Unanswered Questions

[Dave]

Who took the picture of young-Rimmer’s dorm room that he uses to go back in time, in Timeslides? And how is adult-Rmmer in possession of it in the future?

The more I think about this the more it bothers me.

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[Jenuall]

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

[Dave]

[cwickham]

[Dave]

[Jenuall]

[Unrumble]

[Technopeasant]

Here is the other question: why is Todhunter dealing with it anyway, when McIntyre is being brought back as a hologram presumably to deal with his paperwork?

[Nick R]

Rimmer is 100% the kind of guy who would CC everyone in to his shitty emails

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

[Dave]

Here is the other question: why is Todhunter dealing with it anyway, when McIntyre is being brought back as a hologram presumably to deal with his paperwork?

Todhunter is a nosey bastard, as soon as George died he couldn’t wait to go rifling through all his shit.

[Moonlight]

He has Saunders’ rubber plant in his office.

[Dave]

[Ridley]

Stewart Lee’s let himself go.

Aaaand

[Dave]

That’s made me want a Dad’s Army/Allo Allo-style cast-rundown outro sequence.

[Dave]

[Warbodog]

So was he wearing socks in the shower or the jacuzzi?

(In-between he’s wearing the full Rimmer uniform, complete with hat, so I don’t accept a single, extended period of socklessness).

[Dave]

Obviously he just got Kryten to take them off all the other times.

[Warbodog]

[Dave]

In-between he’s wearing the full Rimmer uniform, complete with hat

Another unanswered question is where this physical version of his green holo-costume came from. I guess you have to assume that his Series III outfit is based on a physical uniform that we just hadn’t seen in the show up to that point, meaning old uniforms would still be lying around Red Dwarf.

[Warbodog]

I think Howard Burden designed it as a kind of hologram uniform, because of the reflective qualities, but that scene and the end of Timeslides only really make sense if it’s his regular retconned JMC uniform, since he wouldn’t wear a hologram uniform when solid.

[Rushy]

I think it’s meant to be a JMC uniform from after Lister and Rimmer’s era – the organisation may have lasted centuries after Red Dwarf was lost, so they surely updated their uniform style. 

They probably found a JMC derelict with the updated uniforms and Rimmer immediately decided he wanted one.

[Warbodog]

  

[Dave]

Thinking of Rimmer’s costume variations, a pure black version of the Captain Emerald look would be pretty striking.

Shame there wasn’t an Evil Rimmer variant in Series III or this might have been a good look.

[Rushy]

It’d be a great design, but I’m not sure it’s a Rimmery design. I feel like the genius of his costumes is that they make him look official and military-adjacent, but not too important. A bureaucratic wannabe. 

Basically, he’d be too cool in a black outfit. 

[Rushy]

Personally, I’d have him wear a brown version of his current suit, maybe with a different fabric. I’m not really a fan of the fabrics they normally use for Rimmer. They don’t look comfortable to me. 

I feel like brown would visually tie back to the beige without copying it, and it would fit the technician/military aesthetic.

Something like this:

[International Debris]

I’m getting strong VIII vibes from that

[Rushy]

I imagined it without the tie, lapels and buttons, in the same tunic style he wears now. And more chestnut brown than beige.

[Unrumble]

  Shame there wasn’t an Evil Rimmer variant in Series III or this might have been a good look.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Thinking of Rimmer’s costume variations, a pure black version of the Captain Emerald look would be pretty striking.

Shame there wasn’t an Evil Rimmer variant in Series III or this might have been a good look.

And we call this look

[Dave]

Very good.

[Jonathan Capps]

“The SS is very good” – Dave, 2025

[Dave]

Look, all I’m saying is I like black shirts, OK.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

You can complete the rest of the joke for yourself 

[Technopeasant]

I mean, it was Rushy who wanted to turn Rimmer into a brownshirt.

No, Chris, don’t get any ideas…

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

[loadoftottnumb]

I know this is a very limited window (possibly some time between VIII and BTE and a bit of time in TPL), but when Rimmer is Hard Light and Holly is running the ship, can he ‘do things’ to/for Rimmer? Like give him haircuts and showers and Petersens arm? 

[Rushy]

I know this is a very limited window (possibly some time between VIII and BTE and a bit of time in TPL), but when Rimmer is Hard Light and Holly is running the ship, can he ‘do things’ to/for Rimmer? Like give him haircuts and showers and Petersens arm? 

Holly was able to deactivate Rimmer’s light bee in Meltdown, so presumably yes. 

(I know he wasn’t hard light yet, but that shouldn’t really make a difference to Holly’s ability to control the bee)

[clem]

A Recently Answered Question, The Answer to Which Raises Further Questions: What’s this gizmo Rimmer has on him in Series VI?

I think I’ve always idly assumed it was something to do with hardlight, but he’s got it in Psirens, and this is what Joe Nazzaro has to say about it in ‘Comedy, Chaos – And Cowboys!’: “Dangling from his belt is a device that looks like an expensive pocket calculator, which I later find out is a Space Corps Directive computer. Apparently Rimmer wasn’t satisfied with the holographic Space Corps Rule Book he was given in last year’s ‘Quarantine,’ so this season he’ll be quoting (or misquoting) Space Corps Directives after consulting this computer.”

Unless I’ve forgotten something, it never gets used or even mentioned. Not in deleted scenes, the Psirens script in Primordial Soup, anywhere. Which of course makes sense, because if Rimmer had a computer to look up SCDs with, he’d get them right, thus spoiling the running gag of him getting them wrong. But did that only occur to Rob, Doug, and everyone after the prop had been designed and made and incorporated into Rimmer’s costume?

[Ben Saunders]

A report book for the digital age.

[Rushy]

Probably a futuristic dictaphone. 

[Dave]

Which of course makes sense, because if Rimmer had a computer to look up SCDs with, he’d get them right, thus spoiling the running gag of him getting them wrong. But did that only occur to Rob, Doug, and everyone after the prop had been designed and made and incorporated into Rimmer’s costume?

I did wonder about this too. Maybe it was meant to be unreliable or broken.

[Rushy]

But did that only occur to Rob, Doug, and everyone after the prop had been designed and made and incorporated into Rimmer’s costume?

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

> I think I’ve always idly assumed it was something to do with hardlight, but he’s got it in Psirens,
I’d always assumed that this line implied there was a soft light remote belt, and that’s what that was.  Battery power for his light bee or … something

[clem]

I did wonder about this too. Maybe it was meant to be unreliable or broken.

Right, but they decided it would be snappier to just have him misremember them. Makes sense. Or maybe the gag was going to be that he has the computer at his disposal but pig-headedly insists he doesn’t actually need it, despite continually getting the numbers wrong. 

[Warbodog]

Like the concept of the Cat regularly turning into Duane Dibbley when stressed or whatever, they were still able to judge which of their crazy new ideas were bad ones most of the time.

[Nick R]

A report book for the digital age.

[Rushy]

Or just maybe, it was a sciencey prop made to look sciencey, because they’re adventuring around in space now. 

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