NIVELO is the
Esperanto
word for LEVEL. Bilingual signs in the corridors of the
ship indicate what level you're on. Esperanto is a real language,
developed in the 1880s by the Polish ophthalmologist L.L. Zamenhof. In
the "Kryten" episode,
Rimmer
is shown trying (and failing) to learn Esperanto from a videotape. In
the same episode, Kryten, Lister, and Holly all demonstrate familiarity
with the language. And they watch movies in the KINEJO. In "Back to Reality",
the crew meets the despair squid while salvaging the SSS Esperanto...
8 Septembro 1996 kreita, 20 Januaro 2013 modifita.