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Episode 102: "Pallas: Part II" (27 July 2010)
The Odyssey's crew investigates the rogue Stormchaser shuttlecraft Pallas (and the alien crew which appropriated her) whom they captured and disabled last week. Medical remove the Traizina Zaika princess, who appears to have been drugged, from the shuttle and bring her back to consciousness in sickbay; Engineering and Eastwood investigate the upgrades to the Pallas which the salvagers appear to have made to it. Security deals with the salvagers themselves, some of whom appear to be human wearing tattered Fleet shirts; one of those humans wakes up from his stunning but, on being approached by Sandiago, tenses and then bolts to escape the shuttlebay.
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SEASON 5
EPISODE 102: "Pallas: Part II" (27 July 2010)
The Odyssey's crew investigates the rogue Stormchaser shuttlecraft Pallas (and the alien crew which appropriated her) whom they captured and disabled last week. Medical remove the Traizina Zaika princess, who appears to have been drugged, from the shuttle and bring her back to consciousness in sickbay; Engineering and Eastwood investigate the upgrades to the Pallas which the salvagers appear to have made to it. Security deals with the salvagers themselves, some of whom appear to be human wearing tattered Fleet shirts; one of those humans wakes up from his stunning but, on being approached by Sandiago, tenses and then bolts to escape the shuttlebay.
EPISODE 101: "Pallas" (20 July 2010)
The Odyssey tracks down and disables the Federation runabout Pallas, believed missing in action some weeks before and now being used by unknown agents in the kidnapping of a member of the Traizina Zaika royalty. The disabled shuttle is brought aboard where its crew (which includes several humans in beat-up Federation attire) is quelled by security.
EPISODE 100: "Let My People Go" (13 July 2010)
As Wolfe, Sandiago, Stenton, and Monroe make their case for the release of Valerian, Miller, and Cameron, the latter three make their escape from their Traizina Zaika holding area and are beamed back by the Odyssey. The Traizina Zaika king, Lukan, is not pleased but accepts Wolfe's team's assertion that they have a common enemy.
Meanwhile, T'Ren, Eastwood, Stewart, and O'Callaghan ponder the possibility of tracking down and capturing the rogue shuttle impersonating Federation officers, and Kavur speaks with Sullivan in sickbay.
EPISODE 99: "Traizina Zaika" (6 July 2010)
Valerian and Cameron communicate with their captors, the Traizina Zaika, and get access to their medical facilities to treat Miller, who is having an adverse reaction to the sedative used to capture them. Meanwhile, Sullivan disobeys orders and skulks on the station while the crew on the Odyssey receive a communication indicating that the Traizina Zaika believe them responsible for an attack on and kidnapping of the nomadic clan's "princess." Investigation of sensor logs provided by the Traizina Zaikia indicates that the attack was in fact perpetrated by a missing-in-action shuttle originally from the former Federation vessel USS Athena, which was destroyed at the Kelvan Gate Battle.
EPISODE 98: "Into the Breach" (29 June 2010)
Relations with the Free Species Alliance have broken down; much of the Andromeda Task Force has withdrawn from the galaxy back to the Milky Way; the remaining ships have formed a foothold at the Keep with the exception of the Odyssey, which is being sent into the Verge in pursuit of an ancient Kelvan weapons platform.
On a tip from the Serric named Terrynt, their first stop is a trading station called Taigran three days into the Verge. Attempts to make contact with another Serric residing there are interrupted when Valerian, Cameron, and Miller are with little fanfare knocked out and abducted from their respective locations.
This episode begins Season 5 of Star Trek: Andromeda.
SEASON 4
EPISODE 97: "In Good Faith: Part II" (8 June 2010)
The Odyssey crew's investigations into the dig site on Essep continue; Monroe, Stewart, and Swift find an upturned power generator which seems to connect to the facility being explored below them. Their attempts to activate it lead to a massive overload which blows out the facility altogether; the team is forced to abandon the planet in emergency beamout.
EPISODE 96: "In Good Faith" (1 June 2010)
The Odyssey investigates the dig site on Essep; an attempt to reactivate controls in the discovered underground facility causes a short which causes damage across the entire dig site.
EPISODE 95: "Drifter" (25 May 2010)
The Odyssey, en route to pick up Lt. Commander Kingsley, encounters a drifting Alurian freighter which does not answer hails or alter course to avoid collision; closer inspection reveals that the ship is entirely empty, though it shows signs of recent habitation.
EPISODE 94: "Tremors: Part III" (18 May 2010)
The Odyssey's crew continues to investigate the deterioration of the Torani colony world. Sullivan, Monroe, and Valerian, trapped in a collapsing facility on the surface, are extricated by Stewart, Cameron, and Graffas. Meanwhile, Sandiago and Swift insinuate their way into the moon-based fail-safe facility to jump-start the planet's core again.
EPISODE 93: "Tremors: Part II" (11 May 2010)
The Odyssey's crew investigates the disintegrating Torani colony world. A team dispatched to the planet to set up scans on its core discover a collapsing facility, still powered, in which Valerian, Monroe, and Sullivan end up trapped. On the moon, another team works with Torani refugees.
EPISODE 92: "Tremors" (4 May 2010)
The USS Odyssey accompanies the damaged Torani vessel back to its home planet, a colony world, apparently terraformed sometime in the past, which is suffering from major geologic upheaval to the point that it is becoming uninhabitable.
EPISODE 91: "Back in Business" (27 April 2010)
The USS Odyssey-C, Venture-class, successfully launched from dock at Andromeda Station, begins explorations along the edge of the Verge and encounters a damaged freighter, of relatively unsophistocated design and unfamiliar provenance (a planet or locale called "Torani"), which has suffered an attack and requests their assistance.
EPISODE 90: "Ship of the Line" (20 April 2010)
The USS Odyssey-C, Venture-class, launches with appropriate pomp and circumstance (and a little appropriate revelry) from Andromeda Station.
EPISODE 89: "Drop Off" (13 April 2010)
The Odyssey's crew returns to Andromeda Station where they are reunited with the rest of their surviving crewmates (and some new ones) and are placed into temporary quarters there while awaiting news of their next assignment.
EPISODE 88: "Pickup" (6 April 2010)
Some of the uninjured crew of the destroyed Odyssey grab passage back to Federation facilities aboard an Alurian salvage freighter. Discovering that it has, among other things, picked up salvage from the Odyssey, they hunt for and find the intact core of the Odyssey's computer system and AI, Penelope. They also stir up some animosity from the salvage crew, who are annoyed at having the Federation, who they view as responsible for much of the chaos in Andromeda lately, prying around in their goods.
EPISODE 87: "Adrift" (30 March 2010)
The Odyssey's stranded crew deals with their situation. Sandiago and Sullivan work on securing the area of their crash; Dresari works on salvaging supplies; Lucindak is reunited with her sister and, along with Kingsley, checks on Wolfe who is finding it hard to rest from the crash; Valerian and Grafas treat a traumatized and ill Monroe after Cameron brings her to them, and Miller, Stewart, and Swift construct a makeshift radio with which they are able to contact a salvage freighter in the area.
EPISODE 86: "Warpath: Part II" (23 March 2010)
The Odyssey and her assembled task force enters into battle with the gate structure and fleet assembled by Hyperion and his supporters; the task force is quickly overwhelmed by the Progenitor numbers and destruction seems imminent. As the gate begins to power up and the task force begins to crumble, Andrews calls for the crew to abandon ship and then steers the ship himself on a collision course with the gate, destroying both the facility and the Odyssey.
The resulting blast scrambles the systems of all ships within range, and the Odyssey's escape pods and shuttles crash-land on a nearby planet.
EPISODE 85: "Warpath" (16 March 2010)
The Odyssey completes last minute preparations and repairs as it travels to do battle at Hyperion's stronghold located earlier; however, a kink is nearly thrown into the works when a Jovian extremist finds his way into the ship and tries to interfere with its operations.
EPISODE 84: "Progendar" (9 March 2010)
The Odyssey activates its "Progenitor sonar" in search of the location of the stronghold of the rogue Progenitor Hyperion. However, the overpowered ping signal causes cascading power shorts all over the ship, leading to a near-failure of the warp core which is averted at the last minute.
EPISODE 83: "Keep-ing It Real" (2 March 2010)
The Odyssey travels to the Keep to begin making preparations for combatting the rogue Progenitor Hyperion and his plot (in cahoots with Starfleet's Admiral Cain) to bring back the Kelvan and take over Andromeda. Andrews, Wolfe, Lucindak, and Kingsley meet with representatives from the FSA and Endari Empire and convince them to form a joint force, led by Ratec'Midic, to help Starfleet against the threat. Eastwood, Valerian, Dresari, and Sandiago, travel to the Library area on the Keep to obtain the support of the Progenitor AIs residing there. Stewart, Cameron, and Swift, with a visit from Graffas, work on reverse-engineering a sonar pulse, dubbed "Progendar" by Cameron, to help the Odyssey determine the location of Hyperion's stronghold.
EPISODE 82: "Delving" (23 February 2010)
The Odyssey continues in orbit of the Alurian colony; Eastwood interrogates one of the prisoners and extracts the identity of the "Shadow Buyer" from him -- the missing Progenitor Hyperion -- while a team of engineers investigate the probe obtained from the firefight in the spaceport and determine evidence to back this up; it is of Progenitor design.
EPISODE 81: "Prisoner Pickup" (16 February 2010)
The teams continue their investigations on the Alurian colony world. Eastwood, Valerian, Cameron, and Swift bring their prisoner back to the Odyssey, then bring the shuttle back to support Wolfe, Dresari, Sandiago, and Lucindak, who in tracing the probe which the crew followed from Zerin, find and capture three people inside the ship, apparently religious zealots who call themselves the "prosthelytized" and launch a failed attempt to attack their visitors.
EPISODE 80: "In Pursuit: Part II" (9 February 2010)
Two teams descend into the main city of the Alurian colony to which they have traced the probe launched on Zerin. One team investigates ships matching the description of the merchant vessel which picked up the probe while science works from the ship to help triangulate its position, and the other captures a suspicious man in the spaceport crowds who seems to be watching them.
EPISODE 79: "In Pursuit" (2 February 2010)
The Odyssey pursues the probe launched by the hulk on Zerin before its self-destruct, reaching a planet currently occupied by an Alurian colony; they arrive just in time to witness the probe being picked up by an Alurian freighter (of a common class) as it descends into the atmosphere. Two teams are dispatched to the planet's surface to locate the vessel or the probe it captured.
EPISODE 78: "Going Viral: Part III" (26 January 2010)
The Odyssey continues investigating the viral plague on Zerin. Wolfe, Dresari, Sandiago, Graffas, and Cameron travel to the site of a crashed alien spaceship and find traces of the virus in its cargo hold -- along with a holographic message from someone who claims to be called the "Shadow Buyer" and to have Conglomerate connections. The crashed hulk then explodes, injuring the team. Dresari sustains critical lung damage and his environmental suit is ruptured but Medical, in treating him, discovers that his body contains a natural immunity to the Zerin plague and is fighting the disease; as a result, a cure may be found.
Meanwhile, the crew still on the Odyssey track a probe released by the alien ship, at speeds higher than Federation tech can attain, just before it exploded; they send a Fox- class destroyer after it while the planetside crew finish up their work and treatment.
EPISODE 77: "Going Viral: Part II" (19 January 2010)
The Odyssey continues investigating the viral plague on Zerin. Andrews and Dresari coordinate supply deliveries by engineering while medical works with local officials to begin treating the disease. When it becomes apparent that they are only treating symptoms, and not the cause, a team consisting of Wolfe, Dresari, Sandiago, Grafas, and Cameron departs to investigate the alien crash site which coincided with the beginning of the plague's spread. Meanwhile, Night and Monroe find a Zerin engineer driven mad by the chaos, who takes them to a makeshift laboratory and nearly traps them there while attempting to share technology.
EPISODE 76: "Going Viral" (12 January 2009)
The Odyssey receives a distress call from the Zerin, a recently post-warp race which is suffering from a worldwide viral plague outbreak, the result of a crashlanding by a passing cargo ship two months before. The crew goes down to provide medical and technical assistance.
EPISODE 75: "Back on Board" (5 January 2010)
The Odyssey's crewmembers return shipboard and prepare to depart New Eden, while discussing the recent Progenitor goings on and beginning a project to reverse-engineer Odin's giant suit for use by a Federation officer for EVA.
SEASON 3
EPISODE 74: "Ancient Questions" (15 December 2009)
The Odyssey approaches orbit of New Eden. Miller, Cameron, and Stewart work on preparing elements of the computer core for shutdown and refit. Medical discusses upcoming leave and welcomes aboard a new Ensign, Caileigh McKei, who receives her physical at the hands of Graffas. Swift and Sandiago deal with the continued presence of Odin aboard the ship. Andrews, Wolfe, Eastwood, and Valerian discuss the potential actions to be taken regarding the help Odin might be able to give them in activating the time gate.
EPISODE 73: "Welcome Aboard" (8 December 2009)
The Odyssey leaves orbit of Renasia en route to New Eden with Odin, who undergoes a physical from Graffas in sickbay under the watchful eye of Sandiago, and discusses with Valerian more of the history of Hyperion and the possible uses of the New Eden gate, if reactivated, in finding Kronus's past self to repair his damaged AI on the Keep.
Meanwhile, Stewart, Monroe, and Swift investigate Odin's huge robotic suit in the shuttlebay, Miller, Night, and Dresari work on preparations for a refit period during the New Eden stopover, and Andrews and Eastwood debate Odin's trustworthiness.
EPISODE 72: "Odin: Part II" (1 December 2009)
The team speaks to the Progenitor whom they have found beneath the surface of Renasia; he calls himself Odin and proves to be the first living breathing example of the race whom the crew has yet encountered. He provides some (typically roundabout) insight into the Progenitor's history, particularly that of a particular Guardian named Hyperion, who attempted to betray the Progenitors to the Kelvan, of a structure called the Ark, which was to be a "fallout shelter" for the Progenitors and their creations in the event of catastrophic war, and of the "hypergates." Furthermore, he offers to travel with the Odyssey crew to New Eden in order to assist them in activating the Guardian Gate there.
EPISODE 71: "Odin" (17 November 2009)
A team from the Odyssey investigates the area on Renasia where they detected signs of a Progenitor installation housing a creature known as Odin. The landscape around the Progenitor signature is torn up and damaged jungle; further tracing the signature leads to a cave which travels deep underground into a huge mountain cavern containing Progenitor equipment. The team investigates the equipment, setting off some systems which attract the cavern's occupant -- a huge robotic form.
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EPISODE 70: "Making Inquiries: Part II" (10 November 2009)
As Andrews and Eastwood return to the Odyssey, the remainder of the crew pursues inquiries into the "Odin" of whom they heard when they first arrived on Renasia. Night and Cameron investigate a ship hangar where they encounter technology which displays Progenitor signatures; Graffas investigates a hospital where some of the techniques being used seem oddly out of sync with the planet's post-warp status. Valerian and Swift talk to a native who instructs them in the location of Odin somewhat outside the city. Wolfe and Miller scan the planet from above, localizing traces of a Progenitor facility in the same location.
EPISODE 69: "Making Inquiries" (3 November 2009)
The Odyssey, having departed from the smuggler's station where they captured a Kalatian pirate, sends a team to the surface of Renasia II, where they encounter a civilization, just post-warp, engaging in a ritual sacrifice ceremony in the center of a city. They speak to one of the Renasians at the ceremony and hear mention of a "he" whom the Renasians seem to respect -- the UT renders it first as the "Lord in the jungle" and then as "Odin."
Andrews and Eastwood depart to make investigations at Draynar; Sandiago and K'Peck interrogate their piratical prisoner, who says that Admiral Cain of the USS Acheron (along with his Vulcan XO) conspired, in association with a figure called the "Shadow Buyer," to pay the pirate crew to make the recent attack on Andrews' captain's yacht.
EPISODE 68: "Unexpected" (27 October 2009)
The away team continues to investigate the smuggler's hideout and, while incognito, encounters a team from the USS Acheron, led by Admiral Cain's XO, Commander Syral, a Vulcan who speaks to a team of Kalatian pirates who ask her for payment; she responds that they reneged on an agreement because "only the doctor was killed" and refuses to pay. A brawl begins and the Odyssey team, having overheard this conversation, attempts to capture Syral and the pirates; Syral manages to escape but the Kalatian captain is taken, though K'Peck is injured in the process.
EPISODE 67: "Undercover" (20 October 2009)
The Odyssey sends a team to infiltrate the smuggler's station which they discovered while tracing the pirates who attacked Andrews's yacht and killed Monroe. They dock at the station and make contact with the somewhat unsavory denizens, tracing leads on the identity of the attackers. Commander Wolfe speaks to an Alurian captain who references a "Shadow Buyer" and links him both to the Conglomerate and to a ship which is seen decloaking to dock at the smuggler's base -- a Federation ship. USS Acheron, NCC-92831.
EPISODE 66: "Pursuit: Part II" (13 October 2009)
The Odyssey receives information from its scoutships as to the destination of their mysterious pirate attackers, a large station in a dangerous and possibly artificial nebula some distance away. Andrews, Wolfe, Eastwood, and Sandiago make plans to send over an undercover team to investigate the facility. Dresari, Miller, and Swift work on getting better scans of the nebula in order to negotiate the team in. Night is injured in a system malfunction in Engineering and is treated by Graffas, Valerian and Kingsley discuss Chief Monroe, and KPeck trains a young security officer in the holodeck.
EPISODE 65: "Pursuit" (6 October 2009)
Engineering and Science scan the debris from one of the attacking pirate ships and finds that its propulsion systems contain a unique deuterium isotope which can be traced by its decay rate. Meanwhile, Sickbay begins getting back to normal and Cameron and Sandiago undergo physicals.
EPISODE 64: "Random Acts of Violence" (29 September 2009)
While returning from their honeymoon to the Odyssey, which is wrapping up its refits and shore leave at Omara III, Andrews and Monroe are attacked by unidentified ships who damage the captain's yacht and injure Monroe mortally. Andrews brings her back to the Odyssey where she is taken to sickbay; Valerian and Graffas operate on her and transfer her symbiont to Tigan's body before she dies.
Meanwhile, the Odyssey, through hard work in Engineering, manages to throw off her refit umbilicals in record time and gives chase to the attacking pirates; one of them cloaks but the other, partially damaged, is surrounded by the Odyssey, one of the Fox-class cruisers and some fighters. Andrews, furious at Monroe's death, attempts to go in guns blazing; Wolfe and Eastwood argue for taking prisoners but the delay gives the pirate ship time to self-destruct itself. Andrews temporarily relieves himself of duty and the Odyssey sets off in pursuit of the other escaped pirate ship.
EPISODE 63: "Omara" (22 September 2009)
The Odyssey enters orbit of Omara III, a warp capable resort planet and site of a Federation research camp. Some of the crew visit planetside, chatting with each other, the local populace, and the Federation scientists, while others assist as the Odyssey undergoes refit work. Eastwood discovers a lead in the continuing search for a Section 31 spy aboard the Odyssey. Captain Andrews and Commander Monroe tie the knot in a ceremony on New Eden.
EPISODE 62: "Intervention" (15 September 2009)
Dresari and Sandiago infiltrate the Conglomerate atmospheric generators responsible for pumping the mist drug into the Prisk atmosphere. They disable its shield generators and the Odyssey is able to beam them out before performing an orbital assault on the generator installations, destroying them. Monroe, Valerian, Swift, and Tigan detonate six probes containing concentrated amounts of mist antidote in the atmosphere in locations calculated to use the planet's natural high winds to saturate the atmosphere and eliminate the mist's hold. Takahashi and Cameron use their reverse-engineered probe to hack into the Conglomerate station in the sector, extract partially corrupted/encrypted data from its computers, and then force it to self-destruct.
EPISODE 61: "Storm Center" (8 September 2009)
Monroe discovers a positive antidote to the 'mist' addiction and administers it to Wolfe, Valerian, and Eastwood. Miller, Night, and Cameron send their re-engineered Conglomerate drone successfully past the local Conglomerate station's defense forces and establish a successful link with the station itself. Dresari and Sandiago take a Stormchaser to the surface of Prisk and discover four huge generator structures in the storm centers of the equator which are pumping mist into the planet's atmosphere.
EPISODE 60: "Investigations: Part III" (1 September 2009)
Wolfe, Valerian, and Eastwood, now definitely suffering withdrawal symptoms, convince Andrews to allow them to take a diluted form of mist in order to remain functional while seaching for a more effective cure. Andrews sends Dresari, Sandiago, and KPeck to the surface of Prisk to search in the storm-battered equatorial region for the atmospheric generators which result in the dissemination of the mist in the Prisk air. Miller, Night, Takahashi, and Cameron launch their reprogrammed sucker drone in the direction of the Conglomerate station.
EPISODE 59: "Investigations: Part II" (25 August 2009)
Wolfe, Eastwood, and Valerian, having been on Prisk for over 24 hours searching for potential Prisk volunteers, find their behavior starting to degenerate into unprofessional, mellow, silly, nervously energetic, and otherwise inappropriate. They are beamed back to the ship and sedated in sickbay after their Prisk acquaintances reveal, and Monroe discovers, that they have become addicted to "mist" through quantities of it in the atmosphere.
Night and Miller lead Takahashi, Stewart, and Cameron in continuing to reverse-engineer the Conglomerate sucker-drone, and manage to develop a propulsion control system for it.
EPISODE 58: "Investigations" (18 August 2009)
The Odyssey continues in orbit of Prisk investigating possible responses to the Conglomerate threat. Wolfe, Valerian, and Eastwood, monitored by Monroe and Lucindak, travel planetside and begin recruiting potential "volunteers" for a covert assault on the nearby Conglomerate-held station. Miller, Stewart, Night, Hunter, Cameron, Swift, and Shaakath work on reverse-engineering one of the Conglomerate sucker probes. Andrews and Dresari attempt to get a feel for the defenses of the station by sending several stealth probes into its vicinity (most of which are promptly destroyed).
EPISODE 57: "Viewpoints" (11 August 2009)
The Odyssey crew debates possible responses to the new threat of the Conglomerate and decides to send a team to make contacts among the Priska population while the science and engineering departments work on a drone probe to send out in pursuit of new data and plans are made for a possible covert assault on the station holding the Priska technology hijacked by the Conglomerate.
SEASON 2
EPISODE 56: "Prisk: Part II" (21 July 2009)
Andrews, Eastwood, Night, Parinas, and Hunter meet with the Priska commandant to discuss possible ways to take on the station where the Priska's hijacked AI technology is being kept. Meanwhile, Wolfe, Monroe, Valerian, Stewart, Lucindak, Shadowfox, KPeck, Swift, and Shaakath travel planetside to investigate Priska culture. However, while enroute to a medical center in the Priska capital, the team encounters a violently ill Priska native whom their guide encourages not to help because "he can't afford the mist." When they persist in helping him anyway, the team is attacked by a shadowy group of four humanoids, who incapacitate them, hijack the Odyssey's communication systems, and transmit an image of the incapacitated planetside team to the shipboard crew, along with a cryptic warning to stop meddling in the Verge and in the business of "the conglomerate." They then disappear, leaving the team injured and shaken.
EPISODE 55: "Prisk: Part I" (7 July 2009)
The Odyssey arrives at the planet Prisk, home of the freighter which it earlier rescued from the robotic pirate drone ships. A team beams down to Prisk and interacts with one of its representatives, Stepan, who greets them with gratitude for their help and asks for further assistance in destroying the controls for the robotic AIs of the attacking ships, which were constructed by the Priska and then taken from them. Meanwhile, a team of Priska engineers comes aboard the Odyssey to assist in repairs; they are eager to help but somewhat dim and definitely awed by the technology and scope of the ship.
EPISODE 54: "Uncharted" (30 June 2009)
The Odyssey responds to a distress call from an unknown source and attempts to rescue a cargo ship being destroyed by several larger enemies. The attacking ships turn on the Odyssey, releasing hundreds of tiny drone ships which latch onto the Odyssey's shields and begin to suck the ship's power. Wolf and Johnson battle them in fighters while Engineering, Science, and the bridge crew work on ways to disable them, eventually clearing them with an electromagnetic pulse which also blows out many of the Odyssey's systems. Medical's new pet temporarily roams free as a result and injures Valerian. A sister ship of the rescued freighter arrives and its commander thanks the Odyssey's crew and invites them back to their homeworld for repairs.
EPISODE 53: "Specter" (23 June 2009)
Two teams of Odyssey crew members travel to the wreckage of the "rogue specter" squid-ships. One team examines the technological aspects of the ships, learning that they contain Progenitor technology. The other encounters a life-form, an extension of the ship's biological components, which is highly acidic and latches onto Monroe's biosuit; it is incapacitated and taken back, along with a dead sample, to the Odyssey for study.
EPISODE 52: "Multiple Angles" (16 June 2009)
A team consisting of Monroe, Eastwood, Shadowfox, Hunter, Moore, and Rachel Swift infiltrates the alien "rogue specter" squid-ship; they are able to penetrate the biological core of the ship and infect it with a virus, which causes the ship to spiral out of control and lose its grip on the Odyssey, which blasts it apart.
In the Progenitor lab, Miller gains some control access to the Progenitor weapon by providing it with a sample of her blood; Night and the others are then able to divert enough power from the weapon to prevent its fire from reaching the Odyssey or the specter. However, the process is not completely successful, as some of the diverted power overloads its feedback circuits and causes something of an electrical storm inside the control room. Several crew are injured.
Surface-side, Wolfe, Dresari, and Parinas (who was injured in their shuttle's crash) are able to make contact with one of the other ships in the Odyssey's taskforce, the Aegis-class USS Hera, which sends one of its own shuttles to pick them up.
EPISODE 51: "Pit Crew: Part II" (9 June 2009)
The away team stranded in the Veramen crater splits into two teams. One, led by Commander Miller pursues options as to shutting down, weakening, or otherwise disabling the Progenitor weapon aimed at the "Specter" ship menacing the Odyssey (which would, if fired, destroy the Odyssey as well). The other, led by Commander Wolfe, attempts to take the Stormchaser shuttle back to the surface to warn the Odyssey; they are intercepted by further mining operations from the Specter ship and are thrown out of the hole and crash with systems disabled.
Shipside, the remaining command crew decides to send a strike force into the Specter ship in an attempt to administer a disabling virus to its biological components.
EPISODE 50: "Pit crew" (2 June 2009)
Wolfe, Miller, Stewart, Valerian, Lucindak, Parinas, Night, Dresari, Swift, T'Paura and Shaakath take a Stormchaser shuttlecraft back down into the Veramen crater, finding it cleansed of radiation, presumably by the AI which spoke to them a day earlier. They are not contacted by the voice in the caverns this time, but instead discover a huge Progenitor city structure beneath the rock and encounter a VI named Tau who informs them that the structure is actually a laboratory, a "genetic foundry." After some further questions, they instruct him to transport them to the main foundry core.
Meanwhile, Andrews passes the time on the ship until one of the mysterious leviathan ships returns to the system. It does not fire on the Federation ships in the area, except for destroying one Newton-class which fires on it, but remains in position between the Odyssey and the surface, cutting off the planetside team's return route.
EPISODE 49: "Chaos Theory" (26 May 2009)
A team consisting of Wolfe, Miller, Dresari, Night, Parinas, and Wolf takes a Stormchaser into the radiation-soaked crater left on Veramen by the mysterious attacking leviathan ships. They find caverns nearly 10 km underground and begin to investigate but encounter still-active technology and something which speaks directly into their minds, calling them "Reclaimers" and instructing them to return in one day, as it is "not ready." They are repelled by a mysterious force back to the top of the crater and decide to return at the specified time after reporting in.
Andrews, Monroe, Stewart, Valerian, Lucindak, Eastwood, and Leary, who have been working surface-side on recovery efforts, are caught in a violent protest by Etaurians who dislike or distrust the presence of the aliens on their planet. During the protest a grenade is thrown at the team, which goes off, injuring Lieutenant Leary. The team manages to get to safety aboard the Nightingale and the riot is quelled, but not before Leary dies from the injuries she has sustained.
Dr. Swift meets the civilian teams returning to the Odyssey and converses with two newly assigned members, Ambassador T'Paura and Dr. Shaakath.
EPISODE 48: "Below the Battalion" (19 May 2009)
A team consisting of Takahashi, Valerian, Eastwood, Night, Leary, Dresari, Parinas, and Swift travels to the planet below the crushed Starfleet battlegroup and find that it was decimated by the mysterious alien attackers; they are located by the pre-warp civilization residing there, the Etaurians, and make peaceful contact.
Meanwhile, the captain leads a tactical training scenario on the bridge.
EPISODE 47: "Cavalry" (5 May 2009)
Wolfe, Stewart, Valerian, Eastwood, Night, Parinas, Wolf, and KPeck take a Stormchaser-class runabout to do reconnaissance at the site of the attack on the Andromeda battlegroup and arrive to find massive hulks of the Federation ships, a partially decimated planet, and two enormous alien vessels, the attackers, which bear Progenitor resemblances but have never been seen by the Federation before. The alien ships warp out without spotting the Stormchaser, so the Odyssey warps in and begins the recovery of the survivors.
EPISODE 46: "Roll Out" (28 February 2009)
The Odyssey departs from orbit around Oridian, testing to make sure that its newly installed refit upgrades are holding together well and getting their new crew, including ASEC Ensign Willliam K'Peck and AENG Ensign Zack Moore, settled in. Everything is going smoothly until the ship receives a distress call from the Excelsior and the battlegroup they are to rendezvous with; the fleet is under attack by an unknown adversary. The Odyssey increases pace to investigate.
EPISODE 45: "Give Me a Break: Part II" (21 April 2009)
The Odyssey's crew, having conquered the evil menace of netsplits, continues their shore leave in the Oridian system while the ship undergoes refits with a Forge-class.
EPISODE 44: "Give Me a Break" (14 April 2009)
The crew takes shore leave and refit/repairs at Oridian II, a planet in the Verge. Their shore leave is rudely interrupted, however, by netsplits in the FSF IRC network, and will continue next week.
EPISODE 43: "Core of the Issue" (7 April 2009)
While the Odyssey's crew is preparing for another explorational journey to the Poular'a planetoid, a sudden alien transporter kidnaps approximately a thousand of the crew and civilian populace, including Andrews, Valerian, Takahashi, Donte, Leary, and Swift. They are taken to a huge Progenitor structure where they finally find and converse with Heracles, the AI they have been searching for. Wolfe and the rest of the crew struggle through the ambient sensor interference to finally locate the missing crew inside the Poular'a star, which is actually an artifical Progenitor construct.
EPISODE 42: "Cleanup Crew" (31 March 2009)
The Odyssey's science and engineering teams, with the assistance of Eastwood, Dresari, and the air group, knock the massive fragment of lunar debris out of its collision course with the Poular'a homeworld.
EPISODE 41: "Quiet Space" (24 March 2009)
The Odyssey drops off a biosuited away team consisting of Wolfe, Miller, Takahashi, Eastwood, Valerian, Lucindak, and Swift on the small planetoid found in the "clearing" of the Icarus Nebula. There they encounter a humanoid race called the Poular'a, who seem to have expected their coming; they show little recognition for terms used by the Progenitors, such as "Reclaimer," but they know of the existence of Heracles and seem to revere him. Meanwhile, Andrews, Night, Dresari, and Stewart, along with Parinas and Wolf in their fighters, take the Odyssey to investigate the unstable red giant overshadowing the Poular'a planetoid -- it grows increasingly volatile as they scan it and eventually throws out a huge solar flare which sends out a shockwave, damaging the Odyssey and flooding the area with more radiation.
EPISODE 40: "Thick as Pea Soup" (17 March 2009)
The Odyssey enters the Icarus Nebula following the map given to them by Kazeo; the nebula is a navigational challenge because of gravimetric distortions, ambient radiation, and severe sensor interference. As the Odyssey proceeds further in, these problems grow more severe and begin to place severe strain on the Odyssey's power distribution and systems, threatening the crew with destruction or severe radiation poisoning in the event of shield failure. However, they are able to keep the ship together and navigate through the nebula until they are thrown into a clear area containing an aging star (the source of the radiation), a giant planet, and a nearly hidden tiny planetoid -- their destination.
EPISODE 39: "New Arrivals" (10 March 2009)
Admiral Martin Eastwood (father of Zachary Eastwood) arrives aboard the Odyssey with his wife and receives the grand tour, while Miller, Takahashi, Stewart, Valerian, Dresari, and Swift examine the data crystals provided to them by Kazeo. These spring to life under the examination and activate each other to create a starmap pointing towards a small planetoid in the Icarus Nebula, a likely starting point in their search for the Progenitor Heracles.
EPISODE 38: "Beneath the Legacy" (3 March 2009)
A team from the Odyssey interacts with Kazeo in his lab and learns that the Progenitor AI Heracles returned from his travel to Earth several centuries before and took up residence in a nebula deep in the Verge. Eastwood attempts to access the half-active Progenitor computer architecture as Takahashi and Valerian converse with Kazeo.
EPISODE 37: "Retrieval" (24 February 2009)
Wolfe, Eastwood, Takahashi, and Leary, and Night take the USS Arctic Fox and a strike team of marines and join Parinas and Wolf at the hideout of the USS Odyssey NCC-1832, where after a short battle they disable the Constitution-class's shields and sensors and board her, disabling her crew and towing her back towards the Perception-class Odyssey. Meanwhile, Andrews, Dresari, Valerian, and Swift discover a Progenitor structure buried beneath the wreck of the Legacy which turns out to be the lab of the AI version of Kazeo, who explains some of the circumstances of the crash a hundred years ago.
EPISODE 36: "A Piece of the Past" (17 February 2009)
As Engineering completes their nacelle repairs, Kingsley and Lucindak discuss the political situation, Eastwood investigates the Legacy's mostly-intact computer core, and Valerian performs autopsies on some of its crew, the missing Constitution-class USS Odyssey appears in orbit as well. As her captain introduces himself, several of the old Odyssey's security team sneak past the Perception-class's security systems, incapacitate Hunter and Night, and make off with a warp core junction, disabling the Perception-class and disappearing. Odyssey's new CAG and squadron leader, Parinas and Wolf, pursue the older ship in fighters while the Perception-class scrambles to recover.
EPISODE 35: "On the Road Again" (10 February 2009)
Hunter and Donte wrestle the remaining damage to the Odyssey after the Jovian battle, including damage to the port nacelle which nearly causes a catastrophic breach before it is contained. Meanwhile, Takahashi, Eastwood, Valerian, Lucindak, Leary, and Swift explore the planet of Altera V, a heavily rainforested planet, where they discover the remains of a Constitution-class Federation ship half-buried in the wreckage of a crash from almost a hundred years ago.
EPISODE 34: "Operation Silent Retrieve" (3 February 2009)
ECW-equipped ships in the Andromeda task force take up a stealth presence in the Jovian-held nebula, supervising the insertion of a dropship containing Shadowfox, Leary, Valerian, and several marines. This team infiltrates the Jovian dreadnought and retrieves Miller and Takahashi from captivity. The Odyssey and the rest of the Andromeda fleet enter the nebula to cover the escape and retreat of the infiltration teams and, while taking damage, manage to retrieve the team safely and destroy the Jovian dreadnought.
EPISODE 33: "The Summit: Part II" (27 January 2009)
Miller, Valerian, Takahashi, Dresari, and Swift continue investigations aboard the Keep; Takahashi undergoes a flash of memory from the Kazeo personality he holds, which gives him a glimpse of the "Heracles" they are searching for. Before they can follow up on the lead, several Jovians appear on the station, size up the team, and then kidnap Miller and Takahashi. At the same time, negotiations between the FSA and the Endari are interrupted when more Jovian extremists attack Andrews and shoot him in the stomach. Both teams return to the Odyssey, which gives chase to the escaping Jovian ship but temporarily loses them in a nebula.
EPISODE 32: "The Summit: Part I" (20 January 2009)
The conflict between the Endari and the Alurians has come to a stop. As such, the Endari dispatch an envoy to the Keep, and the Odyssey, along with Andrews and his crack team of diplomats, arrives to help mediate the proceedings -- starting with a friendly opening dinner over which the Federation, Alurian, and Endari representatives discuss the political future of their respective entities. Meanwhile, the science team is deployed back to the Keep to investigate Eve's knowledge of the gateway, revealing that Jamie has a very critical role to play in their quest to uncover the truth about the Progenitor plan and to find the AI responsible for controlling the Gateway.
EPISODE 31: "Revelations: Part II" (13 January 2009)
With just a day before their departure, a crack team of the Odyssey's engineers and scientist are called down to investigate a construct discovered on the surface of New Eden. After rendezvousing with the Starfleet Corps of Engineers liason, Ensign John David Hunter, the crew is shown an ancient progenitor transportation device that seems to be capable of transporting things across both space and time, acting as a doorway to -- theoretically -- any moment and any place in the history of the universe. However, the team is unable to discover how to operate the device and alter its temporal and spatial settings which are currently set to that very moment in time billions of light years from where the team is standing, on arid plains of Africa. Meanwhile, Eastwood and Andrews discuss the security risks the ship is facing given the amount of sensitive information they are dealing with as well as the steps that must be taken to ensure that information is protected; Monroe works with Lucindak to ready her for a journey back to the Keep to investigate the way Eve responds to a non-terran being from the Milky Way.
EPISODE 30: "Revelations: Part I" (6 January 2009)
After two months of down time, the senior officers and their aids gather in the ship's ready room to discuss the revelations of the Valerian-Eastwood away mission. The crew acknowledges the possibility of security gaps and the potential threat this information and the technology presents should it fall into the wrong hands. With a plethora of things left to work on and discuss, Andrews is suddenly pulled out of the ready room - leaving the crew with a handful of orders and a mountain of mysteries left to be sorted throug
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EPISODE 29: "The Stand: Part III" (16 December 2008)
The Endari fleet arrives at the Keep and the battle explodes; the Alliance fleet takes heavy damage. The Odyssey battles with the huge siege ship, which blows out a large chunk of the Odyssey's engineering hull; the crew sustains heavy casualties. Meanwhile, the team aboard the Keep solves the Librarian's riddle by providing the AI with the word "Sol" and some of Takahashi's blood, which proves him to be one of the "Reclaimers." The Keep folds up into a huge ship and activates its weaponry systems, which vaporize much of the Endari fleet, ending the battle.
EPISODE 28: "The Stand: Part II" (9 December 2008)
Efforts continue to activate the Keep's dormant systems, with Leary, Stewart, Takahashi, and Miller attempting to communicate with the Librarian AI and convince it that they are the "Reclaimers" it seeks. Andrews, Wolfe, Riley, Eastwood, and Dresari continue tactical planning in the CIC, and Monroe and Valerian deal with the first "casualty" of the battle -- an exhausted engineer suffering from plasma burns after a slip.
EPISODE 27: "The Stand: Part I" (2 December 2008)
The Odyssey's new Marine Commander, Major Robert Shadowfox, and new Helm/Ops officer, Ensign Thomas Dresari, arrive to take their respective posts; Shadowfox confers with Andrews and Eastwood, while Dresari meets Wolfe and Kingsley, who also discusses plans for the upcoming battle with Lucindak. The Odyssey receives an encrypted audio transmission from the Serric leader Terrynt, who provides a packet of information on a secret Endari super-ship which could wipe out the Keep. Meanwhile, a team including Miller, Leary, Stewart, Takahashi, and Night works to begin fixing and energizing the Keep's powerful inactive systems, while Monroe and Valerian revive Riley and check on his alter ego's stored personality.
EPISODE 26: "Drums of War: Part II" (18 November 2008)
The Odyssey arrives at the Sanjed system and waits for several hours for the arrival of the Endari diplomatic corps, but they never arrive -- the Federation and Alurian ships are instead beset by an Endari sneak attack which destroys the Shadowolf and causes heavy damage to other Federation support craft before just as abruptly disappearing. The Odyssey tracks the Endari course and discovers that, having diverted some of the FSA defensive force, they are closing on the Keep. The Odyssey and company depart via slipstream to reach the Keep before the Endari. Meanwhile, Swift prepares to lead the civilian population's evacuation, and Riley's younger self commandeers a Valkyrie during the short battle.
EPISODE 25: "Drums of War: Part I" (11 November 2008)
The senior staff meets to discuss the increasing tension between the massing Endari and FSA powers and a planned meeting between the leaders of both sides aboard the Odyssey. Takahashi, Stewart, and Swift drink coffee, clean for company, and chat belowdecks.
EPISODE 24: "Discovery Squared" (4 November 2008)
The USS Excelsior, another Discovery-class ship, arrives with two other ships in Andromeda to supplement the fleet in the wake of rising tensions, bearing crewmen with ties to Lucindak's past and Wolfe's. Valerian and Monroe continue to work on Riley's mental problems.
EPISODE 23: "Abaddon" (28 October 2008)
The crew investigates the USS Abaddon, a science ship which has mysteriously ceased all communication with the rest of the fleet. A team consisting of Valerian, Leary, Miller, Stewart, Swift, and McCormick travels to the Abaddon and is trapped there after finding that the crew has been turned into zombies; Eastwood manages to disable their shields and beam the team off at the last second. Meanwhile, Monroe rearranges her department, Takahashi returns to light duty, and Wolfe discovers that Riley's return to normalcy was only temporary. Happy Halloween to our members!
EPISODE 22: "Rising Tensions" (21 October 2008)
The Odyssey battles and disables the Endari warbird in orbit of Detri V, but it self-destructs before they can learn anything from it. Doctor Valerian speaks to the possessed Lieutenant Takahashi and returns with him to the surface. Meanwhile the Away Team uses Penelope to temporarily break the AI's hold but not before it attempts to use Commander Riley in lieu of Jamie and knocks him unconscious.
EPISODE 21: "Let There Be Light" (14 October 2008)
Takahashi continues to express dual personalities in sickbay and eventually articulates the voice of Kazeo, a self-proclaimed historian. The bridge crew is forced to go to red alert when an Endari warbird with a malfunctioning cloaking device suddenly appears in front of them with weapons charged. The team on the surface communicates with the power plant AI, which asks to speak to Jamie. When beaming him down proves impossible due to red alert, the AI traps the team behind forcefields.
EPISODE 20: "Giants in the Earth: Part II" (7 October 2008)
Valerian, Swift, and Hii attempt to extract Jamie from the dormant power plant, which seems to be using him to reactivate itself. Hii attempts a rescue by entering the light using a field generator to deflect some of the power stream. While the rescue succeeds, Hii is killed in the process when the strain of the power surges bursts his heart.
Meanwhile, Riley and Janus travel to the Shadowolf to assist in repairs.
EPISODE 19: "Giants in the Earth" (30 September 2008)
An away team consisting of Captain Andrews, Lt. Cmdr. Miller, Lt. Takahashi, Lt. Valerian, Ensign Leary, Ensign McCaffery, and Doctor Swift heads for Detri V to begin the descent into the underground city Andrews and Valerian discovered. Meanwhile, an antimatter resupply run goes awry due to a sensor malfunction, causing minor damage to the Odyssey and its supply ship, the USS Shadowolf.
EPISODE 18: "Pit Stop" (23 September 2008)
The crew takes shore leave on Detri V, a resort planet in the Verge, while the Odyssey works on shield repair and resupply. Wacky hijinks ensue.
EPISODE 17: "On a Knife's Edge" (16 September 2008)
Wolfe and Monroe are with difficulty coaxed into sickbay and the entire away team is, with varying levels of difficulty, brought back to survivable states. Hii, Wolfe, Monroe, and Miller return to duty. Meanwhile, the Odyssey has a standoff with the Endari, broken by the Serric, who communicate from the planet and indicate familiarity with the Endari, instructing the Federation crew not to interfere with Endari business in the system.
EPISODE 16: "Cold Comfort" (9 September 2008)
The away team makes it to the surface of Draynar and reestablishes contact with the Odyssey. However, they nearly freeze to death before they can be successfully retrieved. As they arrive back aboard, a pair of Endari warships decloak also in orbit of Draynar.
EPISODE 15: "In the Shadows" (2 September 2008)
Wolfe, Miller, Hii, Leary, and Blair travel to Draynar to being scientific surveys and are accosted by a pack of native creatures, huge dumb-brute canines. Blair is dragged off, but the others are rescued by a creature called Terrynt, who identifies his race as the Serric and their assailants as the Seraphal. He takes the team below ground to escape the Seraphal, where they are cut off from contact with the ship. Terrynt seems to know a great deal about the Federation, calling several of the team by name. Meanwhile, Riley and Andrews discuss the shield systems, Valerian and Takahashi work on the Trill Death Plague, Miller's fiance (Lt. Cmdr. Brian Kingsley) arrives on the Odyssey, and a crew of marines is dispatched after the missing away team. The USS Athena, an escort ship, also arrives, bearing an Admiral Cain who wishes to speak to Andrews.
EPISODE 14: "On the Verge" (26 August 2008)
The Odyssey, en route to the Verge, has a memorial service for the casualties lost in the battle with the Jovian extremists, the first deaths of the Andromeda mission. Members of the crew meet to talk and recover from their ordeal.
EPISODE 13: "Departure Delays" (19 August 2008)
The Odyssey undocks from the Keep in preparation to depart to explore the Verge, but before they can leave they are attacked by Jovian religious extremists who believe the arrival of the Odyssey heralds their apocalypse. The ship takes heavy damage before being rescued by Sky Marshal Ratec'Midic with an Alurian warbird. Meanwhile, Ensign Valerian and her merry band of medical NPCs fight through a difficult and dangerous surgical procedure to save the lives of Monroe and Lucindak.
EPISODE 12: "The Keep: Part III" (12 August 2008)
The science team continues their work at the Keep; Ensign Valerian's breakthroughs allow the team to access the more protected areas of the Archive's information storage. They begin downloading data and questioning the Librarian and its database. Meanwhile, Andrews, Monroe, and Lucindak conclude negotiations with the council, with the decision that representatives of each council race will accompany the Federation ships as a test of their good faith. The diplomatic team returns and Lucindak starts showing signs of Monroe's "illness."
EPISODE 11: "The Keep: Part II" (5 August 2008)
The science team begins to explore the Archives, a section of the Keep containing the records left by the Progenitors, but are struck frozen temporarily by "The Librarian," an AI which poses them a riddle, saying they must prove themselves worthy before they can access the Archives -- and gives them only a limited number of chances. Meanwhile, Monroe and Lucindak shop and explore the Keep's commercial section while Andrews deliberates with the Council.
EPISODE 10: "The Keep: Part I" (29 July 2008)
The Odyssey travels towards The Keep, accompanied by a member of the secretive "Guides" who assist them in reaching the giant Alliance space station. Andrews appears at the senior staff briefing looking uncharacteristically upset, but nevertheless gets his orders out -- a science team will deploy to the station to explore and learn more about it while the diplomatic team meets with the Council in an attempt to legitimize the Federation's presence in Andromeda. The ship arrives at the Keep and docks and the crew admires the ship before beginning preparations for the away team departures.
EPISODE 9: "New Q" (22 July 2008)
The Odyssey, accompanied by another Starfleet ships and several Alurian vessels, sets course for the station known as "The Keep," where they hope to establish contact with the other races of the Free Species Alliance. Life seems to be returning to normal until the crew is visited by a member of the Q Continuum who torments them, then departs, leaving behind a cryptic warning.
EPISODE 8: "Delegation" (15 July 2008)
Captain Andrews, Doctor Monroe, and Ensign Leary head once again for Aluria's surface and meet with the matriarch, Andi'Mroz, and the Alurian military commander, Ratec'Midic. The Alurians are mildly suspicious of the newcomers into their space, but agree to allow the Federation free travel for the moment, as well as an escort to the Keep, the large space station from which the Free Species Alliance governs. Meanwhile, life on the ship goes on as normal, and the science teams begin going through the immense data library provided to them by the Alurian government.
EPISODE 7: "Vanishing Act: Part II" (1 July 2008)
While Andrews is interrogated and tortured, Wolfe manages to break a signal through to the Odyssey with the captain's commbadge. The crew determines that they are in a cavern beneath 300 m of rock and Lt. Riley decides to use the Odyssey's phaser banks to burn through enough rock to allow a team to beam through. Lt. Hii, Lt. Takahashi, and Ensign Leary beam through the rock and after a pitched battle manage to eliminate the Endari resistance in the hideout. While the Captain and Commander are beamed to sickbay, Takahashi begins work on equipment from the caves, but a security device causes them to disintegrate on a molecular level. The team returns to the ship and Monroe restores Andrews and Wolfe most of the way back to health.
EPISODE 6: "Vanishing Act: Part I" (24 June 2008)
Captain Andrews and Commander Wolfe, while exploring Aluria and waiting for their appointment to meet with the planet's governing council, mysteriously disappear in an area known as "The Pocket," a crime-ridden, sensor-impenetrable area which coincides with the Alurian market district. Chaos reigns on the bridge, Riley, Monroe, and Lucindak attempt to coordinate with the Alurian government, and Miller, Takahashi, and Swift begin working on breaking through the sensor interference.
EPISODE 5: "Welcoming Committee" (10 June 2008)
The Odyssey finally arrives at the outer edge of Andromeda and is immediately greeted by a group of alien Alurian freighters under attack by pirates and calling for aid. The Odyssey comes to their defense and takes damage before being backed up by several large Alurian warships who disperse and destroy the pirates, then contact the Odyssey and invite them to their planet, where Harper and the rest of the fleet already await.
EPISODE 4: "Shattered Wings: Part II" (3 June 2008)
The science team initializes its plan to communicate with the possible intelligence holding and draining the ship. Their call is answered as an energy being enters the bridge and attempts to possess the ship's counselor (who, unable to handle the energy, is killed) and then successfully communicates by occupying Commander Wolfe's body. Captain Andrews and Ensign Lucindak manage to make the situation clear the aliens, known as the Durcelins, who consume energy and meant no harm to the ship or its crew. The Durcelins agree to withdraw and the ship prepares to continue its journey. Captain Andrews offers the now-vacant post of ship's counselor to Ensign Lucindak.
EPISODE 3: "Shattered Wings: Part I" (27 May 2008)
The slipstream voyage to Andromeda seems to be off to an uneventful start. The crew begins to settle in -- Riley and Hii practice combat on the holodeck, Andrews and Wolfe have a game of springball in the gym, and Takahashi gets to know Penelope, the ship's computer. Suddenly, problems appear in the slipstream drive (apparently caused by an intelligent source outside the ship) and the Odyssey is ejected into normal space in the void between galaxies.
EPISODE 2: "A Few Good Men" (20 May 2008)
Klingon TAC and CSEC Lt. Hii and human CAG Lt. Mathew Riley arrive on board the Odyssey, as does a team of civilian scientists led by Dr. Nicholas Swift, who seems to like Lt. Miller. Supplies are stowed aboard the Odyssey and the senior staff's briefing reveals that their mission may involve more than just exploration.
EPISODE 1: "Birth of a Titan" (6 May 2008)
The USS Odyssey is launched from Utopia Planitia with all appropriate pomp and circumstance and sets course for the Andromeda Fleet's official launch-off point at Deep Space 9. En route, they encounter a subspace distortion and the ship and crew get their first test trying to save a trapped freighter.