Holoship
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| Red Dwarf episode | |
| "Holoship" | |
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| Episode № | 1 |
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| Airdate | February 20, 1992 |
| Writer(s) | Rob Grant & Doug Naylor |
| Director | Juliet May |
| Guest star(s) | Jane Horrocks as Nirvanah Crane |
| Series V February 20 – March 26, 1992 |
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| List of all Red Dwarf episodes... | |
Holoship was the first epsiode to air in the fifth series of Red Dwarf.
[edit] Synopsis
Rimmer suddenly disappears from Red Dwarf and re-materialises on the holo-ship Enlightenment, a ship made out of light and crewed entirely by holograms who can eat, drink, touch, feel and taste anything on the ship, as light can touch light. The crew is also required to have sex at least twice a day for its own sanity and Rimmer takes advantage of this with Commander Nirvana Crane. They begin to fall in love, but the ship is crewed by the hologramatic cream of the Space Corps and the only way to gain a place on the ship is to defeat one of its crew in an intelligence test. Rimmer decides that as he has a 96% chance of failure, the only option left open to him is to cheat like the bastard that he is, but he does not know that in the challenge, he will compete against Nirvana. Nirvana finds out how much it means for Rimmer to join the crew and sacrifices herself for him. Going against his earlier statement that career would come before love, Rimmer resigns his new commission and returns to the Red Dwarf, so that Nirvana can live again on the Enlightenment.
[edit] Quotes
Rimmer is trying to say goodbye to his crewmates after being accepted aboard the Holoship.
Rimmer: Over the years... I've come to regard you, as people... I... met.
[edit] Trivia
- Holoship overran by eight minutes and lots of the shots of the ship were cut.
- When a member of the Enlightenment's crew boards Red Dwarf to survey it, he recognizes the Cat as felis sapiens. This suggests, if continuity is followed (a big if in this series), that the holoship had previously encountered the second cat ark mentioned in the first episode, "The End".
