Christine Kochanski Continued.......
Navigation Officer on board Red Dwarf, Christine Kochanski was the center of Lister's world for three weeks, as the two enjoyed a short-lived relationship. After she died in the accident Lister spent every waking moment thinking about her, and several times tried to bring her back as a hologram. Failing in this, he went back in time through a stasis leak and tried to get her to go into stasis, so that she would survive the accident, and Lister would be able to release her when he got back to his own time. Unfortunately, when he caught up with her she had already married someone--- him! In this alternative timeline Lister had managed to come back in time already, and had set things to rights by marrying the woman he loved.
Rimmer used Kochanski's hologram personality disk to try to trick Lister into abandoning the idea of taking an exam to become his superior, but Lister saw through the scheme.
After three milliion years without her, Lister is finally reunited with Chrissie, though not the one he left behind. This is a Kochanski from an alternative dimension, and is played by another actress (Chloe Annett). She is with her own Dave Lister as they encounter each other, her Dave being a hardlight hologram. A rift in the null-space bridge causes her to be thrown in with our Dwarfers, and she instantly hates the situation. She sees Lister as a lazy, worthless, self-satisifed and useless layabout (as Cat said to Rimmer in Inquisitor: "Got to admit, she's got a handle on you there bud!"), Kryten as a pathological fusspot with a mother complex, and Cat as a one-dimensional, sex-obsessed creature. Yeah, she's got them all taped, all right! (Rimmer has at this point left to pursue his career as Ace, but were he here no doubt she would think him a complete and total smeghead!)
Used to being on a Starbug with a crew who know what they're doing, Kochanski is increasingly incensed by the lack of apparent expertise and knowledge the boys evince, and she absolutely does not like Kryten! Though the mechanoid sees her as a rival for Lister's affections, she herself has no such designs on Dave (or so she tells herself), and is only concerned with getting back to her own Lister. Kryten is more than happy to help her, but unfortunately for both it's not to be, and as she leaves, thinking she's getting back to her own Starbug but about to be once again thwarted, it comes to light that not only is she Lister's girlfriend, she is also his mother! Kochanski asks Lister to add his sample to an invitro tube she has, in order that she might have a child some day. Lister does, but then realises that the embryo in the tube is in fact him. Lister knows that when he was found, under the pool table in the Aigburth Arms in Liverpool, that the box in which he was found had the words "Our Rob or Ros" printed on it. He had always taken this to be callous evidence of the fact that not only did his parents not want him, they couldn't even be bothered to settle on a proper name for him, never deciding between Rob and Ross. However, as they transfer supplies from the other Starbug as Kochanski makes ready to depart, they come across a box of Ouroboros batteries, which has the symbol for the ancient Ouroboros: the snake swallowing its own tail, which Kryten tells him is the symbol for eternity, a circle of life that is repeated and never broken.
Stuck with the boys for now, Kochanski does her best to fit in, but it's not easy, being the only woman on board a ship of three males, far from your own dimension, without even the promise of a bath or a manicure to stave off the loneliness and empty feeling inside. Kryten tries to console her, but mistakenly uses the Heimlich Maneuver on her: still, it does stop her crying! Lister is a little more helpful: though he is a little upset that she has not fallen instantly in love with him, he knows how hard it must be for her, and has prepared a bath for her in his quarters. He intends to let her sleep here tonight, and sleep in her quarters. Kryten, however, is unaware of this, and flips, sabotaging the generator and forcing them all to crawl through the ducts of Starbug to try to restart it. It is here that Kochanski (and the others) learn of Lister's claustrophobia, and she endeavours to take his mind off it by speaking of her Lister, and pretending he is gay.
She helps him face the realities of Rimmer's departure but is upstaged by Kryten, as their ongoing rivalry continues unabated. Desperate to secure his position aboard the ship and not be ousted by the "one with all the inny-outy bits you like", Kryten does all he can to get one up on Kochanski, and she in turn reacts to this as does any female when threatened by a male on her own territory. The sparring between the two adds a wonderful extra dimension to the show, and fills out both Kryten and Kochanski's characters.
Kochanski endeavours to introduce the lads to a slice of culture by taking them to the AR version of Jane Austen World, but Kryten has been preparing a special meal and is angered at her intrusion. When he finally blows his top, it's up to Kochanski, Lister and the Cat to find him after he is taken by the rogue simulants. It is she who saves Lister when he is infected by the Epideme virus, her strategy earning her at last Kryten's grudging admiration. He knows now that he gave Kochanski the invitro sample of himself and that, some time in the future, he goes back to Earth with the baby (himself) and places him under the pool table, so that he can be found, brought up, and the whole cycle repeat. Therefore, he is his own father, and Chrissie his mother
