How many times has Rimmer has sex?
Only once while he was alive, with Yvonne McGruder, the ship’s female boxing champion (“Thanks for the Memory”). The story he tells Lister in “Marooned”, about losing his virginity in the back seat of his brother’s car, appears to be false. Rimmer has had simulated sex in a virtual reality game (“Better Than Life”) and holographic sex with another hologram (“Holoship”). Subject: How many people were in Red Dwarf’s crew? In “The End”, Todhunter says “There are 169 people on board this ship.” Yet in “Justice”, the Justice Computer charges Rimmer with 1,167 counts of murder for causing the deaths of the entire crew. What gives? RED DWARF is full of minor inconsistencies like this one. When Grant Naylor come up with a good idea (such as the “light bee” — see “How can Rimmer leave the ship?”), they don’t worry overmuch about whether it contradicts something in a previous episode. In this case, they evidently decided that a larger crew was more appropriate for a ship five miles long and thr
