Talk:List of Red Dwarf characters

message: "Lister gave birth to the twins himself after a sexual liaison with his female alter-ego from a female-orientated alternate universe. Due to them being born in a different reality to their conception both of them grew to be eighteen years old within three days, so in order to make sure they didn't die within a fortnight Lister sent them back to their mother's dimension."
This is in the article, but I can't recall Lister giving birth. Rimmer tells him that he is pregnant at the end of the episode, and then the pregnancy is never mentioned again as far as I know. Can anyone clear this up?
-- At the End of Episode Future Echoes, which precedes the Parallel Universe, Lister takes a picture of himself with two babies. At this point the assumption is that they have a mother, but the bit you're describing confirms that, actually, he gave birth to them. Andymarczak 15:18, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: These details are all mentioned - very quickly - at the beginning of series 3, in a Star Wars-like scrolling text thing that goes so fast that you need a video player with a good pause function to actually read it. --Paul A 08:19, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I've moved Queeg to the Alter egos section, as he wasn't really a shipboard robot, merely Holly in disguise. 17:27, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternate personalities 

message: The article says "Todhunter's job title is never explained, though he may be the first officer (executive officer) of Red Dwarf. He is in charge of the stasis booth and tries to describe how it works to anyone who goes there. He is also an exam invigilator."  A later episode in series 3 explains that a woman called Carol Brown is the ship's executive officer.  It is more likely that Todhunter is the ship's Chief Engineer.  I say this for two reasons 1) He is seen in The End holding a clipboard containing the "Engineer's Report" and 2) as the article points out he is seen invigilating the Engineer's exam. Pastbury 00:17, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not to mention that being an engineer, he would know about stasis fields. 72.45.107.156 (talk) 05:57, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Todhunter 

message: Where is the reference to this? I do not recall any episode of red dwarf where silicon heaven and the scutters are mentioned together. Was it in one of the books?
80.37.21.9 18:06, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: "Scutters do not beleive in silicon heaven to keep the costs down. They find the concept ridiculous"

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message: I have just been through and fixed up some of the sentences in the Character descriptions. I have a problem though in seeing how little information there is for the main characters, but how much there is for the one time/ uncommon characters in the show. Maybe someone with some time on there hands can go through and try to correct this. Also try and make it so each Character description flows in the same way to each other. --MattyC3350 (talk) 10:47, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: As soon as the main article Red Dwarf is brought up to scratch for re-assessment I'll be back to have a look. --Nreive (talk) 14:18, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Umm... the main characters should only have a short description on this page, since they are notable enough to have their own articles, though I do agree the descriptions could use some work. 72.45.107.156 (talk) 05:56, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wording of Characters seems wrong 

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message: This is unfair. There is a considerable amount of evidence that some of the skutters get along with Rimmer better than he does with other people. It should be noted that skutters take part in Hammond Organ Recital Night and were also seen to go an a week long hike with Rimmer as a holiday.
--Hrimpurstala (talk) 01:06, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: "The skutters are .... particularly well designed for giving 'up yours' ... most often to Rimmer whom they strongly dislike"

message: Surely Adolf Hitler deserves a mention for his credited cameo in Timeslides. - Mastertechnician (talk) 11:41, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The mention of "Adolf Hitler as Himself" is the credits of the episode is merely intended to be a joke. Archive footage doesn't usually count as a guest star credit. magnius (talk) 13:24, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Guest stars

message: It is very clear in the specials that Katerina Bartikovsky is merely a part of the group hallucination that the crew shared.  She appeared after they were attacked by the squid, and everything that she did, inclusing the opening of the portal etc..was all a part of the shared hallucination.  This is even mentioned within the episode itself, rewatch the final part and listen closely near the end for proof of this. magnius (talk) 10:27, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I shall but, in the meantime, tell us what your proof is. --Michael C. Price talk 10:33, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not disputing whether she was a hallucination. I'm disputing the fact that she appeared in Back to Reality. Back to Reality was the season 5 episode, which introduced the concept of a despair squid. Katerina did not appear in that episode. -- WORMMЯOW  12:19, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I think we're all agreed that she doesn't appear in Back to Reality, which the original wording implied.  The end of the series implies that, although the return to Earth was originally an hallucination, it now exists as a consequence of their observation.  (And how can a car crash kill a hard light hologram?)--Michael C. Price talk 14:20, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Katerina was a hallucination, as Rimmer says the hallucination is the reality beginning "after Kremlin Kate showed up". Though she does exist in the alternate universe created by the dream, but that does not make her real. By the way, the implication is that every dream and hallucination creates a reality, so the Back to Reality scenario or even Cat's Tongue Tied dream exist as alternate realities in the Red Dwarf canon (not to mention the dream that Cat was actually looking for in the dream recorder). I agree with your point about hard-light and car crashes, since Legion said they are "practically indestructible". Though "Back to Earth, Part Two" never says she died, she could have just been sent away. At any rate, this is not of Wikipedia importance. The wording should reflect that Katerina was created by the second Despair Squid encounter and not the one in Series V, since this seems to be causing some confusion. I hope this has helped clear this up.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.45.107.156 (talk) 05:54, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Katerina Bartikovsky a hallucination