Andromeda: Season 4
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Andromeda Season 3.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
Answers Given to Questions Never Asked (2)
Sep 29, 2003
A seemingly psychotic "Collector" simultaneously takes credit and blames Dylan for the fall of the Commonwealth. He also claims to be hosting (or holding captive?) the Triumvir Tr
Pieces of Eight
Oct 6, 2003
A power-hungry citizen seeks to manipulate the Commonwealth for his own gain. Dylan receives an unsettling view of his future from a prophetic alien.
Waking the Tyrant's Device
Oct 13, 2003
Dylan and an old friend try to prevent the maker of the Magog Worldship from deploying an army of androids.
Double or Nothingness
Oct 20, 2003
Dylan plays a dangerous game against two gamblers, but not everything is as real as it seems.
Harper/Delete
Oct 27, 2003
The ultimate weapon falls into the hands of a Nietzschean pirate. Can Harper disarm it before the Magog arrive?
Soon the Nearing Vortex (1)
Nov 3, 2003
The reappearance of Tyr Anasazi and Telemachus Rhade leads to a race to obtain the Route of Ages, which will direct the owner to the location of the Abyss itself. Dylan and the cr
The World Turns All Around Her (2)
Nov 10, 2003
In a race against Tyr to control the Route of Ages, the crew find themselves in another universe. To save them, Trance finally reveals who and what she really is.
Conduit to Destiny
Nov 17, 2003
The crew assists in the search for escaped prisoners on a new Commonwealth member world. Dylan finds himself playing a role in an ancient prophecy.
Machinery of the Mind
Jan 12, 2004
Harper attends a conference of the Commonwealth's greatest minds. Unfortunately, a mysterious assassin has plans for that collected brilliance. Meanwhile, Dylan is being escorted t
Exalted Reason, Resplendent Daughter
Jan 19, 2004
The crew searches for a princess abducted by a ruthless pirate. As usual, nothing is as it seems. Along the way, a secret from Beka's past is revealed.
The Torment, the Release
Jan 26, 2004
Dylan is put on trial for high crimes against the Commonwealth.
The Spider's Stratagem
Feb 2, 2004
The crew intercepts a mysterious cargo en route to a war zone.
The Warmth of an Invisible Light
Feb 9, 2004
One of Harper's experiments goes awry, and Dylan ends up in an alternate reality.
The Others
Feb 16, 2004
The crew rescues two people from a spaceship, the leaders of opposing sides in a long civil war on a nearby planet. The two warring sides have built an immense wall separating the
Fear Burns Down to Ashes
Feb 23, 2004
The Collectors have been using a drug to modify people's behavior, discovering their fears in efforts to control or break them. This is their solution for dealing with Dylan. Led
Lost in a Space that Isn't There
Apr 5, 2004
After being repeatedly attacked by bounty hunters after several evasive slipstream jumps, Dylan determines that there must be a mole on board. After analyzing data recordings, he
Abridging the Devil's Divide
Apr 12, 2004
While on a mission on the Maru, Dylan, Rhade and Harper (and the Maru) are captured by the Templars. The Patriarch of the Templars presses Harper to help him build a bridge -- a t
Trusting the Gordian Maze
Apr 19, 2004
While the Andromeda is confronted by the Commonwealth fleet and Tri-Jema, Dylan must decide whether or not he can entrust the Route of Ages to them.
A Symmetry of Imperfection
Apr 26, 2004
Rommie's emotions cause one of Harpers fail-safes to cut in, cutting her off from her core AI and shutting down all the ships systems. This creates problems, especially when a sate
Time out of Mind
May 3, 2004
The death of a man from Beka's past named Weslow, sends the crew in search of an archive that can let Beka relive some of her childhood experiences so that she may make sense of We
The Dissonant Interval (1)
May 10, 2004
The Andromeda encounters the Arkology, a society that they believe is the closest to perfection humanity will ever achieve. But the Magog are close, and Dylan and the crew must co
The Dissonant Interval (2)
May 17, 2004
Beka decides to leave the crew to fight for themselves, but after all of the promises that everyone will be reunited, Trance tells them that they will never be as they are again.