The sequel to the worst episode

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say my least fave (not the worst), for it’s wasted potential, is Trojan. And in my sequel, Rimmer and his brother find some kind of pathos and connection, even though there’s a punchline at the end where they still think the other is a twat.

Or failing that, a sequel to series 8 or BTE  where we find out that Kochanski and Lister had a happy relationship for a few years, but she left to be a space adventurer (she found an Ace time drive), with Lister’s amicable blessing, and then just move on and don’t mention her again (or at least not as a crush/obsession) unless she actually comes back for an episode.

Can it just be a spiritual successor a la Samsara, or does the plot need to directly connect?

Because like RunawayTrain my least favourite episode is Krytie TV, and if it’s the latter then the only credible sequel I can imagine is that all the male prisoners get given new sentences for their sex crimes.

Pete Part 3:

Time wand reverses Cat’s evolution and turns him into a normal cat. Time travel stuff happens, they go back in time to pre-accident-Titan, and the animal Cat meets Frankenstein, and….well, you can guess what happens.

After Cat returns to normal, the episode ends with Lister and Cat bonding over being their own ancestors. Philip J. Fry turns up and joins in too, for some reason. Meanwhile Marty McFly looks on from the sidelines and sighs with relief: “Glad I’m not in that club.”

Timewave obviously. We need to see more of the zany crew of Ziggy and Co.

Infact… Spin off?

Timewave II:

Having lifted the ban on criticism, the Enconium becomes a refuge for literal Nazis.

Double sequel, Back in the Pete:

The Dwarfers re-encounter the resurrected Dwarf crew as they try to build a space colony city but are drafted to help them with a new problem: malfunctioning nanobots have brought back the Pete dinosaur but super-sized, resulting in him being a godzilla that’s stomping over the city. The Dwarfers must take a Blue Midget and fly into the rectal cavity of Mega-Pete to enter his innards to find and reboot the malfunctioning nanites. Once rebooted, they have to fly out of a shrinking Mega-Pete, and to calm its rampage for good, Cat has to do a Blue Midget Dance, resulting in the now-smaller Pete falling in love with the Blue Midget and trying to mate with it as that sexual magnetism rock instrumental plays. At some point after the Dwarfers evacuate the ship, Hollister steps on board to congratulate them for a job well done, but that’s when Pete comes to mate with the ship, at which point Hollister’s like “Not again….” and afterwards has to spend another 12 months in the hole.