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Again, interesting, but not terribly informative. What is Lexx?

"It does things I don't see anywhere except maybe on The Simpsons or South Park." -- Chris Bould, director

This isn't really getting us anywhere. Let's try a different approach? What is Lexx about?

It's the story of a man named Tweedle...

According to 790, a disembodied robot head and the crew's resident computer intelligence, Lexx is about the following individuals:

Stanley H. Tweedle: a quintessential loser who brings flawed humanity to the universe of square-jawed science fiction heroes. Originally an Assistant Deputy Backup Courier for the Ostro-B Heretics, Stan accidentally led the forces of evil galactic overlord His Divine Shadow back to his home base, with disastrous results.

After the destruction of the Heretic camp, Stan was captured by mercenaries who use the information in his possession to destroy 94 rebel worlds. Now known as The Arch-Traitor Stanley Tweedle, he became first a 4th class security guard, then an accidental fugitive from justice.

Kai: A 2000 year old reanimated corpse and reformed assassin. Kai is the last of the Brunnen-G race. Killed during a suicide attack on His Divine Shadow's flagship, Kai was brought back to "life" when His Divine Shadow decided "this last specimen of a now extinct culture of romantic dreamers merits a punishment beyond death."

Sustained by proto-blood, Kai spent the next 2000 years killing for His Divine Shadow.

Zev/Xev: Product of a botched love-slave procedure, she possesses an untamed "mega-libido" and a hefty dose of Cluster Lizard DNA. Her compulsion to leap into new situations causes many of the mishaps in which the crew of the Lexx becomes embroiled..

During the course of the series evolution, blue-haired Zev is replaced by the red-haired but equally libidinous Xev.

How the ball started rolling

Charged with failing to perform her wifely duties, Zev was sentenced to be transformed into a love slave by the Lusticon. The process went awry when an attacking Cluster Lizard ate the body of the machine's operator, a 790 robot.

The lizard tried to make a second course of Zev, but was decapitated by the activated Lusticon. In the first stage of the love slave, Zev received a healthy dose of Cluster Lizard DNA along with an enhanced physique and heightened libido.

She then escaped from the machine before the second stage, designed to ensure that love slaves fall in love with their intended masters. She placed 790's head in the machine in her place, causing the disembodied robot to fall madly in love with Zev.

Now things get complicated

On the run and pursued by 790's head, Zev met fellow fugitive Stanley Tweedle, as well as a group of Ostro-B Heretics. When the rebels were killed, Stan inherited the key to the Lexx and the trio used the gigantic organic insectoid spaceship to flee the Cluster.

The ship also contained a stowaway: Kai, under orders to kill Stan and Zev. He was distracted from this mission when he regained his memory from a dead Divine Shadow's brain.

Later, Kai killed a living Divine Shadow -- although its essence escaped -- and joined the crew of the Lexx.

Not realizing that His Divine Shadow's essence fled to the Cluster, Zev and Kai returned obtain more proto-blood. The mission went sour when His Divine Shadow's new giant insect body -- the Giga Shadow -- broke free of the Cluster and pursued the Lexx.

The ship and crew escaped through a fractal coil into the Dark Zone, a universe of "evil, chaos and depravity." The Giga Shadow was apparently destroyed when it attempted to follow them.

In the Dark Zone, the crew began searching for a new home for Stan and Zev. In between adventures, Kai confines himself to a suspended animation chamber to preserve his dwindling supply of proto-blood.

And that's more or less the story up to the point of the Sci Fi premiere.

So what is Lexx?

It's the story of anti-heroes on an anti-ship, people who, unlike the crew of a Starfleet vessel, have what it takes to screw up the works.

It's a series informed by the fact that the creators watched far too much TV in the 1970s.

It's a show where "anything's possible on any planet at any time anywhere."

It's an adventure where "nothing's sacred and everything's fair game."