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Post by sherlock on Oct 8, 2020 12:02:08 GMT
As requested by @wolfie53 here’s a start on a timeline of the Moon (both of them). Mainly thanks for the TARDIS Wiki list of appearances, this includes everything from Dalek Annuals, to Big Finish audios, to DWM comics and even a John and Gillian comic predicting the Moon Landing in 1970.
The Moon (I): Prehistoric: The Beginning 1872: The First Sontarans 1878: Imperial Moon 1963: The Space Race 1969: Day of the Moon-Blue Moon 1970: Moon Landing 20th Century: The Doctor and the Nurse 20th Century: The Disintegrator 20th Century: Lords of the Ether 2003: Eternity Weeps 2003: The Quantum Archangel 2008: Smith and Jones 2010: Apollo 23 2010: The Darksmith Legacy: The Dust of Ages 2025: Energy of the Daleks 2025: Horror of the Space Snakes 21st Century: The Beginning 2039: The Lunar Tyk 2040: Outsourcing 2044 [Alternate Timeline]: The Architects of History 2049: Kill the Moon
The Moon (II): 2068: The Indestructible Man 2070: The Moonbase 21st Century: The Seeds of Death 2094: Growing Higher 24th Century: Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor 2400: Invasion of the Daleks 2409: Battle for the Moon 2540: Frontier in Space 5123: Let’s Kill Hitler 52nd Century: Closing Time 53rd Century: Wormwood Far Future: The Child of Time Far Future: The Phantom Piper Far Future: The Gathering Far Future: The Reaping
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2020 21:44:26 GMT
I just got a notification that said something to the effect of: "You've been tagged on the Moon," which I really appreciate. Funny, isn't it? It's not as many stories as I'd have thought it to be.
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Post by sherlock on Oct 8, 2020 22:32:45 GMT
I just got a notification that said something to the effect of: "You've been tagged on the Moon," which I really appreciate. Funny, isn't it? It's not as many stories as I'd have thought it to be. Yeah it is odd how few stories focus on it. Same goes for the rest of the Solar System, it’s quite uncommon for stories to involve likes of Venus, Mercury, Saturn, Pluto etc. I was quite surprised there were only two stories involving the first Moon Landing (well three if you count the one year off prediction in that John and Gillian comic). Thought that would be something of a magnet for writers.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2020 23:00:43 GMT
I just got a notification that said something to the effect of: "You've been tagged on the Moon," which I really appreciate. Funny, isn't it? It's not as many stories as I'd have thought it to be. Yeah it is odd how few stories focus on it. Same goes for the rest of the Solar System, it’s quite uncommon for stories to involve likes of Venus, Mercury, Saturn, Pluto etc. I was quite surprised there were only two stories involving the first Moon Landing (well three if you count the one year off prediction in that John and Gillian comic). Thought that would be something of a magnet for writers. I wonder if it's one of those Mandela Effect moments? It certainly feels like there's more stories in Earth's solar system than there actually are. Take Venus, for example. It's a planet of brass skies and sulphur mists. Home to ancient cultures that practiced pentapedal aikido, ate the brain tissue of their dead as a funeral practice, and built wooden rockets alongside metal seas and petroleum forests. A place where the Daleks invaded not so long before Benny's time, hoping to outflank the Earth. That, at one stage, became the home of IntraVenus Inc. An organisation that found the Doctor such a nuisance that Frobisher was one of the many figures out bounty hunting him. It's got a pretty good history, but all that comes from only a dozen stories at the very most. We tend to hear about our nearest neighbours, Mars and Venus, by proxy. Through the Ice Warriors or the Doctor.
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Post by J.A. Prentice on Oct 9, 2020 6:26:29 GMT
If I might make a suggestion, you could also include the mention in Doctor Who and the Silurians of the Silurians going into hibernation to escape the Moon as it came into orbit. Which makes no sense with what we know of the real world, but fits perfectly with Kill the Moon. Not sure on the precise dating. Does it conflict with The Beginning?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2020 6:41:46 GMT
If I might make a suggestion, you could also include the mention in Doctor Who and the Silurians of the Silurians going into hibernation to escape the Moon as it came into orbit. Which makes no sense with what we know of the real world, but fits perfectly with Kill the Moon. Not sure on the precise dating. Does it conflict with The Beginning? Nah, no conflict I think. From memory, double-checking with the wikia, the Doctor and Susan miss the Silurian civilisation by forty, nearly fifty centuries. There are no concrete dates there, so it'd be easy to fudge. The idea of the Moon coming into orbit fits with that lovely little hypothesis circa 50s/60s that suns could spit out solid components of themselves on flares. Super-cooling in the vacuum of space to become rogue planetoids and worlds. I don't think it's particularly accurate given what we now understand about how our local star works, but a nice, imaginative idea for the origins of several intergalactic phenomena all the same.
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