This is the scene I have in my head, which I'm quite sure has nothing to do with what really happened:
Actor, needs to pay for bills, needs a job, hears that Andromeda needs someone for their next episode. Some guy explains what the role is:
"You're an ambassador for this group of fanatically peaceful people. You just came back from dealing with the Magog, the most evil race in all of the Universes."
"So I'm important."
"And peaceful."
"Fanatically peaceful."
"Exactly. This is the beginning of the episode; you talk to the captain, that's your ten lines right there. Then you convulse a little, fall down, puke this green stuff here -- it tastes like ketchup -- and we'll make your belly explode and little baby Magogs come out. Because that's how they reproduce, you know."
"I'll take it! And I'm guessing my character doesn't come back in future episode, right?"
