Gerentex
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Gerentex is a Guest star in Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda appearing in 3 episodes in season one only.
Gerentex is a Nightsider and is therefore very self-absorbed and always looking for a way to make money, he is responsible for hiring the Crew of the Eureka Maru with the purpose of pulling the Andromeda ascendant from the event horizon of a black hole in season one episode one and its accompanying second part (season one episode two). Gerentex however fails in his plan as the Crew of the Maru turn against him to help Dylan Hunt, in response Gerentex tries to destroy the Andromeda saying, 'if I can't have her no one will.' This also fails and the Maru is then borded by Beka Valentine and Dylan Hunt who knocks out Gernetex and puts him in a crippled escape pod in the hope he will think about his crimes and come out a better person when he reaches the nearest pleasure drift in a few months time.
In a later season one episode Gerentex then reappears whilst Trance and Harper are on a drift spreading the word of the New systems commonwealth, he is being pursed by a bounty hunter and to escape takes Trance and Harper hostage and commonders the Maru, in which he enbarks on a mission to find the diary of the mad persied which contains the last slipstream route to Tarn-Vedra, however Trance and Harper escape his grasp and take him himself hostage, they then release him at the end of the episode with a gift of flowers, which are the most oxygen producing plant, extinct since the fall of the commonwealth, Gerentex leaves vowing to make them pollinate so he may once again get a large amount of money.
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Gerentex is one of the few nightsiders seen in Andromeda, and is responsible for giving the only details we gain on what a nightsider is like.
