I am – Hercules!!

Many, many changes around the corner for “Andromeda” in the wake of the September departure of head writer Robert Hewitt Wolfe ...

* Brent Stait, who reportedly missed numerous recent episodes due to a severe allegic reaction to the makeup that transforms him into the monstrously visaged holy man Rev Bem, will exit the show permanently this season.

* Sources close to the show also indicate that the characters of Rommie and Trance Gemini have received dramatic cosmetic makeovers (reportedly sanctioned by execs determined to make the characters appear more “fuckable”).

* Trance – who reportedly lost her tail in a recent battle mishap at Tribune Entertainment’s insistence - will receive a very “Trek”-y new hairdo, replete with dread extensions, while her purple complexion will become more multihued with gold tones accentuating her bone structure. (Ms. Gemini’s personality will also get a makeover: the sweet-pixie-concealing-a-dark-secret will transmogrify into a haughty supergirl.)

* Rommie also gets a new ‘do, with blue locks that suggest something akin to Bettie Page, Louise Brooks and Cleopatra 2020.

Photos of Canadian hotties Lexa Doig and Laura Bertram sporting their new looks can be found at this official “Andromeda” Webpage.

Here now Coax’s exclusive look at how Capt. Hunt & Co. will serve out the balance of their second season:

2.10 "The Prince.” Teen royalty is the key to the crew quelling an alien uprising, as Dylan and Tyr become co-regents to a recently orphaned young prince.

2.11 "Bunker Hill." The crew returns for the first time to Earth, where Harper and his cousin try to save the homeworld from Nietzschean occupation. (This episode was also supposed to feature the return of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" regular James Marsters as the conniving Nietzschean archduke Charlemagne Bolivar, but - despite the character's popularity and Marsters' expressed willingness to reprise his role - Tribune reportedly refused to meet his price. Wah!)

2.12 "Ourobourous." A big mid-season mystery. Says the Website: “This is the episode that you have all been waiting for. The past and the future converge on the Andromeda Ascendant and all we can say is that what was meant to be - happens, and nothing will ever be the same. The series has hinted about this moment from the beginning, and we dare anyone to guess what it will be. The future of Dylan's mission will depend on it.” What the Website isn't telling you: this was the last episode made under Wolfe's tenure, and it's said to be filled with "meta" commentary regarding the radical changes in the show, as Harper's Magog infestation finally threatens to kill him.

2.13 “Lava and Rockets.” Dylan hijacks a ship.

2.14 "Be All My Sins Remembered." We learn via flashback how Beka met Harper, and that Beka’s boyfriend at the time has a face familiar to people who watch lotsof TV: Costas Mandylor of “Picket Fences,” “Players,” and “Secret Agent Man” fame!

2.15 "The Dance Of The Mayflies." According to the Website: “The story is contagious.” According to Coaxial News, it's a zombie tale about plague victims infected by a hostile, nanobot-based lifeform out to take over the ship.

2.16 “In Heaven Now Are Three.” Dylan, Beka, and Trance go on an Indiana Jones-style adventure in search of a fabled artifact.

2.17 “The Fair Unknown.” We finally meet the fabled Vedrans, long-lost founders of the Commonwealth!

2.18 “The Knight, Death and the Devil.” This one features a POW camp full of captured High Guard starships and their AI avatars! It also boasts “Stargate SG1's” Christopher Judge and Michael Hurst, who played Kevin Sorbo’s little buddy Iaolus on “Hercules – the Legendary Journeys.”

2.19 “Belly of the Beast.” A big space monster swallows the Andromeda.

2.20 “Immaculate Perception.” Tyr learns he's a daddy.

2.21 “The Things We Cannot Change.” A money-saving clip show! Yes, Andromeda's very own "Shades of Grey"!

2.22 “The Tunnel at the End of the Light.” “Everything is leading up to the amazing season finale where we meet an alien race that Dylan and his crew were destined to one day face,” hints the official site. What the Website fails to mention: the finale ties up the whole "re-founding of the Commonwealth" story, allowing the show to ditch most of Wolfe's story arc and move toward more stand-alone, action-oriented episodes that will see Dylan and crew bouncing from planet to planet to help aliens in distress.

A very different season finale was reportedly planned before the departure of Wolfe, who allegedly wanted to close out season two with a new threat to Trance that revealed more about her nature and her mission, and resulted in her ostracism from her own people (shades of the Odo story arc from “Deep Space Nine”)!

I warned you not to defy me!!!!

I am – Hercules!!!!

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