Ouroboros

The crew of Starbug come across a linkway between dimensions and meet their counterparts from another reality, one in which Kochanski was in stasis when the Red Dwarf crew died, and Lister has since been brought back as a hologram. The linkway breaks, when attacked by GELFs, and Kochanski is trapped with our crew; and although Lister does not mind, Kryten becomes jealous and is determined to get her back to her own dimension. Lister finally uncovers his parents' identities.

The episode's name is derived from Ouroboros, the mythological dragon or worm (Or in this case, snake) swallowing its own tail.


Production Notes

• This is the second Red Dwarf episode to forfeit the opening titles for the purposes of time and episode pacing (the first being the Series II episode "Parallel Universe").
• This episode included the first computer generated sequence ever produced by the newly-commissioned CGI department of the BBC, an exterior shot of the blue "sub-space" passageway connecting to Starbug

Series continuity

• The baby Lister was placed under the table in November, 18 months after he was born. 18 months, being a year and a half, before November is May of the previous year. In Emohawk: Polymorph II Lister states that he is an Aries. If Lister were an Aries, he would be born in either March or April and not May (Taureans and Geminis are born in May). This could be explained that as he was abandoned the orphanage had to take a guess with his age and was just off by a month or so
• It is confirmed in this episode that Kryten killed the crew of the Nova 5 (albeit accidentally). This is in line with the Red Dwarf novels, where Kryten caused the ship to crash by washing the inside of the computer systems.