Andromeda: Season 4
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Andromeda Season 3.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
Answers Given to Questions Never Asked (2)
Sep 29, 2003 · 45 min
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 · 45 min
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 · 45 min
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 · 45 min
Dylan plays a dangerous game against two gamblers, but not everything is as real as it seems.
Harper/Delete
Oct 27, 2003 · 45 min
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 · 45 min
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 · 45 min
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 · 45 min
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 · 45 min
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 · 45 min
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 · 45 min
Dylan is put on trial for high crimes against the Commonwealth.
The Spider's Stratagem
Feb 2, 2004 · 45 min
The crew intercepts a mysterious cargo en route to a war zone.
The Warmth of an Invisible Light
Feb 9, 2004 · 45 min
One of Harper's experiments goes awry, and Dylan ends up in an alternate reality.
The Others
Feb 16, 2004 · 45 min
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 · 45 min
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 · 45 min
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 · 45 min
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 · 45 min
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 · 45 min
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 · 45 min
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 · 45 min
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 · 45 min
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.