Patrick Stewart talking about the first time he saw Red Dwarf. He wanted to call his lawyers... then he noticed what a great show it was... You have to watch to know....
My dad introduced me to Red Dwarf. I have watched every single episode (including of the newer series that came out a while back), more than 10 times each. I still remember me and him sitting down with some pizza and drinks and binging it together. Good times.
I was first exposed to Red Dwarf on a pre new years marathon in the late 80s on PBS and was sold. Overall, what an incredibly funny and brilliant series. To this day, it's one of my favorite series. Good on you Patrick Stewart!
When you made this comment, my daughter wasn't born yet (she is now 5), and I also was substantially thinner. But, I also for it, and damn I love this line.
Red Dwarf season 4 episode 6 Kryton: You'd sacrifice your safety for a mere mechanoid? is this the human value known as 'friendship'? Lister: awww enough of the Star Trek crap, it's too early in the morning!
jimmy2k4o , ... your quotations are incorrect... Both Lister and Kryton don't say those lines (not entirely). Please, either get it right or don't bother. Also, it is "series", not season. It is called "series". @Roger bance, it is known as "series", you idiot. @Mally Mallyno, the person typed "season" (even though jimmy should have typed "series", as that is what it is called). Learn how to read, idiot with OCD. Also, learn how to respond. Who was your comment to?
Quick Strike I can read perfectly well thank you, for example I can read what you wrote, calling two people idiots and myself an ‘idiot with OCD’, while also telling someone that if they don’t get the complete quote from a sci fi programme right then not too bother! You’re obviously a complete loser.
Best laugh I ever had was the very first time I watched Red Dwarf for the first time, I was sick with a cracked rib, I couldn`t stop laughing, and between Laugh and been in very agonizing pain, was when I became a big fan of Red Dwarf.
I was full rebel teen at the time. Lister became somewhat of a idol to me. Confirmed to me that you could very much be a rebel in life and still hold morality as your core. You could eat curry in the morning and still be a better man than the likes of rimmer. Unlike those I saw on the bbc, in government, in the classroom. Who held so tightly to a rigid mask of morality but had none, lister stood tall as real caring human with a conscience and a heart. We only ever need that in life. Thank you red dwarf team ✌️
brilliant bit of interview here... Patrick Stewart is as classy as ever, and gets to show off his funny side, too. would have loved to have seen him cameo in RD. :D
Man i love that patrick stewart has praise for Red Dwarf!!!! Man thank you for posting this on youtube!!! If even the main character from Star Trek: TNG enjoys Red Dwarf's perspective on the future with humor, those who enjoy the soap opera of ST:TNG will love this 'break' from seriousness on future subjects!! I love Red Dwarf for being this!!! (also hyperspace). This is why i also loved futurama! Sometimes you need a break from serious thought about what may be, and have a laugh about it all.
I love that I watched Red Dwarf as a child, and then all through my teens, and it wasn't until I was casually watching a repeat many years later as an adult that I paused and thought "hang on... Ri... OH MY GOD"
I've been a fan of RD practically since the beginning but never thought twice about Rimmer's name until I read your post. Now just thinking of that makes me laugh.
Are you a bit dim? He's clearly being serious. Stewart has admitted that he used to be deadly serious about his work - particularly the work that made him a household name - and once blew up on his TNG cast screaming "WE ARE NOT HERE TO HAVE FUN!!". And as someone who has met Stewart personally and seen him act like a dick first hand (aswell as in numerous clips posted by others since), I can confirm he IS being serious and he really can be quite a tool. Though I'm told it depends on what day you happen to meet him on
What's interesting is season 1 of Red Dwarf would've started and finished airing about half way through Star Trek The Next Generation's series 1 broadcast. I'm not totally clued in on the logistics of what went into the set building or even the makeup of Red Dwarf (beyond Rimmer's iconic "H") but if they genuinely intended to parody TNG they must've done it bloody fast!
Good old British comedy you can't beat it especially when you lived in America for so long a Patrick, at least he quickly remember British sarcasm in the classroom.
@@TheEvilCheesecake Am Scottish by birth, are comedy sense is a little different but so every other countries, but Red Dwarf is a piss take of all science fiction not to offend anyone 👍.
Why can't it be both? Are you literally trying to deny culture is a thing? Fucking hell, how would comedy work if there wasn't a collective understanding of life? Goon.@@TheEvilCheesecake
@@TheEvilCheesecake Or because British comedy is imprinted into the culture, it doesn't pull punches, it reflects the same relationship you have with your mates. American comedy is generally forced, while I like some of it, British comedy tops all.
Thank you for uploading; nice one! Patrick Stewart is my #1 Star Trek actor. I am glad he appreciates Red Dwarf as much as I. Red Dwarf makes loads of references to other Sci Fi series; one but has to be a fan of those to notice the parodies when they happen. They may be a bit subtle but they are most certainly there. If you need some prompting on the episodes/occasions this happens refer to Wikipedia.
im picturing Patrick. in the 90s. alone in his 4star hotel room. channel surfing looking for Star Trek The Next Generation.. finding an episode. and then watching it in its entirety.
What about the emoji movie? That was a beautiful film that mastered the art of storytelling. Poop is still one of the most well written, complex characters I've ever seen on the big screen.
There is a video of Stewart doing a rather ragged version of Rimmer’s salute. The local PBS station got the series only a few months after it started on BBC2. I didn’t see the first episode “The End” when I first came across it and didn’t get it, but a few months later they played it again, I got the premise from the start, and it has been my favourite sci-fi, right down to declaring blue alerts. Imagine Picard having to tell Worf to not be a smeghead about something.
1:19 In the recent season of Star Trek: Picard, there was a scene with Picard and Riker sharing a bunk which reminded me of the bunk scenes with Rimmer and Lister😄
the idea that Red Dwarf was a Star Trek rip off must be both a great honor and deeply confusing for all involved. They really are nothing alike and i love them both.
@@jamesflames6987 How exactly? Star Trek doesn't own the concept of a show set in space. Where are the similarities? Other than a crew member that is an android and again hardly an original concept when TNG did it.
@@GarethColquhoun Red Dwarf is a comedy show. It takes traditional science fiction tropes and turns them on their head. The overall format of the show of flying through deep space and encountering various strange planets and life forms is exactly the same as Star Trek. The idea of the Lister character is a direct response to the stereotypically "clean-cut" nature of Star Trek characters. To consider Red Dwarf to be entirely original and totally unrelated to other science fiction especially Star Trek is to miss out on a huge part of what the writers were getting at. If you have never seen Star Trek, Red Dwarf wouldn't nearly be so funny, because you would have no idea how a normal spacefarer or android "should" behave.
Aw, that's sad. When you hear him in interviews now, he sounds so distant, like he doesn't really know what's being asked of him. I'm scared of getting old.
implicaverse Not trying to be silly, "troll war". It's just that my name is also Stewart. I guess, since I was a child, it drove me nuts when people spelt it the other way. *Sorry*.
I've heard a lot made about this, but I'm pretty sure that Stewart was exaggerating when he said he was literally reaching for a phone to call his lawyer. He may have thought the show was a ripoff for a split-second or so, but I imagine the show broke any illusion of that sooner than it would have taken for him to seriously consider legal action. I agree with people who think he probably saw a Kryten scene, his parallels with Data are the closest thing that Red Dwarf has to anything resembling TNG. I imagine that the character Kryten ended up becoming was probably inspired by Data to some degree, but it definitely falls in the realm of parody more than mere imitation if so.
The two things I love, humour and science fiction mixed together. They also spoofed Alien in one episode, and I think if you look carefully, Robocop and the many "B" movies which came out in the '80s.
*Switches on Star Trek: Discovery* "Where is everybody, Patrick?" "They're dead, Wesley" "Kirk?" "He's dead, Wesley" "What? Spock?' "He's dead too, Wesley" "Wait...You mean to say that Guinean, Troi, Riker-" "They're dead, Wesley" "Even Sisko and Janeway?" "Everybody's dead, Wesley. They're all dead, Wesley" "Not Archer?" "Blimey, including Odo, Quark, Chakotay, Nelix and Captain Pike. Everybody's dead. They're all dead, Wesley" "Wait....are you trying to tell me everybody's dead?" "Shut up, Wesley!"
Way under-rated comment. Debonaire Nerd nailed both RD and STTNG with the fewest words possible. Yeah, Debonaire Nerd, even Peterson! Hard to believe, right?
Not sure I see the similarities myself. It's like comparing Blake's 7 to the original star Trek. Also Red Dwarf started airing I'm the UK around the same time next generation was airing in the US so it's almost certainly just a coincidence.
"Red Dwarf" was DEFINITELY not a knock off of "Star Trek." It's sort of an "Odd Couple" in space with Rimmer and Lister and there was no real "crew" as all of them had died. Also, the show premised that there was no life outside of Earth. Sure, they come across some strange creatures like the GELFs (Genetically Engineered Life Form) but they all had their origins from Earth. So no Vulcans, no alien life forms. Even in deep space, everything came from Earth.
I remember that on the evening that Red Dwarf premiered, I saw what was yet another SciFi based program and didn't watch because I thought it would be another rip-off. I did watch the second episode and was completely hooked. I was only sorry that I missed Norman Lovett's 'Dead Dave' speech.
I can understand him being caught out temporarily. The first time I saw 'The Office', and I started part way through, I was lured into thinking it was genuine documentary to start with, until at one point I thought, "Eh?? What kind of company is this??" and a couple of minutes later it dawned on me.
It must be *Gun Men of the Apocalypse* since he directed TNG episode *A Fist Full of Data* and got the impression that episode was ripping off the TNG episode that he directed.
You need the comedy to remedy the ultra-seriousness that is post-TOS Star Trek. Red Dwarf lovingly spoofs the best science fiction ever made. Which includes parts of the overall Star Trek franchise. Red Dwarf is also the only sci-fi spoof show that's lasted to my knowledge... most of the other spoof shows have died after one season!
I have a feeling Patrick Stewart probably stumbled on to the show during one of Kryten's scenes and made the connection that Red Dwarf appeared to be ripping of the TNG's character, Data. From what he said following, Kryten probably made some absurd British gag (as he so often does), that would never have been allowed on TNG, and so Patrick Stewart saw that Red Dwarf was indeed something quite different.
Patrick Stewarts first knowledge of sci fi was his own show. RD owes more to the considerable legacy of British sci fi that came before it certainly not STNG.
Fair point, but what he said is that this kind of treatment is a mockery of "serious" shows like TNG, which it is in the same Life of Brian is, among other things, a mockery of Roman Empire and Biblical epics.
@@thiagodeandrade7081 it called a parody if it mimics and makes fun of something not Mockery, mockery would Imply some small level of hate for the Original show. tho i really wanted to know the episode Patrick watched I don't recall any parody episodes of red dwarf with TNG as the Parody, it also extremely different compared to tng red dwarf follow more with Voyager then tng
It's a spoof off of all the different sci-fi shows out there...he related it to the series that he was doing...which is also the most prolific sci-fi series out there...
@SciStarborne In the A-Z of Red Dwarf, they follow it with a scene from Gunmen of the Apocalypse. I always assumed that it was the scene Stewart was referring to, because the whole holodeck-time-travel-westerny thing was very Star Trekish. Of course, Red Dwarf handles things differently.
summed up in: Patrick Stewart loves it, you will too :) I love red dwarf! It is, what i consider, a break from serious Soap Opera Space. Nothing wrong with seriousness. I just love having a good laugh about it as well :)
@@mjd4174 My! My! You seem weirdly triggered! I love how you go straight for the ad hominem. Are you in love with him or maybe you spend most of the day in a Star Trek costume.
I know a further conection between Red Dwarf and Star Trek TNG. Danny John Jules and Gates McFadden both worked on the film Labyrinth. They are both also in the making of extra on the DVD, but only breifly, don't blink.
Kryten and Data both wish to alter their programming to become more human. I always thought that Patrick must have tuned in to a Kryten scene where this came up. Unless he is just joking about the lawyer! Thoughts on this, good people?
Yes Sir Patrick Stweart is one of the biggest RD fans you could get when Red Dwarf night was done he was the first one to jump at the chance of being the person who introduced it and no I wouldn't call him pompous just a typical English gentleman
The thing was that Brent Spiner was 'the comedian' of the TNG crew. Only they edited out all the pranks that Brent pulled on his fellow actors because they were trying to be serious. There's a story told that when the actors first got together they were a rowdy lot with lots of humor and joking about on set. So much so that they didn't think that an acclaimed Shakespearean actor like Sir Patrick would think that they were taking the job seriously. It turned out that he enjoyed the comedic aspect of the work and bonded with his crewmates exceptionally well. I still believe that the close family relationship of the TNG actors was the reason that the show has such longevity, much as Babylon 5 and Stargate SG1 did too.
I wish there had been a ST:TNG/Red Dwarf crossover episode, where the Enterprise crew initially treats the dwarfers with contempt, but gradually grows to respect them.
Thinking that what he said was really charming and nice wish at some strange point in the future a crossover could happen possible in a bizarre turn of events which involves Q and Rimmer switching places and perhaps have a twist ending for Data and Kryton a special episode on Below Decks or something similar?
"So I left the telephone where it was, and I kept watching... And all her clothes fell off, and I'd seen everything"....
That's exactly what I was thinking of when I watched this lol He's almost talking as if he's doing that scene in Extras.
and then I rode off on my bike.....on the grass...
😂
Nearly dropped me skateboard
I can't tell any more if he's serious or joking until he smiles he should do more dead pan stuff.
You know you've been in the US too long if your first reaction to something is reaching for your lawyers.
I know, he'd didn't create NG, so what does he care?
Very sad he mentioned lawyers , a very American thing to do
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yes
Is he trolling us? I think he is.
My dad introduced me to Red Dwarf. I have watched every single episode (including of the newer series that came out a while back), more than 10 times each. I still remember me and him sitting down with some pizza and drinks and binging it together. Good times.
A nice bonding experience.
You've been lucky. 👍❤️
Pizza? I hope you bought some curry for Lister! 🤣
I was first exposed to Red Dwarf on a pre new years marathon in the late 80s on PBS and was sold. Overall, what an incredibly funny and brilliant series. To this day, it's one of my favorite series. Good on you Patrick Stewart!
It's Sir Patrick Stewart.
"Don't give me any of that Star Trek crap, it's too early in the morning!"
When you made this comment, my dog wasn't born, my daughter was 6 (now 18) and I was substantially thinner.
But I found it.
The perfect comment x
@@lettucebee8425😂❤
When you made this comment, my daughter wasn't born yet (she is now 5), and I also was substantially thinner. But, I also for it, and damn I love this line.
One of the best comedy series to ever grace the tv
It's nice to see such a serious actor has a sense of humor about his work and parodies of it.
If you see the bloopers reels for TNG, when somebody else slips up, Patrick Stewart is the one who breaks up the most.
Red Dwarf season 4 episode 6
Kryton: You'd sacrifice your safety for a mere mechanoid? is this the human value known as 'friendship'?
Lister: awww enough of the Star Trek crap, it's too early in the morning!
Season 3 my dear friend
*series
jimmy2k4o
, ... your quotations are incorrect... Both Lister and Kryton don't say those lines (not entirely). Please, either get it right or don't bother. Also, it is "series", not season. It is called "series". @Roger bance, it is known as "series", you idiot.
@Mally Mallyno, the person typed "season" (even though jimmy should have typed "series", as that is what it is called). Learn how to read, idiot with OCD. Also, learn how to respond. Who was your comment to?
Quick Strike I can read perfectly well thank you, for example I can read what you wrote, calling two people idiots and myself an ‘idiot with OCD’, while also telling someone that if they don’t get the complete quote from a sci fi programme right then not too bother! You’re obviously a complete loser.
Name calling over Sci-fi is equivalent to talking to a mountain trying to convince it to come down to your level.
Best laugh I ever had was the very first time I watched Red Dwarf for the first time, I was sick with a cracked rib, I couldn`t stop laughing, and between Laugh and been in very agonizing pain, was when I became a big fan of Red Dwarf.
Holy crap, same thing happened to me, except it was a dislocated shoulder!
Every laugh was a stab of pain, but I couldn't stop watching!
I was full rebel teen at the time. Lister became somewhat of a idol to me. Confirmed to me that you could very much be a rebel in life and still hold morality as your core. You could eat curry in the morning and still be a better man than the likes of rimmer. Unlike those I saw on the bbc, in government, in the classroom. Who held so tightly to a rigid mask of morality but had none, lister stood tall as real caring human with a conscience and a heart. We only ever need that in life.
Thank you red dwarf team ✌️
@@luminousfractal420 "You could eat curry in the morning and still be a better man than the likes of rimmer."
I like that.
What about the second time you watched Red Dwarf for the first time? Or the first time you watched Red Dwarf for the second time?
@@davidhoekstra4620 Still made me laugh!
Clip is from Red Dwarf Night… 1998. Brilliant.
Imagine both shows after swapping Kryten and Data, and maybe Worf and Cat. Please let this be real somewhere in the multiverse.
It's called a Cat'leth.
Worf would become very embarrassed about that and his face would go red. Therefore, he would become Red Worf.
LOL!
Are you a free mason
Cat in a holodec
brilliant bit of interview here...
Patrick Stewart is as classy as ever,
and gets to show off his funny side, too.
would have loved to have seen him cameo in RD. :D
Cat - Engage (the reheat) !
This is a public service announcement. Patrick Stewart wasn't serious when he said he was about to phone his lawyer. This is something called humour.
Wasn't very funny though!
Wasn't it! Ok!@@kainfletcher4716
Er no he was full on serious, there was nothing tongue in cheek about that comment, he seriously thought Red Dwarf was ripping off Star Trek.
@@kainfletcher4716 Nope, this was funny. Even funnier are all the morons thinking he was serious.
@@kainfletcher4716it's called deadpan sarcasm
Man i love that patrick stewart has praise for Red Dwarf!!!! Man thank you for posting this on youtube!!! If even the main character from Star Trek: TNG enjoys Red Dwarf's perspective on the future with humor, those who enjoy the soap opera of ST:TNG will love this 'break' from seriousness on future subjects!! I love Red Dwarf for being this!!! (also hyperspace). This is why i also loved futurama! Sometimes you need a break from serious thought about what may be, and have a laugh about it all.
I think Red Dwarf is under appreciated, just like Blakes 7. The sheer brilliance of calling the Rimmer character Rimmer, love it.
I love that I watched Red Dwarf as a child, and then all through my teens, and it wasn't until I was casually watching a repeat many years later as an adult that I paused and thought "hang on... Ri... OH MY GOD"
@@AlastairjCarruthers Same here.
@@AlastairjCarruthers I liked the before times. Like before two minutes ago when I hadn’t read this. Never made that connection before.
I've been a fan of RD practically since the beginning but never thought twice about Rimmer's name until I read your post. Now just thinking of that makes me laugh.
Explain “Rimmer.”
Patrick Stewart in Red Dwarf = Epic
Red Dwarf was an awesome series!
It's all tongue in cheek - he loves it.
Sorry what about the phrase "outrage" tells you any of this is tongue in cheek?
I came across it by accident while channel surfing. Best accident ever.
It’s rather amusing to think how quickly he jumped from a glance at Red Dwarf to “phone my lawyer” so damn fast!!
I imagine Stewart would laugh his head off at all the people here actually taking him seriously.
Are you a bit dim? He's clearly being serious. Stewart has admitted that he used to be deadly serious about his work - particularly the work that made him a household name - and once blew up on his TNG cast screaming "WE ARE NOT HERE TO HAVE FUN!!". And as someone who has met Stewart personally and seen him act like a dick first hand (aswell as in numerous clips posted by others since), I can confirm he IS being serious and he really can be quite a tool. Though I'm told it depends on what day you happen to meet him on
@@McKamikazeHighlanderIn his defense, he has softened as he’s gotten older. Even just within the span of TNG’s run.
What's interesting is season 1 of Red Dwarf would've started and finished airing about half way through Star Trek The Next Generation's series 1 broadcast.
I'm not totally clued in on the logistics of what went into the set building or even the makeup of Red Dwarf (beyond Rimmer's iconic "H") but if they genuinely intended to parody TNG they must've done it bloody fast!
Good old British comedy you can't beat it especially when you lived in America for so long a Patrick, at least he quickly remember British sarcasm in the classroom.
you sound like one of those people who think that putting a union jack on something makes it better and worth more money
@@TheEvilCheesecake Am Scottish by birth, are comedy sense is a little different but so every other countries, but Red Dwarf is a piss take of all science fiction not to offend anyone 👍.
maybe the show is good because it's good, and not because it's british ey?
Why can't it be both? Are you literally trying to deny culture is a thing? Fucking hell, how would comedy work if there wasn't a collective understanding of life? Goon.@@TheEvilCheesecake
@@TheEvilCheesecake Or because British comedy is imprinted into the culture, it doesn't pull punches, it reflects the same relationship you have with your mates. American comedy is generally forced, while I like some of it, British comedy tops all.
Highest praise right there
Thank you for uploading; nice one! Patrick Stewart is my #1 Star Trek actor. I am glad he appreciates Red Dwarf as much as I.
Red Dwarf makes loads of references to other Sci Fi series; one but has to be a fan of those to notice the parodies when they happen. They may be a bit subtle but they are most certainly there.
If you need some prompting on the episodes/occasions this happens refer to Wikipedia.
And then I started laughing. Like a human. What is up fellow humans?
this late 90s early 00s digital transfer look is quite nicely nostalgic
Fabulous. My favourite show still to watch when I just want to laugh 😅🤣😂
Best part of the documentary
God I love Patrick Stewart!
Hey it's mr flibble 😆 I've got you on a T-shirt 👕
im picturing Patrick. in the 90s. alone in his 4star hotel room. channel surfing looking for Star Trek The Next Generation.. finding an episode. and then watching it in its entirety.
Red dwarf is better than anything he’s ever been in
What about the emoji movie? That was a beautiful film that mastered the art of storytelling. Poop is still one of the most well written, complex characters I've ever seen on the big screen.
I liked watching him in conspiracy theory, Mel bites his face off! 😶🫣
I love how Patrick Stewart just cracks up at things like Red Dwarf and Galaxy Quest
There is a video of Stewart doing a rather ragged version of Rimmer’s salute.
The local PBS station got the series only a few months after it started on BBC2. I didn’t see the first episode “The End” when I first came across it and didn’t get it, but a few months later they played it again, I got the premise from the start, and it has been my favourite sci-fi, right down to declaring blue alerts.
Imagine Picard having to tell Worf to not be a smeghead about something.
Imagine Data saying “You’re a smeee heeeeeee”
1:19 In the recent season of Star Trek: Picard, there was a scene with Picard and Riker sharing a bunk which reminded me of the bunk scenes with Rimmer and Lister😄
His Yorkshire leaks out when he says "laaaf" :)
Wait til he gets a load of "The Orville"....
No
no one watches it
If anyone is curious the two episodes are most likely A Fist Full of Datas and Gun Men of the Apocalypse
they should get Sir Patrick Stewart to guest star on Red Dwarf XI in 2015!
Or maybe XIII in November this year.
Or maybe SOMETIME before they eventually decide to end Red Dwarf for good, especially after all the other guest stars they've had in the series.
It'd be nice to see Patrick on Red Dwarf
the idea that Red Dwarf was a Star Trek rip off must be both a great honor and deeply confusing for all involved. They really are nothing alike and i love them both.
It's basically a parody of Star Trek...
Reaching for a lawyer because he saw it was in the same genre as Star Trek, what a mature and upstanding man 👏
@@jamesflames6987 How exactly? Star Trek doesn't own the concept of a show set in space. Where are the similarities? Other than a crew member that is an android and again hardly an original concept when TNG did it.
@@GarethColquhoun Red Dwarf is a comedy show. It takes traditional science fiction tropes and turns them on their head. The overall format of the show of flying through deep space and encountering various strange planets and life forms is exactly the same as Star Trek. The idea of the Lister character is a direct response to the stereotypically "clean-cut" nature of Star Trek characters. To consider Red Dwarf to be entirely original and totally unrelated to other science fiction especially Star Trek is to miss out on a huge part of what the writers were getting at. If you have never seen Star Trek, Red Dwarf wouldn't nearly be so funny, because you would have no idea how a normal spacefarer or android "should" behave.
@@Bruh-zx2mc that's what some people refer to as "humour"
Well it's not too late. Please Patrick, play an admiral in season 4 of The Orville.
Aw, that's sad. When you hear him in interviews now, he sounds so distant, like he doesn't really know what's being asked of him.
I'm scared of getting old.
It's *torture* not knowing which episode he's referring to! But, I have my suspicions.
borgduck Must be "Gunmen of the Apocalypse", which is the episode we see briefly at the end there.
Andrew Chapman After watching 'A Fistfull Of Data's' that's my suspicion.
borgduck That's a point, Patrick actually directed that TNG episode.
Have you had a chance to see my video yet?
Andrew Chapman Will do, later. Got some boring crap to do, today. :)
borgduck Okay.
"That wild, ironic humor" is now part of Star Trek. With Bridge Crew.
Go watch it!
So he thought "it's a show set on a spaceship, that's a copyright violation"
He's got an English dry sense of humour. It was a joke
There was an episode that had a very similar premise, Gunman Of The Apocolypse.
Well he's english, but he had been living in america for a while, so he probably picked up a few bad habits =P
Set phasers to bitch
@@HuplesCat it really wasn't a joke, he thought it was ripping off Star Trek and in America that means litigation. They live in courts over there.
You wish stng was anywhere near as brilliant and unique as Red dwarf! Glad you're a fan.
Red Alert, Mr Data.
Captain, are you sure? It would require changing the bulb.
Noone on Star trek has even heard the words "chicken vindaloo".
Especially Nelix.
"It's the shits, Captain! I cannae take it!!!!"
"Noone?" Like Dr. Noonian Soong?
Patrick Stuart loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life.
implicaverse Not being rude or anything. It's *Stewart*. An easy mistake to make.
borgduck
And pointless to correct.
implicaverse And worth it!
borgduck
No, what would be worth it is for you to fuck yourself to hell.
implicaverse Not trying to be silly, "troll war". It's just that my name is also Stewart. I guess, since I was a child, it drove me nuts when people spelt it the other way. *Sorry*.
Wow! I am definitely in Team James Corben after seeing this
Must have seen kryten for first time and thought data until he found out about krytensgroinal socket😂
😅
Well... Patrick is sure making a mockery of Star Trek now.
Good for him?... I guess?
I've heard a lot made about this, but I'm pretty sure that Stewart was exaggerating when he said he was literally reaching for a phone to call his lawyer. He may have thought the show was a ripoff for a split-second or so, but I imagine the show broke any illusion of that sooner than it would have taken for him to seriously consider legal action.
I agree with people who think he probably saw a Kryten scene, his parallels with Data are the closest thing that Red Dwarf has to anything resembling TNG. I imagine that the character Kryten ended up becoming was probably inspired by Data to some degree, but it definitely falls in the realm of parody more than mere imitation if so.
The two things I love, humour and science fiction mixed together. They also spoofed Alien in one episode, and I think if you look carefully, Robocop and the many "B" movies which came out in the '80s.
ST is still one of them many shows RD is spoofing, probs the main one. with things like rimmers (vulcan spoof) salute
And I picked up the phone to call my lawyer and said “Engage!”
Not Patrick Stewart, but I could definitely imagine Kirk saying "Scotty, fetch my smeg hammer..."
*Switches on Star Trek: Discovery*
"Where is everybody, Patrick?"
"They're dead, Wesley"
"Kirk?"
"He's dead, Wesley"
"What? Spock?'
"He's dead too, Wesley"
"Wait...You mean to say that Guinean, Troi, Riker-"
"They're dead, Wesley"
"Even Sisko and Janeway?"
"Everybody's dead, Wesley. They're all dead, Wesley"
"Not Archer?"
"Blimey, including Odo, Quark, Chakotay, Nelix and Captain Pike. Everybody's dead. They're all dead, Wesley"
"Wait....are you trying to tell me everybody's dead?"
"Shut up, Wesley!"
Way under-rated comment. Debonaire Nerd nailed both RD and STTNG with the fewest words possible. Yeah, Debonaire Nerd, even Peterson! Hard to believe, right?
@ Debonaire Nerd
I can hear Patrick Stewart's voice saying that! lol!
Janeway is dead? Thank god, the universe is a safer place.
Probably the best comment section ive ever stumbled upon. Or im v baked.
Not sure I see the similarities myself. It's like comparing Blake's 7 to the original star Trek. Also Red Dwarf started airing I'm the UK around the same time next generation was airing in the US so it's almost certainly just a coincidence.
"Red Dwarf" was DEFINITELY not a knock off of "Star Trek." It's sort of an "Odd Couple" in space with Rimmer and Lister and there was no real "crew" as all of them had died. Also, the show premised that there was no life outside of Earth. Sure, they come across some strange creatures like the GELFs (Genetically Engineered Life Form) but they all had their origins from Earth. So no Vulcans, no alien life forms. Even in deep space, everything came from Earth.
I remember that on the evening that Red Dwarf premiered, I saw what was yet another SciFi based program and didn't watch because I thought it would be another rip-off. I did watch the second episode and was completely hooked. I was only sorry that I missed Norman Lovett's 'Dead Dave' speech.
I can understand him being caught out temporarily. The first time I saw 'The Office', and I started part way through, I was lured into thinking it was genuine documentary to start with, until at one point I thought, "Eh?? What kind of company is this??" and a couple of minutes later it dawned on me.
And before he had picked the phone up , he’d seen everything 👀
There is nobody that looks as good as cat on star trek
Worf is pretty hot
I reckon Patrick Stewart should be a guest star on the up-coming 'Red Dwarf' series X or XI
Pat mate, there is zero similarities between next gen and red dwarf.
I first watched RD in 94. It was on daily and you could watch it right after STNG... And it was great to watch them back to back
Red Dwarf is like a cross between Star Trek and Lost In Space, except it's a sit-com
And i rode away...
*☝️* *On the grass!*
Would love to know what episode he caught
sounds like something from Series VI
It must be *Gun Men of the Apocalypse* since he directed TNG episode *A Fist Full of Data* and got the impression that episode was ripping off the TNG episode that he directed.
You need the comedy to remedy the ultra-seriousness that is post-TOS Star Trek.
Red Dwarf lovingly spoofs the best science fiction ever made.
Which includes parts of the overall Star Trek franchise.
Red Dwarf is also the only sci-fi spoof show that's lasted to my knowledge... most of the other spoof shows have died after one season!
Patrick you queen.
Jean Luc , you`re such a SMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE...
wow i too a flicking channels when first saw red dwarf
I have a feeling Patrick Stewart probably stumbled on to the show during one of Kryten's scenes and made the connection that Red Dwarf appeared to be ripping of the TNG's character, Data. From what he said following, Kryten probably made some absurd British gag (as he so often does), that would never have been allowed on TNG, and so Patrick Stewart saw that Red Dwarf was indeed something quite different.
British Gags are smart, Data would've been proud.
Wonder what he thinks of The Orville.
so turns out Patrick was really a karen-type but then watched for a few more seconds and red dwarf de-karenized him 😂
Patrick Stewarts first knowledge of sci fi was his own show. RD owes more to the considerable legacy of British sci fi that came before it certainly not STNG.
Fair point, but what he said is that this kind of treatment is a mockery of "serious" shows like TNG, which it is in the same Life of Brian is, among other things, a mockery of Roman Empire and Biblical epics.
Patrick Stewart was in Dune three years before TNG aired. I think he had knowledge of sci-fi before TNG.
He's just taking the piss lad.
@@thiagodeandrade7081 it called a parody if it mimics and makes fun of something not Mockery, mockery would Imply some small level of hate for the Original show.
tho i really wanted to know the episode Patrick watched I don't recall any parody episodes of red dwarf with TNG as the Parody,
it also extremely different compared to tng red dwarf follow more with Voyager then tng
Lifeforce has entered the chat
It's a spoof off of all the different sci-fi shows out there...he related it to the series that he was doing...which is also the most prolific sci-fi series out there...
@SciStarborne In the A-Z of Red Dwarf, they follow it with a scene from Gunmen of the Apocalypse. I always assumed that it was the scene Stewart was referring to, because the whole holodeck-time-travel-westerny thing was very Star Trekish. Of course, Red Dwarf handles things differently.
Yul Brynner had a similar reaction when watching an episode of NG.
summed up in: Patrick Stewart loves it, you will too :)
I love red dwarf! It is, what i consider, a break from serious Soap Opera Space. Nothing wrong with seriousness. I just love having a good laugh about it as well :)
My left ear is lonely, my right ear is also lonely. Wait have I gone deaf, nooooo.
The fact that Patrick was on the verge of calling his lawyers say much about him!
That he would make as good a Federation Captain in real life as he did on TV? “Load the lawyer photon torpedoes!”, “Aye Sir!”.
It's called storytelling. And there is a public for it.
The fact that you are naive enough to take this expression literally tells us a LOT about you! And it doesn't say much for your intelligence.
@@mjd4174 My! My! You seem weirdly triggered! I love how you go straight for the ad hominem. Are you in love with him or maybe you spend most of the day in a Star Trek costume.
I know a further conection between Red Dwarf and Star Trek TNG. Danny John Jules and Gates McFadden both worked on the film Labyrinth. They are both also in the making of extra on the DVD, but only breifly, don't blink.
Kryten and Data both wish to alter their programming to become more human. I always thought that Patrick must have tuned in to a Kryten scene where this came up. Unless he is just joking about the lawyer!
Thoughts on this, good people?
Yes Sir Patrick Stweart is one of the biggest RD fans you could get when Red Dwarf night was done he was the first one to jump at the chance of being the person who introduced it and no I wouldn't call him pompous just a typical English gentleman
I think he knows when to send up his serious image.
"a typical English gentleman" he grew up working class
The thing was that Brent Spiner was 'the comedian' of the TNG crew. Only they edited out all the pranks that Brent pulled on his fellow actors because they were trying to be serious. There's a story told that when the actors first got together they were a rowdy lot with lots of humor and joking about on set. So much so that they didn't think that an acclaimed Shakespearean actor like Sir Patrick would think that they were taking the job seriously. It turned out that he enjoyed the comedic aspect of the work and bonded with his crewmates exceptionally well. I still believe that the close family relationship of the TNG actors was the reason that the show has such longevity, much as Babylon 5 and Stargate SG1 did too.
I called my lawyers the first time I watched the show.
Did they enjoy it?
@promcheg Yes I have , it was Rimmer . And what does that have to do with anything ?
What a guy.
And now I have mental images of Patrick Stewart in a leather jacket riding an alligator through the sky and shooting Nazis.
I wish there had been a ST:TNG/Red Dwarf crossover episode, where the Enterprise crew initially treats the dwarfers with contempt, but gradually grows to respect them.
It wouldn't be very Star Trek of the TNG crew to treat anyone with contempt initially.
I believe he was refering to the episode 'Gunmen of the Apocalypse' which bears a resemblance to the TNG episode 'A fistful of Datas'.
Come off it! How could you ever, for a moment, think that Red Dwarf was anything like Next Gen?
indeed i don't recall any parody episodes in red dwarf for him to mistake it as tng
The episode where the crew all have amnesia, and Data/Kryton is the only one who knows what happened.
Always wondered which episode and if he just came across the show as lister uttered the "star trek crap" line.
Thinking that what he said was really charming and nice wish at some strange point in the future a crossover could happen possible in a bizarre turn of events which involves Q and Rimmer switching places and perhaps have a twist ending for Data and Kryton a special episode on Below Decks or something similar?
I'd REALLY like to know which joke it was that made Sir Patrick decide to leave the phone where it was. There are so many.
He better be cast if they ever make a Red Dwarf movie!
Would love to know what episode and scene he first watched