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"Dimension Jump" is the fifth episode of science fiction sit-com ''Red Dwarf'' Series IV〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title =British Sitcom Guide - Red Dwarf - Series 4 )〕 and the twenty-third episode in the series run.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title =TV.com - Dimension Jump summary )〕 It was first broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 14 March 1991, written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, and directed by Ed Bye.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title =Dimension Jump cast and crew )〕 The episode, featuring the first appearance of Ace Rimmer, was intended to open the series but was postponed due to the Gulf War conflict. ==Plot== The episode begins with a young Arnold Rimmer being told by his mother that the headmaster at his school was considering keeping him back a year. Having received the headmaster's notice in the post, she warns her son that this could affect the direction his life takes... Years later, in a parallel dimension, another Arnold Rimmer exists. Commander 'Ace' Rimmer is a test pilot in the Space Corps: he is charming, good looking, intelligent, popular, brave and modest. Being the heroic type, he jumps at the chance to test-fly a dimension-jumping prototype spacecraft despite the fact he'll never be able to return home. After saying farewell to this friends, Ace takes-off and initiates a dimension jump. Aboard ''Red Dwarf'', Lister, Kryten and the Cat attempt to sneak away in the middle of the night to enjoy a fishing holiday on a nearby ocean planet on ''Starbug'' and escape Rimmer for a few weeks. However, Rimmer wakes up when everyone tries to leave and is hurt that the others would leave without him. Lister tries his best to talk their way out of it, but it's no use and he's forced to invite Rimmer along to everyone's chagrin. Aboard ''Starbug'', Rimmer quickly starts to irritate everyone by constantly trying to tell Kryten what to do by piloting, then by offering to play his Hammond Organ CDs for Lister and the Cat. Thankfully, he is stopped when ''Starbug'' encounters a dimension disturbance... from which Ace's ship appears and collides with the ship.〔Howarth & Lyons (1993) p. 72.〕 ''Starbug'' crash-lands on a water planet, but Ace does not desert them and follows down to help. Aboard Starbug he comes face-to-face with his counterpart Rimmer and an instant mutual dislike develops. In contrast, he and Lister quickly become good friends and, despite Ace's broken arm, the two brave the elements to fix the craft while Rimmer stays aboard and makes snide jokes about his counterpart.〔Howarth & Lyons (1993) p. 73.〕 Meanwhile, the Cat has a broken leg, sustained during ''Starbugs crash, and is becoming delirious. Once aboard ''Red Dwarf'', Ace says he can patch up the Cat with a bit of micro-surgery. Afterwards, Lister and Rimmer discuss Ace. While Lister is in awe of Ace, Rimmer feels nothing but disgust for his counterpart feeling that he got all the breaks in life. Lister tries to encourage Rimmer to be happy that there's a version of him who managed to do well during his life but Rimmer refuses. Ace later tells Lister he's decided to leave, as he cannot stand to see the spineless, bitter and self-obsessed excuse for a man he could have become. Lister is surprised to learn that, despite Rimmer's belief that Ace got a break, in fact it was quite the opposite... unlike Arnold, Ace was held back a year at school. While Rimmer was allowed to progress and spent the rest of his life making excuses, while the humiliation of being kept down forced Ace to knuckle down and fight back. Ace bids Lister farewell, telling him there's many more universes to visit and many more Arnold Rimmers to meet and maybe someday he'll encounter one who is even more of an arsehole than the one he met aboard ''Red Dwarf''... but he doubts it. 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dimension Jump (Red Dwarf episode)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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