It Makes A Lovely Light

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Quotation
"Come bitter rain, and wash from my heart the saddest of all words: Home." Ulatempa Poetess, "Song of my Exile" C.Y. 9825
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Season One
Summary
Last Episode
1x20 - Star-Crossed
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1x22 - Its Hour Come 'Round At Last

Synopsis

Continuity

• It's Dylan's 40th birthday.
• Dylan commands the Andromeda for three years now (except the time in the Black Hole). Normally he would hand over the ship to his first officer (Gaheris Rhade).
• The "Birthday-suprise"-scene was shot for Double Helix (1x05) but was cut due to time constraints. However, the scene was so funny that it was decided to move it to another episode. :-)

(Eldorado Drift)

• The events of two epiodes are revived: in The Pearls That Were His Eye (1x11) Beka had her first conract with Flash and in Fear and Loathing in the Milky Way (1x17) HNarpers and Trance found Hasturi's diary.
• The Quotation is from Ulatempa, who prived the quotes for four episodes.

References

Title

• It makes a lovely light comes from Edna St. Vincent Millay's poem "First Fig" (from A Few Figs from Thistles):

I burn my candle at both ends,
It will not last the night
But oh my foes and oh my friends,
It makes a lovely light.

Episode

• The route to Tarn-Vedra would take the ship close to a charged plasma nebula that Beka refers to as "The Black Goat with a Thousand Young". This is one of the titles given to Shub-Niggurath, one of the Outer Gods in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. (TV.com)

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Trivia

• Lisa Ryder received a 2001 Gemini Award nomination for this episode.
• The substance used for "Flash" Milk.

(Eldorado Drift)

Production

• Air time: 07.05.2001
• Season One Production Crew
• Writer: Ethlie Ann Vare
• Director: Michael Robinson
• Cut: Gordon Rempel
• Script