Dylan Hunt

Dylan Hunt is the name of two fictional characters created for television by Gene Roddenberry.

Both characters are men who unwittingly move forward in time by hundreds of years, finding themselves trapped in a post-apocalyptic "Dark Age". Each either begins or joins a crusade by a small force of explorer/adventurers to restore civilization.

Genesis II and its sequels

The first Gene Roddenberry projects to feature Dylan Hunt appeared in the 1970s.

Genesis II

In the 1973 made-for-TV film Genesis II, which introduced the character and was intended as a pilot for a potential series, Hunt was played by Alex Cord. Hunt was a NASA scientist who became trapped in suspended animation in 1979, only to awaken 154 years later. CBS, the network that aired Genesis II, rejected Roddenberry's proposed series in favor of the short-lived Planet of the Apes, which also involved time travel and a post-apocalyptic society.

Planet Earth

Because CBS did not pick up "Genesis II", Roddenbery pitched the same idea to ABC. In 1974 ABC aired Planet Earth, a reworked sequel and second pilot as a TV movie. This time, the Hunt character was played by John Saxon.

List of Andromeda characters

This is a list of characters from the TV series Andromeda.

Main characters

Dylan Hunt

Dylan Hunt, portrayed by Kevin Sorbo, is a member of the Intergalactic Systems Commonwealth High Guard. Dylan was born in Visharna-Tarn, a city on the Commonwealth's capital planet, Tarn-Vedra, to a Paradine father employed as a highly paid gardener at the Imperial Gardens and a mother employed as a genetically enhanced high-Gravity World Shuttle pilot.

Dylan is human, half genetically enhanced because his mother was a Heavy-Worlder, descended from a race of superhumans genetically engineered to live on the harsh and hostile environments of high-gravity alien planets. Because of this, he is much stronger and faster than the average human (he was able to hold his own in hand to hand combat against a Nietzschean warrior, indicating that he has about five times normal human strength, speed and endurance, and most likely superhuman reflexes as well).

Dylan served two years enlisted . He then attended the High Guard Academy and graduated with honors. He served in Argosy Special Ops and commanded or served on the Crimson Eclipse.