Quarantine - S5-E4
Continuity mistake: When Kryten injects the luck virus into Lister's neck, the gun disappears from Kryten's hand between shots. (00:23:25)
Quarantine - S5-E4
Continuity mistake: After Lister gets the luck injection for the first time, he is holding his hat. In the next shot the hat is gone. (00:12:15)
Quarantine - S5-E4
Continuity mistake: When Rimmer is looking at the crew through the viewscreen in Quarantine, the reflection of the crew in the glass changes between shots. (00:21:20)
Quarantine - S5-E4
Continuity mistake: When Lister gets the second luck virus injection, his locks move from in front of his shoulder to behind his back. (00:23:25)
Quarantine - S5-E4
Continuity mistake: Just before Dr. Lanstrom appears, Kryten is standing behind Lister. In the next shot, he has moved much further away from him, then moves back and forth between shots. (00:06:40)
Suggested correction: Lister can only see M-Corp products and M-Corp employees. Cat is not an employee of JMC or M-Corp, so he disappears. Lister is the only member of the crew who is employed by M-Corp at this point.
Suggested correction: Cat was a descendant of the cat Lister brought aboard Red Dwarf. Would it be possible that the new owners might have stricter security controls, and Lister was sent to Stasis for a different reason?
Andy Benham ★
Inventing Deux ex machina explanations for a plot hole doesn't make it any less of a plot hole. M-Corp erases all of the Jupiter Mining Corporation's equipment, personnel and infrastructure from Lister's life. In no way is Cat a part of that. He has no connection at all to the Jupiter Mining Corporation, and until he meets him in Episode 1 no connection to Lister, either.
If M-Corp only erased JMC equipment from Lister's life, then Kryten, who belongs to DivaDroid and not the JMC, wouldn't have disappeared either. He disappears as he doesn't belong to M-Corp, not because he belongs to the JMC. Cat has no connection to M-Corp, as he wasn't a part of the JMC (as you pointed out), and is therefore erased for Lister.