Editing Red Dwarf (section)

==The Boyz from the Dwarf==
Unlike [[Star Trek]], Red Dwarf has only a small cast of protagonists, forced together by the sheer loneliness of their lifestyle as the only four occupants aboard a ship meant to contain hundreds of people. 

'''Dave Lister:''' A good-hearted slacker and typical "lower-class bloke". Before being sealed in stasis dreamed of using his saved up pay to buy some land on Fiji, where he would live on a hobby farm and open his own hot dog and donut stand. Despite his laziness and disgusting habits, he easily has the strongest sense of justice out of any of the crew, often taking a hard stance against such things as Rimmer's glorification of war or Kryten's programmed servitude. 

'''Arnold Judas Rimmer:''' Although the original Rimmer was killed in the radiation leak, Holly had the ability to create a hologram simulation of one deceased crewmember, choosing Rimmer because he was the person Lister had the most conversations with. Anal-retentive, power-hungry and incompetent, with a seriously messed up backstory. Was raised by an abusive father who forced him into the Space Corps, a crutch that he uses to avoid taking any personal responsibility for his failures. A total coward, despite his obsession with warfare and military history (and the fact being a hologram makes him almost impossible to kill). Originally phased through solid objects, although in Season 6 onwards he was upgraded with a "Hard Light" hologram emitter that returned his ability to physically interact with the enviroment. 

'''The Cat:''' During the 3 million years in which Red Dwarf sped away from Earth, Lister's pet cat and her kittens were safely sealed in the hold, away from the radiation and with plenty of access to food. 3 million years of inbreeding in a mildly radioactive environment caused them to mutate into a race of nearly human-looking [[catfolk]], and most of them eventually left Red Dwarf in search of the legendary promised land of Fuchal, having somehow maintained the memory of Lister's existence and dream before converting them into a mythical saviour-god and heavenly realm. One male Cat, known simply as "The Cat", remained on Red Dwarf by the time Lister was freed, having been born to two of the sick and crippled cats left behind to die by their fellows. The Cat is intensely vain to the point of narcissism, which is implied to be a natural trait of his species. He has a particular obsession with his appearance, and often checks his appearance in a mirror or talks about his clothing.

'''Kryten 2X4B-523P:''' A sanitation mechanoid that Lister, Rimmer and the Cat discovered aboard the crashed ruins of a ship called the Nova 5, still tending to the long-dead corpses of his former mistresses due to being unable to recognize that they were dead. Lister attempted to teach him how to break his programming and think for himself, to mixed results (for instance, he was taught to lie, but these lies are often transparent due to him stating that he's entering "Lie Mode"). As the smartest member of the crew often takes the science officer role, much to Rimmer's resentment. Is a strong believer in the android religion, which justifies mechanoids slavery to humanity by claiming that if they loyally serve they will be rewarded with "Silicon Heaven" in the afterlife (despite this, he finds the idea of "Human Heaven" laughable).

===Secondary Characters===
In addition to the four mainstay characters, Red Dwarf has played prolonged host to a handful of recurring secondary characters over the years.

'''Skutters:''' Little more than a three-fingered gripping claw on wheeled base, Skutters are the basic service mechanoids responsible for maintaining Red Dwarf in all of its nearly continent-sized glory. Not the brightest machines, but they do have distinct personalities, and are implied to play up how dumb they are in order to get one over on Rimmer, whom they hate. They get on much better with Lister, seeing a kindred spirit in him.

'''Holly:''' The ship's Artificial Intelligence, Holly basically runs the ship by himself, but doing it entirely on his own, and having been alone for 3 million years, has left him more than a little daft. He is a regular protagonist in the first two seasons, then undergoes a sex change and becomes a blonde-haired woman for seasons 3-5, during which time her senility seems to advance notably, as she's even dumber than the original Holly. During seasons 6 and 7, Holly is lost when Red Dwarf is stolen, whilst in seasons 10-12, he's been shorted out and doesn't interact with anyone.

'''Krystine Kochanski:''' The original Krystine Kochanski was a navigation officer aboard Red Dwarf; another British "lower class" girl who'd made something of herself by applying to Red Dwarf, whom Lister pined after from afar. Later it was retconned that she was an ex-girlfriend Lister wished to somehow gain back, because the writers thought that having him fixated on a girl who he never even asked out was too pathetic. During the events of season 7, a Krystine from a parallel dimension where ''she'' was Red Dwarf's lone survivor accidentally stumbles through a rift in dimensions and is inadvertently trapped on Starbug with the Boyz - much to her disgust. She stuck around for seasons 7 and 8, and then the movie "Back to Earth" established that she ran away to find a way back to her own dimension during the events of "the missing season 9", leaving Lister to think she was dead. This parallel Krystine is much more uppercrust and refined than her counterpart, but the two are treated as all but identical, since strong continuity isn't one of Red Dwarf's strongest points.

'''Ace Rimmer:''' A version of Rimmer from an alternate timeline where he actually managed to get over all his neuroses. "Ace" Rimmer is a brave and heroic starship pilot who was given the opportunity to test a ship capable of travelling between dimensions. The first dimension he travelled to was the prime Red Dwarf timeline, where he quickly befriended the crew and earned the resentment and envy of prime Rimmer. A later episode revealed that he became an [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXYfnWRp1Q0 interdimensional hero], who upon his death would be succeeded by another timelines' Rimmer. This was used to write Rimmer out of the show for Season 7, as the duty now fell on him to become the new Ace (even though he is likely the worst of all possible Rimmers). One of the series' most memorable characters, even if he only appeared in three episodes.