Dave Lister: Last Human Alive. Third Techician. Arnold Rimmer: Hologrammatic Crew Member, Lister's bunkmate. (They hate eachother, but the slash fans go nuts with L/R.) Second Techician. The Cat: Highly evolved Cat. He's the guy in my icon. Kryten: Cleaning robot. Doesn't appear until Season II. Holly: Ship's computer. Is senile. Turns female in Season III.
And the setting.
Red Dwarf: Space Corps Mining Ship. Huge. Has a crew of around 100, or 1000, depending on your canon. Time: They start in the 22/23/24 (pick one) century, but Lister gets frozen in stasis for 3 million years. The crew of the Red Dwarf died because of an accident. (Rimmer was revived as a hologram.) Lister was frozen in stasis because he smuggled a cat onboard. The cat was pregnant, and it survived the explosion due it's location. It's kittens bred and evolved, and three million years later, you get the Cat. (See characters.) Holly sends the ship out of the solar system, due to the radiation the accident caused. So now they're all three million years worth of travel away from Earth.
Confused yet? Watch the show. It's all very clear in the show, and I'm not explaining it all very well.
The show is a sit-com set in space, there are no aliens, and the slash abounds like it does in WL. WL fans should feel at home with RD. (No improv, but the humor is simular.)
That's as short as I could make the summary. Sorry.
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Let me start with the characters.
Dave Lister: Last Human Alive. Third Techician.
Arnold Rimmer: Hologrammatic Crew Member, Lister's bunkmate. (They hate eachother, but the slash fans go nuts with L/R.) Second Techician.
The Cat: Highly evolved Cat. He's the guy in my icon.
Kryten: Cleaning robot. Doesn't appear until Season II.
Holly: Ship's computer. Is senile. Turns female in Season III.
And the setting.
Red Dwarf: Space Corps Mining Ship. Huge. Has a crew of around 100, or 1000, depending on your canon.
Time: They start in the 22/23/24 (pick one) century, but Lister gets frozen in stasis for 3 million years. The crew of the Red Dwarf died because of an accident. (Rimmer was revived as a hologram.) Lister was frozen in stasis because he smuggled a cat onboard. The cat was pregnant, and it survived the explosion due it's location. It's kittens bred and evolved, and three million years later, you get the Cat. (See characters.) Holly sends the ship out of the solar system, due to the radiation the accident caused. So now they're all three million years worth of travel away from Earth.
Confused yet? Watch the show. It's all very clear in the show, and I'm not explaining it all very well.
The show is a sit-com set in space, there are no aliens, and the slash abounds like it does in WL. WL fans should feel at home with RD. (No improv, but the humor is simular.)
That's as short as I could make the summary. Sorry.