Rimmerworld - S6-E5
Continuity mistake: During the hold-up scene with the Simulant, in the close-up of her speaking, her face is in darkness. The camera cuts away to Rimmer running for the escape pod, and then back to the Simulant, who is now well lit by a pair of overhead lights. (00:12:10)
Rimmerworld - S6-E5
Continuity mistake: When Kryten, the Cat and Lister teleport when the ship is disintergrating, Lister's locks are over his right shoulder. When they arrive, his locks are behind his back. (00:12:40)
Rimmerworld - S6-E5
Continuity mistake: When the crew walk through the woods, the first shot shows Lister, Kryten and the Cat walking with space between them. In the next shot they are walking shoulder to shoulder. (00:20:45)
Rimmerworld - S6-E5
Continuity mistake: At The End of the episode, when Lister says, 'I'm saying nothing man, don't want to spoil the surprise,' his hood and locks are arranged completely different than all other shots in the scene. (00:27:20)
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.