Just for the record, this episode was going to be called 'Present From The Future'.

When breaking the news to Lister, Kryten asks if anything were written on the box. Lister says no. What about Ouroboros? (Or, as he thought at the time, Our Rob or Ross)

Johnny: I just saw this and I don't remember hearing Lister say no, it was just Kryten talking.

Rimmer says, how long until we reach the epicenter. Epicenter is an earthquake term and the epicenter of an earthquake is not where the earthquake originated, it is the point on the surface over where the earthquake originated.

How many people think that after they went into stasis they simply entered a reality pocket and thought they met themselves and that Series 7 & 8 are all part of one really big artificial reality that they're experiencing?

This is the episode that features the scene clipped from Justice. As they are nearing the 28th century vessel you see Starbug flying by part of the Justiceworld complex.

In Rimmerworld, they accidentally teleport into the future where they meet Rimmer, Cat & Kryten a few weeks later and Rimmer says they are discussing the terrible thing that has happened to Lister. Does anyone think the terrible thing is what led to his future self being a brain in a jar?

The original ending, shown in the Smeg-Ups tape, has them celebrating Rimmer for blowing up the time drive and then drinking what turns out to be urine recyc wine which has given them all foamy mustaches. A much better ending than the trite old...
To Be Continued...

Actually, at one point during the attack from the future selves, the screen does that reality buuble effect thing. I thought that after that the episode wasn't real.

The future selves come looking for the present Starbug to look at a component from its timedrive to fix theirs.
Why not just go to the 28th century space station before Starbug even takes the timedrive to do what they need to and avoid the run-in with themselves?

I read that the ending of Rimmerworld was cut prior to transmission. The original version of the final scene had the current crew returning to the right time, Lister now very worried about the 'terrible thing', and then the future Lister came back from the toilet as the future Kryten told the future Rimmer off for having wound Mr Lister up like that. Another better ending that got thrown out for no good reason.

I guess it was cut to keep the show a bit more open-ended.

The book Son Of Soup has the full script to Holoship, which runs to 50 minutes or so of screen time. A lot of the model shots of the holoship where cut out. I don't know if the video had them put back in. (Like the Close Encounters Special edition.)

I think at the start of Enterprise Season 3 the ship entered an unreality pocket which made the whole crew forget that Travis Mayweather existed (as with Cat here).

I always had thought that when they returned from their jaunt into pre-rennassance deep space, they jumped back into an unreality pocket, and it gave them exactly what they needed to see to destroy the time drive, which is exactly what the pockets were created for, to keep the drive from falling into the wrong hands. But then season 7 came around and blew that theory out of the water

Liked Rimmer's "better dead than smeg" before he blasts the time drive.

Shows that he can grow a backbone when the situation arises.

"Shows that he can grow a backbone when the situation arises."

Only when pushed to his limits, such as in this very episode.

Still, Rimmer stepped up here. You can't take that away from him.