7.3/10473 votes#1 - Under the Night (1)
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/2000
It's the start of the war between the Systems Commonwealth and the Nietzschean fleets. Captain Dylan Hunt and his ship the Andromeda Ascendant try to flee the first Nietzschean attack to warn the Commonwealth. In his attempt to escape, the Andromeda and Captain Hunt are caught in the event horizon of a black hole and frozen in time for 300 years. The crew of the Eureka Maru with Captain Beka Valentine try to salvage the Andromeda to sell for a Nightsider's ransom. After the Andromeda is pulled free, Hunt is unfrozen and forced to defend his ship against the salvagers and the Nietzschean mercenaries lead by Tyr Anasazi.
Director: Allan Kroeker
Writer: Robert Hewitt Wolfe
7.3/10389 votes#2 - An Affirming Flame (2)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/2000
Dylan and the crew of the Eureka Maru agree to join forces and become one team aboard the Andromeda Ascendant as they set forth on his mission to restore the Systems Commonwealth.
Director: Brenton Spencer
Writer: Robert Hewitt Wolfe
6.7/10380 votes#3 - 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.
Director: Brenton Spencer
Writer: Joe Reinkemeyer, Matt Kiene
6.8/10348 votes#4 - D Minus Zero
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/2000
Beka and Tyr square off against Dylan for leadership of Andromeda during a dangerous face-off with an unknown enemy.
Director: Allan Eastman
Writer: Ashley Miller, Zack Stentz
7.0/10339 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.
Director: Mike Rohl
Writer: Joe Reinkemeyer, Matt Kiene
7.6/10321 votes#6 - Angel Dark, Demon Bright
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/2000
Dylan is faced with a difficult decision when Andromeda slipstreams back in time -- days before the climactic battle of the Nietzschean Revolution where the Commonwealth was defeated and the Nietzschean Alliance was destroyed.
Director: Allan Eastman
Writer: Robert Hewitt Wolfe
6.9/10304 votes#7 - 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.
Director: David Warry-Smith
Writer: Ethlie Ann Vare
7.0/10328 votes#8 - 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.
Director: David Winning
Writer: Ashley Miller, Zack Stentz
6.9/10306 votes#9 - 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.
Director: David Warry-Smith
Writer: Ethlie Ann Vare
7.0/10291 votes#10 - 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.
Director: Allan Harmon
Writer: Walter Jon Williams
6.8/10288 votes#11 - 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.
Director: David Winning
Writer: Ethlie Ann Vare
7.5/10314 votes#12 - 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.
Director: T.J. Scott
Writer: Joe Reinkemeyer, Matt Kiene
7.0/10295 votes#13 - 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.
Director: Allan Kroeker
Writer: Robert Hewitt Wolfe
7.1/10286 votes#14 - 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.
Director: Richard Flower
Writer: John Whelpley
6.7/10267 votes#15 - 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.
Director: George Mendeluk
Writer: Joe Reinkemeyer, Matt Kiene
6.9/10275 votes#16 - 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.
Director: David Winning
Writer: Steven Barnes
6.8/10269 votes#17 - 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.
Director: David Warry-Smith
Writer: Ashley Miller, Zack Stentz
7.1/10268 votes#18 - 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.
Director: Allan Eastman
Writer: Ashley Miller, Zack Stentz
7.4/10267 votes#19 - The Honey Offering
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 4/23/2001
An arranged marriage between two rival Nietzschean Prides puts the Andromeda Ascendant in danger when Captain Dylan Hunt agrees to transport the bride to the wedding.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: Joe Reinkemeyer, Matt Kiene
7.1/10273 votes#20 - 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.
Director: David Warry-Smith
Writer: Ethlie Ann Vare
7.0/10253 votes#21 - 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.
Director: Michael Robinson, Michael Robison
Writer: Ethlie Ann Vare
8.1/10283 votes#22 - Its Hour Come 'Round at Last (1)
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/14/2001
When Harper accidentally overrides Andromeda's personality with an older version, she hunts down the crew and goes on an old mission in which her former crew was slaughtered.
Director: Allan Eastman
Writer: Robert Hewitt Wolfe
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Captain Dylan Hunt and his crew quest to restore a government that once presided over an extended peace and prosperity.
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Under the Night (1)" is the best rated episode of "Andromeda" season 1. It scored 7.3/10 based on 473 votes. Directed by Allan Kroeker and written by Robert Hewitt Wolfe, it aired on 10/2/2000. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "An Affirming Flame (2)".