History Series / Andromeda

* HypocrisyNod: The wayist in "The Devil Takes The Hindmost" who is trying to stop a gentle, innocent people with genetic memory from having to kill in order to defend themselves against slavers, acknowledges the hypocrisy of asking Dylan to kill the enemy for him with Andromeda... Unfortunately, he has a point: if even one of these people kills, then [[FridgeHorror their children will be born dealing with the guilt and memory of killing someone, tainting their immature and unformed minds from the very moment they come into the world]] for generations onwards until their genetic line dies out.

** Humans seem to have been the most widespread because they were easy to engineer (or no-one cared enough to stop them) and pretty much anywhere that life could exist, there is an engineered form of humanity to plunder it. From high gravity worlds to under the sea, humanity is all up in nature's face eating her resources.

* MugglePower: The Knights of Genetic Purity ([=GenKnights=] for short) who oppose and hunt down human genetic variants such as Nietzscheans, although it is noted that even Dylan and Beka would qualify under the Knights' rule because they have genetic augumentations themselves (Dylan's mother was from a high-gravity planet and Beka's father augmented her with enhanced reflexes).

* CargoCult: The child descendants of High Guard personnel from ''To Loose the Fateful Lightning''.

* {{Arcology}}: Of the many space stations present, one of them is actually called the Arcology, which is anchored to an asteroid, in orbit around a planet. True to the idea, it is a hippy's ideal home, being [[GoodOldWays significantly older than most of the featured stations on the show, complete with substandard technology]]. It also happens to be the largest, and [[ZeeRust looks quite]] {{steampunk}}.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: two sentient entities you ''never'' want to piss off, introducing Rommie and Trance.

* PsychoSerum
* PunchClockVillain: Beka refers to Nietzschean slavers as "9 to 5 bad guys."

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Due to Brent Stait's makeup allergies, his character, Rev Bem, got a less prominent role, and was finally PutOnABus. Lexa Doig's pregnancy was one of the reasons for Rommie's absence in early season 5.
* RecapEpisode
** Especially during the fourth season. Christ.
* RecycledInSpace: The basic premise is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_II_%28film%29 Genesis II]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Earth_(TV_pilot) Planet Earth]] in space.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath

* MortonsFork: Invoked when ''Andromeda'' finds itself in the past prior to the Battle of Witchhead Nebula and is faced with the possibility that he could change history to save the Commonwealth or allow the Nietzscheans to form their planned government, which might protect other worlds from later Magog attacks. Talking with Rev Bem about his options, Dylan observes that Magog assaults on planets are devastating but they always left the worlds alone after the initial attack, where worlds controlled by Nietzscheans could endure long-term enslavement; both were horrible in their own way, but Dylan questions whether either would be 'better'.

* MortonsFork: Invoked when ''Andromeda'' finds itself in the past prior to the Battle of Witchhead Nebula and is faced with the possibility that he could change history to save the Commonwealth or allow the Nietzscheans to form their planned government. As he observes in a talk with Rev Bem, the Magog assaults on planets are devastating but they always left the worlds alone after the initial attack, where worlds controlled by Nietzscheans could endure long-term enslavement; both were horrible in their own way, but Dylan questions whether either would be 'better'.

* MostWritersAreHuman: While the Commonwealth consisted of many, many species, humans are apparently the most populous of them. The background information specifically notes humans as among the most prolific breeders and colonizers, as well as the source of most androids and genetically-engineered spin-offs like nietzscheans.

* OutOfCharacterMoment: In "[[Recap/AndromedaS1E3ToLooseTheFatefulLightning To Loose the Fateful Lightning]]", Tyr the Nietzschean yells a BigWhat after Dylan gives the order to get rid of a few dozen nova bombs.

** In one episode, they're trying to get to Tarn Vedra (the lost capital planet of the old Commonwealth) by following a ridiculously complicated sequence of slipstram routes. Several of the steps are jumps between ''different galaxies!'' The lanes were purposefully scrambled this way to keep away the Nietzscheans after the Commonwealth lost the war.

* MugglePower: The Knights of Genetic Purity ([=GenKnights=] for short) who oppose and hunt down human genetic variants such as Nietzscheans.

* NegativeSpaceWedgie

* IfIWantedYouDead: Invoked in "All Great Neptune's Ocean" when Tyr is accused of killing a visiting leader who once caused the death of several Nietzscheans; Tyr defends himself to Dylan by pointing out all the ways that he could have killed the man ''without'' attracting suspicion to himself as evidence that he didn't (according to available information) just shoot the man with his force-lance.

* HypocrisyNod: the wayist in "The Devil Takes The Hindmost" who is trying to stop a gentle, innocent people with genetic memory from having to kill in order to defend themselves against slavers, acknowledges the hypocrisy of asking Dylan to kill the enemy for him with Andromeda... Unfortunately, he has a point: if even one of these people kills, then [[FridgeHorror their children will be born dealing with the guilt and memory of killing someone, tainting their immature and unformed minds from the very moment they come into the world]] for generations onwards until their genetic line dies out.

* FreudianSlip: In "It Makes a Lovely Night" when Dylan is talking to Beka after she got out of the shower, wearing nothing but a towel:

Some view SpaceOpera ''Creator/GeneRoddenberry's Andromeda'' as an unbranded ''Franchise/StarTrek'' series. It is perhaps more accurately described''Star Trek'' in reverse. The show lasted from October 2000 to May 2005.

The show has its origins in a combination of two separate Roddenberry story ideas from the 1970s, one about a sentient starship and a second about a man from the past trying to piece the remnants of civilization back together after it has crumbled. The former never made it to the air prior to ''Andromeda'', but Roddenberry (who died in 1991) used the latter concept in no fewer than three separate unsuccessful pilots (two of which actually included a {{Protagonist}} named Dylan Hunt) before giving up on it. Undoubtedly these ideas were [[strike:scrounged from the trash can]] further developed by the ''Andromeda'' creative team. As a consequence, it's difficult to see Roddenberry's hand in this hard-boiled, dystopian future. ''Andromeda'' also had a spiritual bent unlike anything seen in ''Trek'', except perhaps in the GodGuise aliens of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''.