B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (282 page)

[
277
]
Memory Lane

[
278
]
Heart of Stone
(p79)

[
279
] Dating
Legend of the Cybermen
(BF #135) - Zoe is clearly older, in contrast to her fictional self in the Land looking the same age as when she travelled with the Doctor. It seems reasonable to assume that from Zoe’s perspective, the same number of years have passed since
The War Games
as have occurred since that story’s broadcast in 1969 and the release of
Legend of the Cybermen
in 2010.
The Laird of McCrimmon
, an unmade TV story, is here cited as an adventure that Zoe invented in her capacity as the Land’s Mistress.

[
280
] Dating
Echoes of Grey, The Memory Cheats
and
The Uncertainty Principle
(BF CC #5.2, 6.3, 7.2) - In
Echoes of Grey
, the Doctor tells the Zoe with him that they’ve arrived, “A little into your future, I think”; Ali says that the contemporary Zoe is now a “fifty year old”; and the contemporary Zoe says that she is “forty years older” than when she travelled with the Doctor. As
Echoes of Grey
saw release after (albeit by just two months)
Legend of the Cybermen
, it seems fair to assume that it happens next in line.

The Memory Cheats
follows on from
Echoes of Grey
. Jen pulls records pertaining to the 1919 visit from an archive “one hundred fifty years old”, but this would seem to be the age of the archive, not the duration of time since the Uzbekistan incident. If mention of it being “forty-seven days into cycle” in any way parallels the Gregorian calendar, then it’s 16th February.

The final paragraph of this entry, a quick summary of the (for Zoe) “present day“ scenes in
The Uncertainty Principle
, is the only material from a 2012-released story included in this edition of
Ahistory
, and was added for the sake of continuing the narrative of this storyline. A fourth audio in the series is forthcoming.

[
281
] Dating
Transit
(NA #10) - The exact date of the story is not specified. The book takes many of its themes from
The Seeds of Death
, and is set at least a generation after that story. The Transit system has been established for at least the last couple of decades and has revolutionised the world - no television stories seem to be set during this period. It is hinted that the story takes place in the twenty-second century (p134). In his “Future History Continuity”,
Transit
author Ben Aaronovitch places this story “c2109”.
GodEngine
, following the Virgin version of
Ahistory
, dated the story as “2109” (p1).
So Vile a Sin
gave the date as 2010, which would seem to be a misprint (p140).

[
282
]
GodEngine

[
283
]
Festival of Death
, possibly a reference to
Transit.

[
284
]
Deceit
says that production line warpships are being made by 2112 (p28). Suspended animation is seen in a number of New Adventures set after this time, including
Deceit
,
The Highest Science
and
Lucifer Rising
.

[
285
]
Nightmare of Eden
. This happens after
Transit
, but there’s enough time before
Nightmare of Eden
to allow Tryst to explore and for Earth to found a colony on (at least) Azure. The starship
Empress
has left from Station Nine.

[
286
]
Benny: Genius Loci

[
287
]
Cold Fusion.
The planet was named as Salomon in the synopsis, but not the book.

[
288
] The Interstellar Space Corps appears in
The Space Pirates
, the Marine Space Corps appears in
Death to the Daleks
and the Space Corps is referred to in
Nightmare of Eden.

[
289
] “Three years” after
Transit
(p260).

[
290
]
St Anthony’s Fire
(p195, p260). Urrozdinee first appeared in a short story of the same name by Mark Gatiss in Marvel’s
Doctor Who Yearbook 1994
. In that story, the city is a post-apocalyptic feudal state inhabiting the remains of EuroDisney.

[
291
]
Sword of Orion

[
292
] Centuries before
Vanishing Point.
Arbitrary date.

[
293
] Dating
Kursaal
(EDA #7) - The year isn’t stated, but Gray Corporation is mentioned in
Seeing I
(p25), establishing - given that the founder of Gray Corp is here killed - something of a lower threshold as to when
Kursaal
can take place. Interplanetary travel is used to reach Kursaal, and visitors there include an Alpha Centaurian (from
The Curse of Peladon
) and some Ogrons (
Frontier in Space
). Not only does this suggest that Saturnia Regna is located near Earth space, but it’s possible that Kursaal is a precursor to the sort of “leisure planet” trend found in such stories as
The Leisure Hive
(dated to 2290).

[
294
] The founding fathers of a planet are revered in
The Robots of Death
,
The Caves of Androzani
and the New Adventure
Parasite
. Earth colonies feature in many, many
Doctor Who
stories. The corporations’ stranglehold over the early colonies is a theme touched on in many New Adventures, especially the “Future History Cycle” which ran from
Love and War
to
Shadowmind.

[
295
] The Arcadia colony was founded “three hundred and seventy-nine” (Arcadian?) years before the events of
Deceit
(p115). It was one of the first Spinward Settlements (p16) and the planet (or at least part of it) has been terraformed (p103).

Naming Planets

The planet Arcadia is referred to in “Profits of Doom”,
Deceit, Doomsday
and
Vincent and the Doctor
; Arcadian diamonds are mentioned in
TW: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
. In each case, this could be the same planet, as could the planets called Lucifer referred to in
Lucifer Rising
and
Bad Wolf
.

The same can’t be said for “New Earth”, though - there’s a New Earth Frontier in
Vanishing Point
, a New Earth Republic in
Synthespians™
, a New Earth system in “Fire and Brimstone”, and planets called New Earth in “Dogs of Doom”,
Time of Your Life
,
The Romance of Crime
and, well,
New Earth
(seen again in
Gridlock
). From what we see of the planets, what we’re told of their locations and the dates in which they’re settled, these are
not
the same planets. It’s a natural enough name for a human colony, of course.

[
296
]
Vincent and the Doctor

[
297
]
The Infinity Race

[
298
]
The Highest Science

[
299
] The Doctor says he visited Androzani Major when “it was becoming rather developed” in
The Caves of Androzani
. In
The Power of Kroll
, we see the third moon of Delta Magna. (It is called “Delta III” in the novelisation and
Original Sin,
p21.)

The Sirius System

In
Frontier in Space,
the Master poses as a Commissioner from Sirius IV and accuses the third Doctor and Jo of landing a spaceship in an unauthorised area on Sirius III. According to Romana in
City of Death
, Sirius V is the home of the Academia Stellaris, an art gallery she rates more highly than the Louvre.
Max Warp
occurs during a time of prosperity for Sirius (probably circa 3999), when the Sirius Exhibition Station plays host to the Inter-G Cruiser Show. In
The Caves of Androzani,
Morgus is the chairman of the Sirius Conglomerate based on Androzani Major, and spectrox is found on its twin planet Androzani Minor. These two facts make Morgus the “richest man in the Five Planets”. We might infer that these are the five planets of the Sirius system, and that Androzani Major and Minor are Sirius I and II. The Doctor once had a sneg stew in a bistro on Sirius Two, according to
Island of Death
. By
The Children of Seth
, Sirius has an empire.

[
300
]
The Space Pirates

[
301
]
Lucifer Rising
(p84).

[
302
]
The Highest Science
(p102). Bubbleshake is an addictive drink akin to Bubble Shock (
SJA: Invasion of the Bane
). No overt connection has been made between the two, save that both stories were written by Gareth Roberts.

[
303
] Dating
The Rebel Flesh
/
The Almost People
(X6.4-6.5) - We’re told it’s “the twenty-second century”, but nothing more specific, and the story doesn’t have any explicit links with other adventures. We can probably conclude it is the first half of the century, as the second half entailed Earth being ravaged by the Dalek Invasion. There’s no hint of interstellar travel or mention of space colonies, and the mining workers are listening to Dusty Springfield. All in all, we can probably set it a hundred years after the story was broadcast.

[
304
] Dating
The Gemini Contagion
(BBC
DW
audiobook #12) - The year is given.

[
305
] Dating
Martha in the Mirror
(NSA #22) - No date is given. The only real clue is that the Darksmiths of Karagula (the ten-part
Darksmith Legacy
) built the Mortal Mirror, meaning that
Martha in the Mirror
cannot take place more than a century after the Darksmiths are killed. Therefore, this dating reflects the latest that the story can occur.

[
306
]
The Face-Eater
(p40).

[
307
] “Several hundred years” after Charley’s time (the 1930s), according to
Sword of Orion
.

[
308
]
GodEngine
(p73).

[
309
] Dating
Nightmare of Eden
(17.4) - Galactic Salvage and Insurance went bankrupt “twenty years ago” according to Captain Rigg, who had just read a monitor giving the date of the bankruptcy as “2096”.
In-Vision
suggested that Azure is in “West galaxy”, but this could just be a mishearing of Rigg’s (fluffed) line “you’ll never work in
this
galaxy again”. While others have disagreed with that, there is certainly no on screen justification for
The Discontinuity Guide
’s “Western galaxy”.
The TARDIS Logs
gave the date as “c.2100”,
The Doctor Who File
as “2113”.