Damsel Scrappy: Midea, the only other Kodiak Nitzchean alive. While claiming she's So Beautiful, It's a Curse and how all men want her, her arrogant, painfully melodramatic and insipidly vain preoccupation with physical beauty is downright insufferable, even as her personality is played straight as a perfection to be aspired to. A real case of Canon Sue in this series, it comes as a relief when Becka shoots her... and irritating when she survives.
Fan Nickname: Several fans use the names "Core" and "Logic" to refer to Andromeda's screen and hologram selves, respectively, to contrast with her android avatar Rommie.
Growing the Beard: The series' lighting, make-up, costuming, and writing improves after the first mid-season break (beginning with "Music of a Distant Drum" and "Harper 2.0"), and introduces the Magog/Spirit of the Abyss plot and a shift to a more ensemble-based set up. The cheese also shifts from embarrassing to self-aware and fun. Many fans believe this was undone shortly after "Ouroboros," while others feel that episode was when the show truly Grew the Beard. Later in the series overarching story and character arcs were dropped in favor of episodic episodes. Storylines were changed to focus mostly on Dylan. Most appear to agree that the beard stopped growing after season two.
Good Bad Translation: A certain DVD release suffers from this. The entirety of season 2 and some episodes of season 3 are the worst offenders by far. So what if the subtitles don't remember proper punctuation in season 1? And there are no capital letters, except the first in every line, even when not supposed to be there. The subtitles in season 2 are way worse than that, by being translated... from an Asian translation. And they're not even correct most of the time. One very horrible offender is in a scene, where Dylan says "Tyr, try not to destroy the warship." The subtitles say "Tyr. Get rid of the warship."
The opening of the show states that "The Long Night has come…", which would later refer more famously to the coming of the White Walkers in Game of Thrones.
Both Lexa Doig (Rommie) and Lisa Ryder (Beka) appear in the horror film Jason X, this time with Doig playing a human being and Ryder playing an android.
A young Cobie Smulders appears in the two-parter finale as Rhade's wife Jillian.
Future Rookie Blue star Missy Peregrym plays an agent of the Spirit of the Abyss sent to retrieve the Voice of Darkness in the episode "Time Out of Mind."
Seasonal Rot: Most fans tend to think that Andromeda ended at "Ouroboros", the last episode made with Robert Hewitt Wolfe in charge (halfway through the second season), before the show become all about Dylan and the seasonal plot arcs were dropped, with each season being progressively worse and further from the show's original vision until in Season 5, the final season, the crew were all stuck on a craptastic planet named Seefra from the premiere until the penultimate episode. Which was as interesting as it sounds. After the series ended, Wolfe produced a short story called "Coda" that ignored everything after "Ouroboros" and told his plan. Although as Wolfe noted, remaining writers from his time as showrunner did try their best to realize parts of his plan in some episodes of Seasons 2 and 3 before the rot fully sunk in, and "The Unconquerable Man" from Season 3 is a fan favorite.
The Magog are meant to be the most terrifying race in the universe, but when shown onscreen... suspension of disbelief may take more than a bit of effort.
The CGI varies between well-done, and "1990s PlayStation game" quality depending on the episode. While the space scenes generally look pretty decent given the time and budget, the same cannot be said for surface scenes, and the computer-generated elements do not always mesh well with the physical elements. The varying quality is more obvious during the earlier seasons.
Unintentional Period Piece: One of the rare examples of a show that became one even during its original airing as it started out as a contemporary of Star Trek: Voyager and ended up as a contemporary of Battlestar Galactica (2003). Unfortunately for Andromeda, this is a show with a design aesthetic far closer to the former than the latter and suffered for it in the new wave of Darker and Edgier sci-fi that followed. A more specific example can also be found in Season 3, where we suddenly started to get a lot of 24-inspired split-screen that instantly dates this show to a time where this was in vogue.
. Storylines were changed to focus mostly on Dylan. Most appear to agree that the beard stopped growing after season two.