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“When it comes to weirdy, paradoxy space stuff, I’ve bought the t-shirt.” —Lister, “Cassandra”

Acknowledgments v Foreword by Jonathan Capps vii Introduction by Paul C. Giachetti ix Abbreviation Key: A Guide to the Guide xiv

The Encyclopedia 0-9 2 A 22 B 52 C 91 D 132 E 162 F 180 G 199 H 223 I 257 J 267 K 282 L to Z See Volume 2

“That’s why I had my appendix out… twice.” —Rimmer, “Thanks for the Memory”

Appendix I: The Red Dwarf Episode Guide 301 Appendix II: The Universes of Red Dwarf 321 Appendix III: Other Red Dwarf-related Books 325 Appendix IV: Categorical Index See Volume 2

About the Author 327

ii iii CODES: W: WEBSITES OFF: Official website (www.reddwarf.co.uk) RL: REAL LIFE NAN: Prelude to Nanarchy (www.reddwarf.co.uk/ Information tagged with this code comes from real-world gallery/index.cfm?page=prelude-to-nanarchy) sources. AND: Androids (www.androids.tv) DIV: Diva-Droid (www.divadroid.info) T: TELEVISION EPISODES DIB: Duane Dibbley (www.duanedibbley.co.uk) SER: Televised CRP: Crapola (www.crapola.biz) IDW: “Identity Within” (untelevised) GEN: Geneticon (www.geneticon.info) USA1: Unaired U.S. pilot LSR: Leisure World International USA2: Unaired U.S. demo reel (www.leisureworldint.com) JMC: Jupiter Mining Corporation R: REMASTERED (The Bodysnatcher Collection) (www.jupiterminingcorporation.com) SER: Remastered episodes AIT: A.I. Today (www.aitoday.co.uk) BOD: “Bodysnatcher” storyboards HOL: HoloPoint (www.holopoint.biz) DAD: “Dad” storyboards FTH: “Lister’s Father” storyboards X: MISC. INF: “Infinity Patrol” storyboards PRO: Promotional materials, videos, etc. END: “The End” (original assembly) (specified in notes) PST: Posters displayed at Dimension Jump XVII (2013) N: NOVELS CAL: Red Dwarf 2008 Calendar INF: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers RNG: Cell Phone Ringtones BTL: Better Than Life MOB: Mobisode (“Red Christmas”, Parts 1 and 2) LST: Last Human CIN: Red Dwarf Children in Need Sketch BCK: Backwards GEK: Geek Week introductions by Kryten OMN: Red Dwarf Omnibus TNG: “Tongue-Tied” video XMS: Bill Pearson’s Christmas special pitch script M: MAGAZINES XVD: Bill Pearson’s Christmas special pitch video SMG: Smegazine OTH: Other Red Dwarf appearances (specified in notes)

B: BOOKS PRG: Red Dwarf Programme Guide SUFFIXES: SUR: Red Dwarf Space Corps Survival Manual PRM: Primordial Soup DVDs SOS: Son of Soup (d) – Deleted scene SCE: Scenes from the Dwarf (o) – Outtake LOG: Red Dwarf Log No. 1996 (b) – Bonus DVD material (other) EVR: The Log: A Dwarfer’s Guide to Everything (e) – Extended version RD8: Red Dwarf VIII SMEGAZINES / FAN CLUB MAGAZINES G: ROLEPLAYING GAME (c) – Comic RPG: Core Rulebook (a) – Article BIT: A.I. Screen (including Extra Bits booklet) SOR: Series Sourcebook OTHER OTH: Other RPG material (including online PDFs) (s) – Early or unused script draft (s1) – Alternate version of script

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• android sheep: Mechanical representations of Ovis aries, Baywatch Nights, an American science fiction police available at a brothel on Mimas to customers who enjoyed drama that spun off from David Hasselhoff’s Baywatch bestiality [N-INF]. series, with the premise of a policeman quitting his job to open a detective agency. The phrase “Robots Never • Androids Nights: A spinoff of the television soap opera Sleep” presumably derived from “We Never Sleep,” the Androids, the tagline of which was “Robots Never Sleep.” The well-known slogan of the Pinkerton National Detective short-lived series revolved around protagonist Capston’s plan Agency. to start a detective agency, with the android navigating a trail of murder, mystery and adultery that led to a confrontation with • Androids Shower Radio: A product sold by Crapola Inc., a character called Jaysee. The series’ DVD featured eighteen sporting the logo of the television soap opera Androids. When minutes of bonus materials, including making-of specials, hit with water, the radio played the Androids theme song. outtakes and deleted scenes, and retailed for $£18.99 [W-CRP]. A button on the device allowed users to hear an alternate NOTE: This TV series’ title and premise were based on song, “Goto 10 If You Love Me,” which had played during the

PREFIX R-: The Bodysnatcher Collection BCK: Backwards CRP: Crapola RL: Real life SER: Remastered episodes OMN: Red Dwarf Omnibus GEN: Geneticon BOD: “Bodysnatcher” LSR: Leisure World Intl. T-: Television Episodes DAD: “Dad” M-: Magazines JMC: Jupiter Mining Corporation SER: Television series FTH: “Lister’s Father” SMG: Smegazine AIT: A.I. Today IDW: “Identity Within” INF: “Infinity Patrol” HOL: HoloPoint USA1: Unaired U.S. pilot END: “The End” (original assembly) W-: Websites USA2: Unaired U.S. demo OFF: Official website G-: Roleplaying Game N-: Novels NAN: Prelude to Nanarchy RPG: Core Rulebook INF: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers AND: Androids BIT: A.I. Screen Extra Bits booklet 36 BTL: Better Than Life DIV: Diva-Droid SOR: Series Sourcebook LST: Last Human DIB: Duane Dibbley OTH: Other RPG material A

wedding of characters Simone and Derek. The shower radio Red Dwarf and inquired about their experience; he explained was made in Taiwan and sold for $£9.99 [W-CRP]. the goal of the game, and was amused to learn how much of it they had missed. He then prepped the machine for a new • Androids Singing Mug: A product sold by Crapola Inc., group of players, directing the old crew to the recuperation sporting the logo of the television soap opera Androids. When lounge [T-SER5.6]. lifted, the black mug played the program’s theme song. The cup was made in Taiwan and sold for $£8.99 [W-CRP]. • Ange: A cutesy nickname, short for “Angel,” that Lister gave Kochanski during their brief romance [N-INF]. • Androids—The Movie III: The third feature film based on the television soap opera Androids. The film was one of Kryten’s • Angel Islington, The: A London district featured in that city’s favorites [M-SMG1.1(a)]. version of Monopoly [RL]. For his twenty-fourth birthday, NOTE: This, of course, implied there were two prior Lister and several friends embarked on a Monopoly board pub Androids movies. crawl across London; their fifth stop was The Angel Islington, where they ordered mezcals [N-INF]. • Androids—The Movie IV: The fourth feature film based on the television soap opera Androids. In the movie, Kelly • anger: An emotional state characterized by a strong feeling ironed while Simone was threatened with shutdown. The of displeasure and animosity toward something or someone film, directed by Android 25143/B, was broadcast on Groovy [RL]. After escaping a hazardous waste pod and boarding Red Channel 27 at 10:30 PM on Wednesday, the 27th of Geldof, Dwarf, a polymorph attacked the crew by changing form to 2362 [M-SMG1.7(a)]. elicit and feed on their emotions. It targeted Rimmer by taking the form of his mother and describing her sexual exploits with • Android Zzzzz/z: The robotic production accountant on the Lister involving Alphabetti Spaghetti, after which it drained television soap opera Androids [T-SER2.1(d)]. the anger from Arnold’s mind [T-SER3.3]. While being analyzed by Red Dwarf’s chief psychiatric • Andromeda Galaxy: A spiral galaxy roughly 2.5 million light- counselor, Kryten boasted that anger and rudimentary mindless years away from the Milky Way, and the nearest neighboring violence were emotions he had acquired with Lister’s help. He galaxy [RL]. When scientists in the twenty-second century then demonstrated this by smashing the counselor’s hand with discovered that the Sun’s lifespan had been severely reduced by his fist[T-SER8.1] . attempts to control Earth’s weather, the World Council developed a plan to relocate humanity to a planet within the Andromeda • Angling Times: A weekly British publication dedicated to the Galaxy. sport of fishing [RL]. After Kryten entered lie mode to assure Initially inhospitable due to its lava and magma surface, Rimmer that his high-velocity garbage cannon would work, he the planet was chosen for its potential to be terraformed using quietly told Lister that Arnold had fallen for his ruse—hook, specially designed viruses and custom species of GELFs. line, sinker, rod and copy of Angling Times [T-SER6.1]. The first phase of the mission included launching a ship, the Mayflower, toward Andromeda to start the process of • angry chipmunk affair, the: An incident aboard Red Dwarf terraforming; it never arrived, however, having been knocked involving Lister, Chen, Selby and Petersen, with Selby off course by a GELF mutiny against the human crew [N-LST]. reportedly the mastermind [G-BIT].

• Andy: An individual whom the Red Dwarf crew imagined • Annett, Chloë: A British actor who portrayed Kristine meeting while trapped in a despair squid hallucination. Andy, a Kochanski on the comedy television series Red Dwarf service technician for Leisure World International, greeted the [RL]. While trapped in an elation squid hallucination, Lister crew after they awoke from the total-immersion video game discovered that Annett, who had portrayed Kochanski up until

B-: Books X-: Misc. XMS: Bill Pearson’s Christmas SMEGAZINES: PRG: Red Dwarf Programme Guide PRO: Promotional materials, special pitch script (c) – Comic SUR: Red Dwarf Space Corps videos, etc. XVD: Bill Pearson’s Christmas (a) – Article Survival Manual PST: Posters at DJ XVII (2013) special pitch video PRM: Primordial Soup CAL: 2008 calendar OTH: Other Red Dwarf appearances OTHER: SOS: Son of Soup RNG: Cell phone ringtones (s) – Early/unused script draft SCE: Scenes from the Dwarf MOB: Mobisode (“Red Christmas”) SUFFIX (s1) – Alternate version of script LOG: Red Dwarf Log No. 1996 CIN: Children in Need sketch DVD: RD8: Red Dwarf VIII GEK: Geek Week intros by Kryten (d) – Deleted scene EVR: The Log: A Dwarfer’s Guide TNG: “Tongue-Tied” video (o) – Outtake to Everything (b) – Bonus DVD material (other) 37 (e) – Extended version DOG, DOG D

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• daffodil: A word that replaced “drill” in Holly’s vocabulary • Daley: Rimmer’s former bunkmate aboard Red Dwarf before database after an electrical fire damaged her voice-recognition Lister. Arnold blamed Daley, as well as several other past unit. As a result, she informed the crew that the order to bunkmates, for holding him back and preventing him from “abandon shop” was “not a daffodil” [T-SER5.5]. becoming an officer[N-INF] .

• Daily Asteroid, The: A daily newspaper serving Tunbridge • Dali, Salvador: A twentieth-century Spanish painter Wells, England. After a meteor shower damaged the astrodome specializing in surreal imagery [RL]. After Rimmer’s hard drive protecting Tunbridge Wells, the publication ran the headline crashed during a resentment attack that caused the hologram “Pilgrims to Pray for End to Meteors,” and reported that to freeze up, Cat used a felt-tipped pen to draw a mustache on a pilgrim ship containing five hundred town residents had his face in the style of Dali, asking Lister and Kryten to guess launched on a mission to visit a holy shrine [M-SMG1.14(c2)]. who it was [T-SER10.1].

• Daily Goal List: A “to do” list that Rimmer created to track his • Dall, Tarka: See Dhal, Tarka achievements. One item on a Thursday list—decontaminating the Officers’ Block—was never completed, which Lister only • Dallas Electric: A company located near W 84th Avenue in discovered after entering that area. Rimmer then put the job Dallas, Texas, circa 1966. This firm existed in an alternate on his next Daily Goal List, as item thirty-four, after “Learn timeline created when the Starbug 1 crew prevented President Portuguese” [T-SER1.5]. John F. Kennedy’s assassination. The crew passed a sign for the business while searching for clues to the population’s • Daily Smeg, The: A daily newspaper serving the city of disappearance; near the sign, they found a dead man who Smegopolis in 2315, in the universe known as Alternative appeared to have been trampled to death [T-SER7.1]. 2X13/L [M-SMG2.1(c3)]. NOTE: A company called Dallas Electric has been in operation since 1967—a year after the crew’s arrival • Daizee: A 4000 Series mechanoid aboard Red Dwarf in a in Texas. universe in which the sexes were reversed. Daizee, Kryten’s female counterpart in that reality, helped Deb Lister take care • Dallas Morning News, The: A daily newspaper founded of her two sons, Jim and Bexley [M-SMG1.5(c2)]. in 1885, serving the Dallas, Texas, area [RL]. After John F. NOTE: This contradicted the official website, which Kennedy was arrested in an alternate timeline created when claimed that the mechanoid, though female, was still the Starbug 1 crew prevented his assassination, the U.S.S.R. named Kryten. Daizee’s name was presumably an constructed nuclear bases in Cuba, prompting the evacuation homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which the HAL- of several major U.S. cities. The Dallas Morning News reported 9000 computer (after whom Holly was named) sang a the incident, with the headline “Millions Flee From American song called “Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two).” Cities” [T-SER7.1].

• Dalai Lama, the: The title of the religious leader of Tibetian • Dallas Police Department: The principal law-enforcement Buddhists [RL]. agency serving the city of Dallas, Texas [RL]. In an alternate A waxdroid replica of the Dalai Lama was created for the timeline, U.S. President John F. Kennedy survived an Waxworld theme park. Left on their own for millions of years, assassination attempt due to the interference of Starbug 1’s the waxdroids attained sentience and became embroiled in crew, and subsequently had an affair with the mistress of a park-wide resource war between Villain World and Hero Mafia boss Sam Giancana, for which he was impeached in World (to which the Dalai Lama belonged). During this war, 1964 and imprisoned the following year. To fix the timeline, the Red Dwarf crew transported to the planet using a Matter the crew brought Kennedy back to 1963 so he could Paddle, with Lister and Cat materializing in Villain territory, assassinate himself from a grassy knoll. To move about the while Rimmer and Kryten landed in Hero territory. area undetected, Kennedy procured a uniform from the Dallas Rimmer found the heroes’ army lacking and took command, Police Department [T-SER7.1]. working many of the pacifistic waxdroids to death before ordering a frontal attack on the enemy’s compound across • damage-control report: A function of Kryten series a minefield, which wiped out the remaining droids. The mechanoids that printed a rundown of an android’s current Dalai Lama waxdroid stepped on a landmine and exploded operational state from its abdomen. Kryten requested a [T-SER4.6]. damage-control report after awakening with a hangover from the previous night’s party, which Lister had organized to honor Kryten’s last day of service [T-SER3.6]. 133 D

• damage-report machine: A component aboard many JMC by occasionally making dandelion sorbet from the ingredients vessels that determined and reported any damage done to [T-SER6.5]. the ship [T-SER1.5]. Certain damage-report machines were produced by Space Cadet LLC and distributed by Crapola Inc. • “Danger”: A word on a label adorning a canister near through its annual SCABBY catalog [G-RPG]. Taiwan Tony, an Asian fast-food dispenser aboard Red Dwarf When Red Dwarf collided with a meteor, its damage-report [T-SER10.2]. machine was itself damaged [T-SER1.5]. Starbug 1’s damage- report machine was similarly impaired when the crew battled • “Danger 2,000 Gigawatts”: A phrase on a door sign mounted a Space Corps enforcement vehicle [T-SER6.4]. in Red Dwarf’s hologram simulation suite. Behind the door was a head-mountable device used to transfer memories from • Dambusters, The: A 1955 British World War II film starring an individual into the hologram simulation suite’s terminal Michael Redgrave and Richard Todd [RL]. In one of Ace [T-SER2.5]. Rimmer’s universes, Olaf Petersen was arrested on the grounds of Europa’s Space Corps test facility after racing around the • “Danger Low Gravity No Leaping”: A warning printed on park singing The Dambusters’s theme song while hurling a sign posted on the wall of Nova 5’s dining area [T-SER2.1]. glow-in-the-dark, urine-filled condoms at security booths [N-BCK]. • Dangerous, Ezekiel, Doctor: A medical professional who awarded a certificate of strictness to Queeg 500, according to • Dan, Uncle: A foster relative of Dave Lister. Uncle Dan the backup computer [W-OFF]. was purported to be quite loud when using the bathroom NOTE: It is unknown whether Dangerous actually [T-SER8.6]. existed, given that Queeg was merely a creation of Holly. • Dancer: A fire-breathing racing yak that Cat imagined while trapped in an addictive version of Better Than Life. When Lister • “Danger—Robots In Operation”: A warning printed on a and Rimmer visited Cat at his golden castle to inform him sign posted in the hallways of the American mining ship Red that they were in the game, they found him on a fire-breathing Dwarf [T-USA1]. racing yak, about to start a dog hunt. Noticing his guests, Cat ordered his Valkyrie assistant to saddle up two more yaks, • Darin-Tor: The leader of the Cloisterists, a sect of the Cat Dancer and Prancer, so they could join him [N-INF]. People aboard Red Dwarf who believed their god’s true name NOTE: The yaks were named after two of Santa Claus’s was Cloister. They fought a two-thousand-year holy war against magical flying reindeer. the Clisterists, led by Kadok, who believed the deity was named Clister. • Dan Dare: A 1950s British comic strip created by illustrator The two opposing leaders met their god—Lister—after Frank Hampson, about space adventurer Colonel Daniel members of a neutral third sect, the Elite, traveled into the McGregor Dare [RL]. Lister, afflicted with space mumps, future to bring him back in time to end the conflict. Kadok, complained about his appearance when the crew found an looking to secure his position as leader, tried to take Lister escape pod possibly containing a human female, saying that and the others hostage, but Darin-Tor threw himself at his if he painted his head green he could audition for a part in rival, enabling Lister to escape. During the commotion, Kadok Dan Dare [T-SER4.3(d)]. fatally stabbed Darin-Tor [M-SMG2.3(c1)].

• dandelion sorbet: A dessert made from the fungi and moss • Dark, The: A rock band, circa 2137, who found themselves found on asteroids, as well as dandelion flowers. After Starbug at the center of a controversial advertising campaign when 1’s refrigeration unit malfunctioned, the crew resorted to Magnus Sonsonson claimed to have discovered the speed of surviving on such flora; Kryten attempted to vary the menu

PREFIX R-: The Bodysnatcher Collection BCK: Backwards CRP: Crapola RL: Real life SER: Remastered episodes OMN: Red Dwarf Omnibus GEN: Geneticon BOD: “Bodysnatcher” LSR: Leisure World Intl. T-: Television Episodes DAD: “Dad” M-: Magazines JMC: Jupiter Mining Corporation SER: Television series FTH: “Lister’s Father” SMG: Smegazine AIT: A.I. Today IDW: “Identity Within” INF: “Infinity Patrol” HOL: HoloPoint USA1: Unaired U.S. pilot END: “The End” (original assembly) W-: Websites USA2: Unaired U.S. demo OFF: Official website G-: Roleplaying Game N-: Novels NAN: Prelude to Nanarchy RPG: Core Rulebook INF: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers AND: Androids BIT: A.I. Screen Extra Bits booklet 134 BTL: Better Than Life DIV: Diva-Droid SOR: Series Sourcebook LST: Last Human DIB: Duane Dibbley OTH: Other RPG material D

darkness, which he claimed was faster than the speed of light. • Darren: A hillbilly version of Lister in an alternate universe This turned the physics world on its end until he admitted it was ravaged by the tyrannical Ace “Blackheart” Rimmer, who just a publicity stunt for The Dark—though, ironically, his fake killed Darren’s sweetheart, Kochanski. While visiting this theory was proven correct fifteen years later. The group’s only reality, another Ace Rimmer was mistaken for Blackheart by single was titled “Dark the Hellish Angels Sing” [B-EVR]. Dorrie (a humanoid whose species evolved from a dormouse), Kritter (a hillbilly cyborg analog of Kryten) and Darren, who • Dark Forces, the: The living embodiment of Rimmer’s shot him with a .38 calibre shotgun, wounding his shoulder. negative personality traits, including Misery, Self-Despair Upon realizing the mistaken identity, Darren told Ace and Paranoia, made flesh on a psi-moon configured according that Blackheart had laid waste to their settlement and would to his psyche. After Rimmer’s shipmates rescued him from return to finish the job—which he did a moment later. the moon, the Dark Forces abducted Self-Esteem to lure his Darren and Kritter attacked Blackheart, but were both shot comrades—Charity, Courage and Honour—into a trap, then in the knees, leaving Dorrie to shoot the villain in the head unleashed a secret weapon: the image of Rimmer’s mother [M-SMG1.14(c5)]. [M-SMG2.7(c2)]. • Darroch, Bobby: A Junior C classmate of Ace Rimmer. While • Darkness at Noon: A film that Rimmer imagined while trapped competing against Darroch in a two-hundred-yard dash, Ace in an addictive version of Better Than Life. The movie, made intentionally threw the race so Bobby would win, knowing sometime around three million A.D., starred sex-symbol actor how much it meant to him [N-BCK]. Juanita Chicata, whom Rimmer married in the illusion after returning to Earth. Upon winning her first Oscar for the role, • Dash, Mercy: The hostess of the television game show Chicata thanked him during a twenty-five-minute acceptance 20,000,000 Watts My Line in Jake Bullet’s universe. While speech [N-INF]. investigating the death of contestant Philby Frutch, Bullet NOTE: The film may have been an adaptation of Arthur found Dash in Frutch’s apartment. She explained that she and Koestler’s same-named novel. Frutch had been lovers, and had planned to use his winnings to pay for an operation to cure Philby’s nerdism before going • Dark One, The: The ruler of a psi-moon formed from away on holiday [M-SMG1.14(c6)]. Rimmer’s mind. The moon, able to detect Arnold’s neurosis, Captured by goons sent by the game show’s TV station, Bullet restructured itself as a desolate, gloomy, swamp-filled wasteland discovered that Dash was also romantically involved with the inhabited by manifestations of his negative attributes. The Dark show’s host, Milty, who had sent her in to find out how Frutch One demanded Rimmer be sacrificed to the Unspeakable One had cheated on the show, after which she murdered him. Milty [T-SER5.3]. and Dash attempted to electrocute Bullet, but died when the cyborg chomped on Milty’s microphone cable, shocking them • “Dark the Hellish Angels Sing”: The only single produced instead [M-SMG2.2(c2)]. by the rock group The Dark, recorded in 2137. The song rose A month later, Bullet’s mind envisioned apparitions of Milty to only number forty-seven on the U.S. charts, despite staying and Dash as he fell from a building to his apparent death at first place in Albania fourteen years running[B-EVR] . [M-SMG2.6(c6)]. NOTE: This song’s title spoofed that of the Christmas carol “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.” • Dastardly and Muttley: A pair of villainous characters from Hanna Barbara’s animated television series Wacky Races and • Darren: A character on the television soap opera Androids. its spinoff, Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines In one episode, Darren attended a barbeque hosted by Daz, [RL]. Their names adorned a patch sewn onto Lister’s leather during which a family pet, Bouncer, was lost in a temporal- jacket [T-SER2.1]. displacement vortex [M-SMG1.8(c2)].

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to Holman, the GELF population declared war on humanity. configuring itself as an exact duplicate of the mining vessel Most GELFs died during the short conflict, with some going [M-SMG2.6(c1)]. into hiding or starting resistance groups. GELF-hunters were employed to root out and capture the remaining GELFs, who • General A. J. Smegger: A nickname that Lister called Rimmer were exiled on the island of Zanzibar just prior to Earth being when the hologram became obsessed with squashing a skutter designated “Garbage World” [N-BTL]. strike [M-SMG1.4(c1)].

• GELFWorld: A recreational tourist planet populated by • General Assembly 4: A meeting of executive personnel aboard Pleasure GELFs, a type of genetically engineered life form Red Dwarf. Rimmer ordered Holly to summon Lister to attend (GELF) created to provide companionship. It included such General Assembly 4 so he could conduct a roll call of the ship’s areas as the Cuddly Animal Theme Park. The planet’s facilities entire complement—despite all but one of them being dead closed when a dissident named Drigg launched a GELF [R-BOD]. uprising, resulting in the slaughter or ousting of all tourists, and forcing Earth to quarantine GELFWorld. The GELFs, • General Custer Forward Thinking Award: A hypothetical unable to quell their thirst for violence, soon turned against commendation that Rimmer pretended to award to Kochanski each other, launching a GELF War that culminated in the for her plan of attack at the Cyberia virtual-reality prison on planet’s destruction [M-SMG2.2(c4)]. Lotomi 5. The plan involved using the Oblivion virus to kill all electricity across the entire moon, enabling Lister to rescue • GELF Zone: An area of space inhabited by several GELF his doppelgänger from the complex. A side effect of the power tribes and marked with a GELF icon—a huge rock carved to outage, however, was that the gravity generator failed, making resemble a GELF skull. An attacking Space Corps enforcement movement on the planetoid very difficult[N-LST] . vehicle, upon catching the Starbug 1 crew looting Space Corps NOTE: Cavalry officer General George Armstrong derelicts, forced the shuttle to enter the GELF Zone, where Custer launched his disastrous “Last Stand” against they encountered a tribe of Kinitawowi GELFs [T-SER6.4]. Native American forces in 1876, displaying a distinct lack of forward thinking. • Gemini 12: A Space Corps TTX-3 experimental craft [G-SOR] containing a time drive developed in the twenty-eighth century • General George and the Gook Invasion: A book written by [T-SER7.1]. Its maiden voyage was to the twentieth century, Colonel Mike O’Hagan, a Space Marine and author of the where the crew contracted an influenza virus and died. In Space Corps Survival Manual [B-SUR]. their final moments, the crew set the autopilot for deep space NOTE: Given its title, this book was presumably about and laid a reality minefield around the vessel to discourage Major General George Patton IV, a prominent officer looters. Years later, the Starbug 1 crew found Gemini 12 and during the Vietnam War. stripped out the drive, installing it aboard their own shuttle [T-SER6.6]. • generator: A component aboard Starbug 1 that produced power NOTE: Although it had appeared in episode 6.6 (“Out for the shuttle. Jealous of Lister’s affection for Kochanski, of Time”), Gemini 12 was not actually named until Kryten overloaded the generator and emergency backup in order episode 7.1 (“Tikka to Ride”). to prevent her from bathing in Dave’s quarters [T-SER7.4].

• Gendarme of St. Tropez: See Captain Emerald • Generosity: An aspect of Rimmer’s personality that a psi-moon detected as being essentially dead, prompting the planetoid to • Genepool Biotech Corp BioSafe Genetic Waste Pod: construct a metaphorical tombstone in its memory. According A small capsule for disposing of hazardous biological to the stone’s inscription, his generosity died when he was nine specimens [G-SOR]. One such pod was used to contain two years old [T-SER5.3]. polymorphs, emitting a warning transmission with the words “Danger,” “Genetic Waste,” “Do Not Open” and “Contents: • GeneStick pistol grip: A technology utilized in the handle of 2” prominently written on its casing. During transit through Nova auto pistols, produced by Bloodlust Arms [G-RPG]. deep space, this capsule became compromised, allowing its occupants to escape aboard Red Dwarf. One polymorph • genetically augmented winged mutation (GAWM): A type of attacked the crew, consuming their emotions until it was killed flying life form engineered in the universe known as Alternative by heat-seeking bazookoid missiles [T-SER3.3]. The other 2X13/L [M-SMG2.1(c3)]. polymorph escaped detection, eventually leaving the ship and

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If you have ever wondered if there was more to Red Dwarf than just a television series, then prepare to have your nipple nuts spun, because Total Immersion: The Comprehensive Unauthorized Red Dwarf Encyclopedia has got you covered! The quintessential reference guides to the whos, whats, whens and wheres of the entire Red Dwarf universe, Total Immersion contains thousands of entries from the television episodes, novels, websites, games, comics and more, meticulously compiled and all-inclusive. Every person, place, thing, event and reference is alphabetically listed—from Androids to zero-gee football, from Alphabetti Spaghetti to Zogothoniumeliumoxiixiexiphulmifhidikalidrihide—to produce this trivia buff’s ultimate treasure trove of all things Dwarf. This two-book set includes: • More than 5,500 entries culled from every Red Dwarf story and source material • A detailed index breaking the entries down into seventy-five categories for easy browsing • A foreword by Jonathan Capps, a founding member of Ganymede & Titan, the premier Red Dwarf fan site • More than sixty breathtaking interior sketches from artist Pat Carbajal, produced exclusively for this set • A complete story guide to the television series, novels, Smegazine comics and more • An overview of the many universes and timelines featured in Red Dwarf Written for both casual fans and those who know the range of a C-180A Canary Rifle, Total Immersion is your one-stop guide to the entire Red Dwarf mythos. Smeggin’ hell!

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