Andromeda needed to use its industrial and political premise

What should change if Andromeda were remade as a stronger television series?

Reduce the show's concentration on Dylan Hunt, make more of Andromeda's self-repair and production capacity, and handle the transition from lone ship to restored Commonwealth coherently.

Later seasons are criticised for concentrating too heavily on Dylan Hunt and neglecting the ensemble. The panel disagrees about whether that shift followed Kevin Sorbo's growing creative influence or a studio survey that confused the show's difference from Star Trek with the reason people enjoyed it. Andromeda's ability to rebuild herself from asteroid resources also offered an industrial premise that the series rarely developed. The larger structural criticism concerns the transition from a roaming ship to a fledgling Systems Commonwealth. The new state's size, authority, and relationship to Andromeda remain unclear. Its abrupt turn against the ship then makes the political development harder to follow. The survival of numerous secret factions from the old Commonwealth also draws criticism because their endurance and internal cohesion receive too little explanation.