Did you notice that The Cat mentioned the old Cat saying "What are you talking about, DOG breath?" Dog?!!? He didn`t learn about dogs until "Future Echoes"? And he didn`t seem to think in "Future Echoes", "So that`s what a DOG looks like!!"

Yeah but his old cat sayings are generally made up on the spot.

Maybe he had just learned over time dog's were creatures that had bad breath without actually seeing one.

I liked the scene with Rimmer and Lister at the food dispenser at the beginning of the show when you here someone say, "Excuse me." and later in the show it turns out that it was Rimmer. However, they walk in the opposite direction of the Rimmer hologram and the Rimmer hologram beats them to their room. I thought they were walking to their room as well.

Presumably, the levels in the Red Dwarf are numbered from the bottom. They travel down 2,567 floors to get to level 16. So, assuming the stasis leak is in the same spacial position on the two Red Dwarfs, the holographic Rimmer traveled 2,567 floors down with Lister and Cat (a journey of over two hours at least), they passed through the rift and then Rimmer traveled up 2,567 floors to get to his and Lister's quarters.

Also, who is projecting the Rimmer hologram from five years in the future? He must have a mobile emmiter since the ship could not support two holograms until 3,000,000 years later.

I liked this episode. My local PBS station has just started showing Red Dwarf so I'm seeing these shows for the first time ever. After hearing so much about the show over the years in different science fiction magazines, it's nice to finally see it.

I tuned in just a few minutes late and just caught the ending of Holly's opening message, but it sounded like he said they found a moon shaped like Marilyn Monroe's bottom, instead of Felicity Kendal's bottom. I guess when they remastered they decided to use a more recognizable name.
(BTW did Ms. Kendal show her bottom a lot? I only remember seeing it once in a British program called Solo.)

If the express elevator takes so long to go down that they can show Gone With The Wind, then how slow does the regular elevator go?

Watching Rimmer talk to himself, I wondered why H-Rimmer didn't remember the outcome of this story. Although, I suppose Rimmer decided all the duplicates were all a hallucination and managed to successfully put it out of his head, but what about Holly's memory? Does Holly know about them coming from the future? Presumably they must have needed the past Holly to project H-Rimmer, so did present Holly have to explain to past Holly what was going on? This might explain why Holly has mental problems.

So how did future Dave get around the problem of Kochanski's dying within 3 weeks? Was Holly just lying about Kochanski's remains in The End?

So why didn't we see a future version of the Cat at the end?

Ooops, forgot one.
When Lister grabs the soap he holds it up with his hand curled around it like he was holding a pole, but when he returns to the 'present' Red Dwarf he holds his hand out flat.

Keith- (and here I am assuming you are American), yes they altered the Felicity Kendal line? Why- no-one knows. Presumably the BBC think that other countries won't get the reference. The real reason behind this rubbish is obvious. The Beeb has some spare cash, and thought "Bugger! We might end up making Doctor Who again." So blew it all on booze. They were left with £1.20, and so bought a packet of crayons and 'remastered' Red Dwarf.

Yes I am an American. Did my accent give me away?

No- it was the number of fingers.

Maybe they thought such an obscure-sounding name wouldn`t be as well known in the 2X00s.

I beleive this episode establishes that Red Dwarf has over 2500 floors, so I'm putting this here.
In The End, Todhunter says there are 169 people, which comes out to about 15 decks per person. Did they really think they would bring home enough ore to fill all those empty decks?

It's possible that the ship was carrying passengers as well this could account for the 600 other people Rimmer is accused of killing in Justice. (I think there where 400 prisoners).
The best thing about the remastered episodes were the sound FX for Rimmer apprearing when they should.

>In The End, Todhunter says there are 169 people, which comes out to about 15 decks per person. Did they really think they would bring home enough ore to fill all those empty decks?<

Maybe there are just lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of skutters. If you look closely you`ll see one has "129" and one has "4459" suggesting that there are many more than just four, as suggested in the End.

>In The End, Todhunter says there are 169 people, which comes out to about 15 decks per person. Did they really think they would bring home enough ore to fill all those empty decks?<

Maybe there are just lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of skutters. If you look closely you`ll see one has "129" and one has "4459" suggesting that there are many more than just four, as suggested in the End.

So that means there are 1,700 ships just like the Enterprise in Star Trek since its number is 1701. ;-)

I thought the skutters might be numbered by ship.

I think you mean deck, not ship. Otherwise all scutters on Red Dwarf would all have the same number.

The scutters are probably numbered for total number then get randomly assigned to ships. The numbers could also be out of sequence if a scutter is a replacement for a damaged, destroyed, or retired scutter.

Although the number of scutters went up after Parallel Dimension. Unless they aged too quickly and had to be returned.

When I said "by ship" I meant the number on them means the number they are on the ship. For instance, number 47 on Red Dwarf would be a different skutter from number 47 on... say... the Scott Fitzgerald (mentioned in Better Than Life, the episode)

Jenny Veitch: Future Echoes was before this episode. Are you thinking of Parallel Universe?

Re: "Who is projecting the Rimmer hologram from five years in the future?"
The present Rimmer is being projected by the present Red Dwarf, the 5+ years Rimmer is being projected by the 5+ years Red Dwarf.

If holo-Rimmer goes back in time and puts himself in stasis before the accident, wouldn't it negate the need for the holo-Rimmer? There wouldn't be two versions of him, as he suggests.

Everything is supposed to sort itself out five years hence - didn't happen, did it?

Chris, in Future Echos, when Lister and Cat are looking at pictures, one of them is of a dog.

Sorry, I was thinking of when he met his alternate self as a dog later on.

We know Future Echoes came first, but the wise old cat saying obviously was even before that, hence "old" (and "wise"). But we agree with Ed Jefferson.

I bow down graciously and beg forgiveness.

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before, it occured after rewatching this:

If Rimmer managed to talk his pre-accident self into going into stasis before the accident occurs, then someone else might repair the drive plates, & the accident might not occur at all.

That's unless Rimmer goes into stasis between botching the repair & the accident.

One factor might be how Rimmer could get into stasis. Either he'll sneak in & hope he's not missed before the accident or ask to be sent in as a punishment.

It get's quite complicated.

Also it's mentioned in this episode that there's only 1 spare stasis booth, which sounds strange unless interstellar missions are done with a basic crew, considering there's 169 normally.

Why didn't they try to warn Captain Hollister and the crew about the disaster?

Yes, it would change history, but it's never even discussed.