Red Dwarf X Plot Details And Airdate Revealed

It's official: Red Dwarf X will screen on Dave, on Thursday nights at 9pm, from October 4th. The press release also contains some details of the plot lines we can expect. I've chopped it up and spread it across the episode titles as we had them.

Trojan

The brand new series, written and directed by Doug Naylor, begins with the Dwarfer's mining ship still creaking though the wastelands of unchartered deep space, but the posse soon stumble upon the mysteriously abandoned SS Trojan. As they inspect the ship Rimmer receives an SOS distress call from an old foe and is suddenly faced with the dilemma of his life.

Fathers and Suns

Lister grapples with the problem of being his own father.

Lemons

The posse find themselves marooned in 23 AD where they rescue a famous historical figure with a beard.

Entangled

Kryten and Cat become quantum entangled forcing them to do everything in unison.

Dear Dave

Dave gets involved in a love triangle with snack dispensers 23 and 34.

The Beginning

The series' final episode finds the boys surrounded by a Simulant War Cruiser and its fleet of attack ships. Armed with only two forks and a pencil sharpener, the Dwarfers begin to wonder whether this is the beginning of the end. Only one man can save them.

Unfortunately that man is Arnold J Rimmer.

I put the 'dispenser love triangle' details under Dear Dave because, well, it doesn't not go, the title kind of makes sense, and there was nothing else for that episode. I suppose it might be a mismatch.

Some sources have a few other details of Trojan, though you may consider them spoilers. Let's take a look at TV Wise's version as they put it quite succinctly:

Things soon pick up when Rimmer receives an SOS distress call from the Trojan, a doomed Space Corp ship trapped in a death dive with impact and destruction barely 15 hours away. Rimmer's thrill at finding another ship soon gives way to horror as he discovers the Trojan is commanded by his all-conquering, younger brother, Howard. Rimmer is caught between an asteroid and a hard place. Meanwhile, at the same time, Kryten decides to install a new ship computer, the beautiful, but lethally logical, Pree.

This will be Howard's first appearance as an adult. I would expect that he'll be played by Chris Barrie as was another Rimmer brother, Frank.

More Red Dwarf X tomorrow as Dave unveil the next of their promo pieces.