Starbug is 24 hours behind Red Dwarf and is losing ground on the larger ship. They are distracted when a heat-seeking 'missile' locks onto them and tractors them to a space station inhabited only by a being called Legion, who proves his good faith by converting Rimmer from a "soft light" to a "hard light" hologram, thus making him able to touch and feel. Legion also performs an emergency appendectomy on Lister. Unknown to them, Legion is in fact a gestalt entity, made up of the personalities of those on the space station with him and must keep the crew on the station with him forever if he is to maintain his existence