The End
- by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, directed by Ed Bye
- TV Episode
- Science Fiction, Comedy
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “The End” by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, directed by Ed Bye (BBC Two, UK, 15 Febrary 1988).
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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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: According to Wikipedia[/url, sometime in the late 21st century.
- Near Future, AD 2300 and Beyond: Although three million years in the future, still very much our world
- Time Travel Methods
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- “The End” by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, directed by Ed Bye (BBC Two, UK, 15 Febrary 1988).