Beka Valentine
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Captain Rebecca "Beka" Valentine is the owner of the Eureka Maru and the daughter of Ignatius Valentine and Senator Talia Waterkurk.
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[edit] History
[edit] Childhood
Beka is human but has never lived on a planet, having been born on the salvage ship Eureka Maru which had been built by her drug-addict, cargo-running father, Ignatius Valentine and his friend and business partner, Sid Barry. Beka's semi-rich mother Senator Talia Waterkurk, left the Maru Crew when she was 7, her 'Uncle' Sid also left when she was a child when he and Ignatius had a fight (sparked by Sid's murder of multiple customs officials). Beka's older brother Raphael Valentine left the Maru some time before Ignatius' death in CY 10097.
[edit] Career
Some time after inheriting the Maru, Captain Beka Valentine meets Bobby Jensen. They date for a while and Bobby becomes Beka's only crew member, until he lies to her about the nature of cargo they picked up on Earth with the help of Seamus Harper. (Bobby said they were transporting computers when they were actually stealing missiles.) Beka breaks up with Bobby and hires Harper, later also hiring Rev Bem, Vexpag (who later dies in an accident, traumatizing Beka) and Trance Gemini.
[edit] Salvaging the Andromeda Ascendant
In CY 10087 the Maru pulls the Andromeda Ascendant out of the Hephaistos black hole while under contract with Gerentex. The crew join Dylan Hunt to restore the Systems Commonwealth and Beka becomes Andromeda's First Officer and pilot. At first Beka is skeptical about Dylan's quest, taking advantage of the free food and housing provided by Andromeda. However, after a couple of years, Beka finds herself believing in the dream of a restored Systems Commonwealth.
[edit] Relationships
An interesting relationship blossoms between Beka and fellow crew member Tyr Anasazi, but it is not addressed by both characters until "Shadows Cast by a Final Salute." However, by then it is too late; Tyr leaves the ship, having betrayed Beka and the entire crew of the Andromeda.
[edit] Traits
Beka has inherited altered genes from her father - as a result, she has superior reactions and is stronger than the average human. She also has nanobots in her hair which allows her to change its colour at will. These were implanted by her father when she was a child which, as Beka explains to Trance, he designed because "having one hair colour was boring." [1] Beka's hair nanobots also store data on a molecular level, something Beka only realises after she is interrogated by her father's old business partner and Beka's 'uncle', Sid Barry/Sid Profit. Barry believes that Beka knows the location of some data (a video incriminating both Barry and Beka's father) which her father hid when she was only a child. Beka later uncovers the video and uses it to bargain for her life with Barry, after he reprograms the Eureka Maru's autopilot to fly her into the sun to destroy the evidence.
[edit] Alternate Timelines
[edit] Trance's Future
In the specific "bad future" which Trance returns to fix, Beka was sent on a mission to destroy the local sun in order to incinerate the waves of unknown dimensional aliens. She and Trance were aboard the Maru, but Beka deployed the Nova Bomb too soon, before Andromeda and the allied fleet could escape. The result was that the Andromeda was lost, leaving Beka and Trance to fight the Spirit of the Abyss on their own. Beka becomes gravely injured in many fights thereafter, even to the point where Trance mentions she has to reattach her head, and slowly loses her humanity. At some point it would seem Beka and Trance picked up a child on their adventures but their name, nor face, was ever given.
[edit] Coda
In Robert Hewitt Wolfe's original fan-fiction Coda, where he best lays out his vision for the series, Beka's purpose was to obtain the Engine of Creation, a device that has the ability to shape the universe according to the user's needs, and was created by the Lucifers, Trance's faction of individuals. Beka uses the Engine to resurrect her dead father, Ignatius, and to restore the Andromeda after it's blown apart. She even goes as far as to restore a planet that was destroyed (presumably by Magog or their allies). Eventually, Beka becomes a single entity with the Engine, and has a showdown with the Abyss, absorbing it and becoming a brand new entity, putting an end to great war.
In Andromeda: Season Two, Beka does indeed acquire a piece of Engine, which was said to have been broken into five pieces and scattered over the known worlds. But nothing ever came out of this in the grand scheme of the series after Wolfe's departure.
[edit] Nietzschean Progenitor
When trapped in the Seefra system, Beka meets the Nietzschean creator Peter Musevini (son of Drago Musevini) in disguise. Having secretly taken samples of her DNA, they travel back in time with Peter Musevini and are subsequently used as by Drago as the genetic basis for the Nietzschean race. As all Nietzscheans revere the Nietzschean Progenitor Drago Musevini, therefore if the Nietzscheans knew of their lineage they would also revere Beka as their Founding Matriarch.
[edit] Appearances
[edit] References
- ↑ Andromeda Season 1 Episode 11, "Pearls That Were His Eyes".
