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Character Actor Series Arnold Rimmer: Chris Barrie: Main: I - VI & VIII - XIII; Recurring: VII Arnold Judas Rimmer (BSC & SSC) is Lister's bunkmate brought back to life as a hologram (his character wore an "H" symbol on his forehead, which stands for "Hologram”) to keep Lister sane. He is unpopular with his crew mates, and is often the target ...
Arnold Judas Rimmer [1] is a fictional character in the science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf, played by Chris Barrie. Rimmer is characterised as a second-class technician (first-class technician in the novels) and de facto leader of the mining ship Red Dwarf. Portrayed as snobbish, pedantic, and self-centred, Rimmer is unpopular with his crewmates ...
Examples of this type of depiction include the hologram of Princess Leia in Star Wars, Arnold Rimmer from Red Dwarf, who was later converted to "hard light" to make him solid, and the Holodeck and Emergency Medical Hologram from Star Trek. [1] Holography served as an inspiration for many video games with the science fiction elements.
The first universe Rimmer travels to sees him on Red Dwarf pre-radiation leak; here, Rimmer is a hologram, unlike in his reality where he was alive before it occurred. After meeting-up with that universe's Holly and Captain Hollister, who was attempting a futile escape on a jammed escape pod, Rimmer escapes to a new universe.
The original hologram-Rimmer despairs when his counterpart forces him to exercise and only allows him minutes of sleep a night. Things come to a head and the two demand that Lister switch one of them off. Lister chooses the original but asks about Rimmer's obsession with gazpacho.
When Lister is reminiscing about the good times he had with Rimmer, he recalls them breaking into the lockers on Red Dwarf with Rimmer. In this flashback, Rimmer is dressed in blue, signifying his hard-light hologram status. Rimmer was not made a hard-light hologram until they met Legion, after they lost Red Dwarf. This is also mentioned in the ...
The character of Kryten was originally intended as a one-off appearance in the series-two episode "Kryten". The character returned mainly to broaden the story potential as Lister was the only person who could really do anything; Rimmer, a hologram, could not touch anything, the Cat could not be bothered to touch anything, and Holly was ...
This episode marks the original Rimmer hologram's final 'real' appearance in series VII, with his other appearances taking the forms of flashbacks and dream sequences. [2] In Series VIII Chris Barrie would portray a resurrected human form of Rimmer. He would reappear as the original hologram Rimmer again in Red Dwarf: Back to Earth.