Andromeda (TV series)
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Andromeda is a TV series based on the unpublished works of Gene Roddenberry. Its fifth and final season aired as a Sci Fi Channel Original in 2005.

Quotations are a recurring theme in Andromeda's pathos and mystique. As the show takes place in the far future, it regularly refers back to both real and fictitious persons to reveal the dramatic tragedy in the history of civilization. For example, the eponymously named Nietzschean people habitually cite the social critic of their namesake, Friedrich Nietzsche, but also refer to the important personae that succeeded him in future eras. This fusion builds a surrealist, if occasionally tenuous, connection between reality and speculative fantasy, making accurate quoting of the series an elaborate exercise.

Every episode commences with a quotation from an influential figure or publication in the Andromeda universe, setting up an ironic context for the plot to follow. It is a briefly animated sequence. White text fades in line-by-line from a completely black background, set to dramatic fanfare. The year of the quote is usually given and is abbreviated either as CY (Commonwealth Year) or AFC (After the Fall of the Commonwealth). Adding to the glamour of the scene, the author is sometimes labeled "Anonymous" or only the name of the work is given. While the opening quote may allude to works that exist in real-life, it is never credited to a real person.

Since the opening quotes are integral to the series, efforts have been made to format their display on this page as they are presented in the show. Efforts have also been made to link when a character quotes another figure in Wikiquote, where appropriate.

Contents
1 First Season
1.1 "Under the Night" (Series Premiere)
1.2 "An Affirming Flame"
1.3 "To Loose the Fateful Lightning"
1.4 "D Minus Zero"
1.5 "Double Helix"
1.6 "Angel Dark, Demon Bright"
1.7 "The Ties that Blind"
1.8 "The Banks of the Lethe"
1.9 "A Rose in the Ashes"
1.10 "All Great Neptune's Ocean"
1.11 "The Pearls that Were His Eyes"
1.12 "The Mathematics of Tears"
1.13 "Music of a Distant Drum"
1.14 "Harper 2.0"
1.15 "Forced Perspective"
1.16 "The Sum of Its Parts"
1.17 "Fear and Loathing in the Milky Way"
1.18 "The Devil Take the Hindmost"
1.19 "The Honey Offering"
1.20 "Star-Crossed"
1.21 "It Makes a Lovely Light"
1.22 "Its Hour Come 'Round at Last" (Season Finale)
2 Second Season
2.1 "The Widening Gyre" (Season Premiere)
2.2 "Exit Strategies"
2.3 "Heart for Falsehood Framed"
2.4 "Pitiless as the Sun"
2.5 "Last Call at the Broken Hammer"
2.6 "All Too Human"
2.7 "Una Salus Victus"
2.8 "Home Fires"
2.9 "Into the Labyrinth"
2.10 "The Prince"
2.11 "Bunker Hill"
2.12 "Ouroboros"
2.13 "Lava and Rockets"
2.14 "Be All My Sins Remembered"
2.15 "Dance of the Mayflies"
2.16 "In Heaven Now Are Three"
2.17 "The Things We Cannot Change"
2.18 "Fair Unknown"
2.19 "Belly of the Beast"
2.20 "Knight, Death, and the Devil"
2.21 "Immaculate Perception"
2.22 "Tunnel at the End of the Light" (Season Finale)
3 Third Season
3.1 "If the Wheel is Fixed" (Season Premiere)
3.2 "The Shards of Rimni"
3.3 "Mad To Be Saved"
3.4 "Cui Bono"
3.5 "The Lone and Level Sands"
3.6 "Slipfighter the Dogs of War"
3.7 "The Leper's Kiss"
3.8 "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
3.9 "And Your Heart Will Fly Away"
3.10 "The Unconquerable Man"
3.11 "Delenda Est"
3.12 "The Dark Backward"
3.13 "The Risk-All Point"
3.14 "The Right Horse"
3.15 "What Happens to a Rev Deferred?"
3.16 "Point of the Spear"
3.17 "Vault of the Heavens"
3.18 "Deep Midnight's Voice"
3.19 "The Illusion of Majesty"
3.20 "Twilight of the Idols"
3.21 "Day of Judgment, Day of Wrath"
3.22 "Shadow Cast by a Final Salute" (Season Finale)
4 Fourth Season
4.1 "Answers Given to Questions Never Asked" (Season Premiere)
4.2 "Pieces of Eight"
4.3 "Waking the Tyrant's Device"
4.4 "Double or Nothingness"
4.5 "Harper/Delete"
4.6 "Soon the Nearing Vortex"
4.7 "The World Turns All Around Her"
4.8 "Conduit to Destiny"
4.9 "Machinery of the Mind"
4.10 "Exalted Reason, Resplendent Daughter"
4.11 "The Torment, the Release"
4.12 "The Spider's Stratagem"
4.13 "The Warmth of an Invisible Light"
4.14 "The Others"
4.15 "Fear Burns Down to Ashes"
4.16 "Lost in a Space that Isn't There"
4.17 "Abridging the Devil's Divide"
4.18 "Trusting the Gordian Maze"
4.19 "A Symmetry of Imperfection"