A time phenomenon ripples through time, revealing a ship heading straight into the path of an oncoming gas moon. The crew venture on-board, but the ship's unorthodox anti-criticism law proves hard to handle.
The crew find themselves on the 'Enconium', a ship where criticism is illegal and all ineptitude must be tolerated. When they protest they are arrested and threatened with draining of all critical thoughts. However Rimmer's bitterness about his childhood comes in handy in beating the draining machine, his inner critic and the system, at least for a while.—don @ minifie-1