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"Legion" is the second episode of science fiction sit-com ''Red Dwarf'' Series VI〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title =British Sitcom Guide - Red Dwarf - Series 6 )〕 and the 32nd in the series run.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title =TV.com - Legion summary )〕 It was first broadcast on British television on 14 October 1993,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title =BBC - Programme Catalogue - RED DWARF VI - LEGION )〕 was written by Rob Grant & Doug Naylor and was directed by Andy de Emmony. ==Plot== ''Starbug'' is now twenty-four hours behind ''Red Dwarf'' and is losing ground on the larger ship. The piloting of ''Starbug'' is now a long-term menial task which is carried out using shift changes. Food and water supplies are running low, so much so that water is recycled and Lister is served space weevil for dinner. They are distracted when a tractor beam locks onto them and pulls them into an apparently deserted space station. They decide to explore the station for supplies when they meet a being called Legion. He proves his good faith (and incredible technology) by converting Rimmer from a "soft light" to a "hard light" hologram (thus making him able to touch and feel), and by performing an instantaneous emergency appendectomy on Lister. The crew invites him to join them, but Legion insists that they stay with him. They are shown their ideal bedrooms with the entire room stocked with their own unique personal tastes and requirements. Kryten states that despite the pleasantness and charm of their host, they are still prisoners, and continue to lose ground on ''Red Dwarf''. Following Lister's advice, they attempt to escape using a method from the film "Revenge of the Surfboarding Killer Bikini Vampire Girls". When they confront Legion and the plan fails dramatically, they discover that he is a gestalt entity—a combination of all active minds present on the station, melded together to form one. The space station used to be occupied by a group of scientists who created Legion, but all have perished from old age. Without conscious minds, Legion is a mindless, formless entity. Kryten discovers a solution by knocking out the rest of the Red Dwarf crew, reducing Legion to purely Kryten's persona. Legion claims a stalemate, but Kryten reminds him that he now shares the mechanoid's overriding servitude to the needs of his companions, with nothing else to dilute it. As he is thereby compelled to help the crew safely leave the station, Legion admits relief that he will no longer be sharing their assorted neuroses. Kryten then asks if Legion ever developed anything that could help with the pursuit of ''Red Dwarf''. Later, aboard ''Starbug'', Kryten installs an experimental stardrive engine provided by Legion that should allow ''Starbug'' to catch up with ''Red Dwarf'' in mere nanoseconds. However the rest of the crew doubt it'll work, knowing their luck with such things. Kryten tells the crew that the events of the past couple of days prove that 'the whole is great than the sum of its parts', and forces them all to voice a belief that the stardrive will work. Once activated, the engine crashes through the wall and shoots out into space on its own, leaving the crew struggling against decompression. Kryten remarks that, at least, the stardrive did ''technically'' work. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Legion (Red Dwarf)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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