I know. I know. This is way too geeky to post on something as cool and trendy as the internet, but I have compiled a table of all the connections among my three favorite, most formative sci-fi shows: Robotech, Farscape and Red Dwarf.
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ROBO |
Scape |
DWARF |
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Supreme self-sacrifice by a leading male character: |
Roy Fokker; dies from injuries sustained in combat. |
John Crichton: closes wormhole to Earth, trades self for Jothee, makes a deal to trade wormhole secrets for Aeryn, gets radiation poisoning to stop Furlow’s experiment… etc… etc. |
Ace Rimmer; dies, forcing Arnold to straighten up and replace him, with mixed results. |
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lost in deep space… |
somewhere beyond Pluto |
on the other side of the Milky Way galaxy. |
3 million years out into deep space. |
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..onboard a gigantic spaceship? |
SDF-1 |
Moya |
Red Dwarf |
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Dire prospects for getting home? |
Upon returning to earth, Zentradi destroy planet’s surface. |
Wormhole to Earth closed. |
3 million years from earth, meaning another 3 million years getting back. |
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Man stupidly in love with a woman he knew only briefly and who’s absolutely no good for him: |
Rick Hunter & Lynn Minmei |
D’Argo & Chiana |
Lister & Christine Kochanski |
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Man in love with emotionally cold & distant woman brought up on strict militarism: |
Rick Hunter & Lisa Hayes AND Max Sterling & Miriya |
John & Aeryn |
Rimmer & his mum. |
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…and it takes them forever to finally work out their relationship: |
Rick & Lisa: 26 episodes |
John & Aeryn: 88 episodes |
Well, Lister shagged Frau Rimmer in Polymorph. As for Lister & Kochanski, they never did get that farm on Fiji. |
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Character named Crichton: |
Khyron? |
Crichton |
Kryten |
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Are they facing an insurmountable foe: |
The Zentraedi, a 50ft tall alien race bred for war, possessing 4.8 million battle cruisers. |
Scorpius, Grayza and the might of the entire Peacekeeper fleet, and don’t forget the Scarrans, too. |
The laws of time and space, the extinction of the human race, Rimmer’s dead and they’re out of shake ‘n vac. |
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But they’ve got a trick up their sleeve: |
Protoculture, Robotechnology, kissing in front of other people. |
Wormholes |
Lister is, basically, |
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Who’s the omnipresent being flying this thing? |
Pilot |
Holly |
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Teaching alien women how to love: |
Max & Miriya |
John & Aeryn |
Just you and me and a lot of floating smegging rocks. |
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Pregnancy: |
Miriya, with daughter Dana. |
Aeryn, with John’s child. |
Lister, with Jim & Bexley. |
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Imported (partially) from: |
Japan |
Australia |
England |
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A spacewalk without a spacesuit: |
Rick Hunter: fetching a giant tuna. |
John: escaping from a shuttle under attack in LatP:2 |
Confidence:”Oxygen’s for losers.” |
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Insane Military Commander: |
Khyron |
Crais |
Rimmer |
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Selfish and unreliable on all counts: |
Minmei |
Rygel |
Cat |
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Repressive, de-humanizing culture without love, affection or family: |
Zentraedi |
Peacekeepers |
cats |
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Virtual Reality video game that traps and potentially kills you? |
Showdown …sorta. |
John Quixote |
Better Than Life |
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What are those goofy little robots all over the place? |
Petite-Cola vending machines |
DRD’s |
Skutters |
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Chameleonic life form steals characters’ personality traits? |
The Invid Sara polymorphs into Marlene, Scott Bernard’s girlfriend, who was killed in the REF’s assault on Earth. |
Twice Shy |
Polymorph |
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Test Pilot gets lost in outer space during the maiden flight of his experimental craft? |
Rick Hunter’s fanjet along with the SDF-1 space fold to Pluto in Booby Trap. |
John Crichton is shot through a wormhole in Farscape 1 in the Premiere episode. |
Ace Rimmer crosses dimensions in the X-1 in Dimension Jump |
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Goal? |
To get home alive. |
“I’m just looking for a way home.” |
“To get back to Earth.” |