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Ouroboros (Red Dwarf episode)
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| Red Dwarf episode | |
| "Ouroboros" | |
| Episode № | 3 |
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| Airdate | January 31, 1997 |
| Writer(s) | Doug Naylor |
| Director | Ed Bye |
| Guest star(s) | Alexander John-Jules as Baby Lister |
| Series VII January 17 – March 7, 1997 |
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Ouroboros was the third episode to air in Series VII of Red Dwarf. This episode marked the first appearance of the White Midget shuttlecraft.
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The crew of Starbug come across a linkway between dimensions and meet their counterparts from another reality, one in which Kochanski was in stasis when the Red Dwarf crew died, and Lister has since been brought back as a hologram. The linkway breaks, when attacked by GELFs, and Kochanski is trapped with our crew; and although Lister does not mind, Kryten becomes jealous and is determined to get her back to her own dimension. Lister finally uncovers his parents' identities.
The episode's name is derived from Ouroboros, the mythological dragon or worm (or in this case, snake) swallowing its own tail.
This is the second Red Dwarf episode to forfeit the opening titles for the purposes of time and episode pacing (the first being the Series II episode "Parallel Universe").
This episode included the first computer generated sequence ever produced by the newly-commissioned CGI department of the BBC, an exterior shot of the blue "sub-space" passageway connecting to Starbug
The baby Lister was placed under the table in November, 18 months after he donated his sperm to Kochanski. This places his birthday anywhere between 9 months after the space rift event and his being placed under the pool table, namely between the months of February and November. In Emohawk: Polymorph II, Lister states that he is an Aries, placing his birthday in either the month of April or May, offering corroborating evidence for the events detailed in this episode.
It is confirmed in this episode that Kryten killed the crew of the Nova 5 (albeit accidentally). This is in line with the Red Dwarf novels, where Kryten caused the ship to crash by washing the inside of the computer systems.
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In the Series 2 episode, Stasis Leak, a future Lister that marries Kochanski says that in 5 years time, the Red Dwarf Team we see now finds another way to go back in time. To get Kochanski, however, it was a rip between universes, one that had Kochanski alive and Dave was a hologram.