Lexx (1997)

Season 4: Episode 1

In the near future, an alien spaceship is discovered orbiting the moon. At the urging of his top advisor, Prince, the president of the USA makes contact in secret with the aliens' leader: A strange man who introduces himself as "Stanley H. Tweedle". Unfortunately, the contact does not go well, but Prince is prepared, suggesting they send an insane killer up to the ship in a space shuttle...