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> 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.
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> 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.
I think the biggest thing is BSG and Andromeda/Trek are very different
shows. I like each show for it's own views, but I have to say I would
much
rather serve under Picard or Hunt then Cain. Then again, Adama wouldn't
execute anyone either, but you get my point. BSG, to me, shows what could
happen. How bad things can be. Andromeda started out that way, with the
Commonwealth falling, but the show still showed that happiness is still
possible. Trek, well, Trek is the total opposite of BSG. A paradise.
Something for us as humans to aspire too. We just have to make sure we
don't design Cylon's or Skynet. ;-)
>> > 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.
>>
>> 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"...
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> 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.
That is true, Rhade did have a scar, but with him being Dylan's best
friend,
and working together for so long, would Dylan not have noticed it before?
Blah, time travel does give headaches...
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