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.
Yo fwiw I have incredible fond memories of andromeda, cleopatra 2525, Xenia warrior princess (them sexy ladies in those costumes 😍 no wonder I’m not straight!), Hercules, Xenia and Hercules, etc etc. 90s-00s sci fy was trash but scratches such an itch now!
The shit they used to air in late night tv after the normal scheduled broadcast ran was the best of tv.
I have a full copy of andromeda in my media self host, along with the others mentioned, cuz while it is cheesy af -today- it was better/not shit/no extra context in its own time.
But also Kevin sorbo is a train wreck in his own rights.. so like… anything touched by that hand was doomed anyway.
Heck yeah, watched all of those, they were so fun. Cleopatra 2525 is one I had almost forgotten about, thanks for reminding me!
I am trying to be a treasure trove of nostalgia. I’m 36 and doing my damndest to maintain media from my childhood (anything I was exposed to, not just stuff from my time)
Do you remember dinosaurs? (If it was during your lifetime, now you do!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNR4hKbSH7I