Visible crew/equipment: When Lister downs his pint of wine, the shadow of a boom mic can be seen on the top left of the screen. (00:20:00 - 00:21:55)
Visible crew/equipment: When Rimmer and his seven kids get out of the car, three crew members and a white production truck are visible in the reflection. (00:25:15)
Visible crew/equipment: A wire/string pulling along the baby Skutters behind the parent Skutter is visible in the episode. (00:25:35)
Visible crew/equipment: If you look closely when the camera follows Lister (in the scene just before the meteor crashes onto Starbug) you can actually see the edge of the set and some studio lights. (00:04:10)
Visible crew/equipment: When the bazookoid blasts hit the Polymorph near The End, you can see the stand that's holding the Polymorph at the bottom of the screen. (00:24:45)
Visible crew/equipment: When Lister and the Cat are walking through the corridor on the ship, the top of the set is visible through the transparent ceiling. (00:03:55)
Visible crew/equipment: When Lister puts his mutton vindaloo on the DNA modifier, the pole used to make the vindaloo float can be seen when the beam is cast on the dish. (00:22:55)
Visible crew/equipment: When the crew are standing before the Judgement computer (when Lister is worrying that he will be sent to prison) if you look above Lister's head you can see a microphone bob up and down into shot. (00:11:10)
Visible crew/equipment: When Ace Rimmer is talking to Mellie, a boom mic can be seen at the top of the screen. (00:04:05)
Visible crew/equipment: When Rimmer is speaking to Lister about how Ace Rimmer got all the breaks in his life, a boom mic can be seen in the top left of the screen. (00:24:15)
Visible crew/equipment: When Binks arrives on Starbug, a boom mic can be seen at the top of the screen. (00:07:45)
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.