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Future Rimmer is an alternate version of Arnold Rimmer from a future that was prevented from happening. This version, along with the other Future Dwarfers, was immoral and corrupt due to years of abusing the Time Drive.
History[]
This Rimmer's life was identical to Arnold Rimmer's up to when the Starbug crew found the Time Drive. Either they never met their future selves, or they allowed them to copy designs from the time drive. However, it is known that the crew continued to use the time drive and abandoned their search for Red Dwarf. The reasons for not continuing the search is unknown, as they could have simply gone back in time to intercept Red Dwarf.
After presumably finding a device to travel quickly through space, the four began exploring history for their own reasons. Apparently, they never tried to help others or prevent the horrors humanity has faced, potentially refusing to get involved with anything. Rimmer told Kryten that the crew had befriended the worst people in history, because the best things tended to be in the possession of the worst people.
Eventually, their time drive malfunctioned, limiting the crew with only travelling back in time. The future crew attempted to get aid from their past selves, but their rude and snobby personalities along with their friendships with people like the Hitlers forced the younger crew to abandon them. Unwilling to go back to how their life was before, stranded in deep space lacking full control over time, the future crew attack the younger versions, wanting to force them to give them access to the time drive, despite knowing that the deaths of their younger selves will kill them also. Unwilling to surrender and become them, the younger crew fight back, resulting in all but Rimmer dying, who proceeds to destroy the time drive. The resulting paradox seemingly erases the future crew, including this Rimmer, from existence, with only the memory of them existing and their fight remaining due to dimensional anomalies caused by the paradox.