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OK, so in Rimmerworld, Rimmer managed to crash land on a planet and survive long enough to terraengineer a planet full of Rimmers.
How could he come up with all that technology, and not find a way to create a new body for himself? I should think he would have been able to figure that one out along the way.
After all, that's why he dreams of aliens, right? Because advanced technology could find a way to get him a new body?

In various other episodes, the crew members navigate, repair, re-wire, and all kinds of other things. This, from Rimmer and Lister, who couldn't do more than clean the nozzles of dispensing machines at the beginning. And from Kryten, who only was programmed to clean. And Cat, whose primary talent was designing clothes.

Isn't it amazing how smart all the crew got about navigation and science once they were on their own? Who taught them, anyway? biggrin

If I remember correctly, didn't Rimmer read some sort of manual that enabled him to figure out how to clone himself?

That's true. He'd read the book on astro-navigation a lot and none of it ever sunk in. I want to know how Lister and Cat and Kryten learned to fly Starbug so well. We have a creature that evolved from cats and a man who assisted the man who cleaned the gunk out of the chicken soup machines.

Remember that Rimmer completely freaks out on all the tests he takes.
It says so in one of my favorite quotes of the whole series.
"You walked in there and wrote "I am a fish" fourhundred times on a piece of paper, made a funny little dance and fainted."
Then when he takes the astral navigation test in the first episode he smuges the cheat text he has written on his arm, puts his inky hand on his paper so it staples a big hand print, does the Rimmer salute and faints.

And Lister says it himself in the Inquisitor.
He has a brain but he really never used it for something usefull. Who knows what he acctually knows but he is just to lazy to use it.

The reason why Lister was so good at driving Starbug was he was a taxi drive before joining Red Dwarf. Says so in the books and in the TV ones I think. Book I know for sure as he took Rimmer to an android whore shop. ninja Why Cat could drive so well is because Starbugs are really really simple to drive and couldalso be that he does not want to be out done by Lister too.

Yes, she is annoying. But, then again. Oh well they could not let Kyrten have all the fun.

So true! I would say maybe Holly downloaded some of his programming to Kryten, but I don't know if Holly had any to spare. (Unless you subscribe to my theory that Holly really IS a genius, and all that incompetency is just his way of having a laugh and keeping sane!)

Just thought of a question:

When Holly's IQ is raised to 12000 or so, how was he/she able to project a hologram of him/herself, when the ship is only technologically capable of maintaining one at a time.