Andromeda Galaxy in fiction

The Andromeda Galaxy has appeared in a number of science fiction works, often as a source of alien life forms that are in the process of invading the Milky Way galaxy. For example, in the 1968 television series Star Trek episode "By Any Other Name", the starship Enterprise is hijacked by Kelvans, aliens from the Andromeda Galaxy. Likewise, the television series Blake's 7 included a battle between Blake's ship (the Liberator) and invaders from the galaxy.

Other works use the galaxy as a setting for alien worlds and territories. On Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, the Systems Commonwealth had territory in the Andromeda Galaxy, the Triangulum galaxy and the Milky Way. In Superman: Birthright, writer Mark Waid describes Krypton as a megagravity planet circling an M3 star in the Andromeda Galaxy.

Noted astronomer Fred Hoyle co-authored the BBC television series A for Andromeda, in which a radio signal is received from the direction of the Andromeda Galaxy. The signal contained instructions for building a super-computer, as well as the code needed to make it run. A year later the sequel series The Andromeda Breakthrough was released.

An episode of Doctor Who contains an indirect reference to this galaxy. The "Face of Boe" was the oldest inhabitant of the "Isop Galaxy", and he was around when the stars of the Andromeda Galaxy were still dust.

In the Star Fleet Universe, the Andromedans (who may or may not have been Kelvans) launch a devastating war on the Milky Way, using the Lesser Magellanic Cloud as a stepping-stone.

In the seventh episode in the first series of the British comedy sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus, blancmanges from the planet Skyron in the galaxy were a major plot point. For instance, they are seen to convert people into stereotypical Scotsmen in order to win the Wimbledon tennis tournament.

The name of this galaxy (from the constellation in which it appears, when viewed from Earth) has also been employed to provide a science-fictional tone. The film The Andromeda Strain, for instance, concerns an atomic-sized alien life-form that is brought to Earth after an Earth-orbiting satellite malfunctions, although it is not made clear from where this life-form originated.

In the Sega video game seires Phantasy Star, the instruction booklet of the first game states that the Algol Solar System is located deep in the Andromeda Galaxy (while the real Algol is only AbOUT 90 lightyears away from us). Two Guys from Andromeda is an alias for the designers of the Space Quest computer game series, but the duo has appeared in Space Quest III as fictionalized versions of themselves.

Andromeda is a armor cloth in Saint Seiya anime and manga séries used by Shun, one of protagonists.