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People only remember (if they remember this show) how incredibly schlocky and terrible this show became. Granted, it had more seasons being a trainwreck than being watchable.

The TLDR of the production is that a regular writer on Star Trek Deep Space 9 was made the producer of Andromeda at the start. He wanted to create something alternative to Star Trek, but that, budget permitting, was as good. There were tussles behind the scenes for control between him, and the executives & Kevin Sorbo who wanted the show to be louder, angrier, and have access to a time machine.

Eventually during season 2, the TV executives were brave enough to ask the question “What if we fired this experienced writer and put Kevin Sorbo in charge?”. The rest is history.

That all aside, the early stories in Andromeda showed a kind of interesting puesdo-Trek universe that had fallen into piracy and disorder, but the show was still optimistic that the spark of the old civilization could be rebuilt.

I await your jeers.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Remember before we knew Kevin Sorbo wasn’t playing with a full deck?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I listened to his autobiography years ago. I thought he sounded like he'd mended his alpha bro self delusion after nearly dying. The book ended, iirc, early in the Andromeda run. Then covid came, and I think he's landed a couple keys shy of a full keyboard. Bless his heart.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Bless his heart.

This roughly translates to common English as "this amoeba isn't worth the effort of an insult"

Source: worked in Georgia, USA for a year. Got my heart thoroughly blessed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I always kind of thought that was obvious.