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The last man in the universe and his three pals (a servile robot, a humanoid descended from a cat, and a pompous hologram) continue their adventures in deep space, skating along the fine line between high concepts and humor that's lower than a space weevil's belly after it munches its way through a 10-year supply of chicken vindaloo.

The first three episodes of series 7 explore time paradoxes, parallel universes, and the meaning of good and evil, between bouts of outrageous physical comedy involving Lee Harvey Oswald, the knights of Camelot, and dental floss. Kryten the robot loses his inhibitions, Dave Lister takes his love of virtual-reality gaming way too far, and just when you start to think that all possible jokes involving four guys trapped on a spaceship and getting on each other's nerves have been exhausted, one character leaves and a new one joins the crew.

These changes may distress some fans, until they recall that the greatest charm of this unique sci-fi comedy has always been its refusal to take anything seriously--including itself. --Anna Peekstok

Rating : - Red Dwarf VII episodes will be your tikka to ride
The gap between Seasons VI and VII are due to the following: Red Dwarf co-creators Doug Naylor and Rob Grant severed their partnership, leaving the former to form other writing teams. Craig Charles (Lister) was falsely accused of [assault] in 1994 and sentenced to three months on remand. Log entry ends--review proper begins.

"Tikka To Ride": With Starbug's curry supplies wiped out, Lister manipulates Kryten by fitting him with a spare head, overriding said head's guilt chip and behaviour protocols, and leads the others on a curry hunt in the 22nd century using the time drive they got from "Out Of Time." They instead land on 22 November 1963, inside the Texas Depository Building, where by sheer accident, they turn a certain Lee Harvey Oswald into a giant pizza. Unfortunately, this means they have altered the timelines and land on an Earth where the Soviets beat the U.S. in the space race and hence Starbug no longer exists. Memorable dialogue: "As a mark of respect on Sunday [on the loss of curry], I thought at 12 o'clock we could have a moment's flatulence." And a promotion to first officer of Starbug for whoever can understand this temporal paradox: "...there was no time drive for them to have in the future to bring back into the present to destroy in the future the past selves in the present. Put simply, by killing us, they killed themselves because once we were dead, it was impossible for us to become them in the future and return in time to kill ourselves in the past, even though it was the present." Michael J. Shannon (Kennedy) really has JFK's Bostonian accent down pat.

Stoke Me A Clipper: Originally titled "Natural Born Rimmers", the Starbug crew run into Ace Rimmer once again, to the chagrin of Arnold Rimmer, who thinks that the remaining 3000 vomit bags won't be enough for him. However, surprise of surprises, the original Ace has "caught the business end of a neutron cannon". This Ace is the most recent hard-light holograms to succeed Ace, to take over from the previous one. Ace feels that deep insdie, Arnold wants to be a hero, and wants him to take over. Lister has his doubts, even saying, to Ace's "you can't judge a book by its cover", "you can't confuse Rimmer with a book. For starters, books have got spines." There are two nice-looking blondes here, Alison Senior (Princess Bonjella) and Sarah Alexander (the medieval Queen).

Ouroboros: After we see a baby Lister being found under a pool table of the Aigburth Arms, we flash forward 3 millions later, where the crew discover a hyperway leading to a parallel dimensional in the storage hold. Three familiar figures appear from the other side: the Cat, Kryten, and Lister, a hard-light hologram, followed by a very flesh-and-blood Christine Kochanski. In the other reality, it was Kochanski who got frozen for 3 million years for saving Frankenstein the cat and Lister who died and was revived as a hologram. A standout scene is the heart-to-heart conversation between Lister and Kryten, where Kryten acts like a jealous lover and speaks in a high-pitched voice. Another is the tender conversation between Lister and Kochanski, talking about the child they will have in an in vitro tube. Lister thinks he spent most of his life drifting because he didn't know who he was and where he came from, and he doesn't want his child to undergo the same experience.

Season VII marks the drama-comedy phase of the programme, where personal aspects of certain characters are explored, and characters have serious heart-to-heart conversations with each other. And the special effects and spaceship models are superlative for this season. Chloe Annett makes a welcome addition as Kochanski, and yeah, she does lack that cute Scottish brogue of C. P. Grogan, but a Kochanski resembling 80's MTV VJ Martha Quinn merged with Posh Spice will do.