Gerentex

Gerentex is a fictional alien character 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 at the start of the series. Gerentex fails in his plan as the Crew of the Maru turn against him to help Dylan Hunt. In response, Gerentex tries to destroy the ship declaring, "If I can't have the "Andromeda", no one can". However the crew manage to save the "Andromeda" by launching her full complement of Nova Bombs into the black hole. Beka and Dylan then board the Maru, knock out Gernetex, and put 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 reappears whilst Trance and Harper are on a drift spreading the word of the New Systems Commonwealth. He is being pursued by a bounty hunter, and to escape he takes Trance and Harper hostage and commandeers the Maru. He then embarks on a mission to find the diary of the mad Perseid that contains the last slipstream route to Tarn-Vedra. However Trance and Harper escape and take him hostage instead. They then release him at the end of the episode with a gift of the most oxygen producing flowers from the "Andromeda's" hydroponics garden, which had been extinct outside the "Andromeda" since the fall of the Commonwealth. Gerentex leaves vowing to make them pollinate so he may once again obtain a large sum of money.