 4!

Captain Dylan Hunt and the crew of the Andromeda Ascendant set out on a mission to rebuild the Systems Commonwealth 300 years after its fall.

Last Updated: 12/10/2024Network: SYFYStatus: Ended
A Symmetry of Imperfection
star
8.09
403 votes

#1 - A Symmetry of Imperfection

Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/26/2004

Rommie has become too emotional, the Andromeda cuts off her access and runs a full diagnostic to bring the avatar under control, this takes away many of the ship's resources. The Magagog are attacking the crew must defend Andromeda without aide from the AI. Even if they succeed in defending the ship, they may lose Rommie.

Directors: Allan Harmon
Writer: Naomi Janzen
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The Dissonant Interval (2)
star
8.08
433 votes

#2 - The Dissonant Interval (2)

Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/17/2004

Beka decides to leave the crew to fight for themselves, but after all of the promises that everyone will be reunited, Trance tells them that they will never be as they are again. When the Magog Worldship finally re-encounters the Andromeda after two years, Rommie and Harper race to take the Arkology to slipstream, Rhade must teach the inhabitants to defend themselves, and Dylan and Trance fight off the invading Magog. But as the Andromeda becomes covered in swarmships, Trance tells Dylan that he--and only he--may escape this alive.

Directors: Martin Wood
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The Spider's Stratagem
star
8.02
377 votes

#3 - The Spider's Stratagem

Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/2/2004

Andromeda captures a smuggler with a shipment of bioarmor. They try to track down the origins of the armor. But there's more to the living armor than they first realize.

Directors: Brad Turner
Writer: Emily Skopov
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Soon the Nearing Vortex (1)
star
7.99
469 votes

#4 - Soon the Nearing Vortex (1)

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/2003

Tyr returns and he's sided with the Collectors against his former crew. He wants the map for the Route of Ages.

Directors: Brad Turner
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The Warmth of an Invisible Light
star
7.93
457 votes

#5 - The Warmth of an Invisible Light

Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/9/2004

When Dylan activates an experimental cloaking device, he gets swept into an alternate dimension. Harper is the commander, he has overthrown the commonwealth, and is unknowingly working for the Abyss. Dylan looks for allies to oppose Harper, and to find a way to get back to his own dimension

Directors: Jorge Montesi
Writer: Matt Kiene
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Harper/Delete
star
7.90
442 votes

#6 - Harper/Delete

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/27/2003

Andromeda comes between two Nietzschean siblings. One has the File D, a weapon that can eliminate higher brain functions. The other has her nephew hostage, she wants File D. The crew doesn't want either of them to have File D.

Directors: Richard Flower
Writer: Naomi Janzen
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Abridging the Devil's Divide
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7.89
401 votes

#7 - Abridging the Devil's Divide

Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/12/2004

Half the crew is captured. Harper works on a time bridge for the Partriarch. The other half tracks down a smuggler.

Directors: Peter DeLuise
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Waking the Tyrant's Device
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7.85
444 votes

#8 - Waking the Tyrant's Device

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/2003

Dylan is sent on a mission by a triumvir, but is not well informed of the danger he faces. After a haphazard reentry from slipstream, the Andromeda is captured by a gravity field projected from the moon that is the target of their mission. Dylan discovers that the moon is the base of Kroton, a half-human, half-android genius that created the Magog world-ship. Dylan attempts to take out Kroton along with the new weapon he has developed.

Directors: Andrew Potter
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The World Turns All Around Her (2)
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7.85
414 votes

#9 - The World Turns All Around Her (2)

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/2003

The collectors tell Tyr why they need the map for the Route of Ages. It's a map to the Abyss, and hopefully a way to contain it. Tyr has Beka and the crew has the map. Now it's a race to the Route of Ages. Tyr makes a deal with the Abyss, and a final confrontation will ensue.

Directors: Peter DeLuise
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Time Out of Mind
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7.84
344 votes

#10 - Time Out of Mind

Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/3/2004

The Andromeda rescues a defenseless ship from former Commonwealth fighters. The inhabitants are an Ambassador and his pilot, returning to Arkology from successful peace negotiations with the Magog on board the World-Ship. However, the treaty is revoked when the ambassador dies from the Magog hatching in his stomach. The pilot, a Nietzschean from a supposedly extinct pride, leads the Andromeda to Arkology, a place of peacefulness in all aspects of life, to warn them of the coming Magog attack.

Directors: Allan Harmon
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The Others
star
7.82
430 votes

#11 - The Others

Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/16/2004

The Andromeda encounter 2 ships with depleted engines and weapons. They come from a planet, where the two sides have been fighting for as long as anyone can remember. One side is suffering from a disease, they claim the other side is using biological weapons, but the other side says they didn't do it. When Dylan becomes infected, the crew must figure out the source of the virus to save the captain.

Directors: Peter DeLuise
Writer: Scott Frost
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Answers Given to Questions Never Asked (2)
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7.78
513 votes

#12 - Answers Given to Questions Never Asked (2)

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/2003

The crew encounters some ships, the remainders of the Commonwealth Fleet. The leaders went into hiding when the fighting broke out. They need to find them to restore order to the Commonwealth.

Directors: Jorge Montesi
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Fear Burns Down to Ashes
star
7.78
403 votes

#13 - Fear Burns Down to Ashes

Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/23/2004

Rev Bem contacts Andromeda, he knows of a weapon against the Abyss, he will only show Dylan, in person. Dylan is captured, and stranded on a warship, with no engines, and heading towards a black hole. The crew searches for him, and finds an unexpected ally in the form of a Collector.

Directors: Peter DeLuise
Writer: John Kirk
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Conduit to Destiny
star
7.76
429 votes

#14 - Conduit to Destiny

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/2003

After taking a wrong turn in slipstream, the Andromeda receives a distress call from a Commonwealth prison, experiencing a riot the likes of which they have not seen before. Dylan and his crew quickly put down the rebellion, but Dylan keeps having flashbacks to the last time he was on this planet. Romy discovers that a now missing prisoner was not recorded in the logs, implying that she was a mole. Harper is shown the source of the planet's power and is told to bypass the ancient security system guarding it, so that the warden can keep it safe elsewhere. Meanwhile, ...

Directors: Pat Williams
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Machinery of the Mind
star
7.75
440 votes

#15 - Machinery of the Mind

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/12/2004

Harper is the key note speaker at a conference on dealing with the Magog threat. When a scientist is kidnapped, and others are killed, the crew must figure out who is responsible. Meanwhile Dylan is kidnapped by the Collectors, who make him an offer to join with them

Directors: David Winning
Writer: Ted Mann (I)
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Double or Nothingness
star
7.69
531 votes

#16 - Double or Nothingness

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/2003

The Andromeda investigates the site of a reported Nietzschean attack on a Commonwealth battleship, but find no debris and no sign that any conflict occurred there, much less the reported destruction of a High Guard vessel. Dylan is invited by the Nietzschean rulers of the planet to visit and accepts, but in his descent a solar storm hits the planet, causing his escorts to fall behind. Dylan must deal with the Nietzscheans in order to uncover the truth of what happened in orbit.

Directors: David Winning
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The Dissonant Interval (1)
star
7.68
465 votes

#17 - The Dissonant Interval (1)

Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/10/2004

With the Magog World-Ship at hand, Dylan must defend Arkology as one of the Paradine, beings said to have witnessed the creation of the universe. Beka makes her decision to leave the battle while she still can. Harper and Rommie attempt to get Arkology slip-capable again before the World-Ship destroys it.

Directors: Martin Wood
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The Torment, the Release
star
7.65
433 votes

#18 - The Torment, the Release

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/26/2004

Dylan and the crew are put on trial by the Commonwealth. The Collectors now control the Commonwealth. The crew wants to escape, but Dylan wants to stick out the trial, to determine if he still has ANY allies in the Commonwealth he helped to rebuild.

Directors: Jorege Montesi
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Lost in a Space That Isn't There
star
7.62
367 votes

#19 - Lost in a Space That Isn't There

Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/5/2004

Beka's recent behavior is explained. The Abyss has infected her, they must find a way to cure Beka, and free her of the Abyss.

Directors: Peter DeLuise
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Trusting the Gordian Maze
star
7.59
401 votes

#20 - Trusting the Gordian Maze

Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/19/2004

An emissary from Tri Gemma arrives, claiming that Tri Gemma is still on the crew's side, despite the current circumstances. Is she telling the truth or is she after something?

Directors: Jorge Montesi
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Pieces of Eight
star
7.53
476 votes

#21 - Pieces of Eight

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/2003

The governing body of the Commonwealth has voted "no-confidence" in triumvir Tri-Jema, she sends Dylan to get the Andromeda refitted and visit an augur, who is told to be infallible. This augur, dubbed Citizen Eight, aims to take Tri-Jema's place as triumvir and, according to the triumvir, remove Dylan from command of the Andromeda. The robots sent to the Andromeda to start pre-upgrade repairs turn against the crew, forcing Dylan and Harper to shut them down. Dylan must deal with Citizen Eight before he can bring down the Commonwealth from within.

Directors: Jorge Montesi
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Exalted Reason, Resplendent Daughter
star
7.53
432 votes

#22 - Exalted Reason, Resplendent Daughter

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/19/2004

The daughter of a King is kidnapped by a ruthless renegade. But when the crew finds her, she says her father tried to kill her, and the Renegade is actually a hero. Whose telling the truth?

Directors: Richard Flower
Writer: Naomi Janzen
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