Andromeda: The Widening Gyre

"Don't they have any respect for tradition. Whatever happened to just clawing people to death?!"

- Captain Dylan Hunt

"The Widening Gyre" is the first episode of season two of the science fiction television series Andromeda and the twenty-third episode of the series overall. The episode was directed by Allan Eastman and written by Robert Hewitt Wolfe. It first aired in the United States on the Sci-Fi Channel on Monday, October 1st, 2001. It was first broadcast in Canada on Saturday, September 22nd, 2001 on the Global Television Network.

Notes & Trivia

 * The Nova Bomb that Beka Valentine is ordered to launch is the same one that Dylan Hunt salvaged in in the season one episode "To Loose the Fateful Lightning".

Quotes

 * Dylan Hunt: Magog suck.

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 * Tyr Anasazi: I know but one person idiotic enough to try and rescue three dead men from a Magog hive.
 * Dylan Hunt: That's me, Captain Idiot. Now I don't know about the three of you, but we have a ship to catch.

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Opening quotation
"If we do not live another day, Say this over our byre: They died like High Guard Lancers With their faces to the fire."

- Regimental Hymn of the 13th Imperial Lancers; CY 4233

Home Video

 * "The Widening Gyre" has been made available on the following DVD collections:
 * Andromeda: Slipstream Collection
 * Andromeda: The Complete Boxset
 * Andromeda: The Complete Second Season
 * Andromeda: Season 2 Collection
 * Andromeda: Season 2, Collection 1