 When future Lister and Kochanski arrive alongside future Rimmer, the matter becomes so complicated that past Rimmer decides to accept it only as a hallucination and asks them all to leave him alone.With its multiple views of the future, "Future Echoes" had been one of the better liked episodes from series I.With this in mind writers, Grant and Naylor, showed their desire to return to this story element with another sci-fi heavy story.