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On their further pursuit of their mothership Red Dwarf, the skeleton crew of
the Red Dwarf - the last human Lister (Craig Charles), the after-death hologram
Rimmer (Chris Barrie), the robot Kryten (Robert Llewellyn), the cat evolved to
human form Cat (Danny John-Jules) - in their shuttle Starbug is attacked by a
warship of the Simulants, a mighty hunter race. But the Simulant captain (Denis
Lill) sees little sport in destroying little Starbug, so he updates her weapon
systems instead ... to then destroy her. But the usually dim-witted Cat
realizes the Simulants want nothing more than to play Cat & Mouse ... &
in this game it is imperative to not become the mouse, so Starbug attacks &
destroys the Simulant battleship ... but not before the captain has infected
Starbugs computers with a virus that soon enough disables Starbug's navigation
... & Starbug is heading straight for the nearest moon to neatly crash on
it ... So robot Kryten offers to help out & connect his system to the
main computer to try and battle the virus ... a battle that is shown to the
others as a kind of dream sequence on a monitor ... but in the dream sequence
Kryten is a sad bastard, a drunk sheriff in an old Western town, who is not so
much fighting the virus, exemplefied as a gang calling themselves the 4 Riders
of the apocalypse (Denis Lill again, & Robert Inch, Jeremy Peters, Dinny
Powell), but running from them. So Lister, Rimmer & Cat decuide to enter
Kryten's dream via their artificial reality machine, & somehow they can
stall the Horsemen long enough for Kryten to come back to his senses & find
a way to fight & defeat them. Finally the crash on the moon is averted
... if just. It's always amusing to find science fiction heroes in
Western-settings all of a sudden - & the Star
Trek episode Spectre of the Gun (1968) uses this premise as
well to greater effect -, but apart from our heroes playing cowboys, this story
has little to offer & is at best mildly amusing.
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