  The scroll at the beginning of the first episode of the third  series, "Backwards", explains all the changes from the second  series, but goes by too fast to read. It says: RED DWARF III THE  SAGA CONTINUUMS The Story So Far... Three million years in the  future, Dave Lister, the last human being alive, discovers he is  pregnant after a liaison with his female self in a parallel  universe. His pregnancy concludes with the successful delivery of  twin boys, Jim and Baxley. However, because they were conceived in  another universe, with different physical laws, they suffer from  highly accelerated growth rates, and are both eighteen years old  within three days of being born. In order to save their lives,  Lister returns them to the universe of their origin, where they are  reunited with their father (a woman), and are able to lead  comparatively normal lives. Well, as normal as you can be if youve  been born in a parallel universe and your fathers a woman and your  mothers a man and youre eighteen years three days after your  birth. Shortly afterwards, Kryten, the service mechanoid who had  left the ship after being rescued from his crashed vessel, the Nova  5, is found in pieces after his space bike crash lands onto an  asteroid. Lister rebuilds the noid, but is unable to recapture his  former personality. Meanwhile, Holly, the increasingly erratic Red  Dwarf computer, performs a head sex change operation on himself. He  bases his new face on Hilly, a female computer with whom hed once  fallen madly in love. And now the saga continuums. AND NOW THE SAGA  CONTINUUMS... RED DWARF III THE SAME GENERATION 