Rommie
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| Rommie | |
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| Race | Android Warship Avatar |
| Gender | Female |
| Affiliation | New Systems Commonwealth Andromeda Ascendant |
| Seasons | 1-5 |
Rommie is the name of a fictional character on the television series Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda played by actress Lexa Doig. In the show Rommie is the humanoid avatar of the Andromeda Ascendant, a starship in the TV series. She was built and given material form as a gynoid by the engineer, Seamus Harper, who also seems to be infatuated with his work.
Rommie has complete power and control over her ship. Along with her gynoid form, she also communicates via her hologram and online virtual. She is very loyal to her crew, especially to her captain, Dylan Hunt. The gynoid has abilities that would be considered superpowers by humans, such as moving extremely fast when need be, super strength, resistance to injury and using the sensors in her hands to sense things few ordinary humans could, such as lying and internal injury. She also has the ability to transfer power from her body's system to power a small craft like the Eureka Maru. Even though she is a gynoid, she has human emotions as can be seen in the season one episode "Star Crossed", in which she falls in love with another ship avatar, Gabriel (played by Lexa Doig's husband Michael Shanks, with whom she fell in love while they were working together).
The two Rommies (gynoid and hologram) interact perfectly but seem to be independent (as prominently shown in one episode where Harper accidentally activated a version of the ship AI that had been deleted (apparently) after a failed mission; the ship's AI was reprogrammed, but the android was unaffected). Since her creation, the android Rommie is shown to have evolved differently from the ship's AI, and both of them are sometimes found together chatting, even arguing against each other's opinions. Their biggest difference is that the gynoid, being a creation of Harper, is intended to be human-like and sentimental.
At the end of Season 4, Rommie blew up. All that was left was her head that was partially damaged and her AI core. After Harper's first attempt to bring her back failed, she became hostile and later shut herself down. Rommie was eventually put into a new gynoid body built by Harper with golden hair on the front. At first she almost killed the entire crew, but then worked along with Doyle.
[edit] Trivia
- Due to Lexa Doig's pregnancy during the filming of the fifth season of Andromeda, writers re-wrote part of the season finale so her character could be excluded from the first two thirds of Season 5. The character Doyle was written to replace her during this time.
