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Michael Hurst reunited with former Hercules co-star Kevin Sorbo in episode 2.20 of Sorbo's tv show, Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda.  The episode, entitled "Knight, Death, and the Devil," first aired 29 April 2002.

Michael played the Artificial Intelligence (AI) of a High Guard ship, the Clarion's Call.  Held for hundreds of years in Tartarus, the Niezchian P.O.W. camp for High Guard ships, Ryan escaped with the help of the other ships but found there was no help to be found on the outside.   Sorbo's character, Captain Dylan Hunt, found the Clarion's Call serving as a casino ship and took Ryan back to the Andromeda where a plan was hatched to rescue the captive ships from Tarturus.  It soon became apparent that Ryan had been less then truthful about how he had escaped from Tarturus, but he redeems himself when the AI of the Wrath of Achilles is destroyed by the Niezchians, and Captain Hunt appoints him captain of that ship.


Michael received a 2003 Cult TV Festival Award for Best Guest Appearance for his role in this episode; click here for pictures of Michael with the award, and other pictures from the Festival.


 


Ryan:  "Hi! Welcome to the Clarion's Call. Get it all here, sir. We've got games, spa, flesh rooms, and don't forget our new Iolausian buffet!"




Dylan:  "He called you a traitor. I wanna know why".
Ryan:  "Because I am".


Achilles:  "Thank you, Ryan. But I fear we may be too late"



Ryan:  "You'll send the Achilles into the sun, won't you?"
Dylan:  "It's true, I will destroy the ship before I hand it to the Niezchians"


Dylan:  "You didn't find faith, Ryan. Faith found you"



Dylan:  "Tarturus isn't a shipyard; this place is a POW camp. You are High Guard; you're hurting. And I have to bring you home because that is my duty".

Dylan:  "Achilles, without you, I don't know if I can keep the fleet together. . . ." 
Achilles:  "They'll do the right thing . . . Let them know that your new Commonwealth will be a place where they'll have choices, and you'll see their faith. . . . Time to depart the field"




Ryan:  "The AI Eraser could still be lurking in the Achilles' systems. If you take over, it could kill you. I can't have any more deaths on my conscience.  This is my choice".


Ryan:  "They're talking about joining you, sir".
Dylan:  "How many?" 
Ryan:  "All of them, sir"
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Ryan:  "I am missing one thing: A captain, sir". 
Dylan:  "Actually, I've got an ideal candidate in mind. I'm looking at him".

Ryan:  "Sir, I'm an AI. We were built to obey orders, not to give them".

Dylan: 
" . . . sooner or later, we all outgrow what we were built to do. Congratulations, captain".


Ryan:  "The Clarioin's Call is just a beat-up old casino drift . . ." 
Dylan:  "The Wrath of Achilles?"

Ryan:  "It's what it's always been--what I was meant to be--an officer of the High Guard. And a soldier"
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Images and dialogue are from Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda and are copyright 2002, Tribune Entertainment Co.

 


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