The Steggosians, “a particularly nasty race of fascist dinosaur people”, were all but wiped out by a plague that destroyed their immune systems. One patrol survived, its Captain driven mad by the death of his people. He would later encounter the Doctor in London. [683]
1988 (22nd-23rd November) - Silver Nemesis [684]
Thousands of Cyber-Warships massed in the solar system. A scouting party tried to recover the Validium asteroid, which had been launched from Earth two hundred and fifty years before. They wanted its power to make Earth into “New Mondas”. The seventh Doctor and Ace kept the statue from falling into the hands of the Cybermen, the Lady Peinforte (a sorceress from 1638), and a group of Nazis hoping to create a new Reich. The villains all died in the process.
By the end of the Reagan administration, the US military had built Station Nine. This was a Top Secret satellite - so secret, in fact, that no President after Reagan would be told about it. Station Nine quietly remained in orbit, ready to fire intercepting Nuke Killer missiles that would nullify an oncoming nuclear attack. [685]
An unmanned lander sent from Earth to Mars recovered Martian DNA. Webster Corporation combined it with human DNA in the hopes of creating augmented soldiers, and the young Tanya Webster was born with Martian DNA in her system. Webster began developing a manned mission to Mars, hoping to recover more Martian DNA or a live Martian. [686] Sarah Jane Smith interviewed novelist Gregory P. Wilkinson for Metropolitan magazine. [687]
Amelia Jessica Pond, a companion of the eleventh Doctor, was born in 1989 to Augustus and Tabitha Pond. [688]
Melanie Bush joined the sixth Doctor after helping him prevent the Master and the Usurians taking over the world in 1989. She had recently turned down a job at I2, but accepted one at Ashley Chapel Logistics. [689]
1989 (mid June) - Business Unusual [690]
The sixth Doctor thwarted an attempt by the Master and his Usurian partners to devastate America’s economy, but required a native computer expert to fully purge the conspirators’ illicit programming. This led to the Doctor meeting computer programmer Melanie Bush, and she helped him erase the Master’s programs.
Martyn Townsend, the former director of the Vault, was now the Managing Director of SeneNet. The company officially specialised in computer game consoles, but fronted Townsend’s ambitions to use Nestene technology to conquer Earth. Lacking the components to maintain his cybernetic body, Townsend kidnapped the telepathic Trey Korte in the hopes of mentally transferring his intelligence into a prosthetic form.
The Doctor’s intervention resulted in SeneNet’s destruction. Townsend died when falling rubble crushed him. The Auton-augmented twins Cellian and Ciara foreswore allegiance to Townsend and escaped. Melanie stowed away on the TARDIS and took up travelling with the Doctor.
The Brigadier, investigating SeneNet, met the sixth Doctor for the first time.
= In an alternate universe where Rome never fell, the sixth Doctor lost his New World companion Brown Perpugilliam, and an eye, to the warlord Dominicus. He visited the scientist Praetor Linus to repair the TARDIS image translator, and took the slave Melina into his service. [691]
The sixth Doctor left Evelyn on Earth, and asked her to monitor the pseudo-Auton twins Cellian and Ciara for him. Evelyn came to discover that the Doctor had erroneously dropped her off in the late 1980s, meaning that her younger self was still teaching at Nottingham. She kept a low profile, fearful that she might run into herself, but used her foreknowledge to earn some money winning contests and betting pools. [692]
In 1989, the Ritz dance hall in Cardiff ceased operation. [693] The sixth Doctor planted a mattress in Perivale - he’d later land on it while confronting the Master... [694]
c 1989 (Sunday) - Survival [695]
In a relatively short span of time, several residents in Perivale vanished without trace, abducted by the Cheetah People. Their planet was dying, and they were preparing to move on to new feeding grounds. The Master was trapped on the planet, and lured the seventh Doctor and Ace there to aid in his escape. As the Doctor and the Master fought, the Cheetah People vanished. The Master also disappeared.
As the Cheetah Planet exploded, the Master went back to Earth. A surfeit of artron energy in the atmosphere diverted him to 1957. [696]
The Star Jumpers, a band including Johnny Chess, were a success. They made the albums Circle Circus, Modernism, Can Anyone Tell Me Where the Revolution Is?, and one other before splitting. InterCom were working on a means of splicing alien DNA into humans to create a slave race. UNIT operatives Geoff Paynter and Paul Foxton infiltrated Black Star terrorists based in Baghdad, but Foxton was killed. [697] The science-fiction series Professor X was cancelled after more than twenty-five years on TV. Dave Young, Anji Kapoor’s future boyfriend, played a Cybertron in one of the last episodes. [698]
1989 (summer) to 1990 (August) - “Business as Usual” [699]
Winston Blunt discovered some strange meteorites. Overnight, the former plumber became a wealthy plastics magnate and set up Galaxy Plastics, but he killed himself after handing over the business to a Mr Dolman. A year later, a rival company sent Max Fischer to investigate Galaxy Plastics, and he discovered that the Autons were running it. Dolman accidentally set off an explosion while trying to kill Fischer - who escaped, pursued by living toy soldiers. Dolman was damaged but murdered Fischer, and a replica of Fischer went on to open Stellar Plastics.
1989 (October) - Crime of the Century [700]
The Polyglot 7 (third release), one of the worst translation devices in the galaxy, was recalled. It was, however, equipped to translate Dolphin, as they were one of the few sentient species on planet Earth.
The seventh Doctor read the diary of Raine Creevy, who had become an accomplished cat burglar, and so was waiting inside a safe as she opened it. The two of them joined Ace in Kafiristan, where Russian operatives acting against the Kafiristan government had procured the services of the Metatraxi: a proud warrior race that insisted on fighting with only the same weapons as their opponents. Prince Sayf Udeen of Kafiristan - a multiple Olympic competitor with seven wives - was one of the greatest swordsmen in the world, and the Doctor was relying upon him to defeat the Metatraxi leader in single combat. Udeen died in a skirmish, and so Ace bested the Metatraxi leader instead - but the victory didn’t count because she was female. Raine directed the Metatraxi to destroy a number of robots built by the Margrave University Cybernetics Research Unit. This completed the Metatraxi’s contract, enabling them to withdraw - but not before the Doctor had set their translator to “surfer dude” mode. The Doctor secured alien technology that the Russians had been testing amidst this conflict, and left with Ace and Raine to investigate Margrave.
@ 1989 (November) - Father Time [701]
The eighth Doctor made Time magazine’s list of Top Fifty People of the Decade. He had spent a great deal of his time searching the world for Miranda, and was living with Debbie Castle. He was present at - and possibly responsible for - the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Ferran returned from the future aboard his ship, the Supremacy, and abducted Miranda from a hotel in India. Seeing this on television, the Doctor and Debbie went to Florida and stowed aboard the space shuttle Atlantis. The shuttle docked the Supremacy and Debbie was killed. Miranda had started a mutiny, and Ferran decided to destroy the ship rather than let it fall to his enemies. The Doctor and Miranda teamed up to shut down the Supremacy’s time engines. Miranda took control of the ship and declared herself Empress, heading back to the far, far future to end the intergalactic conflict.
The Nineties
The Doctor went to a Barry Manilow concert in 1990. [702]
In the early 1990s, there were a string of privatisations: the electricity industry became Elec-Gen, and British Rail became BritTrack. In August 1991, information about the Russian Coup reached the West via the Internet. [703]
Sometime after the Soviet Union’s fall, the Doctor assisted Yablokov, the Russian President’s counsellor, in accounting for t
he Soviets’ inventory of nuclear weapons. They proved unable to account for eighty four such devices. [704] Anji left home at 17, as her family had an outdated view of women. [705] The Mandragora Helix was due to return to Earth in the early 1990s. [706]
The Brigadier’s grandson, Gordon James Lethbridge-Stewart, was born. Kate Lethbridge-Stewart split up from Gordon’s father, Jonathan, when Gordon was two. She didn’t speak to the Brigadier for six years; thus, the Brigadier didn’t know about his grandson until Gordon was five. [707]
When Owen Harper turned ten, his mother spent the whole day screaming that her loving him didn’t mean that she had to like him. [708]
The Doctor had tea and scones with Queen Elizabeth II. [709] He also had a regrettable incident involving a piece of “vomit fruit” and the Queen Mother. [710]
Irving Braxiatel offered Ronan McGinley, a highly mundane office worker, a blissful and rewarding summer in exchange for McGinley doing a service for him. McGinley agreed, and was taken through time to the Braxiatel Collection. [711]
c 1990 - “Train-Flight” [712]
The seventh Doctor visited Sarah Jane to invite her to a jazz concert. She refused to travel via TARDIS, so they went on a train... that mysteriously entered a space vortex. The Doctor and Sarah discovered a fleet of buses - the passengers of which had been dissolved - and learned they were in orbit on a Kalik organic ship. The Kaliks were an advanced race of insects that were usually vegetarian, but this was a renegade, carnivorous faction. The Doctor manipulated the hypnotic signal that the Kalik used to control humans to control them instead. He then beamed the train to Royal Albert Hall station... but as there’s no such station, the train materialised in the middle of the street. The Doctor and Sarah sneaked away.
c 1990 (Sunday) - Cat’s Cradle: Time’s Crucible [713]
The seventh Doctor and Ace were summoned back to the TARDIS after eating baked Alaska on Ealing Broadway.
c 1991 - “Seaside Rendezvous” [714]
The seventh Doctor and Ace enjoyed a day at the seaside, but the “demon” from the wreck of the Camara, lost in 1826, emerged from the sea. The creature was actually a life-draining Ogri, which had been worn down into sand, but the Doctor destroyed it with a firehose.
In early 1991, Jack Harkness helped to relocate the Juniper Tree and its progeny, Sebastian, to the village of Rawbone - the people of which had been rendered sterile. Sebastian and his handler, Elena Hilda Al-Qatari, produced more Juniper Tree children - the Scions - who were given to various Rawbone families. The government’s knowledge of the Juniper Tree project was lost in a paperwork shuffle. [715]
In the summer of 1991, the seventh Doctor hid a portable temporal link in St Christopher’s Church, Cheldon Bonniface, while brass rubbing with Mel. [716]
Jenny, a traffic warden, became a companion of Iris Wildthyme after trying to issue a ticket to Iris’ bus, which was on a side street in Sunderland in 1991. They wound up travelling together for four years, although Jenny got the runs every time Iris’ bus went through the Vortex. [717]
Soviet intelligence agents in Uzbekistan built the fake town of Thorington on an island in the Aral Sea. Thorington was patterned after a village in Suffolk, and served as a “school for spies”. In time, the Soviets populated Thorington with Autons derived from technology obtained from Nestene meteorite landings. The Autons were to be trained to function as bulletproof spies in the United Kingdom. When Uzbekistan ceased being part of the Soviet Union on 1st September, 1991, all support was cut off to Thorington. The Autons there stuck to their daily routines for seventeen years, oblivious to their true nature. [718]
Maria’s father Alan Jackson was such a great skateboarder, he earned the nickname “King of the Concrete, Romford, 1992”. [719] Eugene Jones’ teacher gave him a bona-fide alien eyeball. It was a Dogon sixth eye, capable of - temporally speaking - aiding people in seeing “what was behind them”. [720] UNIT researchers began examining remnants of previous alien incursions at a research facility called The Warehouse. [721]
Amy Pond developed a love of Raspberry Ripple with extra sprinkles when she was three years old. [722] Lucie Miller had a “thing” about jelly after an unfortunate incident at a children’s party in 1992. [723]
c 1992 (early summer) - Cat’s Cradle: Witch Mark [724]
The daytime sun around the mystical world of Tír na n-Óg - Dagda’s Wheel - was dying, and the humans there were evacuating to Earth through a gateway in the village of Llanfer Ceiriog, Wales. The nonhumanoids were being left behind to perish, and so demons attacked the Tír na n-Óg town of Dinorben. The demons mortally wounded Tír na n-Óg’s creator, Goibhnie, but he aided the seventh Doctor and Ace in transferring the demons into Dagda’s Wheel, giving it two thousand years of fuel.
The Spotter claimed that the President of the United States had taken to bathing in cranberry sauce.
1992 - “Invaders from Gantac” [725]
The seventh Doctor saved the tramp Leapy from alien police in London. Some time previously, the Gantacs had invaded Earth, destroyed London landmarks and declared a curfew. They were a hive mind species from two hundred thousand light years away, but had made an administrative mistake - they should have invaded the planet Wrouth, not Earth. Leapy’s fleas infected the Gantac leader, who died. Without his control, the Gantacs died with him.
1992 (Christmas) - Timewyrm: Revelation [726]
The seventh Doctor and Ace found themselves in a perfect replica of Cheldon Bonniface that was built on the moon (although not before Ace had died of oxygen starvation). The Doctor and Ace entered a surreal, tortured landscape that they discovered was the Doctor’s own mind. Ace managed to rally the Doctor’s former incarnations, and they gave the Doctor the strength to defeat the Timewyrm. The Timewyrm’s mind was placed in a mindless baby grown in a genetics laboratory. The Hutchings family raised the baby as their daughter, Ishtar.
Circa 1993, Major Dickens and three scientific-minded colleagues, including the physics theorist J.J. Bartholomew, started gathering on Gravonax Island to conduct various experiments. [727]
Sarah Jane Smith’s friend Rani Chandra was born to Haresh and Gita Chandra between 20th March and 20th April, 1993. [728] In 1993, Ace’s father had a heart attack. He told his son Liam about Ace, but Liam failed to reconcile with his mother while searching for his missing sister. Liam returned home to find his father dead. [729]
1993 (8th May) - Touched by an Angel [730]
The eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory took Mark Whitaker, age 46, through time to have a final conversation with his late wife, Rebecca Coles, when she was a young woman. Mark’s time differential shorted out, reversing the aging he’d experienced from time travelling - physically, he reverted to being 37. The Doctor and his friends took Mark back to 2011, but only after the Doctor spilled red wine on the contemporary Mark’s T-Shirt - causing him and Rebecca to meet for the first time.
= 1993 - Blood Heat [731]
In an alternative timestream, the Silurian plague released at Wenley Moor in the early nineteen-seventies wiped out most of humanity. The third Doctor was killed before he could discover the antidote. Over the next twenty years, the Silurians initiated massive climatic change, rendering the plant life inedible to humanity and altering coastlines. Dinosaur species from many different eras were reintroduced to the wild. The capital of Earth became Ophidian, a vast city in Africa. Some Silurians hunted down humans for sport.
This timeline was created by the Monk, and deactivated by the seventh Doctor. It would survive for a generation or so after this before winding down.
The seventh Doctor, Benny and Ace visited the 1993 Glastonbury Festival, and met Danny Pain, a former singer for the punk bank Plasticine, and his daughter Amy. [732] Jason Kane’s father, Peter Jonathan Kane, physically abused his children. When Jason’s sister Lucy was about six, Peter punished her for touching herself in a “bad place” - and broke three of her fingers, one per day over the school holidays, with a mallet. [733]
1993
(31st October) - The Left-Handed Hummingbird [734]
The so-called Halloween Man opened fire on a crowd of unsuspecting people in a marketplace in Mexico City. Cristian Alvarez witnessed this, narrowly avoiding death himself.
(=) The Halloween Man opened fire on a crowd of unsuspecting people in a marketplace in Mexico City. Cristian Alvarez witnessed this, narrowly avoiding death himself. The evidence suggested an alien presence - the Blue, also known as the psychic being Huitzilin. On 12th December, Alvarez sent a note for the Doctor’s attention to UNIT HQ in Geneva.
The seventh Doctor investigated early the next year. In his own timeline, this was before “the Happening” of late 1968, early 1969. Huitzilin killed Christian, but the Doctor’s actions erased this from history.
= 1993 (2nd November) - Conundrum [735]
As part of his revenge against the seventh Doctor, the Monk trapped the TARDIS in the fictional village of Arandale, which was populated by colourful characters. It was part of the Land of Fiction, and the Doctor wrote himself out of the trap.
1993 (18th November) - The Dimension Riders [736]
The President of St Matthew’s College, Oxford - actually a Time Lord named Epsilon Delta - plotted with the Garvond, a creature composed of the darker sides of the minds within the Gallifreyan Matrix. They sought to create a Time Focus - a bridge through time between student Tom Cheynor and his future descendant, Darius Cheynor - that would let the Garvond absorb a massive amount of chronal energy. The Garvond turned on the President and killed him. The seventh Doctor trapped the Garvond within the dimensionally transcendental text The Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey, then disposed of the book in a pocket dimension.
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