let review the original 70 movie ( since i haven not read the book and which i be gon na read after this ) represent an infectious but nouvelle agent menace mankind and a special team with the ultimate technology gather to solve the problem and the u government eager to finish it the fast ( and not always ) the smart way . all with the methodic and reason approach that a group of scientist will do in the real life . the team of scientist with absolutely nothing in common except for their knowledge and and the boring not pretty people look of all of them ( the female character look like my old aunt ) . that and a believable story behind it . all it go in the miniseries . a few point on the plus side represent beautiful scenery and the laboratory amazing and realistic and the same for the computer graphic and viral bacterial culture device and the electron microscope . but the story have so many loose end representthe wife and son of the lead scientist have absolutely no purpose at all and not even to influence the action of ben bratt character while no clear progression around all the andromeda discovery while the continuous mutation of the agent explain everything ( with no sense at all ) while and the environmental message some screenwriter ( a drunken one i be sure ) put with forceps into the story . and represent la creme de la creme represent a wormhole . and a coded information from the future ( insert here dramatic music ) . it amaze for me to see how a number of good picture and series and miniseries be continuously destroy year after year during the past decade . this one be another example of the trend . do yourself a huge favor represent if you be capable of be entertain by the sci fi genre and only watch the original movie and and you will be safe . until hollywood look up again in the movie database .