McGovern was an unseen JMC mining spaceship operating around Earth's Solar System at some point in the mid to late 22nd century.

McGovern was the first posting of a younger Frank Hollister, who would later go on to be the captain of the Red Dwarf.

History

Frank Hollister signed up with the JMC and got his first posting on McGovern when it stopped at Phobos^[1], where Hollister had been living and had been known as "Dennis the Doughnut Boy".

Hollister was initially only a vending machine repairman as part of the McGovern Z Shift. However, Hollister gained access to the confidential crew files and used them to impress beyond his means and/or bribe his way up the chain of command. ("Back in the Red Part III", Series VIII.)

Hollister made captain before transferring to the ill-fated Red Dwarf. ("The End").

Trivia

• Events which transpired aboard McGovern, such as "Dennis the Doughnut Boy" using confidential files to get promoted, are mentioned on the Series VIII episode Back in the Red Part III. However, the ship itself was not named in the broadcast episode. McGovern was named as the ship of Hollister's first posting in the Series VIII scripts^[2], and also in an interview between Captain Hollister and Talkie Toaster on the official Red Dwarf website.^[3]

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