The WORST episodes of Andromeda

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

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: 9/4/2024Network: SYFYStatus: Ended
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The Things We Cannot Change
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6.90
485 votes

#1 - The Things We Cannot Change

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/13/2002

Dylan runs into a problem while analysing a black hole and imagines what his life would be like with a family before the common wealth fell.

Directors: Jorge Montesi
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Star-Crossed
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7.06
563 votes

#2 - Star-Crossed

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/30/2001

Rommie falls in love with a surviving android (Michael Shanks) of a destroyed ship, only to be betrayed as he turns out to be the ultimate enemy.

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The Sum of Its Parts
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7.08
567 votes

#3 - The Sum of Its Parts

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/26/2001

A humanoid robot visits the Andromeda crew, helps them fight off a culture of organized machines and learns what it means to be a living being.

Directors: David Winning
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A Rose in the Ashes
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7.09
667 votes

#4 - A Rose in the Ashes

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/2000

With their communication with the crew of the Eureka Maru completely cut off, Dylan and Rommie are forced into exile on a prison planet and must befriend fellow inmates to attempt any escape.

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Double Helix
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7.10
767 votes

#5 - Double Helix

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/2000

Captain Dylan Hunt must save the Andromeda from the Nietzscheans, who are trying to persuade Tyr to help them destroy the ship and rebuild his Nietzschean life. His new life would include a wife to carry on his lineage.

Directors: Michael Rohl
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It Makes a Lovely Light
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7.12
583 votes

#6 - It Makes a Lovely Light

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/7/2001

Beka jeopardizes the crew when she takes a mind-altering drug while attempting an exhaustive piloting mission that could bring Dylan to his long-lost home planet.

Directors: Michael Robison
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Forced Perspective
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7.12
596 votes

#7 - Forced Perspective

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/19/2001

Dylan is taken captive and forced to admit that he killed the Mobius leader and overthrew the Mobius government more than 300 years ago.

Directors: George Mendeluk
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All Great Neptune's Ocean
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7.15
736 votes

#8 - All Great Neptune's Ocean

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/15/2001

Tyr and Rommie are framed for the assassination of the Castalian president.

Directors: Allan Harmon
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The Ties That Blind
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7.15
710 votes

#9 - The Ties That Blind

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/2000

Beka's con-artist brother unexpectedly shows up claiming to be a devout Wayist making the Andromeda a prime target for Restorian attack.

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Fear and Loathing in the Milky Way
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7.15
630 votes

#10 - Fear and Loathing in the Milky Way

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/9/2001

Trance, Harper and their former employer Gerentex are unwilling partners on a wild ride to find a valuable artifact.

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The Shards of Rimni
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7.18
582 votes

#11 - The Shards of Rimni

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/2002

Dylan receives a mysterious package, but is then framed for the murder of its sender so Dylan and Harper go on a mission to clear his name.

Directors: Jorge Montesi
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Exit Strategies
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7.18
501 votes

#12 - Exit Strategies

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/2001

Dylan, Beka, Rev Bem and Tyr pursued by a gang of Neitzscheans, are forced to make a crash landing on an icy planet.

Directors: J.T Scott
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The Pearls That Were His Eyes
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7.22
608 votes

#13 - The Pearls That Were His Eyes

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/22/2001

Beka Valentine receives a distress call from her beloved Uncle Sid, but to her disdain realizes that he has become Sam Profit, a big business tycoon.

Directors: David Winning
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What Happens to a Rev Deferred?
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7.22
532 votes

#14 - What Happens to a Rev Deferred?

Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/24/2003

As the Andromeda responds to a distress call from a planet on the brink of destruction, the crew intercept a transmission from a ship returning to the surface. After seeing the message from Rev Bem the crew loads up to save him from the planet. As Rev is following the path of the Divine flashbacks occur of the Andromeda crew to help him on his way.

Directors: Allan Eastman
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Music of a Distant Drum
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7.23
551 votes

#15 - Music of a Distant Drum

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/5/2001

A crash landing on a strange planet leaves Tyr with a complete loss of memory and a mystery crate to protect from not-so-brotherly Nietzcheans.

Directors: Allan Kroeker
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Pitiless as the Sun
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7.23
555 votes

#16 - Pitiless as the Sun

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/2001

Trance is held captive, while Dylan and the rest of the crew try to uncover the source behind mysterious attacks on cargo ships.

Directors: Richard Flower
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To Loose the Fateful Lightning
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7.25
996 votes

#17 - To Loose the Fateful Lightning

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/2000

Dylan inadvertently gives a group of child warriors power to destroy a solar system.

Directors: Brenton Spencer
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The Banks of the Lethe
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7.26
831 votes

#18 - The Banks of the Lethe

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/2000

Finally, after 300 years and a black hole keeping them apart, Captain Dylan Hunt reunites with his true love, Sara.

Directors: David Winning
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The Mathematics of Tears
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7.29
708 votes

#19 - The Mathematics of Tears

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/29/2001

Andromeda encounters her damaged sister ship, the Pax Magellanic, that leads the crew of the Andromeda Ascendant on an eerie mission.

Directors: T.J. Scott
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The Devil Take the Hindmost
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7.29
592 votes

#20 - The Devil Take the Hindmost

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/16/2001

Rev Bem gets a call from a Wayist friend in need of his help to save the Hajira and its settlement, Serendipity, from being taken over by slavers.

Directors: Allan Eastman
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A Heart for Falsehood Framed
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7.30
588 votes

#21 - A Heart for Falsehood Framed

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/2001

The crew of the Andromeda replaces a sacred relic with a fake, attempting to negotiate peace between two battling parties.

Directors: David Winning
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The Widening Gyre (2)
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7.31
629 votes

#22 - The Widening Gyre (2)

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/2001

Trance gets Beka and Dylan to medbay, while Rev goes to see a man about his god and Tyr and Harper are injected with Magog eggs and tied up. Dylan and the Andromeda avatar go down to get Tyr and Harper, leaving Beka behind with orders to use a nova bomb to detonate the "bound" planets' sun in three hours. Meanwhile Rev meets with Bloodmist, and begins to give into his bestial nature. The two of them confront the Magog "god", which seems to convince Rev to kill his friends. Bloodmist takes him to Tyr and Harper, but its a trick and Rev kills Bloodmist. Dylan and Andromeda are overwhelmed when Beka launches the nova bomb, but the Magog "god" manages to absorb all the energy. The distraction gives them time to free Tyr and Harper and get out of there. Trance manages to remove Tyr's spider eggs, but the procedure would kill Harper. He has to take medication to keep them in check, but the medicine won't work forever. Meanwhile, they've figured out that the Magog travelling "bound planets" w

Directors: Allan Eastman
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And Your Heart Will Fly Away
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7.35
562 votes

#23 - And Your Heart Will Fly Away

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/25/2002

Tyr receives a communication from a human on an abandoned planet and leaves to meet her. As he does, a mad scientist boards the Andromeda using dark matter ninjas. After beating them, the man introduces himself. He loves the woman Tyr is with and wants to kill her, if he cant have her, nobody can. After saving her, he forgives her and lets her live. The episode ends with Tyr revealing that she is actually a Neitzian, the last female from Codiac, Tyrs pride. He says that he wants them to start a new Codiac pride but she refuses and Tyr leaves.

Directors: Allan Eastman
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Totaled Recall
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7.36
390 votes

#24 - Totaled Recall

Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/8/2005

Dylan is gravely wounded in a lab accident, but wakes up in the bar with Harper telling bad jokes. He is confronted by a man who is wielding Dylan's force-lances and delivers a cryptic message. After a quick fight with Dylan, the man drops to the floor without apparent cause, but returns in the guise of Rhade to catch Dylan off guard, killing him swiftly. Dylan awakens on med-deck but finds that he has returned just after the accident and does not remember Trance.

Directors: Martin Wood
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Harper 2.0
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7.36
574 votes

#25 - Harper 2.0

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/12/2001

Harper finds himself overloaded with information when a dying Perseid transfers data into his brain.

Directors: Richard Flower
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