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On their further pursuit of their mothership Red Dwarf, the skeleton crew of
the Red Dwarf - the last human Lister (Craig Charles), the (solid) after-death hologram
Rimmer (Chris Barrie), the robot Kryten (Robert Llewellyn), the cat evolved to
human form Cat (Danny John-Jules) - in their shuttle Starbug have to realize
their food-supplies are remarkably low. But they come across the Simulant ship
they have destroyed in an earlier episode (Gunmen
of the Apocalypse) & decide to strip the wreckage of its food ...
ignorant (of course) to the fact that one of the Simulants (Liz Heckling) is
still alive, & she's just waiting to blow her foes to Kingdom Come - even
if that means blowing herself up with them ... but in the end she only blows up
herself after all as Rimmer has distracted her by abandoning his crewmates
cowardly & fleeing in the only escape pod, & while the Simulant was
distracted, the others had just enough time to make use of the transporter unit
of the simulant ship & beam themselves aboard the Starbug. After a while
it is even agreed on saving Rimmer in his escape pod - despite his treachery
... but alas, the pod is sucked into a wormhole, & it takes the Starbug a
few days to catch up with him - but due to a temporal anomaly caused by the
wormhole, it will be like 600 years for him (which he is able to survive thanks
to being a hologram ... Meanwhile Rimmer has found a desert planet, but the
escape pod was carrying terraforming and cloning equipment with it, so Rimmer
doesn't only create a garden Eden but also populate it with his clones (though
I'm not exactly sure how to clone a hologram). 600 years later: Rimmer's
crewmates come to Rimmer's planet & find a world full of traiterous cowards
& cowardly traitors, all looking exactly like Rimmer (& thus played by
Chris Barrie), with Rimmer, their creator, thrown into the deepest dungeons,
because even he was too noble for the other Rimmers ... Of course they get
him out of there, & he has become a better person (hologram) because of his
experiences ... but then again, maybe not. Despite some narrative
weknesses (e.g. the climax really sucks) & some missed opportunities (the
Rimmerworld-concept itself could have made the basis for an endless number of
jokes), this is a rather entertaining episode.
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