Rebecca "Beka" Valentine is a fictional character in the television series Andromeda, played by Lisa Ryder. Beka is human but has never lived on a planet. The daughter of a small-time cargo runner and occasional smuggler, Beka grew up on a ship roaming space and has spent her entire life searching for the big score and the fat payday. She is a former drug addict who occasionally has to re-fight that battle against her worst nature. A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda was a science fiction television series, created by Gene Roddenberry, but produced posthumously. ... Lisa Ryder (born 26 October 1970) is a Canadian actress best known as Beka Valentine on the science fiction television series Gene Roddenberrys Andromeda. ... Trinomial name Homo sapiens sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 Humans, or human beings, are biologically classified as bipedal primates belonging to the mammalian species Homo sapiens (Latin for wise man or thinking man) under the family Hominidae (the great apes). ...

She is now first officer of the Andromeda Ascendant, as well as commander of her own small cargo ship, the Eureka Maru. She is fiercely loyal to her crew and ship, but follows her own shadowy code. Though she remains deeply skeptical of Dylan's quest to restore the Commonwealth, she takes her duty as his first officer seriously. She'd lay down her life before she'd let him down. As Andromeda's best pilot, she's gotten him out of more than one scrape, and continues to prove herself a valued member of the crew. The Andromeda Ascendant is a fictional starship in the television series Gene Roddenberrys Andromeda. ...

When she was trapped in an alternate dimension with Tyr, the Abyss possessed her to spy on Dylan. Later the crew managed to extract the Abyss from her.

In the episode "Pride Before The Fall", Beka had relations with Paul Museveni, posing as a man named Peter. Dr. Museveni took samples of Beka's DNA, then disappeared through the Route of Ages. By a strange circumstance of time travel, Beka became the founding matriarch of the entire Nietzschean race. Hence, if anyone kills her, all Nietzscheans will cease to ever exist as would the Andromeda and its crew as they are known in the series. Furthermore, Nietzscheans grew up in reverence of Drago Museveni, and would (if they knew) revere Beka as the Alpha Mother. In the fictional universe of the televison show Andromeda, the Route of Ages is a portal in space-time through which Trance Gemini takes the Andromeda Ascendant and her crew. ... Time travel is a concept that has long fascinated humanity—whether it is Merlin experiencing time backwards, or religious traditions like Mohammeds trip to Jerusalem and ascent to heaven, returning before a glass knocked over had spilt its contents. ... In the television series Andromeda, the Nietzscheans are a race of genetically engineered humans who quite religiously follow the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Social Darwinism and Dawkinite genetic competitiveness. ...