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[edit] David Winning

I have removed the bit about it being "directed by David Winning". That info was inserted by an anonymous editor on 4 Mar 2003 -- my DVD copies show the first episode was directed by Allan Kroeker, and other episodes are directed by other people. Just goes to show that misinformation can lie about on Wikipedia for more than a year! Arwel 14:56, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)

User:Kian : IMDB says David Winning directed quite a few episodes : Episodes 8, 11, 16 from season 1, episodes 3 and 5 from season 2, episodes 10 of season 4 and episode 6 of season 5.

I have removed the link to David Winning's web site. His site is not specifically about Andromeda, and he's only one of many creative people involved with the series. Avt tor 16:57, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article move

It has been proposed that this page, Andromeda (TV series), be moved to Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, a page that already exists. If a consensus to move the page is reached at Wikipedia:Requested moves, it will be moved there.

[edit] Andromeda (TV series) → Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda

  • The actual name of the series is "Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda". Any user looking for the television series isn't necessarily going to know that they should qualify their search with a "(TV series)" disambiguation. Therefore it is only natural that we use the actual title of the series. —Mike 04:58, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)
  • Sounds good. Keep the old one as a redirect to it. 132.205.64.202 05:53, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Don't move - The more common name is "Andromeda" (IMDB, TV Tome, TV Guide). Anyone looking for this in a category or other alphabetic list would be looking under "A". Existing redirects are in place, and will work fine. -- Netoholic @ 06:25, 2004 Dec 6 (UTC)
  • Support move, since we have to disambiguate we might as well use the offical name. - SimonP 06:08, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)
  • I'm pursuaded by Netoholic's argument on this one. Don't move. - Jonathunder 00:31, 2004 Dec 10 (UTC)
  • Object agree with Netoholic. I don't think that name is very common. --- Aqua 06:50, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)
  • Object for reasons already mentioned plus the fact that the official website's URL is AndromedaTV.com which will make people more likely search for "Andromeda TV" KiaN 14:03, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Object. Redirect is sufficient; besides there's *nobody else's* Andromeda other than Gene Roddenberry... User:Mashford 66.82.9.91 21:57, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Don't move. Like was previously stated the name is Andromeda.--Tjkphilosofe 12:33, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Don't move -- If the name being commonly used is just "Andromeda", then this article should stay where it is. -- Sy / (talk) 12:56, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Support as it fits Wikipedia's naming guidelines much better. --GracieLizzie 09:31, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
    • This is an ancient move request.. hehe.. perhaps we should start a new one? thanks/Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 09:33, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Support I agree it is logical to use, or aspire to use, the proper name for something.161.73.37.81 16:35, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Support It's the show's full name. -- Gordon Ecker 04:58, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Year

All the dates on the show are in CY (Commonwealth Year) what is the date in C.E. (Common Era) or A.D. --Brown Shoes22 16:33, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

The timeline lists the publication of the final volume of Thus Spake Zarathustra as taking place in 6811 CY, however I'm not sure if there were any statements on the relative length of Vedran / Systems Commonwealth years and Earth years. -- Gordon Ecker 05:31, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mostly rewrote this article

This article contained very little useful content and was badly formatted. I took the liberty of rewriting most of the article, but I'm not a native English speaker. Could someone check my edits for spelling mistakes?

Other Andromeda-related pages are even worse, I'll probably get to them later. Skroderider 20:11, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Yea, I've currently been going thru some of the Andromeda pages, I'll have a better read over your changes soon and see if i see any typos but youve done a pretty good job :) thanks/Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 20:40, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Andromeda/Rommie

Does Andromeda the AI needs a separate mention (and article) from Rommie? I'm not quite certain on this issue. IMHO Andromeda is a completely separate personality and deserves its own article, but OTOH even the show credits make no such distinction. Skroderider 13:34, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Show credits would not make a distinction. Series plots, scripts, producer comments, DVD notes, etc. all indicate two very distinct characters: Rommie the droid who walks around, and Andromeda the ship that flies around. In fact, episodes sometimes show three Andromeda: droid-Rommie, holographic-Andromeda, and ship/display screen-Andromeda, though I don't think the latter two are fully distinct personalities. Droid-Rommie has even been in conflict with ship-Andromeda in at least one episode, probably more. In the show universe they are two different characters, very clearly from at least season three on.Avt tor 20:59, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Possible Andromeda characters

So, here is the list of Andromeda characters which IMHO deserve a mention in Wikipedia (characters which deserve a whole article are in bold):

Dylan Hunt, Beka Valentine, Tyr Anasazi, Telemachus Rhade, Seamus Harper, Trance Gemini, Rev Bem, Andromeda, Rommie, Doyle (main characters); Gaheris Rhade, Gerentex, Dmitry, Freya, Olma, Rafe Valentine, Sara Riley, Hohne, Ismail Khalid, President Lee, Sid Barry, Jill/Pax Magellanic, Admiral Stark, Ferrin, Venetri, Elsbett Mossadim, Cuchulain Nez-Pierce, Gabriel/Remiel/Balance of Judgement, Bloodmist (Season 1); Professor Logitch, Isabella Ortiz, Charlemagne Bolivar, Molly, Bobby Jensen, Uxulta, Ryan/Clarion's Call, Achilles/Wrath of Achilles, Tammerlaine (Season 2); Fehdman Metis, Azazel, The Patriarch, Hector/Resolution of Hector, William Ataturk (Season 3); Tri-Jema, Kroton, Tri-Lorn, Aurelia, Pish, Marlowe, Louisa (Season 4); Flavin, Virgil Vox, Peter Museveni, Ione, "Evil Trance", Marida, General Burma, Maura (Season 5).

Any comments? Skroderider 14:30, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

All characters after Rhade should not be given seperate pages, they dont play a big enough role accross the span of the series and would not meet guidelines or have enough info to warrant a page. thanks/Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 14:49, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
Agree. After G. Rhade, all the rest can be combined into a list of minor/recurring Andromeda characters the same way minor charactors on other TV show articles are listed. Wl219 18:22, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
Hmm. The page would be fairly long, then. And why make an exception only for Gaheris? Also, from checking e. g. List of Star Trek characters it seems that some recurring characters do have their pages. Skroderider 20:06, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
Because Gaheris has had prominent roles in more then 1 episode, no reason why there cannot be two pages: minor & reccuring. thanks/Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 20:08, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
Well, so has Hohne, Virgil Vox or Evil Trance... Skroderider 20:30, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
But could there info not be summed up on a single page better? thanks/Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 20:40, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
I meant the list from Dylan to Gaheris, inclusive. Also if you look at the Star Trek list, the recurring characters there are people like Q, Guinan, Reg Barclay - people who have had multiple episodes revolve almost entirely around them or their influence on the regulars. You can't say that for people like Gerentex or Bloodmist. Start them off on a list of recurring characters; nothing about WP says we can't expand them later if it turns out people have a lot to write about them. Wl219 21:34, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
Okay, fair enough. Skroderider 23:00, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Link removed

MatthewFenton removed the link to the AndroWiki. I don't know exactly why he thinks it was spam. So i want to write a small statement. We are partly going to translate the german AndroWiki to english. There are not very much arctiles at the moment, because the translating hasn't started yet. And we could need every help we get. --EoD 18:51, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

As you own/or an admin there you have a conflict of interest.. also while I understand you have good intentions your website is still in its infancy.. when your Wiki is up to a stable level though I wouldnt mind it linking from this article :) thanks/Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 19:10, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Ah,ok.So i'm sorry. We'll try to bring this wiki out of its infancy as fast as we can ;) --EoD 00:40, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Fenton, Matthew: You should not talk about not supporting a wiki project on a wiki project. This is also a conflict of interest. ;-) Wiki Communities should support each other instead of blocking. Wikipedia needs contributors and it already has this bad image. What costs a try of - lets say - 4 month? If its still as infant as now, you can remove it. --84.190.91.218 02:03, 4 November 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Canadian

Credits of the show state "This show is protected under laws of Canada, the United States, and other countries". Credits also state "With the particiaption of The Government of Canada," and "Fireworks, a CanWest Company." IMDB says "Country: Canada / USA ". Even the theme song is Canadian. Can we stop removing this fact? Avt tor 09:14, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Season Three

New paragraph in this section indicates continuity errors without citing episode names. My recollection of the show is that the changes were justified in the script/dialog, so the comments seem to be POV. If another editor can cite episode titles, I can check the facts. If we can't confirm details, I may remove subjective/unsourced comments here. Avt tor 21:54, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Originally set in the Star Trek universe?

I don't have any links handy, but I seem to remember reading somewhere that Roddenberry had intended for Andromeda to be set in the Star Trek universe, but the producers of the show decided to break the connection so that the "Federation" became the "Commonwealth", new alien races replaced the familiar Vulcans/Romulans/Klingons/Cardassians/Ferengi, etc.

Actually, I can't seem to find any links at all supporting this, so I'm beginning to wonder if I'm going insane. I very clearly remember reading it and thinking to myself "Holy crap, that would have been AWESOME! Why did they change it?!"

Is it true? Is it a myth? Is it a product of my deranged imagination? --Lode Runner

My (unsourced) recollection is that it is true that Gene Roddenberry's original notes suggested this be linked to the Star Trek universe. However, in the actual version brought to air by Majel Roddenberry, there is no specific mention of the Star Trek universe history at all, which is to say there would be major discontinuities if the universes were linked. The extensive background history included in the Andromeda universe is sufficiently detailed to have mentioned the Federation if it happened. Approximately the same thing is true of the Earth: Final Conflict universe; whatever Gene's original intent may have been, they have been developed essentially separately. I would not put any mention of this in the article without a source. Avt tor 20:56, 13 December 2006 (UTC)


I wasn't trying to argue that the version they produced is set in the Star Trek universe; just that Roddenberry's vision was. Yeah, we need to find a good source, but I think this is definitely worthy of inclusion in the article (and inclusion in the Earth: Final Conflict article if it's true about that series as well.) I think that this tidbit would greatly interest both Andromeda and Star Trek fans alike, especially if we could find out WHY they decided to de-Trekify it. I'm not sure that Earth: Final Conflict would have worked as a Star Trek series (what is the Trek equivalent of Taelons and why haven't we heard anything about them in the other series? Major continuity issues, I think.), I think that the basic concept behind Andromeda (one last starship as a bastion of a fallen Utopian society) would have been EXTREMELY interesting had it been applied to the Star Trek universe, and I can't fathom a good reason why they would've wanted to change it. (Disclaimer: I'm not an Andromeda fan, I think I watched maybe one and a half episodes. I'm not begrudging it; I'm just saying it wasn't quite interesting enough to hold my interest--BUT, had it been set in the Trek universe, I would have definitely given it more attention because there's just so much they could've built on--it would've been extremely interesting to watch them turn the shiny-happy-plastic-idealistic universe of Trek on its head.) --Lode Runner
I believe (and I don't have sources to hand either, sorry), that Roddenbury's Andromeda notes were considered for the next Trek after Voyager, but they went for Enterprise instead. As I recall, there was a point in 1999ish when Andromeda was quite close to being produced as a Trek series. The reason it was "de-Trekified" is simply because, as the Trek offices had passed on it, it couldn't be part of Trek; it would be a rights issue. Kelvingreen 19:44, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
A number of us have these second- and third-hand stories. If we could find a quotable source, we could include it in the article. Avt tor 08:20, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] CFD notice

This discussion is closed. Avt tor 23:45, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Too much plot

I think this article is fairly good now; however, the section summarizing the plot of each series is too long within the article. IMO, most of this should be put into a separate article to be linked from here. (I will wait a week for comments before taking any action on this.) Avt tor 17:01, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Character detail was recently added to the already-bloated plot sections. That should be rearranged. Avt tor 23:46, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edits by 80.63.26.73

I removed his list of systems, and have moved it to User:Mattbuck/Andromeda to be worked on. I'll probably add it to the list of Andromeda systems. mattbuck 08:50, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Firefly?

Doesn't this series bear a resemblance to the TV series Firefly? Just thinking. . .RSido 00:54, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Slipstream source

I removed the following text from the section Slipstream:

Though few science-fictional ideas are new, this most likely would have been borrowed from Larry Niven's Known Space series.

Comments:

  1. This seems to be original research.
  2. It is debatable. For instance, the first possible source that occurs to me is Cordwainer Smith. I'm sure there are other good possibilities.

I would encourage fans to explore possible sources but I suggest the question isn't ready for WP. Zaslav (talk) 06:17, 25 February 2008 (UTC)