RD: Stoke Me a Clipper

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Contents 1 Overview 2 Summary 3 Notes 4 Noteworthy Dialogue 5 Background Information 6 Guest Stars 7 References

[edit] Overview

Daredevil pilot Ace Rimmer, fatally wounded after rescuing Princess Bonjela, travels from his own dimension into the dimension where Starbug is cruising. His intention is to try and bring out courage in the cowardly version of himself aboard Starbug, and then hopefully recruit Arnold Rimmer as his replacement, so that after his death another Rimmer will carry on the legacy of the interstellar space hero.

[edit] Summary

Ace Rimmer, Rimmer' better looking heroic alternate being, from Dimension Jump and Emohawk: Polymorph II makes a rescue attempt on a captured princess. Although he succeeds in rescuing her, Ace takes a fatal bullet hit. Meanwhile on Starbug, Lister is tired of taking cold showers, nearly using all the water supplies in the process, so he goes into the artificial reality machine with his book of cheats. He challenges the King's best knight so he can win the honour of spending a day and a night with the Queen of Camelot. Using his cheat codes he defeats the knight, claims his prize and with one last cheat the Queen's chastity belt falls freely to the ground.

Ace transports into Starbug's dimension and reveals that he is dying and wants Rimmer to replace him as Ace. He also tells Rimmer of the Ace secret — the fact that alternate versions of Rimmer from countless dimensions have all taken the reins to be Ace. Now Ace must train Rimmer to succeed him and keep the legend going. After encouragement from Lister, Rimmer decides to accept the offer and begins his training. With the help of Lister, Cat and Kryten, Rimmer succeeds with his training and when Ace dies, he dons Ace's outfit and says his goodbye to the crew before leaving Starbug.

[edit] Notes

• Chris Barrie had decided to leave the series at this point, and had committed to four more episodes, but was written out in the second episode anyway, allowing more time to develop Kochanski's character, who would be arriving in the next episode. This episode marks the original Rimmer hologram's final 'real' appearance in the series, with his other appearances taking the forms of flashbacks and dream sequences.

• The Ace that dies in this episodes says that he takes over from the Original Ace yet there are Millions of Lightbee graves around the Planet where Starbug followed the Coffin to.

[edit] Noteworthy Dialogue

• Ace: Princess Bonjela? Ace Rimmer. There'll be time for explanations later and, hopefully, some sex.

• Ace: You can't judge a book by its cover.

Lister: And you can't confuse Rimmer with a book. For a start, a book's got a spine.

• (In A tent with the Queen of Camelot)

Lister: Anyone got any Whipped Cream

[edit] Background Information

Going solo for Series VII had worried Doug Naylor. To help him with the writing duties he hired a small group of writers. Paul Alexander, a Jasper Carrott writing regular, was the first one to help out. This was a new situation to Naylor having previously had control over every script. He would however re-write and edit each script to make them fit into the Red Dwarf's creative pedigree.

This episode featured a large number of famous guest actors. Scottish-born Hollywood movie veteran Brian Cox played the Medieval English King. British comedy actress Sarah Alexander portrayed the French Queen. English actor Ken Morley portrayed the German commander Captain Voorhese. British television actress Alison Senior portrayed Princess Bonjela. A German television comedy duo, Kai Maurer and Stephan Grothgar, portrayed the Wehrmacht soldiers who get hit on the head by the crocodile. Andy Gell also appeared as a Soldier.

[edit] Guest Stars

• Brian Cox as the Medieval English King.
• Sarah Alexander as the French Queen.
• Ken Morley as the German commander Captain Voorhese.
• Alison Senior as Princess Bonjela.
• Kai Maurer as a Wehrmacht soldier.
• Stephan Grothgar as a Wehrmacht soldier.
• Andy Gell as a Wehrmacht soldier.

[edit] References

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