Why have a bomb for the self-destruct? Why not the ship's power plant?

A powerplant would be designed to be easy to shut down in case of trouble. If the ship is captured you don't want it to be easy to shut down.

Why would a mining ship have a self-destruct anyway? In case aliens tried to learn Earth's top secret mining techniques?

So which scutter does anyone think went mad?

So why couldn't Holly bring up a hologram of 1st officer Brown to cancel the self-destruct?

Why would a mindswap change the sound of a body's voice? It's not the vocal cords that are being changed.

The needle of the mental enema seems to wiggle around when it should be steady. (Although Robert Llewellyn seems to try to cover this by putting his fingers in front of them.)

Holly says she dumped the bombs ages ago. (Okay Holly would have been a he when the bombs were actually dumped, but that's overly nitpicky.;-) Then when everyone wants to know why she didn't tell them she says they never asked. However, Holly earlier listed 3 options, all of them ending in blowing up. If Holly knew there were no bombs, why would she list blowing up as an option?

Because Holly is suffering from computer senility after being in deep space for 3 million years and forgot there were no bombs.

Ludicrous though it seems, apparently holograms can smell. Rimmer is talking about the side effects of Lister eating currie and comments about bringing in a canary. So apparently Rimmer can smell Lister's gas.

In this episode, Rimmer says that Brown was the ship's XO. In The End, I got the impression that Toddhunter was the XO.

The Hologram simulation suite (& the lightbee) must be able to detect smells.

Once again, I typed before I thought. After giving it some thought, I realize that Toddhunter is really more of a CPO.

Kryten can put together & get working the mind transfer machine in only 5 minutes, when the Nova 5 crew never managed it.

Lister's mind is stored on a diataphone tape, why not a hologram disk like we see in Confidence & Paranoia?

Rimmer mentions that he can smell, another reason not to believe that holograms can't smell.

The Toilet & Dinner sequences are some of the funniest scenes in Red Dwarf.

Where does Rimmer get a real version of his uniform from? It is a type I've never seen worn in the pre-accident scenes & RD8. Can Holly somehow produce clothing?

This seems to be the only time The Cat lets his hair down.

Toffy Crisps, Ajax & Domestos will still be around in the future.

It's amazing what you can do under pressure.

Rimmer raves about being able to taste when he swaps bodies, so is he saying he tastes nothing when drinks and eats hologrammatic food in previous episodes?

Why would a mining ship have a self destruct? Just in case it's lost power and is about to crash into a populated planet. You'd want to blow it up into itty bitty little peices that would burn up in the atmosphere and wind up no bigger than a chihuahua's head thereby causing no damage.

Not a bad answer.

Although depending on how far away from the planet it blows, the majority of the mass of the ship would still hit the planet.

And an object the size of a chihuahua's head could do a lot of damage on impact. (Even if it was the size of a chihuahua's... chilito(?) it could go through the roof & ceiling of a house.

Even if everything did burn before hitting the ground, I think the sky would probably darken with all that 'ash' in the air.

I forget what they said the explosives were, but if they were radioactive then the planet would still be in trouble.

The Chihuauha's head was a reference to an episode of "The Simpsons" in which a comet was going to hit Springfield but instead burned up in the extra layer of pollution that Lisa picketed against and ended up the size of a chuhuaha's head, just as Homer said it would. It was my futile attempt at humor.

I guess Rimmer getting excited over eating and drinking real food & drink is becuase Holly can't simulate them that well. I spotted this point when first watching it.

Star Trek's ripping off of RD continues! (see "Better Than Life" and "Thanks For The Memory")

Last night's Voyager had The Doctor transfer his program into Seven's body... and SHE gripes at his "indulgences", too!

Hasn't the idea of body swapping been around for ages in the movies, before Red Dwarf and Voyager were even thought of?

Good question...

Can anyone help here?

Chris: yes, the bodyswap concept predates red Dwarf by quite a bit.

Another reason for a self destruct would be in case there is any harmful organisms or illnesses that the ships computer would deem harmful, that it might be best to destroy the ship otherwise.

Bodyswapping goes back to atleast the last ep of Star Trek: The Origional Series

Turnabout by Thorne Smith was written in, IIRC, the 1930s. It's about a husband and wife who end up in each other's bodies.

Stories about demon possession are much older.

Switching the minds should not affect the voices. The vocal cords are in the throat, not the brain.

Other shows have also made this same mistake.

It's for ease of identification for the audience at home.

We don't deal in reality.

Horrible as it was, the TOS episode, Turnabout Intruder did the concept right.