Hey, lets get swallowed by a giant planet-eating space whale. What a neat plot premise. While watching it I kept hearing Star Trek TOS suspense theme music and saw Kirk waiting to get beamed off the other starship by Scotty before Kirk sent the other starship into the planet-eating funnel monster. Of course both the Star Trek episode and this Andromeda episode owe their inspiration to the Jonah and the Whale story.
Dylan: Eat your cake and have it too.
Yeah, I agree with the writers: "Have your cake and eat it too" never made much sense. But why not tie the cake eating into the whale's appetite for ships and planets?
Trance: You can even say we had our cake outside of the box and ate it too.
Oh come on. Once Dylan pointed out the problem with the original formulation if they wanted to throw the "out of the box" line back in couldn't it have been something more like one of these:
Trance: You can even say we took our cake outside of the box and then ate the box.
Trance: You can even say we made the box choke on the cake.
Trance: You can even say we saved our cake from the cake box.
Trance: You can even say we saved two cakes from the box and we still have both of them.
Trance: You can even say we got our cake out of the box and then blew up the box.
One other thing: Once they ejected the Andromeda's slipstream drive then how did they leave the star system they were in? Where exactly could they go to get another slipstream drive for such a powerful ship?
Here's a more conventional description of the episode.
Posted by Randall Parker at September 08, 2002 06:52 PM