On Fri, 15 May 1998, Caroline Ann Seawright wrote:

Well, that was reasonably confusing :)
I've seen a bit of Red Dwarf, and I was still confused.  How could an
entire ship of holograms ever fix anything that got damaged?  Wouldn't you

Does this help:

Rimmer watched the battle from his seat. Blasting apart the Enlightenment
wouldn't do much. The ship was hardly there, anyway - it was just a
hologram. As soon as the computer was able, it would repair the holoship
by reloading the ship's projection program. The lack of oxygen wouldn't
kill the crew, either. Why were the simulants shooting at them?

Somewhat, yes.  However, how does the ship move if the engines are
holograms?  

 

at least need a few robots or something solid to do repairs?  Or is this
just one of those 'don't think too hard' things? :)

No... the ship is a hologram, just like the people, so the computer
projecting the ship would have to reload an uncorrupted version of the
ship.

Nod.  See above question.
 

The story was comprehensible, but it was hard to follow at first, since
you draw on a lot of episodes I haven't seen yet.

Well, on two episodes anyway. ^_~  (Holoship and Stoke me a Clipper)

What are the more confusing parts?

Well, the whole Rimmer suddenly off by himself with the computer confused
me.  That was the hard part.  And trying to figure out how the Hologram
ship worked :)



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