History Recap / RedDwarfSeasonVIOutOfTime

* TimeAndRelativeDimensionInSpace: Lister tests the Time Drive by visiting the 14th century but realizes that it just moves them through time and no closer to Earth. Their future selves have found some method of FasterThanLightTravel that lets them go anywhere.

* FutureMeScaresMe: The crew meet themselves from fifteen years in the future. The future Dwarfers, having complete access to time travel, have become Drunk with Power and spend their time partying with the worst people in human history. The two sets of crew hate each other so much that they end up killing each other (with the "present" set surviving through Temporal Paradox). Even Rimmer, under most circumstances a DirtyCoward, volunteers to fight without hesitation.

-->'''Kryten:''' Oh sir, how many times can I apologise? I have offered to mince myself, what more can I do?
-->'''Lister:''' Don't worry, I'll think of something - probably involving a bowl of water, a poker, a recharge socket and four thousand volts of direct current.

* TimeTravelForFunAndProfit: The future Dwarfers use the time drive to sample opulent lifestyles... going as far as to casually associate with some of humanity's most infamous figures. They are so engrossed in their behavior, they decide to attack the present Dwarfers in effecitve suicide rather than give up their lifestyle.

* VillainHasAPoint: It's never said out loud, but while the Future Dwarfers are engaging in time travel, they are engaging in probably one of the ''safest'' forms of time travel. The show has shown before that every action, even miniscule, has massive effects on the future, and the episode after this one, ''actively reinforced that''. Their future selves merely show up to eat good food and be guests of people who are occasionally [[{{Understatement}} a bit dodgy]], and don't change anything, because they must have figured that to change just the one thing, they change the whole world. That said, they are still socializing with utterly deplorable people and are willing to keep doing so.

* DirtyOldMan: The Future Dwarvers. When Kryten accuses them of giving in to their carnal desires, Future Rimmer just chuckles and says they could tell some stories about ''those''.

* DarkerAndEdgier: While the initial half of the episode is pretty silly, with Lister being revealed to be a robot (complete with emergency call-out number on the inside), the latter half... not so much. The Dwarfers are confronted with depraved future versions of themselves who are so outright degraded they murder three of them in quick succession.

* BottleEpisode: The episode is nearly entirely confined to Starbug, and features only the main four cast members.

* FutureMeScaresMe: Or disgusts, in many cases. In particular, Lister is horrified to learn that he ends up as a brain in a jar.

Rimmer gives the order to fight.

''Red Dwarf'' has been lost entirely at this point, leaving morale on the floor for the ''Starbug'' crew. Rimmer gives "morale meeting", which is a thinly-veiled excuse to angrily state how much he hates the others. Their situation is finally starting to get to them.

* FutureMeScaresMe: Or disgusts, in many cases.

* VillainHasAPoint: It's never said out loud, but while the Future Dwarfers are engaging in time travel, they are engaging in probably one of the ''safest'' forms of time travel. The show has shown before that every action, even miniscule, has massive effects on the future, and the episode after this one, ''actively reinforced that''. Their future selves merely show up to eat good food and be guests of people who are occasionally [[{{Understatement}} a bit dodgy]], and don't change anything, because they must have figured that to change just the one thing, they change the whole world. That said, they are still socializing with utterly deplorable people and are willing to keep doing so.

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Kryten's reaction upon learning that they had passed through an alternate reality bubble, creating a false reality, making them believe... that Mr. Lister was... oh my.

* VillainHasAPoint: It's never said out loud, but while the Future Dwarfers are engaging in time travel, they are engaging in probably one of the ''safest'' forms of time travel. The show has shown before that every action, even miniscule, has massive effects on the future, and the episode after this one, ''actively reinforced that''. Their future selves merely show up to eat good food and be guests of people who are occasionally [[{{Understatement}} a bit dodgy]], and don't change anything, because they must have figured that to change just the one thing, they change the whole world. That said, they are still socializing with utterly deplorable people.

* VillainHasAPoint: It's never said out loud, but while the Future Dwarfers are engaging in time travel, they are engaging in probably one of the ''safest'' forms of time travel. The show has shown before that every action, even miniscule, has massive effects on the future, and the episode after this one, ''actively reinforced that''. Their future selves merely show up to eat good food and be guests of people who are occasionally [[{{Understatement}} a bit dodgy]], and don't change anything, because they must have figured that to change just the one thing, they change the whole world.

* VillainHasAPoint: It's never said out loud, but while the Future Dwarfers are engaging in time travel, they are engaging in probably one of the ''safest'' forms of time travel. The show has shown before that every action, even miniscule, has massive effects on the future, and the episode after this one, ''actively reinforced that''. Their future selves merely show up to eat good food and be guests of people who are occasionally [[{{Understatment}} a bit dodgy]], and don't change anything, because they must have figured that to change just the one thing, they change the whole world.

TO BE CONTINUED

* TheReveal: The future Dwarfers just seem like pathetic, stuck-up snobs at first... then they mention they've socialized with ''Hitler''.

* IHatePastMe: The Dwarfers' future selves do not think kindly of themselves from way back when.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Towards the end, Rimmer has an uncharacteristic display of bravery, charging down the corridors with a bazookoid, kicking down the doors, and blasting the time drive to pieces. And shortly before that, he proposes a battle with Starbug against a vastly more powerful ship crewed by their future selves simply because they irritate him that much. Both acts are grossly out of character for the cowardly git, though the former at least may be chalked up to a lack of options.

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* JerkassHasAPoint: It's not really said out loud directly, but to bring up ''anything'' in the Future Dwarfers' defense, they can't really do much else other than gorge themselves on good food and living the good life. Trial and error before in the show has shown that they can't just mess about with history when time travelling, not even the smallest things, which has had disastrous results for them. They're also hardly to blame for the best food being with people who happen to be a bit [[{{Understatement}} dodgy]]. And you'd think that being stuck in a spaceship three million years away from Earth with a diet of curry, lager and what else there is they can scrape off passing asteroids, would make anyone want to have better food.
* LastStand: The present-day Dwarfers go up against their future selves, even though they stand no chance. [[spoiler: Lister, Cat and Kryten are all killed in rapid succession, but Rimmer is inspired by Kryten's last words to take a chance and destroy the Time Drive.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Towards the end, Rimmer has an uncharacteristic display of bravery, charging down the corridors with a bazookoid, kicking down the doors, and blasting [[spoiler:the time drive]] to pieces. And shortly before that, he proposes a battle with Starbug against a vastly more powerful ship crewed by [[spoiler:their future selves]] simply because they irritate him that much. Both acts are grossly out of character for the cowardly git, though the former at least may be chalked up to a lack of options.

* JerkassHasAPoint: It's not really said out loud directly, but to bring up ''anything'' in the Future Dwarfers' defense, they can't really do much else other than gorge themselves on good food and living the good life. Trial and error before in the show has shown that they can't just mess about with history when time travelling, not even the smallest things, which has had disastrous results for them. They're also hardly to blame for the best food being with people who happen to be a bit {{Understatement dodgy}}. And you'd think that being stuck in a spaceship three million years away from Earth with a diet of curry, lager and what else there is they can scrape off passing asteroids, would make anyone want to have better food.

* IHatePastMe: The Dwarfers future selves do not think kindly of themselves from way back when.

The dwarfers stumble across a derelict ship protecting a prototype time drive, and install it on Starbug in an effort to explore history. Unfortunately, they also encounter their future selves, who have need of the drive's schematics to fix an error with theirs... and they won't take no for an answer.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Towards the end, Rimmer has an uncharacteristic display of bravery, charging down the corridors with a bazookoid, kicking down the doors, and blasting [[spoilers:the time drive]] to pieces. And shortly before that, he proposes a battle with Starbug against a vastly more powerful ship crewed by [[spoiler:their future selves]] simply because they irritate him that much. Both acts are grossly out of character for the cowardly git, though the former at least may be chalked up to a lack of options.