Where are all the miners

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

For a ship that supposedly a mining vessel, not one member of the crew that we are introduced to or is mentioned but not seen is a miner.

Captain Holister
Navigation Officer Kochanski
Todhunter is just “officer”
Flight co-ordinator George McIntyre
Lister and Rimmer are technicians

There’s Kochanski’s ex Tm who is a chef
Petersen is also in catering

I don’t think we ever find out what Selby and Chen’s jobs are.

None of Rimmer’s potential replacements in Holoship are miners

None of the “officers” at the dinner Holister holds in series 8 are miners

Brannigan and McClaren are psyiatrists or counsellors

There’s more obviously but I can’t think of them all off of the top of my head at the moment

For a mining ship of only 169/1169 crew … you’d expect at least one of the crew seen or mentioned to have something to do with actual mining.

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[Plastic Percy]

I presume the bazookoid mining lasers are for breaking up rocks and getting to the ore. Like when we see Lister using one to break up the rocks Starbug’s leg is embeded in during Psirens.

[JamesTC]

They fire a mining torpedo from Starbug in Officer Rimmer.

[Dave]

My grandfather was a miner.

Don’t recall him serving aboard any outer planet vessels, nor did he ever mention dying in a massive radiation leak.

Or living past 1994.

Which is handy as he pegged it before witnessing the long, drawn out death rattle of Red Dwarf.

At least he was spared having to read your forum posts.

[Moonlight]

How dare this show continue to exist and bring joy to its fans. Especially since in doing so it retroactively ruins the first six series for some reason that currently escapes me.

[flanl3]

I absolutely hate in when a show continues and literally cancels all its earlier seasons simply by doing so.

[JamesTC]

>I absolutely hate in when a show continues and literally cancels all its earlier seasons simply by doing so.

To be fair The Brittas Empire kind of did that.

[Moonlight]

You know how an early Brittas episode copied the “Lemming Sunday” routine almost word for word? Turns out it was in case Red Dwarf Series III was rendered unviewable by the production of future series and people still wanted to hear that joke.

[flanl3]

Is this an appropriate time to point out that Futurama flipped its stance on Star Trek like five times?

[Moonlight]

To be fair they came up with the idea that it was banned like four seasons in, and the pilot is really the only other time I remember them very explicitly mentioning Star Trek or having a cast member cameo.

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