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Review: Red Dwarf 7: Byte 3 (video)
Published on Amazon.com in March 2000
What if you could communicate with a virus that was infecting you, and argue the ethics of killing a living being to sustain one’s own existence? If you were Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the starship Enterprise, you’d probably reach an understanding that led to widespread vegetarianism and the elimination of disease. But if you’re Dave Lister, you lose the argument, then have to lie there and listen to the smarty-pants virus mocking you. But you don’t give up, because your gallant shipmates are sure to have another trick up their sleeves.
This tape contains the final two episodes of series 7, plus short interviews with the show’s cast, creators, and fans (including scientist Stephen Hawking and actor Patrick Stewart, who played Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation) and a collection of “smeg-ups,” or outtakes, from Series VII. The episodes feature at least two of the finest sight gags in the entire Red Dwarf canon, both quite nasty and thoroughly hilarious at the same time. The smeg-ups are worth watching just for the snippets of Danny John-Jules’s true accent, a far cry from Cat’s James Brown-inspired speech. —Anna Peekstok