Show cover for Andromeda

The Best Episodes of Andromeda Season 4

Every episode of Andromeda Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Andromeda Season 4!

Captain Dylan Hunt and his crew quest to restore a government that once presided over an extended peace and prosperity.

Genres:Action & AdventureDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

Season 4 Ratings Summary

The best episode of "Andromeda" season 4 is "Answers Given to Questions Never Asked (2)", rated 6.5/10 from 174 user votes. It was directed by Jorge Montesi and written by Robert Engels. "Answers Given to Questions Never Asked (2)" aired on 9/29/2003 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Pieces of Eight".

  • Answers Given to Questions Never Asked (2)
    6.5/10 174 votes

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

    Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/2003

    A seemingly psychotic ""Collector"" simultaneously takes credit and blames Dylan for the fall of the Commonwealth. He also claims to be hosting (or holding captive?) the Triumvir Tri-Jema. The crew must decide whether to accompany Dylan on yet another odds-defying journey to save the Universe or to retire in relative safety.

    Director: Jorge Montesi

    Writer: Robert Engels

  • Pieces of Eight
    6.5/10 168 votes

    #2 - Pieces of Eight

    Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/2003

    A power-hungry citizen seeks to manipulate the Commonwealth for his own gain. Dylan receives an unsettling view of his future from a prophetic alien.

    Director: Jorge Montesi

    Writer: Larry Barber, Paul Barber

  • Waking the Tyrant's Device
    6.7/10 167 votes

    #3 - Waking the Tyrant's Device

    Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/2003

    Dylan and an old friend try to prevent the maker of the Magog Worldship from deploying an army of androids.

    Director: Jorge Montesi

    Writer: Larry Barber, Paul Barber

  • Double or Nothingness
    6.2/10 180 votes

    #4 - Double or Nothingness

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/2003

    Dylan plays a dangerous game against two gamblers, but not everything is as real as it seems.

    Director: David Winning

    Writer: John Whelpley

  • Harper/Delete
    6.8/10 167 votes

    #5 - Harper/Delete

    Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/27/2003

    The ultimate weapon falls into the hands of a Nietzschean pirate. Can Harper disarm it before the Magog arrive?

    Director: Richard Flower

    Writer: Naomi Janzen

  • Soon the Nearing Vortex (1)
    7.1/10 309 votes

    #6 - Soon the Nearing Vortex (1)

    Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/2003

    The reappearance of Tyr Anasazi and Telemachus Rhade leads to a race to obtain the Route of Ages, which will direct the owner to the location of the Abyss itself. Dylan and the crew plan to use it as a weapon, while Tyr plans on bargaining with the Abyss in hopes of it sparing his empire.

    Director: Brad Turner

    Writer: Larry Barber, Paul Barber

  • The World Turns All Around Her (2)
    7.0/10 307 votes

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

    Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/2003

    In a race against Tyr to control the Route of Ages, the crew find themselves in another universe. To save them, Trance finally reveals who and what she really is.

    Director: Peter DeLuise

    Writer: Larry Barber, Paul Barber

  • Conduit to Destiny
    6.9/10 162 votes

    #8 - Conduit to Destiny

    Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/2003

    The crew assists in the search for escaped prisoners on a new Commonwealth member world. Dylan finds himself playing a role in an ancient prophecy.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Lawrence Meyers

  • Machinery of the Mind
    6.9/10 164 votes

    #9 - Machinery of the Mind

    Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 1/12/2004

    Harper attends a conference of the Commonwealth's greatest minds. Unfortunately, a mysterious assassin has plans for that collected brilliance. Meanwhile, Dylan is being escorted to meet with Tri-Lorn... or is he?

    Director: David Winning

    Writer: N/A

  • Exalted Reason, Resplendent Daughter
    6.6/10 162 votes

    #10 - Exalted Reason, Resplendent Daughter

    Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 1/19/2004

    The crew searches for a princess abducted by a ruthless pirate. As usual, nothing is as it seems. Along the way, a secret from Beka's past is revealed.

    Director: Richard Flower

    Writer: Naomi Janzen

  • The Torment, the Release
    6.7/10 317 votes

    #11 - The Torment, the Release

    Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 1/26/2004

    Dylan is put on trial for high crimes against the Commonwealth.

    Director: Jorge Montesi

    Writer: Robert Engels

  • The Spider's Stratagem
    6.7/10 159 votes

    #12 - The Spider's Stratagem

    Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 2/2/2004

    The crew intercepts a mysterious cargo en route to a war zone.

    Director: Brad Turner

    Writer: Emily Skopov

  • The Warmth of an Invisible Light
    6.8/10 158 votes

    #13 - The Warmth of an Invisible Light

    Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 2/9/2004

    One of Harper's experiments goes awry, and Dylan ends up in an alternate reality.

    Director: Jorge Montesi

    Writer: Matt Kiene

  • The Others
    6.8/10 168 votes

    #14 - The Others

    Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 2/16/2004

    The crew rescues two people from a spaceship, the leaders of opposing sides in a long civil war on a nearby planet. The two warring sides have built an immense wall separating the northern and southern halves of the planet, and the Northerners are suffering from a plague that is blamed on the Southerners. After Dylan contracts the plague, the crew try to assist in settling the dispute and find a cure for the plague, but nothing goes as planned.

    Director: Peter DeLuise

    Writer: Scott Frost

  • Fear Burns Down to Ashes
    6.6/10 156 votes

    #15 - Fear Burns Down to Ashes

    Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/23/2004

    The Collectors have been using a drug to modify people's behavior, discovering their fears in efforts to control or break them. This is their solution for dealing with Dylan. Led by a message from Rev Bem, claiming to have a weapon that can defeat the oncoming darkness, Dylan lands on a drug-trafficking planet and is soon taken captive by the Collectors.

    Director: Peter DeLuise

    Writer: John Kirk

  • Lost in a Space that Isn't There
    6.2/10 162 votes

    #16 - Lost in a Space that Isn't There

    Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 4/5/2004

    After being repeatedly attacked by bounty hunters after several evasive slipstream jumps, Dylan determines that there must be a mole on board. After analyzing data recordings, he discovers that Beka has been infected by The Abyss and has unknowingly been giving away Andromeda's position. Dylan and the crew have to come up with a way to rid Beka of The Abyss -- without killing her.

    Director: Peter DeLuise

    Writer: Larry Barber, Paul Barber

  • Abridging the Devil's Divide
    7.1/10 158 votes

    #17 - Abridging the Devil's Divide

    Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 4/12/2004

    While on a mission on the Maru, Dylan, Rhade and Harper (and the Maru) are captured by the Templars. The Patriarch of the Templars presses Harper to help him build a bridge -- a time bridge to 210 years in the future. However, sometimes even the future is unpredictable. Meanwhile, Beka, Trance and Rommie chase down smuggler ships.

    Director: Peter DeLuise

    Writer: Gordon Michael Woolvett

  • Trusting the Gordian Maze
    6.8/10 167 votes

    #18 - Trusting the Gordian Maze

    Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 4/19/2004

    While the Andromeda is confronted by the Commonwealth fleet and Tri-Jema, Dylan must decide whether or not he can entrust the Route of Ages to them.

    Director: Jorge Montesi

    Writer: Larry Barber, Paul Barber

  • A Symmetry of Imperfection
    7.2/10 157 votes

    #19 - A Symmetry of Imperfection

    Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 4/26/2004

    Rommie's emotions cause one of Harpers fail-safes to cut in, cutting her off from her core AI and shutting down all the ships systems. This creates problems, especially when a satellite ship from the Magog world ship could come out of slipstream at any moment!

    Director: Allan Harmon

    Writer: Naomi Janzen

  • Time out of Mind
    6.7/10 162 votes

    #20 - Time out of Mind

    Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 5/3/2004

    The death of a man from Beka's past named Weslow, sends the crew in search of an archive that can let Beka relive some of her childhood experiences so that she may make sense of Weslow's dying words.

    Director: Allan Harmon

    Writer: Lu Abbott, Stacey Berman Woodward

  • The Dissonant Interval (1)
    7.2/10 167 votes

    #21 - The Dissonant Interval (1)

    Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 5/10/2004

    The Andromeda encounters the Arkology, a society that they believe is the closest to perfection humanity will ever achieve. But the Magog are close, and Dylan and the crew must convince the utopia that peace is not the answer. Conflict arises in the core crew when the leaders of Arkology do not wish to leave. Dylan wants to defend them, and Beka warns him that she's not going to stay and die defending an idea of peace.

    Director: Martin Wood

    Writer: Larry Barber, Paul Barber

  • The Dissonant Interval (2)
    7.1/10 173 votes

    #22 - 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.

    Director: Martin Wood

    Writer: Robert Engels