Justice story

rd1988e4x03 · 1991-02-28

The crew pick up an escape pod bearing a woman's name. There is also the possibility it may in fact be a deranged bio-mechanical killer on his way to "Justice World", a deep space penal station. They decide to go to "Justice World" to discover the contents of the pod. Things become worse when a justice scan reveals that Rimmer is guilty of the radioactive disaster that wiped out the entire crew of Red Dwarf, equal to 1,167 separate counts of second-degree murder, and he is promptly convicted and sentenced. Directed by: Ed Bye. Story by: Rob Grant & Doug Naylor.

22 total · 5 major · 17 minor

ThemeLevelMotivation
felinoid being major The cat-man Cat.
guilt and evidence major The story pivoted around the eponymous "justice" meted out to Rimmer after his mind was probed for "guilt", mistaking his sense of guilt for criminal guilt.
humanoid robot major The humanoid robot Kryten.
off-world prison colony major The crew visited the ancient and derelict space prison colony Justice World.
virtual person major The Rimmer hologram.
android minor Rimmer spoke of some psychotic, half-crazed, mass-murdering, super-strong androids.
arson minor In lighting Rimmer's jail cell bed sheet on fire, Lister committed a wanton act or arson.
boredom minor Rimmer's slide show bored Kryten to the point where Kryten's intelligence circuits melted.
coping with being disfigured minor Lister worried that his grotesquely swollen head would hurt his chances with a soon-to-be dethawed human female.
coping with being ill and indisposed minor Lister was recovering from what was evidently a bad case of the space mumps.