In this pilot episode, menial worker Dave Lister on the spaceship Red Dwarf finds himself three million years in the future after accidentally overstaying his time in a stasis room where time does not exist. In contrast to a long sleep or cryogenics, traveling via stasis is actual time travel.
Michael Main
The stasis room creates a static field of time. Just as x-rays can’t pass through lead, time cannot penetrate a stasis field. So although you exist, you no longer exist in time, and for you, time itself does not exist.

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  1. “The End” by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, directed by Ed Bye (BBC Two, UK, 15 Febrary 1988).
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Rob Grant
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . directed by Ed Bye