On 15-Jan-2008, "80 Knight" <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Jim Heckman" <rot13(reply-to)@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On 13-Jan-2008, Vindris@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(The Allfarva is also Unifarva.)
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> >> I just got the DVD and watched the unedited ep. i was surprised at
some
> >> of the choice language. I was quite pleased to see the 'old' model
> >> centurions again they were far more convincing in their CGI form and
> >> using slug throwing SMG's. I thought it funny seeing steve bacic
> >> playing
> >> cain's exec! talk about eerie parallels. he got coming to him what
> >> dylan should have done to rhade in the premiere if andromeda.
> >
> > ? Dylan *did* do that to (Gaheris) Rhade in the premiere of
> > /Andromeda/.
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> There was still a huge difference, IMHO. Cain choose to execute her XO
> because he wouldn't follow an order, which he objected too. Dylan was
> forced to kill Geheris, or be killed by him instead.
Right. I wonder if the OP meant Dylan should have executed Rhade as
soon as he realized they were being ambushed by a massive,
organized fleet of Nietzscheans? But of course Dylan would never
have done that, and was right not to -- as we found out later,
there were many Nietzscheans who remained loyal to the
Commonwealth. Plus, Rhade himself insisted he be relieved of duty
and confined to the brig, given the circumstances.
> > But in one of my favorite episodes, "The Unconquerable Man" in
> > season 3, we find out that Rhade actually killed Dylan the first
> > time around, then later went back in time and let Dylan kill him.
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> That is one of my favorite episodes as well. But, like any time-travel
> episode, did it actually happen? Did Rhade actually go back in time and
> let
> himself be killed by Dylan, or was this simply a "what-if" scenario,
like
> the ones brought on by Trance in "The Dark Backwards"? To quote Captain
> Janeway, "Temporal Mechanics gives me a headache"...
They certainly wanted us to believe it was real. In the alternate
future Tyr gave Rhade a scar on his hand (hmm..., I thought
Nietzcheans had nanites circulating in their blood to fix that kind
of thing?), which caught Dylan's eye when he and Harper hauled
Rhade's body out of storage, saying he'd never noticed it before.
--
Jim Heckman
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