

His first words to Valentine were a warning to duck while he blew up a weapons locker. She wouldn't!"īeka first encountered Dylan - she won't call him Captain - when she towed the Andromeda Ascendant out of a singularity where it was frozen in time for 300 years.

"I'm the one singing show tunes on the set.

But I think I have more of a sense of humor than Beka does, or I'll put it this way: she's more biting, more sarcastic, and I'm a bit more of a goof." Ryder laughs maniacally. There's a sense of strength that is me, that is her. "There is a bit of an edge to me, and a hard past that I come from. Ryder relates to tough, independent Beka Valentine. I've heard a lot of people ask, 'Why are you taking orders from this Hunt dude?' But I'm not a regular first officer!" "It's a great role for a woman," says Ryder during a rare afternoon off from shooting the highly-rated syndicated series. In practical terms, this means Valentine often takes Captain Dylan Hunt up on his offer to give him a good kick when he needs one. Her new job puts her in command of the salvage freighter Eureka Maru, currently docked in the hold of the Andromeda Ascendant, of which she is acting first officer.
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The actress has already starred in Total Recall 2070, Psi Factor, and upcoming Friday the 13th sequel Jason X, plus Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict. Lisa Ryder, who plays Captain Beka Valentine on Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, doesn't mind trading reality for science fiction.
