Red Dwarf's Smartest Moment - What “Holoship” Is Really About!

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Rimmer’s pseudo-scientific speech in Holoship sounds like gibberish, but it’s the key to the whole episode.
Grant & Naylor use that scene to parody technobabble, mock IQ-worship, and show how intellect without humility just amplifies arrogance.
In this Playback Pending breakdown, we unpack:

Why Rimmer’s “five-dimensional objects” rant is structured as fake genius.

How Holoship skewers meritocracy and the cult of intelligence.

The elitism of the holo-crew, zero mass, zero soul.

Rimmer’s one genuine act of growth: giving up everything he thought he wanted.

This is Red Dwarf at its sharpest. A comedy about ambition, inadequacy, and the difference between being clever and being kind.

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