Trance Gemini

Trance Gemini
Trance in CY 10087
Aliases/Other Names:	The Purple Princess
Gender:	Genderless (Appears female)
Species:	Solar Avatar
Date of Birth:	Billions of years ago
Ships Position:	Medic, but serves de facto in many other positions
Current Status:	Alive
Family
Mother:	None
Father:	None
Sister(s):	Many other Avatars
Brother(s):	Many other Avatars
Children:	None
Maternal Grandmother:	None
Maternal Grandfather:	None
Paternal Grandmother:	None
Paternal Grandfather:	None
Personal Weapons Systems
Chronological and General Info
Affiliation/Alligences:	Systems Commonwealth Lambent Kith Nebula
Enemies:	Spirit of the Abyss

As I make you, I am able to destroy you.
As I destroy you, I am able to create.
Core

Trance Gemini AKA The Purple Princess is a fictional character in the television series Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, played by Canadian actress Laura Bertram.

Her first appearance on the show is as a young, bubbly, purple-skinned alien of an unknown origin with a prehensile tail (somewhat resembling the Marvel Comics X-Man Nightcrawler). She is somehow representing a cartoony archetype of the animal-like, sweet, sensitive and funny fantasy creature and serves as a comic relief. Her way of thinking is somehow 'out of this world' and innocent. For example, her report on Dylan Hunt's rescue was "I wondered where you were, found you, and brought you back".

She was the last member to join the crew of the Eureka Maru before they rescued the Andromeda Ascendant and its captain, Dylan Hunt, from a black hole. On the Andromeda, she serves as their environmentals and life support officer, xenobiologist, botanist and physician, and is consequently often found in the ship's hydroponics garden or medical deck.

She is mysterious about her true nature, but has made accurate guesswork that saved the crew of the Andromeda on many occasions. This ability has also helped her in gambling games, espionage and thievery when she and the crew needed it.

In mid-season two, Trance undergoes a physical transformation via the effects of a Tesseract machine, which folded space and time. She changes places with a being that tells her that she is an older version of herself. The "new" Trance is still played by Laura Bertram and has the same facial features, but has a very different personality and a golden skin tone instead of purple.

Trance is the avatar of the original Vedran sun, which was built to destroy the Abyss and has special powers and abilities. For instance, she can transform herself into a model of her sun and go supernova at will.

She plays a critical role during the Nietzschean Secession, in which the crew of the Andromeda fought with former crewmember Tyr Anasazi to obtain passage to the Route of Ages.

When the crew was in Seefra, Trance was in her sun state known as the Core creature. Once she was in her humanoid form, she had no recollection of who she was or what she was capable of. On Seefra-2, she met a man named Ione who was really the missing moon of Tarn-Vedra. Later, the Nebula sealed her into Methus-2, the artificial sun of the Seefra system, but thanks to Dylan and Rhade, she was rescued.

Unfortunately, she found out that her people (the Lambent Kith Nebula) were under the spell of the Abyss, but she used her sun to destroy it.

[edit] Memorable Quotes

"I am the avatar of a sun, a star. All things come from me. You are elements of the sun. As I make you, I am able to destroy you. As I destroy you, I am able to create. Awareness is where we travel. No path, I am all gravity, and we exist in all universes and those in-between. What destroys you in this universe will deliver you to the next."

[edit] Alternate History

In Robert Hewitt Wolfe's original plan for Andromeda, Trance's people (still solar avatars) would have been the Lightbringers, or Lucifers, who fought a war in "Heaven" (the original state of the universe as a small perfect space with all matter and energy pressed tightly together) resulting in the Big Bang. The Spirit of the Abyss would have been an embodiment of Love (the twisted stalker kind of Love, or gravity) trying to crush the universe back in on itself. Rather than being the Vedran sun, Trance Gemini would have been, "a sun in the Gemini constellation dreaming it's a person", hence the name. The original vision was lost when Wolfe was replaced as head writer/producer by Bob Engels, but was released as a 20-page online story entitled "Coda".

The difference between the storylines makes understanding -which- information about Trance can be deemed "accurate". Upon reading "Coda", it becomes very obvious as to the multitude of hints dropped in the first two seasons of the series, such as in Pitiless as the Sun, when Trance closes her meeting with Professor Lohgic with an exchange where Lohgic observes that "You enjoy the chaos, don't you?...According to our greatest spiritual texts, chaos is just a manifestation of evil," to which Trance responds, "Are you implying I'm some sort of devil?" It's the mix of this along with the actual observations about Trance, or rather the implied observations made by Harper in Into the Labyrinth about a "naked purple girl being worshiped" that makes it difficult to determine what should apply, and what should not. Of course the conversation with Lohgic and others like it can be simply written off as idle theory on the part of the characters, but it certainly wastes a lot of space coming to the same conclusion. It is generally accepted to simply "write off" most of Trance's character development in the first two seasons for this reason.