How did it end? :S:S:S

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Selig wasn't a synthoid. The hand belonged to his assistant, Andrea Donoso, who was an advanced prototype synthoid. Here are some fragments of what Robert Goodman said in an interview regarding the final episode of The Zeta Project (found at http://www.worldsfinestonline.com/WF/zetaproject/backstage/rg04.php).

Check out the Knossos, a Zeta Project forum, at http://tzpknossos.proboards53.com.

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In the finale frames, a hand emerged from the water. With that single hand, The Zeta Project fans were left with a doozy of a cliffhanger. Did that hand belong to Dr. Selig, Zeta's creator?

"Selig a synthoid?!" jokes Goodman. "Who ever said Selig was a synthoid?"

"In the midst of our valiant efforts," says Goodman. "Came a mandate from the network: If we wanted any hope of getting a renewal, we were to end the season on a cliffhanger."

"We were told what the cliffhanger had to be - we had to appear to kill Dr. Selig," says Goodman. "This was not negotiable."

The message boards lit up with speculation about what happened and ideas on how this could be spun in future seasons. Fans of the series had a huge question plopped in their lap, and they couldn't wait to find out the answer.

But that answer would never come. The network opted not to pick up the series, despite good ratings and a solid fan-base. With this decision, fans were left wondering just where the series was going to go. So what's the answer to this question fans are dying to know the answer to?

"The hand belonged to Andrea Donoso, Selig's assistant," says Goodman. "She's the synthoid, not him; and she was charged with the solitary job of protecting him, keeping him alive."

Goodman admits that Donoso didn't do the best of job, such as in "Absolute Zero" when she let herself get locked on the other side of a door while he was presumably being attacked, but she made up for past failings here at the end of "Hologram Man."

What fans didn't see was Donoso keeping her boss alive, and pulling him to the surface, as her own damaged flesh regrew itself.

Goodman says hints were placed along the way to this revelation. Specific points were laid out so that if a fan put together all of what Selig was doing, one could come up with Selig's overall goal.

"He was interested in cryogenically freezing living tissue, without damaging it," says Goodman. "He was interested in the regenerative properties of starfish."

Put it all together and what is he working on? Synthoids far more advanced than Zeta.

"Self-regenerating cyborgs, who can heal themselves." says Goodman. "Synthoids made at least in part of living flesh, that's what you saw being made in the lab at the Knossos."

Goodman clarifies that Andrea Donoso herself was a prototype, who received upgrades as they became available.