Trivia / Red Dwarf Season V "Holoship"

• Creator's Favorite Episode: This was Juliet May's personal favourite of the Red Dwarf episodes that she directed, as it required less special effects than usual for the show and gave her more time to focus on directing the actors.
• Deleted Scene:
  • An extension of the joke in which the Cat thinks the opening cartoon at the beginning of the movie was the movie.
  • Two trims from the holo-elevator scene. Nirvanah Crane explains more about the Enlightenment, it's crew and mission.
  • Four sections were cut from the scene which introduces the Holoship's crew. Captain Hercule Platini further describes how he sees his crew as superhuman, whilst Rimmer tries to impress, saying that his command of Red Dwarf was forged in "the blue fire of combat". Platini agrees to Rimmer's challenge to take the exams to join the crew, and Rimmer leaves, repeatedly stomping his feet, and then re-entering through a wrong door.
  • The scene where Rimmer and Nirvanah have sex was originally much longer, which them having lots more pillow talk. Rimmer struggles to tell her that he she is the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, whilst Nirvanah reminds him that love is forbidden aboard the Holoship, where emotion is looked on as inferior, and that to her it was just exercise. This is what Rimmer was referring to in the aired episode where he apologises for what he's just said. When Rimmer leaves her, she shakes his hand, and they share a lingering moment. Then as Navarro tells her that she has been chosen as Rimmer's opponent, she looks upset.
  • Rimmer further discusses his plans to join the Holocrew with the boys from the Dwarf, to much mocking.
  • A longer look at the Mind Patch process, and an intelligent, mind-patched Rimmer.
  • A number of jokes from Holly were cut down as the writers believed they slowed the pace of the episode.
  • The boys from the Dwarf discuss Rimmer's potential hologram replacements. Apparently the only former crewmember who was interested in joining them was Lister's own hologram, but the Cat disagrees (possibly a reference to what happens in a lost episode, where Lister did have his own hologram clone but it didn't work out too well).
  • Rimmer further explaining to Nirvanah how desperately he wanted to join the Holoship, and exactly what he would have done to become an officer - which includes dancing and a chimpanzee.
• Throw It In!:
  • After imitating the hologram's Captain's Log by speaking into a pack of cigarettes like it's a communicator, Lister finishes by reporting that "subject shows evidence of spoiling for a rumble," and then eats one of the cigarettes as he theatrically shrugs his jacket off. This was a total ad-lib by Craig Charles who admitted as soon as the take ended that he had no idea why he did it, because it tasted awful.
  • Chris Barrie ad-libbed the "people I met" line during Rimmer's goodbye.
    " Look, I'm not much good at big speeches, and I know I haven't always been an easy guy to get on with. And I know that, given the choice, I probably wouldn't have chosen you as friends. But, I just want to say... that over the years I have come to regard you as... people... I met. "

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