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Lexx, Season 2 Episode 13, Twilight

Aboard the Lexx, Stanley Tweedle (captain of the Lexx, arch-traitor, and the only human among the regular cast) has taken ill and collapsed.  790 (a robot head) diagnoses him with elevated levels of hydrogen peroxide in his blood and a depressed immune response, but lacks the facilities or specialised knowledge to determine the cause.

Luckily, the Lexx is near the planet Ruuma, and the planetary governor promises them medical assistance.  This is actually a scheme to get the Lexx to rescue the governor and his family before they are eaten by the zombie bodies of the Divine Predecessors - Ruuma has long been used as the burial ground for former hosts of His Shadow because of the unusual effects the planet has on dead bodies.  (By coincidence, the brains of the Divine Predecessors happen to be aboard the Lexx...  Or at least they were; their numbers have taken something of a beating of late.)

So Xev (half love-slave, half cluster-lizard, all hot chick) and Kai (last of the Brunnen-G, an undead alien assassin) take the comatose Stanley down to the planet, where the medical robot 792 diagnoses him with a selenium deficiency due to eating nothing but the goop generated by the Lexx's galley, and prescribes the governor's anti-dandruff shampoo as a treatment.  (Which is not entirely absurd - some anti-dandruff shampoos do contain selenium, and selenium deficiency can cause serious health problems and even death.)

Meanwhile, Kai has started feeling the effects of the planet, being, after all, dead himself, and has taken to spouting very, very bad poetry.  The governor's family lock Xev out of the fortress to be eaten by zombies while they make off with the Lexx.  792 opens the door again to assist the zombies, but not before Xev is bitten.  The zombies eat the Moth, the flying machine that is the only way the crew can return to the ship.  Everyone rushes upstairs to the communicator to contact the Lexx, with the zombies close behind.

Back aboard the Lexx, Lyekka (an alien space plant spore and hot chick) has woken up hungry.  Nothing edible is left aboard, so she heads down to the planet and there devours the governor's daughter and wife, while Xev, rapidly degenerating into zombiehood, eats the governor's brain.

Stanley makes it to the roof of the fortress, to find Lyekka and Kai and a Moth waiting.  Zombie-Xev tries to attack them, but they subdue her and return to the ship, where they effect a rather icky cure.

Then, before Stanley can order the Lexx to destroy Ruuma as a hideous waste of silicon, the entire planet is eaten by Mantrid drones.

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