Real Name: Holly
Nickname(s): Hol
Occupation: Red Dwarf Ship Computer
Likes: Sinclair ZX81, Hilly
Ambtions: Prove his IQ to the rest of the crew

Background: Red Dwarf's on-board computer, and the inventor of the new decimal sound 'Hol Rock'. Despite an original Operational IQ of 6000, Holly had always been quirky, during the astro-navigation exam Holly instigated urine testing in case any urine attempted to cheat, but he is now a fully-fledged sufferer from computer senility.
During the three-million years he spent alone in space, Holly read every book ever written by anyone ever. He also managed to create a comprehensive nay, definitive map of the universe, complete with post offices and little steeples.

Holly's first love was a Sinclair ZX81, but she was cheap, stupid and she wouldn't load, well not for him anyway. He later fell for Hilly, his female self from a parallel universe whom he encountered when he invented the Holly Hop Drive. Indeed, he fell so badly that he chose to take on her face in a head sex-change operation.

The female Holly did have her intelligence restored via intelligence compression, but this reduced her operation life-span to less than four minutes.

Holly is also able to appear on a wrist-watch, although he has become wary of people who scratch their armpits or who have holes in their pockets.

Holly's sex change didn't last, as the nanobots restored his core program when they changed Red Dwarf into a planet.

Holly is currently hidden inside Red Dwarf's computer banks in an attempt to avoid detection by his nanobotically-revived, hyper-intelligent counterpart. Nevertheless, he continues to help Lister, Rimmer and the rest as best he can while they are in prison. He believes Lister could shorten his term by becoming a dog, thus making each year of his sentence seven times shorter.

Real Name: Kristine Z. Kochanski
Nickname(s): Chris
Occupation: First Console Officer/Navigation Officer
Likes: Cottage Cheese with Pineapple Chunks, Teddy Bears, Ponies
Ambitions: Get back to "her" Dave and dimension

Background: Kochanski grew up in the Gorbals, the trendiest part of Glasgow, alongside her brother Moose and her pony Trumper. She was educated in Cyberschool with the perfect teachers, but afterw discovering that the world didn't actually revolve around her, she went off the rails and became a retropunk.
This rebellion was curtailed when Kochanski went to Cadet School. She enlisted in the Space Corps and signed on to Red Dwarf. Unfortunatley she was killed in the radiation leak that wiped out the Red Dwarf crew.

Lister discovered a stasis leak which allowed him to return to Red Dwarf pre-accident, and he arrived with every intention of wedding Kochanski after discovering a photograph in her room of him and her on their wedding day. Having tracked her down at the Ganymede Holiday Inn, Lister discovered that she had married a version of him from five years in the future.

Lister's obsession with Kochanski reached its climax when a Psiren hallucination of his lost love almost succeeded in luring him to his death. She claimed to have used Lister's sperm, from Red Dwarf's storage bank, to create twin boys; Jim and Bexley.

Kochanski may have died in Lister's universe, but in a parallel dimension, Kochanski caught Lister smuggling his cat aboard Red Dwarf, and failing to destroy it, it was her who ended up going into Stasis and surviving the accident.

Three-million years later, Kochanski's only companions are a life-form who evolved from her cat, and David Lister, a hologram simulation of her dead ex-boyfriend. Under Kochanski's tutelage, the Cat became an intelligent and capable life-form, while her Lister's time as a hologram made him sensitive and considerate.

Unfortunately for her, Kochanski met this dimension's Starbug crew via a linkway through a dimensional tear. Lister's GELF bride infiltrated non-space and attacked the linkway, leaving Kochanski stranded on their side. Further attempts to return her have failed.

During this period, Lister and Kochanski also began the process of having a child, using an in-vitro tube and grown in a uterine simulator. Before the child was born Lister realised that it was actually him, which meant Kochanski was his ex-girlfriend and his mum! The child was sent back in time to when Lister was found under a pool table in the Aighburth Arms.

Real Name:; Kryten 2X4B-523P
Nickname(s): Krytie, Kryters
Occupation: Sanitation droid, pretending to be the Science Officer
Likes: Dreaming, Androids TV soap, Camille, Silicon Heaven
Ambitions: Do the laundry

Background: Originally a service mechanoid aboard the Nova V, Kryten accidently crashed the ship killing the entire crew when he decided to give the main and back-up computers a good soapy clean. The three other survivors of the crash, mapping officers Jane Air, Tracey Johns and Anne Gill, perished soon afterwards but Kryten did not notice and continued to feeding and dress them.
His first arrival aboard Red Dwarf was short-lived, his willingness to serve was so abused by Rimmer that Kryten rebelled, took Lister's space bike and fled into space. Soon afterwards he was found to have crashed into an asteroid. Lister toiled to fix the droid, but was unable to fully restore his original personality, or his accent, which altered from upper-class English to Canadian.

Despite being voted 'the big-eared, ugly one' by his other spare heads, Kryten attracted the attentions of Camille, a pleasure GELF whose love Kryten would sadly lose to her husband, Hector.

Maintaining a staunch belief in Silicon Heaven, Kryten continues to take lessons from Lister in lying and rudimentary insults. He has also mastered pomposity if he does say so himself, although when ambivalent he does have the look of a Lister being forced to eat salad. He has also, and quite by accident, begun to exhibit a possessive jealousy towards Kochanski over Lister.

All these character flaws, of which Kryten had become rightly proud, were nearly lost when his corrupted files were repaired by Red Dwarf scientists and the Data Doctor program. However his ability to display ambivalence came through, re-corrupting his circuitry and returning him to the messed-up mechanoid he was.

Harbouring a desire to be human, Kryten was lucky enough to get his wish when his part-organic brain allowed his DNA to be transformed. Discoveries of non-functional nipples, mediocre visual functions and disturbing underpant activity, however, forced the mechanoid to rethink his position and change back.