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| {{Infobox Location | | {{You may|Vulcan (The Power of the Daleks)|n1=the human colony|Vulcan (species)|n2=the species from the Federation universe}} |
| |name = Vulcan | | '''Vulcan''' was a [[planet]] that was an exhibit in the [[Museum of Things That Don't Exist]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Taking of Planet 5]]'') |
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| |location = [[Mutter's Spiral]]
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| |only = The Power of the Daleks (TV story)
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| {{You may|Vulcan (god)|n1=the god|Vulcan (species)|n2=the species from the Federation universe}}
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| '''Vulcan''' was a [[planet]] which supported a [[human]] colony. | |
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| == Overview ==
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| Vulcan was roughly twelve parsecs away from any other colony. The atmosphere was breathable by humans. It had very little [[radiation]] and the average temperature was 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees F). It was a young, volcanic world, with nutrient-rich soil, but with no native life. It had [[mercury swamp|pools]] of fuming [[mercury (element)|mercury]]. Vulcan's day was several hours shorter than [[Earth]]'s.
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| == History ==
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| Vulcan was colonised after humans discovered the mineral riches of the planet. It was the third such colony. The human colony was almost taken over by [[Dalek]]s, who had been found in a crashed spacecraft underground and then reactivated by a scientist called [[Lesterson]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Power of the Daleks (TV story)|The Power of the Daleks]]'')
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| The [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Elizabeth Klein]] visited the mercury swamps of Vulcan prior to their arrival on the [[Vrill]] colony. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Survival of the Fittest (audio story)|Survival of the Fittest]]'')
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| == Other information ==
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| Coincidentally, the name Vulcan was also given the home planet of [[Spock]] in the ''[[Star Trek]]'' television series, as indicated by [[Donna Noble]]'s comparing of the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s attempt to read a possessed Nazi soldier's mind with something a Vulcan (namely Spock) would do. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Nemonite Invasion (audio story)|The Nemonite Invasion]]'')
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| On one occasion, the [[Eleventh Doctor]] recalled memories of his [[Fourth Doctor|fourth incarnation]] meeting up with Spock and the command crew of the [[USS Enterprise|USS ''Enterprise'']] to combat a [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cyberman]] invasion of [[Aprilia III]] in a [[Federation universe|parallel universe]] in the [[23rd century]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Assimilation² (comic story)|Assimilation²]]'')
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| == Behind the scenes == | | == Behind the scenes == |
| * Scientists of the [[19th century|19th]] and [[20th century|20th centuries]] hypothesised the existence of a [[planet]] between the orbit of [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]] and [[Sol]], and sometimes referred to that planet as Vulcan. This {{w|Vulcan (hypothetical planet)|theory}} has since been discredited. [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)|The Taking of Planet 5]]'' makes reference to this. | | * Scientists of the [[19th century|19th]] and [[20th century|20th centuries]] hypothesised the existence of a [[planet]] between the orbit of [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]] and [[Sol]], and sometimes referred to that planet as Vulcan. This theory has since been discredited. The Vulcan in ''[[The Taking of Planet 5]]'' is a reference to this. |
| * As noted above, the ''[[Star Trek]]'' character {{w|Spock}} came from the fictional planet {{w|Vulcan (Star Trek planet)|Vulcan}}. ''Star Trek'' only just beat ''Doctor Who'' in introducing the concept of an alien world called Vulcan by a few weeks, as it debuted not quite two months before ''Power of the Daleks'' aired. The two shows seem to have selected the name independently.
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| {{Wikipediainfo|Vulcan (hypothetical planet)}} | | {{Wikipediainfo|Vulcan (hypothetical planet)}} |
| [[Category:Mutter's Spiral planets]]
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