Looks like next week's episode of Andromeda centers around Rommie and her incompatibility with the ship's A.I. Look for "A Symmetry of Imperfection".
There is a spoiler online if you search for it, and also some vidcaps.
Next week's Andromeda
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Extended Synopsis:
Beka (Lisa Ryder) is investigating the mining planet of Birrin and unable to communicate with the Andromeda due to the rich ore content in the soil. Dylan (Kevin Sorbo) is worried about not being able to raise Beka while she checks out reports of hostile activity. He and Trance (Laura Bertram) take a slipfighter down and find Beka under attack, nearly overwhelmed by Magog. After mopping up the ambushers, they determine the enemy is on the way to scour the planet for resources. No sooner do they say it than a giant Magog satellite ship moves into orbit, blocking out the sun.
Rommie sees the satellite ship moving into position with a host of swarm fighters. Sensing her vulnerability, she orders Harper (Gordon Michael Woolvett) to pilot the Andromeda to slipstream. He successfully navigates through the stream but they are immediately beset by swarm fighters upon exiting. Rommie orders missiles deployed but the system doesn’t respond. Rhade (Steve Bacic) and Harper manage to fight them off with manual controls, the last one escaping to slipstream as the fire controls cease to function. The A.I. ignores Rommie’s orders for their coordinates so Rhade leaves in a slipfighter to lead Dylan, Beka, and Trance back in the Maru. Rommie’s attempt and failure to access the most mundane functions causes her hologram to appear, informing her that a malfunction in her processor targets her as a threat to the ship and crew. Her reaction to the Magog was to flee, thereby stranding Dylan and failing her chief function, never to leave her captain. A.I. is now running an irreversible safety sequence to correct the error, leaving the ship adrift with all functions inaccessible. When Rommie tries to question Harper about her problems, he evades her. And when he makes his first attempt to correct the problems, the A.I. blocks him. [See clip]
Rhade finds the Maru hiding from the Magog. The two ships race past the enemy fighters, heading straight for a giant asteroid. The pursuing ships fire but miss, pulverizing the asteroid into a giant cloud which masks Rhade docking with the Maru and their escape to slipstream. [See clip] They reach the Andromeda and must open the hangar doors manually because all onboard systems are shut down. Once inside, Dylan is furious. When he questions the hologram it informs him that his own feelings towards the ship’s avatar have been considered in the program now running to rid the system of any malfunctions. The program is operating independently, and with complete impunity; nothing will shut it off short of erasing Rommie’s personality, starting her back at square one. Dylan refuses to do that and storms off to find Harper, who is responsible for this program in the first place. After chastising Harper, he finds Beka on command attempting to elicit any response from the computers. He again pleads with Andromeda, informing her that the Magog could attack at any moment. The ship refuses, saying it will only respond to the most immediate threat which has suddenly changed as Harper tried to hack into the security systems and override the program. Andromeda responds by shutting down power throughout the ship. Rommie finds Harper and sends him to meet Dylan and the others, then leaves to defy orders and erase her memory, the only way to ensure the crew’s safety. [See clip]
The ship is rapidly cooling so everyone retreats to the Maru where they can detect the approach of any Magog. Realizing any attempt to fight the satellite ship with the Maru is fruitless; they decide to use the bucky cables to turn the Andromeda towards the most likely slipstream point in order to manually fire the negative-energy bomb. Dylan and Harper put on heat patches to fight the cold and go with Trance to Andromeda’s missile silo to prep the weapon. With the manual aim ready, Rhade and Beka take off in the Maru and snag the Andromeda, maneuvering the huge ship into position. They are ready just in time as alarms begin to sound in the Maru cockpit. The planetary satellite ship has just exited slipstream and is sizing up the Andromeda. As it closes in, Harper frantically punches its coordinates into the firing computer when he notices the Andromeda’s systems rebooting. It can only mean one thing and he informs Dylan but they haven’t time to mourn. Dylan uses the opportunity to jump start the weapon’s trigger, accessing it through a small crawl space. Harper warns that the satellite ship has warmed its point singularity device and is preparing to fire just as the Andromeda shudders with the launch of its own devastating weapon. The powerful missile arcs toward its target and connects, shattering the Magog ship in a brilliant light. The Andromeda’s systems come back online just as swarm ships move in with a vengeance. Rhade activates the missile tubes and easily dispatches the enemy, leaving everyone a chance to let it sink in that Rommie as they knew her is gone. Harper and Dylan search the corridors and find Rommie with her usual characteristics but with none of the humanity they knew in her face. She scans them and greets them per her programming but offers no recognition other than that. Dylan orders the erase reversed and Harper reaches for Rommie’s neck to power her down but she flings him against the wall. She advances on him but hesitates as though recalling memories of her and Harper. She takes another step but stops again when Dylan speaks to her. She is confused but not quite connecting with her past. Harper is convinced that at some point in an A.I.’s life, the sum of their experience actually defines them, outweighing the core programming. She attempts to finish the erasure but Dylan turns her off as her back is turned. They hard wire her into the console and restore her memory. She wakes with full recognition and Dylan summons the ship’s hologram and A.I. He addresses all three, confirming full permissions have been restored and impressing upon them how the uniqueness of each completes the others. Upon making sure this fail-safe will never occur again, he orders the ship to slipstream.
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Extended Synopsis:
Beka (Lisa Ryder) is investigating the mining planet of Birrin and unable to communicate with the Andromeda due to the rich ore content in the soil. Dylan (Kevin Sorbo) is worried about not being able to raise Beka while she checks out reports of hostile activity. He and Trance (Laura Bertram) take a slipfighter down and find Beka under attack, nearly overwhelmed by Magog. After mopping up the ambushers, they determine the enemy is on the way to scour the planet for resources. No sooner do they say it than a giant Magog satellite ship moves into orbit, blocking out the sun.
Rommie sees the satellite ship moving into position with a host of swarm fighters. Sensing her vulnerability, she orders Harper (Gordon Michael Woolvett) to pilot the Andromeda to slipstream. He successfully navigates through the stream but they are immediately beset by swarm fighters upon exiting. Rommie orders missiles deployed but the system doesn’t respond. Rhade (Steve Bacic) and Harper manage to fight them off with manual controls, the last one escaping to slipstream as the fire controls cease to function. The A.I. ignores Rommie’s orders for their coordinates so Rhade leaves in a slipfighter to lead Dylan, Beka, and Trance back in the Maru. Rommie’s attempt and failure to access the most mundane functions causes her hologram to appear, informing her that a malfunction in her processor targets her as a threat to the ship and crew. Her reaction to the Magog was to flee, thereby stranding Dylan and failing her chief function, never to leave her captain. A.I. is now running an irreversible safety sequence to correct the error, leaving the ship adrift with all functions inaccessible. When Rommie tries to question Harper about her problems, he evades her. And when he makes his first attempt to correct the problems, the A.I. blocks him. [See clip]
Rhade finds the Maru hiding from the Magog. The two ships race past the enemy fighters, heading straight for a giant asteroid. The pursuing ships fire but miss, pulverizing the asteroid into a giant cloud which masks Rhade docking with the Maru and their escape to slipstream. [See clip] They reach the Andromeda and must open the hangar doors manually because all onboard systems are shut down. Once inside, Dylan is furious. When he questions the hologram it informs him that his own feelings towards the ship’s avatar have been considered in the program now running to rid the system of any malfunctions. The program is operating independently, and with complete impunity; nothing will shut it off short of erasing Rommie’s personality, starting her back at square one. Dylan refuses to do that and storms off to find Harper, who is responsible for this program in the first place. After chastising Harper, he finds Beka on command attempting to elicit any response from the computers. He again pleads with Andromeda, informing her that the Magog could attack at any moment. The ship refuses, saying it will only respond to the most immediate threat which has suddenly changed as Harper tried to hack into the security systems and override the program. Andromeda responds by shutting down power throughout the ship. Rommie finds Harper and sends him to meet Dylan and the others, then leaves to defy orders and erase her memory, the only way to ensure the crew’s safety. [See clip]
The ship is rapidly cooling so everyone retreats to the Maru where they can detect the approach of any Magog. Realizing any attempt to fight the satellite ship with the Maru is fruitless; they decide to use the bucky cables to turn the Andromeda towards the most likely slipstream point in order to manually fire the negative-energy bomb. Dylan and Harper put on heat patches to fight the cold and go with Trance to Andromeda’s missile silo to prep the weapon. With the manual aim ready, Rhade and Beka take off in the Maru and snag the Andromeda, maneuvering the huge ship into position. They are ready just in time as alarms begin to sound in the Maru cockpit. The planetary satellite ship has just exited slipstream and is sizing up the Andromeda. As it closes in, Harper frantically punches its coordinates into the firing computer when he notices the Andromeda’s systems rebooting. It can only mean one thing and he informs Dylan but they haven’t time to mourn. Dylan uses the opportunity to jump start the weapon’s trigger, accessing it through a small crawl space. Harper warns that the satellite ship has warmed its point singularity device and is preparing to fire just as the Andromeda shudders with the launch of its own devastating weapon. The powerful missile arcs toward its target and connects, shattering the Magog ship in a brilliant light. The Andromeda’s systems come back online just as swarm ships move in with a vengeance. Rhade activates the missile tubes and easily dispatches the enemy, leaving everyone a chance to let it sink in that Rommie as they knew her is gone. Harper and Dylan search the corridors and find Rommie with her usual characteristics but with none of the humanity they knew in her face. She scans them and greets them per her programming but offers no recognition other than that. Dylan orders the erase reversed and Harper reaches for Rommie’s neck to power her down but she flings him against the wall. She advances on him but hesitates as though recalling memories of her and Harper. She takes another step but stops again when Dylan speaks to her. She is confused but not quite connecting with her past. Harper is convinced that at some point in an A.I.’s life, the sum of their experience actually defines them, outweighing the core programming. She attempts to finish the erasure but Dylan turns her off as her back is turned. They hard wire her into the console and restore her memory. She wakes with full recognition and Dylan summons the ship’s hologram and A.I. He addresses all three, confirming full permissions have been restored and impressing upon them how the uniqueness of each completes the others. Upon making sure this fail-safe will never occur again, he orders the ship to slipstream.
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