Trance runs through a series of possible outcomes to save the crew from a scourge.Trance runs through a series of possible outcomes to save the crew from a scourge.Trance runs through a series of possible outcomes to save the crew from a scourge.
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Captain Dylan Hunt: So, you experience a million possible futures in the time it takes me to blink my eyes, and each one of them looks, feels, sounds, smells, and tastes as real as the conversation we're having right here, right now?
Trance Gemini: In a word, yes.
Captain Dylan Hunt: Wow. All right, here's my question. If that's true, if each one of those futures is indistinguishable from each other and from reality on a quantum level... Trance, how do you know that any of this is real?
Trance Gemini: I don't.
Andromeda comes out of slipstream and immediately spot an object moving towards them at very high speed. Missiles fired at it do nothing, then it appears to vanish. The next thing they know an alien being materialises in front of Harper and starts sabotaging the ship's systems. It then moves to the command deck and fatally shoots Baka. We then return to Trance and her bonsai pruning before further possibilities play out; she tries to guide events to avoid previously explored bad outcomes but every time something goes terribly wrong.
This episode impresses as it finally answers some of the many questions about Trance Gemini; most importantly who she always seems to know the correct choice to make in any situation. It does of course make one wonder why she doesn't get used even more... but for dramatic reasons such a skill can't be over-used. The way this episode explores various 'bad possibilities' before the inevitable solution is found means that there is lots of action which ends in the death of a main character. As we learn more about the attacking alien the more interesting it becomes, it also explains why all attempts to defeat it fail. Overall I thought this was a fun episode; it was nice to see Laura Bertram's Trance Gemini take centre stage for once.