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Go Spotting: Andromeda TV Series

A scene featuring 3-dimensional go was spotted in Andromeda, the Canadian-American science fiction television series based on unused material by Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry,  which ran from 2000 to 2005. “In the Double Helix  episode there's a scene where the captain is playing (starting at 5:27), not tri-level chess like Spock and Kirk, but rather tri-level go and they even refer to it as ‘go,’" reports Fr. Mark Lichtenstein of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Camp Hill, PA. “The game (portrayed) doesn't look like a real game though. Not that tri-level go is a normal variant like 9x9 or 13x13.” There's a last glimpse of the game in the first seconds of this clip as well.