- "Don't they have any respect for tradition. Whatever happened to just clawing people to death?!"
- ―Captain Dylan Hunt
"The Widening Gyre" | |
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Series Andromeda Season 2, Episode 1 | |
Air date | October 1st, 2001 (US) September 22nd, 2001 (CAN) |
Writers | Robert Hewitt Wolfe |
Director | Allan Eastman |
Producers | Majel Roddenberry; Allan Eastman; Kevin Sorbo; Robert Hewitt Wolfe; Karen Wookey |
Starring | Kevin Sorbo; Lisa Ryder; Keith Hamilton Cobb; Laura Bertram; Brent Stait; Gordon Michael Woolvett; Lexa Doig |
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"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.
Cast[]
Principal Cast[]
Guest Stars[]
Actor | Role |
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Sylvain Cameron | Magog leader |
Brock Johnson | Magog warrior #1 |
Rik Kiviaho | High Guard Captain Perim |
Gerard Plunkett | Bloodmist |
Robert Saunders | Spirit of the Abyss |
Notes & Trivia[]
- Actor Kevin Sorbo becomes an executive producer on the series beginning with this episode.
- 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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- Trance Gemini: Okay, Trance. You can do this. You know you can. There is a perfect possible future where everything will turn out just fine, and the odds of creating that future are only 1,671,000 to 1. More or less.
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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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- Dylan Hunt: A renewed Commonwealth. Before, it was just a dream. Now, it's a necessity.
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- Rommie: Now we're even.
- Trance Gemini: Rommie!
- Rommie: Run, Trance.
- Trance Gemini: I'm running, I'm running!
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