The Criticism Extraction Room was a chamber aboard SS Enconium, a 24th century Earth spaceship where criticism was outlawed among the crew by Ziggy Briceman, and punishable by imprisonment in the ship brig. Repeat offenders and/or escapees were taken to the Criticism Extraction Room, where a Minervan extraction machine would "drain" the offenders of their critical faculties.

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("Timewave", Series XII)

Gallery

Ziggy Briceman operating the extraction machine controls

The Guru's bottled "inner critic"

Dave Lister and Arnold Rimmer in the machine

Rimmer resists

Rimmer's negative energy is siphoned off

Rimmer's negative energy overloads the machine

Rimmer's Inner Critic emerges from the wrecked machine

Behind the Scenes

The Criticism Extraction Room set

Trivia

• The negative energy extraction device apparantly works on a similar principle to Kryten's Nega-Drive mentioned in earlier series.