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In the episode Queeg of Season 2, A back up computer known as Queeg 500 arrives at Red Dwarf who knows about Holly's senility. Queeg claims that Holly's IQ is not 6000 but 6. Holly is very upset and exclaims "6? Do me a lemon! That's a poor IQ for a glass of water". He also claims that Holly gets his information from a children's science book and has been going around in circles. Holly is outraged and claims that it's a "load of Tottenham. A steaming pile of Hotspur." He is demoted to nightwatch man and Queeg takes over the ship. Queeg makes the crew's lives hell. Rimmer is pleased at first but when Queeg takes over his body and makes him sprint several miles is angered. The Cat is horrified that he has to do the 'W' word (work) and has no supply of food. Lister feels awful for not sticking up for Holly.
Then Holly challenges Queeg to a game of his choice and agrees that the loser gets deleted. Unfortunately it is chess. Holly is hopeless at this and gets it confused with poker. Holly loses the game and wishes everyone good luck with their lives and says farewell. Much to the horror of the crew Queeg changed into Holly who was grinning smugly and claimed that his prank was "the jape of the decade", wheeze of the week" and an "April, May, June, July and August fool".
On screen, Queeg 500 is a bald African-American man of middle age, with the tone and mannerisims of a US Marine drill sergent. Holly is a balding Caucasian man, and later a Caucasian woman. Holly, in the process of the television show, underwent a "head sex change".
Queeg 500 was played by Charles Augins . The name Queeg comes from the similarly "by-the-book" Captain Queeg in The Caine Mutiny.
See also: computer senility, Britcom, Norman LovettNorman Lovett is a British stand-up comedian and actor, best known for the role of Holly in Red Dwarf. His stand-up has a quiet, dead-pan surrealism, very similar to his delivery as the senile computer. Lovett, Norman Lovett, Norman., Hattie Hayridge
