The Best Episodes of Andromeda Season 2
Every episode of Andromeda Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Andromeda Season 2!
Captain Dylan Hunt and his crew quest to restore a government that once presided over an extended peace and prosperity.
Season 2 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Andromeda" season 2 is "The Widening Gyre (2)", rated 7.7/10 from 259 user votes. It was directed by Allan Eastman and written by Robert Hewitt Wolfe. "The Widening Gyre (2)" aired on 10/1/2001 and is rated 0.8 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Exit Strategies".
7.7/10 259 votes#1 - 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
Director: Allan Eastman
Writer: Robert Hewitt Wolfe
6.9/10 238 votes#2 - 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.
Director: T.J. Scott
Writer: Joe Reinkemeyer, Matt Kiene
7.0/10 242 votes#3 - 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.
Director: David Winning
Writer: Ethlie Ann Vare
7.3/10 248 votes#4 - 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.
Director: Richard Flower
Writer: Emily Skopov
6.8/10 238 votes#5 - Last Call at the Broken Hammer
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/2001
Hunting for the woman who set up the only major interstellar alliance since the Fall, Dylan finds himself in a bar at the edge of a desert wasteland, trying to fend of a Kalderan attack.
Director: David Winning
Writer: Robert Hewitt Wolfe
7.4/10 237 votes#6 - All Too Human
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/2001
Rommie sets out to extract an informant, but winds up stuck on a planet with a strong hatred and fear of Androids.
Director: T.J. Scott
Writer: Ashley Miller, Zack Stentz
7.5/10 227 votes#7 - Una Salus Victus
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/2001
After discovering Tyr has hidden the remains of Drago Musevini on board the Andromeda, Dylan questions Tyr's loyalty. Beka and a Nietzchean both race to repair their ships before the other destroys them, and Harper is left in command of the Andromeda, and must decide whether or not to protect a convoy and risk losing the Andromeda.
Director: Allan Kroeker
Writer: Ashley Miller, Zack Stentz
7.7/10 234 votes#8 - Home Fires
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/2001
A stranger gives Dylan a message from his dead fiancée leading him to an untouched world with descendants of his former crew and friends, including the descendant of his treachorous former best friend.
Director: Michael Robison
Writer: Ethlie Ann Vare
7.8/10 262 votes#9 - Into the Labyrinth
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/2001
A Commonwealth conference becomes a backdrop for Magog espionage, while Harper tries to discover how one of their spies managed to remove some of his Magog larvae.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: Ashley Miller, Zack Stentz
7.1/10 228 votes#10 - The Prince
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 1/19/2002
Teen royalty is the key to the crew quelling an alien uprising, as Dylan and Tyr become co-regents to a recently orphaned young prince.
Director: Allan Eastman
Writer: Erik Oleson
7.2/10 216 votes#11 - Bunker Hill
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1/26/2002
The crew returns for the first time to Earth, where Harper and his cousin try to save the homeworld from Nietzschean occupation.
Director: Richard Flower
Writer: Joe Reinkemeyer, Matt Kiene
7.8/10 242 votes#12 - Ouroboros
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 2/2/2002
The crew watches Rev Bem's fairwell message, not sure whether or not to pursue him, or let him leave. Dylan says that they should respect Rev's decision to leave, but Harper snaps at Dylan and storms out. He is upset because Rev had promised to remove the Magog larvae from his gut. He writhes in pain, but when he tries to take his medication, it has no effect, as the larvae have grown immune to it, as Trance and Rev had warned him they would. Soon after, Harper enlists in Chief Technical Director Hohne's help, as well as the other Persieds. Harper plans to build a machine that will fold space to remove the eggs, but it's affecting time, as well.
Director: Jorge Montesi
Writer: Robert Hewitt Wolfe
7.0/10 213 votes#13 - Lava and Rockets
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 2/9/2002
Dylan hijacks a starship to lose the Ogami.
Director: Mike Rohl
Writer: Ashley Miller, Zack Stentz
6.7/10 207 votes#14 - Be All My Sins Remembered
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/16/2002
As an old friend of Beka's has died, she tells the crew about her past.
Director: Allan Eastman
Writer: N/A
7.4/10 218 votes#15 - Dance of the Mayflies
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/23/2002
The crew of Andromed encounter plague victims infected by a hostile, nanobot-based lifeform out to take over the ship.
Director: J. Miles Dale
Writer: N/A
7.0/10 216 votes#16 - In Heaven Now Are Three
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 3/2/2002
Beka, Dylan and Trance attempt to find the Engine of Creation, an artifact able to rearrange space and time.
Director: David Warry-Smith
Writer: N/A
6.2/10 220 votes#17 - 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.
Director: Jorge Montesi
Writer: Ethlie Ann Vare
7.3/10 205 votes#18 - The Fair Unknown
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 4/20/2002
The crew encounter the Vedrans the long-lost founders of the Commonwealth.
Director: Mike Rohl
Writer: John Lloyd Parry
7.2/10 204 votes#19 - Belly of the Beast
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 4/27/2002
The Andromeda is swallowed by a space creature.
Director: Allan Harmon
Writer: Joe Reinkemeyer, Matt Kiene
7.8/10 226 votes#20 - The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 5/4/2002
The crew encounter a POW camp full of captured High Guard starships and their AI avatars.
Director: Richard Flower
Writer: Ashley Miller, Zack Stentz
7.7/10 205 votes#21 - Immaculate Perception
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/11/2002
Tyr learns that he is a father.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: Joe Reinkemeyer, Matt Kiene
7.8/10 207 votes#22 - Tunnel at the End of the Light (1)
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/18/2002
The crew of the Andromeda meet an alien race they were destined to face.
Director: Allan Eastman
Writer: Joe Reinkemeyer, Matt Kiene