Guest Cast: Paul Bradley (Chen) alias Nigel in Eastenders, Mac McDonald (Captain Hollister) later to return for series 8 and C.P.Grogan (the original Kris
Kochanski)
The episode sets the scene by providing some background into the relationship between Lister and Rimmer before the radiation leak. Living and working
together proves difficult as the two cannot stand each other, Lister the slob and party animal is anathema to a Rimmer who spends his time cramming
for another attempt at passing his Engineering exam. After cheating and seeing his own sweat wipe his crib notes off his arms, Rimmer is carried out of
the exam room on a stretcher. Lister, meanwhile, is brought before the Captain and sentenced to spend eighteen months in stasis for protecting his pet
cat Frankenstein from the harsh quarantine laws that govern the mining ship.
Unfortunately, this means Rimmer is alone on his maintenance rounds and is responsible for a massive radiation leak which kills all the crew apart from
Lister in suspended animation and the pregnantFrankenstein, safely sealed in the hold. Lister is later reawakened by the ships computer Holly to find that
it is three million years in the future and Red Dwarf has been travelling away from Earth. To preserve his sanity, Holly restores Arnold Rimmer as a hologram
and the two encounter the Cat, a felis sapien descended from Frankenstein who worships Lister or Cloister the Stupid as the God of his people.