Come to the Red Dwarf fandom: The wait between series might be a year or a decade, there’s no guarantee that the show is over or that it’s coming back, we don’t know what series are canon, or if Kochansky is coming back, or if she was ever there at all. Rimmer might be human, hardlight hologram or something else, we just don’t know. Holly could be Holly or Hilly, and Red Dwarf itself may or may not be MIA, and it’s crew either alive or dead.