The second season of "Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda" is about to wrap in first-run syndication, and the hiatus has given some actors like Lexa Doig (Andromeda) a chance to reflect on what happened. With the departure of series developer Robert Hewitt Wolfe, co-producer and reported heir apparent Ethlie Ann Vare and actor Brent Stait (Rev Bem), Doig said she is concerned about the future of the show.



"We have no idea what's going to greet us," Doig recently told Nick Joy of Xpose magazine. "We had a lot of changes in the second season, and now Robert Wolfe -- who wrote the series bible -- has left the show. We've got a new head writer (Robert Engels), but we've pretty much got the same writing staff. I know that there are changes about the direction of the show, and I'm really fascinated about what the third season holds.



"A lot of ideas about where the show was going came from Robert Wolfe's plan. Now that he's gone, all bets are off. So, while I'm looking forward to it, at the same time I'm a little afraid."



The elimination of major story arcs may have been a good thing for the show, however, Doig said.



"I would show episodes to friends of mine and they would say, 'Who's this? What's that? We don't understand what's going on.'" she said. "I think it's great that Robert didn't try to appeal to the lowest common denominator, but you had to follow every episode to know what was going on. You really do need standalone episodes where you don't need to have seen the last three shows to know who the people are, and what their mission is."



Doig, however, said that how the look change of some of the characters could've been handled better.



"A lot of visual changes happened because the powers that be at Fireworks and Tribune said, 'We're not happy with the look of hte show, you have to change it,' so the poor writers had to go away and find ways to explain the changes. But some of them weren't explained at all, and I disagree with that.



"I've always thought that Rommie should stay in uniform, but she's not any more. And there have been a couple of costumes where I've looked at them and gone, 'You've got to be kidding me!' But our costume designer is good at splitting the difference and compromising a little bit. The visual changes on the show have for the most part settled down for now, but next year I'm hoping that they'll at least explain them in the story."



Finally, Doig said she is unsure if they'll be replacing Rev Bem on the Andromeda Ascendant in Season 3.



"They have to think about the makeup problems that Brent had, and at the same time, they don't want to spread themselves too thin over a cast of seven characters," Doig said. "They had a lot on their plates with seven characters last year. When it got down to six, certain relationships congealed a little bit more, and I'm not sure that they even know what they're going to do."