8.0/102 votes#1 - Level of Necessity
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/14/1996
The 58th enters the tunnels to try to find and destroy a Chig ammo dump. In the tunnels on the way to the ammo dump, Lubin is killed, and Damphousse predicts that one more of them will die.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: Matt Kiene
8.0/102 votes#2 - Sugar Dirt
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 4/20/1996
When Commodore Ross sees there's an opportunity to launch a potentially crippling offensive against the Chigs. Forced to abandon the 58th on a barren planet, Ross leaves the marines to fend for themselves with little ammo, no food-and no hope of rescue.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: Matt Kiene
7.8/1023 votes#3 - The Pack
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/7/1997
Xander and several other students are possessed by the spirit of a demonic breed of hyenas that wreak havoc at the high school.
Director: Bruce Seth Green
Writer: Matt Kiene
7.4/107 votes#4 - Consultation
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/9/1992
An engineer and a tribal chief become the chief suspects in the death of a Nigerian woman who died while smuggling heroin internally.
Director: James Hayman
Writer: Matt Kiene
7.2/105 votes#5 - Securitate
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 5/5/1993
When a Romanian immigrant kills, his lawyer announces he will plead his client "not guilty due to cultural insanity" claiming the man had been conditioned to violence in his homeland.
Director: James Hayman
Writer: Matt Kiene
7.2/1016 votes#6 - Inca Mummy Girl
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1997
An Incan Princess mummy is reanimated in Sunnydale where she sucks the life force from others in order to stay alive.
Director: Ellen S. Pressman
Writer: Matt Kiene
7.0/102 votes#7 - Stay with the Dead
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/3/1995
A failed rescue mission leaves the 58th presumed dead, except for Nathan, who lands in the hospital, where a nagging memory that his comrades are still alive is passed off as a result of suffering from severe head trauma.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: Matt Kiene
7.0/103 votes#8 - Immaculate Perception
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/11/2002
Tyr learns that he is a father.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: Matt Kiene
6.7/103 votes#9 - 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: Matt Kiene
6.7/103 votes#10 - 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: Matt Kiene
6.7/103 votes#11 - 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: Matt Kiene
6.7/103 votes#12 - 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: Matt Kiene
6.7/103 votes#13 - 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: Matt Kiene
6.7/103 votes#14 - 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: Matt Kiene
6.7/103 votes#15 - Belly of the Beast
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 4/27/2002
The Andromeda is swallowed by a space creature.
Director: Allan Harmon
Writer: Matt Kiene
6.7/103 votes#16 - 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: Matt Kiene
6.7/103 votes#17 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Matt Kiene
6.7/103 votes#18 - Mad to Be Saved
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/2002
The Andromeda picks up a group of refugees who have been subjected to psychological and physical torture.
Director: Jorge Montesi
Writer: Matt Kiene
6.7/103 votes#19 - Slipfighter the Dogs of War
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/2002
After finding out that a planet is developing nova bombs and testing them on nearby star and planet, Dylan takes it upon himself to disarm them. The commonwealth refuses to help so its a mission for the Andromeda and her crew!
Director: Mike Rohl
Writer: Matt Kiene
6.7/103 votes#20 - The Leper's Kiss
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/2002
Dylan sets out to find an assassin known as The Leper who is trying to kill his good friend.
Director: Mike Rohl
Writer: Matt Kiene
6.7/103 votes#21 - The Risk-All Point
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 2/10/2003
When Dylan is invited to the launch of the first Commonwealth ship made in 307 years, you can tell something will go wrong. As the ship explodes sabotage is suspected. As Dylan and the crew try to find the culprit, they encounter many different suspects while being attacked a violent pride. Can Dylan find the culprit before the Maru is next?
Director: Michael Robison
Writer: Matt Kiene
6.3/103 votes#22 - 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: Matt Kiene
6.0/102 votes#23 - 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.
Director: Allan Eastman
Writer: Matt Kiene
6.0/102 votes#24 - Deep Midnight's Voice
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 4/14/2003
Dylan and the crew search for a Nietzschean slip-scout carrying a probe that enables one to map every meter of the slipstream
Director: Allan Harmon
Writer: Matt Kiene
6.0/102 votes#25 - 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
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"Level of Necessity" is the best rated episode written by Matt Kiene. It scored 8/10 based on 2 votes. It was directed by Thomas J. Wright. It aired on 1/14/1996 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Sugar Dirt".