Somewhere along the line he'd made a major mistake
Why else would he find himself on a prison ship bound for Cyberia, the most inhospitable penal colony in Deep Space - sentenced to eighteen years Hard Thought?

Dave Lister - the Last Human

The future of the species is in the hands of one man. And all he has to help him are his wits, his cunning, and a two-page girdle section from a mail-order catalogue.