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MY LEXX EPISODE
“Bugboy”
The Lexx is a big ship. The vast majority of it has never been explored by the people living inside. Zev is exploring a corridor when she comes across another sex of cryogenic pods, one containing a frozen human.
He is revived, and it turns out he was a bio-vizier for the Divine Order, who earned the nickname “Bugboy” for his interest in the ancient Insect civilization. He secretly discovered that His Divine Shadow was a surviving Insect, and joined the Heretics. He was the one who provided them with the amino acid codes for the Lexx. Stanley handed them over to the Sub-Nebuli, so he tried a different approach by getting a copy of the key and giving it to the Heretic we saw in “Lexx 1.1.” Bugboy was in cryostasis on board the Lexx waiting for the Heretics to take it into the Dark Zone, but Thodin and everyone who knew about him was killed by the Cluster Lizards and Kai, so he has been frozen for 4,335 years.
Though Bugboy is most interested in studying the insect technology on the Lexx (he believes another Insect War is inevitable, and wants to understand everything about the species) he has the knowledge to deactivate the nanites in Kai and make him living again, to modify the protein regenerator to grow 790 a new body, knows of several peaceful planets in the Dark Zone, and can pretty much solve everyone’s problems except Zev’s. Since he is younger (not counting the millennia in the ageless limbo of cryofreeze) and more handsome than any of the bio-viziers the Lexx crew has met so far, Zev wants him, but he rejects her.
Still, everyone thinks Bugboy is a godsend (even 790, who is actually nice to him since he’s not competition for his lovely Zev), except for Stan, who thinks he’ll take after the other bio-viziers. Stan becomes obsessed with the idea that Bugboy is secretly trying to take over the Lexx, and when he catches him passing some weird gadget (which looks like the deal Brizon had around his neck) over the Lexx’s skin, he orders Kai to kill him.
It turns out he really did have the best of intentions toward our heroes, and he was not trying to take control of the Lexx with that gadget, which is really just a diagnostic tool. But now he’s dying from the wound Kai’s scorpion hook inflicted on him, and his knowledge is too great and potentially beneficial to die with him. There is a solution, however. Bugboy has a device like the one used in “Lexx 1.1” or the blue Insect organ that can transfer his essence (thoughts, memories, knowledge, etc.) into a new host to live on.
Since Stan feels guilty for his condition, he volunteers to carry the essence until they can find or grow a new body. But Stan can not make a suitable host since he is already host to the key to the Lexx. The after-effects of Kai’s holding the Divine Shadow essence make him similarly impossible to possess, and 790’s brain cube does not have the capacity to hold Bugboy’s essence, either. Zev, as before, wants him inside her body, but he tells her that he will not live inside her unless she allows him to use the new-found control over her brain to erase some of her “quirks” (her accelerated libido, Cluster Lizard aggression, and the memories of every other man she’s had relations with) so she can be his type of woman for when he gets a new body. She will not give him the permission to do this, so her rejects her again. Now, an essence without a host, he decides simply wander to the corridors of the Lexx, continuing his studies of the Insect technology in a disembodied form, waiting for the day when the Lexx will find a planet with a willing and suitable host and he can physically apply his vast knowledge to the benefit of the Lexx crew and the Universe.
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Lee P. Sherman, code name DalekTek790
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