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|image = K and TARDIS.jpg | |image = K and TARDIS.jpg | ||
|series = [[Doctor Who Annual 2010]] | |series = [[Doctor Who Annual 2010]] | ||
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|enemy = [[K (Ground Control)|K]] | |enemy = [[K (Ground Control)|K]] | ||
|setting = [[Planet (Ground Control)|Unnamed planet]], [[6558]] | |setting = [[Planet (Ground Control)|Unnamed planet]], [[6558]] | ||
|writer = | |writer = Jonathan L. Davis | ||
|artist = [[Kelly Yates]] | |artist = [[Kelly Yates]] | ||
|editor = [[Denton J. Tipton]] | |editor = [[Denton J. Tipton]] | ||
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|letterer = [[Robbie Robbins]] and [[Neil Uyetake]] | |letterer = [[Robbie Robbins]] and [[Neil Uyetake]] | ||
|publication = [[Doctor Who Annual 2010]] | |publication = [[Doctor Who Annual 2010]] | ||
|release date = | |release date = 14 July 2010 | ||
|publisher = | |publisher = | ||
|format = Comic | |format = Comic | ||
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* [[Cobalite]] | * [[Cobalite]] | ||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* When questioned as to why he's in a rush, the Doctor thinks of several of his enemies: [[Judoon]], [[Weeping Angel]]s, [[Clockwork Droid]]s, [[Vashta Nerada]], [[Slitheen family|Slitheen]], [[Sontaran]]s and [[Animated scarecrow (Human Nature)|animated scarecrows]]. | * When questioned as to why he's in a rush, the Doctor thinks of several of his enemies: [[Judoon]], [[Weeping Angel]]s, [[Clockwork Droid]]s, [[Vashta Nerada]], [[Slitheen family|Slitheen]], [[Sontaran]]s and [[Animated scarecrow (Human Nature)|animated scarecrows]]. | ||
* K once met a [[Single-cell organism (Ground Control)|single-cell organism]] who claimed he could fly a [[galactic]] [[cruise ship]]. [[Grass planet (Ground Control)|A planet]] full of the [[Species (Ground Control)|same species]] was shown. | * K once met a [[Single-cell organism (Ground Control)|single-cell organism]] who claimed he could fly a [[galactic]] [[cruise ship]]. [[Grass planet (Ground Control)|A planet]] full of the [[Species (Ground Control)|same species]] was shown. | ||
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[[Category:Tenth Doctor comic stories]] | [[Category:Tenth Doctor comic stories]] | ||
[[Category:IDW comic stories]] | [[Category:IDW Doctor Who Annual comic stories]] | ||
[[Category:2010 comic stories]] | [[Category:2010 comic stories]] | ||
[[Category:Stories set in 6558]] | [[Category:Stories set in 6558]] | ||
Latest revision as of 22:22, 1 March 2024
Ground Control was the first story in the Doctor Who Annual 2010.
Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
Somewhere in the time stream, a panda-like creature is floating.
Somewhere else, the Tenth Doctor is in the TARDIS, which is being taken somewhere. He hears a knock on the door, and walks out to see a man, who introduces himself as Mister K. He grounds the TARDIS on a space station. He tells the Doctor that it's the year 6558, and they are 40 "clicks" away from the Antarean third moon.
K asks the Doctor if the TARDIS is a weapon. Walking into an office, he displays footage on a screen of Donna and the Doctor being chased by Cobalites. A Cobalite grabs onto the TARDIS as it dematerialises, and is thrown into the time stream.
K shows footage of the Doctor regenerating, and tells him that his regeneration destroyed Section 4594A. He then shows some footage of green mist from Orion's Belt putting the Doctor to sleep, but leaving Martha Jones to pilot the TARDIS. It lands on a planet full of single-cell organisms, before crashing onto an Earth-like planet. K reveals that on this planet, humans grow from plants, and the TARDIS crashing destroyed some unborn plants. He asks again if the TARDIS is a weapon.
He threatens to confiscate it, but the Doctor activates his sonic screwdriver, revealing the space station to be an illusion - they're actually on an empty planet. The Doctor says he knew all along that K was distracting him to steal energy from the TARDIS, and that all the footage aside from the Cobalite encounter was fabricated. The Doctor escapes in the TARDIS, leaving K on the planet.
Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Tenth Doctor
- K
- Donna Noble
- Martha Jones (fabricated)
- Single-cell organism
- Cobalite
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- When questioned as to why he's in a rush, the Doctor thinks of several of his enemies: Judoon, Weeping Angels, Clockwork Droids, Vashta Nerada, Slitheen, Sontarans and animated scarecrows.
- K once met a single-cell organism who claimed he could fly a galactic cruise ship. A planet full of the same species was shown.
- K mentions Section 4594A and a planet where humans grow from plants.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Similarly to Journey's End, this story explores the Doctor's misdeeds throughout the cosmos.
- In a sense he is also on trial, as his sixth incarnation was. As with The Trial of a Time Lord, footage of the Doctor's prior adventures are viewed and analysed. The trial tries to answer the question "is the TARDIS a weapon?"
- Further references are made to the Doctor's link with the TARDIS as he uncovers that he is being ticked. Again like Trial, the majority of the evidence is revealed as fabrication.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- When a Cobalite grabbed the TARDIS, it dematerialised with him. (TV: Utopia, The Time of the Doctor)
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