Rimmerworld - S6-E5
Visible crew/equipment: When Lister, the Cat and Kryten arrive on Rimmerworld, as the Rimmer guard steps out and says 'silence mutant' a boom mic is visible at the top of the screen. (00:21:05)
Rimmerworld - S6-E5
Visible crew/equipment: In the cell, when Rimmer says 'What have I created?' in the next shot a boom mic can be seen at the top of the screen by the window. (00:25:50)
Out Of Time - S6-E6
Visible crew/equipment: At the start of the episode when Rimmer says 'any objections?' a boom mic can be seen moving across the top of the screen. (00:01:25)
Out Of Time - S6-E6
Visible crew/equipment: At the start of the episode, just before the Cat says his fridge free diet line, a boom mic shadow can be seen on Kryten's head and shoulder. (00:02:50)
Out Of Time - S6-E6
Visible crew/equipment: When Kryten bends down to pick up the xrays, a boom mic shadow can be seen on the top of his head. (00:05:00)
Out Of Time - S6-E6
Visible crew/equipment: In the medi bay when Kryten says, 'I'll have a talk with him droid to droid,' a boom mic is visible at the top of the screen. (00:05:55)
Out Of Time - S6-E6
Visible crew/equipment: When Kryten walks into the cockpit to offer Lister a beer, a boom mic can be seen at the top of the screen by Kryten's head. (00:10:05)
Out Of Time - S6-E6
Visible crew/equipment: When Starbug hits the unreality bubble that makes the cat invisible, a boom mic can be seen just as the shot changes. (00:10:50)
Out Of Time - S6-E6
Visible crew/equipment: When the Cat becomes visible again after going through an unreality pocket, the shot changes to a wide shot of the crew. A boom mic can be seen to be pulled out of shot at the top of the screen by Kryten's head. (00:11:40)
Out Of Time - S6-E6
Visible crew/equipment: In the scene just befoe Lister & the Cat go into stasis, a boom mic shadow can be seen moving on the desk in front of Rimmer. (00:12:20)
Out Of Time - S6-E6
Visible crew/equipment: When the future crew decide to leave, there is a shot of Lister holding the bazookoid as they walk towards the door. A boom mic is visible above him. (00:24:40)
Out Of Time - S6-E6
Visible crew/equipment: When Lister gets killed, a boom mic can be seen on the very far right of the screen next to Rimmer. (00:26:25)
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.