Revealing mistake: When Lister and Rimmer first meet their femaile opposites, Lister takes a step back and brushes against Rimmer's hologramatic shirt. (00:10:30)
Stasis Leak - S2-E4
Revealing mistake: When Rimmer hides under the table, he is not visible beneath the table when Lister and Rimmer walk in. (00:18:40)
Revealing mistake: After Starbug lands on the 'high' Red Dwarf, Rimmer is running out of power and starts to fade in and out. However, Cat, who must be standing too close to Rimmer also fades, the backdrop being partially visible through him. (00:08:05)
Revealing mistake: When Kochanski is on the phone falling through space, her lips do not match what she is saying. (00:25:55)
Emohawk - Polymorph II - S6-E4
Revealing mistake: The airlock opens before Ace activates the controls. (00:24:25)
Revealing mistake: In the observation dome, background stars are visible on Lister's hair and neck. (00:10:05)
Revealing mistake: When Lister kicks the simulant in the head, you can see he misses him by about a foot. (00:20:00)
Rimmerworld - S6-E5
Revealing mistake: When the Cat says 'All in all a hundred per cent successful trip' you can see Lister mouth the line. (00:13:45)
Emohawk - Polymorph II - S6-E4
Revealing mistake: When the crew get hit by the gas at The End of the episode, you can see that they are slightly moving. (00:27:30)
Out Of Time - S6-E6
Revealing mistake: When the crew go through the unreality pocket that makes Starbug disappear around them, part of the Cat's face disappears into the background. (00:12:05)
Revealing mistake: At the very start of the episode, when the SSS Esperanto is seen, the bubbles from the seabed are sinking rather than rising, revealing the piece of footage is being played backwards. (00:00:35)
Revealing mistake: When Lister and Rimmer are talking in the dome, the machine behind Rimmer keeps wobbling. (00:09:55)
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.