On this Friday morning, the actor, wife and actress Michele Morand and their little boy Rogan are on the Andromeda set, where its cast and crew are celebrating the filming of the show's 100th episode. When watching Woolvett with his young son it's easy to see that he's a proud father. "Being a dad is great," enthuses the actor. "I have to tell you, though, that Rogan got into a little trouble recently at school. My wife went to pick him up and he must have been roughhousing or whatever with one of the other kids because his teacher mentioned something to her. On the way home, Michele asked Rogan if there were any problems at school that day. Now you have to realize that my son is only three years old. He looked at her and said, 'Yeah, I was screwing around'. We all know who he heard that from," smiles Woolvett, "so daddy got in trouble. Rogan is a little ball of mischief, but he's still my pride and joy."

It was five years ago that Woovett began working on Andromeda, which is in its fifth and final season. The actor laughs when thinking back to the show's early episodes. "We all look so young," he notes. "I don't remember ageing since then, but I guess I have. It's quite a sense of accomplishment to have reached our 100th episode, and also a little surprising to think, 'Wow, we're here already." The future looked grim for Harper and his Andromeda Ascendant crew-mates in the show's fourth season cliffhanger The Dissonant Interval. With the exception of Captain Dylan Hunt (Kevin Sorbo) and possibly Trance (Laura Bertram), it appeared the rest of the crew lost their lives during a confrontation with the Magog worldship.

"Last year's cliffhanger was a blast to do," says Woolvett. "I loved that the driving force for the conflict in this episode embodied one of Harper's worst fears, which is the Magog. It's funny, some people have asked me if I was worried about whether or not Harper would be back for Season Five since it looked like he'd been killed by the Magog. Honestly, the real question was whether or not Andromeda as a show was coming back. In fact, I assumed it wasn't. I tend to be very pragmatic and I just figured we'd had our swansong, so I was prepared to move on. It was a long up and down waiting period. One week the show was cancelled, the next week it wasn't. Talk about crazy."

Despite the closing of one of its production companies, Andromeda did return this past year for a fifth series. Everyone, including Harper, is alive and well, but are trapped in an alternate universe called Seefra. They've all found ways to make a living, while Dylan searches for a new power source for the Andromeda. Always the entrepreneur Harper has opened a bar on Seefra 1 and is involved in a number of other moneymaking schemes as well. Due to a reduced budget and a strong Canadian dollar as well as a shortened shooting schedule, Woolvett explains that his character's circumstances have had to change drastically this season.

"Head writer [and executive producer] Bob Engels and his writing team came up with this cool plan to have us marooned in a new universe. So it's the same system of nine planets each week, and the entire studio backlot has been re-dressed to resemble a mini-Seefra community. "In this new environment we meet new characters, and Harper and the others become involved in different adventures. Also, the writers had to cut back on Lexa Doig's [Rommie] role in the first half of the season due to her real life pregnancy. As a result, there's been an addition to the cast this year, namely Brandy Ledford, who plays a new android that Harper's built called Doyle. They get to hang out together for a couple of episodes, and then she goes off to hang out with Dylan. Poor Harper only gets to spend so much time with the good-looking women," jokes the actor.

Besides his work as Harper on Andromeda, Woolvett has also penned two episodes: Season Three's Vault of the Heavens, and Season Four's Abridging the Devil's Divide. "I've gone on record in the past as saying that I was not as pleased with my first episode as I wanted to be," says the actor. "The only reason for that, though, was the timing. Keith Hamilton Cobb [Tyr Anasazi] was getting ready to leave the series around the same time that my episode was being written. So a good portion of my story's conflict had to be changed around in order to help set up Tyr's upcoming departure. That happens in TV sometimes. There are so many requirements that need to be met and as a result a story can occasionally suffer. "The timing was much better with my second episode. Bob Engels had come on board the show and I got to work with him and the other writers. So the piece got to follow the natural process from pitch to outline and then rough draft and finally revisions. It got better with every step, too. I've actually written a third story for this season that involves messing a bit with Dylan's mind, so it should be amusing."

Although he's looking forward to his next acting challenge, Woolvett would not trade his Andromeda experience for anything. "Believe it or not, at the start I didn't want to play Harper," he recalls. "I'd brought similar characteristics to other roles I'd done and wasn't sure if I wanted to repeat the process. However, I finally decided, 'Hey, this sounds like it's going to be a good time, so why don't I just do it?' In hindsight, I'm really glad I did."