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|main character =[[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart | |main character = [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] | ||
|setting = [[Brendon Public School]], [[1 January]] [[1990]] | |setting = [[Brendon Public School]], [[1 January]] [[1990]] | ||
|writer = | |writer = Andy Frankham-Allen | ||
|editor = | |editor = | ||
|anthology = | |anthology = The HAVOC Files (anthology) | ||
|release date = | |release date = 12 April 2016 | ||
|publisher = Candy Jar Books | |publisher = Candy Jar Books | ||
|format = | |format = | ||
|series = ''[[The HAVOC Files (anthology)|The HAVOC Files]]'' | |series = ''[[The HAVOC Files (anthology)|The HAVOC Files]]'' | ||
|next =Legacies (short story) | |next = Legacies (short story) | ||
}} | }} | ||
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a story which was original to the anthology ''[[The HAVOC Files (anthology)|The HAVOC Files]]''. It asserted that due to the Doctor's frequent visits to the [[1970s]] and [[1980s]] in his faulty TARDIS, the two decades were merged into one and 20 years of Earth history took place over the course of 10. | '''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a story which was original to the anthology ''[[The HAVOC Files (anthology)|The HAVOC Files]]''. It asserted that due to the Doctor's frequent visits to the [[1970s]] and [[1980s]] in his faulty TARDIS, the two decades were merged into one and 20 years of Earth history took place over the course of 10 — thus providing an in-universe justification for the [[UNIT dating controversy]]. | ||
== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
After a New Year's gathering in his home on the grounds of [[Brendon School]], [[Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart]] is visited by a young man called [[Albert Wilson]]. Just as the two men are about to meet, Lethbridge-Stewart finds himself in an odd place where he encounters various versions of him, from the last twenty years. Including Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart of the Fifth Operational Corps and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart of [[UNIT]]. They attempt to explain to him what is happening, but he finds it hard to follow. | After a New Year's gathering in his home on the grounds of [[Brendon School]], [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart]] is visited by a young man called [[Albert Wilson]]. Just as the two men are about to meet, Lethbridge-Stewart finds himself in an odd place where he encounters various versions of him, from the last twenty years. Including Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart of the Fifth Operational Corps and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart of [[UNIT]]. They attempt to explain to him what is happening, but he finds it hard to follow. | ||
Eventually he meets | Eventually he meets [[the Accord]], a transdimensional being who is trying to repair the damage caused to [[Earth]], to strengthen it before a forthcoming war that is going to spread all across time and space. The Accord explains that, due to [[the Doctor]]'s regular visits to Earth from [[1969]] to [[1989]] in his [[The Doctor's TARDIS|damaged TARDIS]], the timeline of Earth was disrupted, enfolding time in on itself so that twenty years occurred over a ten-year period. Nobody on Earth was aware of the problem, as they were an intricate part of it. The Accord explains that once Lethbridge-Stewart is returned home, an awareness will occur across the globe. For a brief moment everybody will recognise the discontinuities of the last twenty years. | ||
Lethbridge-Stewart is returned to Earth, and for a short time forgets where he has been. He meets Albert Wilson and learns that Albert is his son, a result of his tryst with [[Doris Lethbridge-Stewart|Doris]] back in [[Brighton]] in [[1968]]. It is only recently that Albert learned of Lethbridge-Stewart, and now that he has his own child on the way, Albert wishes Lethbridge-Stewart to be part of their lives. | Lethbridge-Stewart is returned to Earth, and for a short time forgets where he has been. He meets Albert Wilson and learns that Albert is his son, a result of his tryst with [[Doris Lethbridge-Stewart|Doris]] back in [[Brighton]] in [[1968]]. It is only recently that Albert learned of Lethbridge-Stewart, and now that he has his own child on the way, Albert wishes Lethbridge-Stewart to be part of their lives. | ||
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== Characters == | == Characters == | ||
* Brigadier [[Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart]] | * Brigadier [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart]] | ||
* Major [[William Bishop]] | * Major [[William Bishop]] | ||
* [[Albert Wilson]] | * [[Albert Wilson]] | ||
* | * [[The Accord]] | ||
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''to | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* The story says Lethbridge-Stewart left the UN in 1976, the year [[TV]]: ''[[The Seeds of Doom (TV story)|The Seeds of Doom]]'' came out: the last UNIT story to say he was still in charge. | |||
* One version of Lethbridge-Stewart dates [[TV]]: ''[[The Web of Fear (TV story)|The Web of Fear]]'' to 1975. [[Edward Travers]] said in that story that he'd met the Doctor in Tibet forty years ago, in a story [[TV]]: ''[[The Abominable Snowmen (TV story)|The Abominable Snowmen]]'' generally dated to 1935. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* This is the first appearance of Albert Wilson, the illegitimate son of Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart and [[Doris Lethbridge-Stewart|Doris]] Wilson, following their brief encounter in Brighton in 1968. He grew up believing [[George Wilson]] was his father until Doris revealed the truth shortly before the events of this story. | * This is the first appearance of Albert Wilson, the illegitimate son of Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart and [[Doris Lethbridge-Stewart|Doris]] Wilson, following their brief encounter in Brighton in 1968. He grew up believing [[George Wilson (The Scales of Injustice)|George Wilson]] was his father until Doris revealed the truth shortly before the events of this story. | ||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* One of the Lethbridge-Stewarts refers to coming from "second meeting about my retirement" in [[Geneva]] and missing the events of ''[[The Seeds of Doom (TV story)|The Seeds of Doom]]'', implicitly meaning his absence in [[TV]]: ''[[The Android Invasion (TV story)|The Android Invasion]]'' was due to the first meeting. | |||
* The [[Eighth Doctor]] had claimed responsibility to the [[UNIT dating controversy]], blaming it on [[temporal slippage]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book Two (novel)|Interference: The Hour of the Geek]]'') | * The [[Eighth Doctor]] had claimed responsibility to the [[UNIT dating controversy]], blaming it on [[temporal slippage]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book Two (novel)|Interference: The Hour of the Geek]]'') | ||
* The [[Gwanzulum]] once tried to infiltrate the [[Home-Army Fifth Operational Corps]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Planet of the Dead (comic story)|Planet of the Dead]]'') | * The [[Gwanzulum]] once tried to infiltrate the [[Home-Army Fifth Operational Corps]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Planet of the Dead (comic story)|Planet of the Dead]]'') | ||
* In [[1983]], Alistair met his younger self from [[1977]] and had his memories of encountering aliens restored. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mawdryn Undead (TV story)|Mawdryn Undead]]'') | * In [[1983]], Alistair met his younger self from [[1977]] and had his memories of encountering aliens restored. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mawdryn Undead (TV story)|Mawdryn Undead]]'') | ||
* Alistair mentions "all that business with the [[dinosaur]]s in [[1974]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Dinosaurs (TV story)|Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]'') | * The Brigadiers refer to his first kiss being with [[Jemima Barns|Jemima Fleming]], but due to the messy circumstances of it ([[PROSE]]: ''[[In His Kiss (short story)|In His Kiss]]'') they prefer to believe it was with Imelda Clarke, when they lived in [[Coleshill]]. | ||
* Due to the enfolded time, Alistair and the Brigadier remember the [[London Event]] happening in February 1969, while the Colonel remembers it from 1975; the Brigadier is retiring in [[1981]] while Alistair did it in 1976; Alistair mentions "all that business with the [[dinosaur]]s in [[1974]]", while the Brigadier remembers it in [[1979]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Dinosaurs (TV story)|Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]'') | |||
* Albert mentions that George Wilson had an older sister named [[Barbara Smith|Barbara]] who died in a car accident in [[1951]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith]]'') | * Albert mentions that George Wilson had an older sister named [[Barbara Smith|Barbara]] who died in a car accident in [[1951]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith]]'') | ||
* | * A [[dating protocol]] is established for the enfolded time. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') | ||
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