What's sad is I felt both fifth seasons had the potential to be great. Andromeda's premise of reducing the idea of rebuilding civilization to one star system was interesting, as was EFC's idea of Earth having to deal with a new species that was technically of their own making. But I guess the writers didn't care, or Tribune had too many restrictions in place for any creativity to spring up.
Like I said, both seasons only existed for monetary reasons. Tribune never cared about the quality of the writing or production, or about loyalty to their producers, only about the bottom line. Majel Roddenberry wanted to make smart, sophisticated science fiction, but Tribune wanted lowest-common-denominator dumbed-down action because they believed that made the show more marketable overseas, and they wanted it to be made as cheaply as possible.
Surprised neither EFC or Andromeda has been rebooted yet. Both shows had great concepts, and it's been twenty years since they stopped airing.
Well, 19 years for E:FC, 16 for DROM. Still makes me feel old, though.
I don't think either show really left a big enough footprint on fandom or the culture to attract much interest in a reboot. They both deteriorated so quickly. I'd love to see them both redone properly, but I don't think the interest is there.
I was making a general statement about shows reaching that number.
But that's the point, that the general rule doesn't apply in these cases, because neither E:FC nor DROM
earned that milestone; it was an artificial achievement that came about for the most cynical, shallow, and mercenary reasons and deserves no praise. It's like, say, the difference between a runner crossing the finish line under their own power and a runner being carried across the finish line by their sponsors so that they don't lose money from their failure. Although in the case of these shows, it's more like the runners had died long before and their corpses were reanimated to shamble across the finish line.
And for those viewers who stuck it out with the series to that point, I see nothing wrong with the producers doing a celebration of that at the end of a 100th episode.
I never said there was anything wrong with that. What was wrong was... well, everything about Tribune's policies and the way they consistently sabotaged and dumbed down their own shows.
Does anyone have any idea how the calendar works in Andromeda? I'm pretty sure the actual Earth year they are in is 5167 or something which puts the first Nietzscheans around the year 2190 or something similar.. They don't address the issues of Earth and its first contact with aliens or give any actual proper dates for things, much like Star Trek and the use of Stardates.
http://www.saveandromeda.com/allsystems/history/timeline.htm
The Commonwealth Year is the Common Era Earth year plus 4920. The timeline gives 6811 CY as the publication date of the final volume of Nietzsche's
Also Sprach Zarathustra, which was actually 1885, but per my old notes, Zack Stentz (who wrote the timeline) clarified online that he was going by its English publication in 1891.
Per my notes, first contact (with the Perseids) is in 2135 (CY 7055), and Earth joins the Commonwealth 30 years later. By the time of the series, humans have been Commonwealth members for a few thousand years, which is why they're so widespread. The
Andromeda is frozen in the black hole in 4864 (CY 9784) and revived in 5167 (CY 10087).
Oh, and Paul Museveni founded the Nietzscheans in 3480 (CY 8400), not 2190.
