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* The Doctor refuses to allow Emily to take possession of [[Jack Harkness]]' [[sonic blaster]] as he says it is reserved for "someone else" ([[River Song]]; [[DW]]: ''[[Silence in the Library]]''/''[[Forest of the Dead]]'').
* The Doctor refuses to allow Emily to take possession of [[Jack Harkness]]' [[sonic blaster]] as he says it is reserved for "someone else" ([[River Song]]; [[DW]]: ''[[Silence in the Library]]''/''[[Forest of the Dead]]'').
* The [[Cloister Bell]] sounds.
* The [[Cloister Bell]] sounds.
* The Doctor refers to an alarm clock as "Mickey" - a reference to [[wikipedia:Mickey Mouse|Mickey Mouse]].
* One of the two watches the Doctor offers his companions is a [[wikipedia:Mickey Mouse|Mickey Mouse]] watch (Emily takes this one).
* Emily arms herself with the [[Fifth Doctor]]'s cricket bat.
* Emily arms herself with the [[Fifth Doctor]]'s cricket bat.
* The Doctor's wind-up mouse ([[DW]]: ''[[The Doctor's Daughter]]'') is used and is mistaken for [[K-9]] by the Acari.
* The Doctor's wind-up mouse ([[DW]]: ''[[The Doctor's Daughter]]'') is used and is mistaken for [[K-9]] by the Acari.

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Tesseract is the third story arc in the Doctor Who Ongoing series. It is divided into two chapters: Time Smash and Implosion.

Summary

While the Doctor gives his new companions, Emily Winter and Matthew Finnegan, a tour of the TARDIS, the vessel is invaded by a number of dimension-hopping aliens.

Characters

References

Notes

  • The story takes place almost entirely within the bowels of the TARDIS. Only a handful of stories have explored the interior of the TARDIS, including DW: The Invasion of Time, DW: Castrovalva, and DWM: Changes. Invasion of Time is referenced in Part 2 when the Doctor revisits the swimming pool area last seen in that story.

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Continuity

The TARDIS

  • The Doctor describes the TARDIS as "a box of cubes" with each cube shuffling around if the box is shaken.
  • There are apparently many console rooms in the TARDIS. (Possibly contradicting the "desktop theme" comment in DW: Time Crash, or perhaps a simple reference to there being auxiliary control rooms such as the one introduced in DW: The Masque of Mandragora.)
  • Some aspects of the interior remain as it looked in the classic series, including white rooms with roundels, a garden (DW: Logopolis), industrial-looking corridors (DW: The Invasion of Time), and a cathedral-like room (DW: Doctor Who TV movie). Of this last, the Doctor acknowledges that he hasn't been in that room for awhile.
  • In addition, Adric's room still exists within the TARDIS.

Other

  • Martha has recently married and is still with UNIT.

Timeline

  • Tesseract occurs soon after: IDW: Fugitive (possibly immediately after as Emily changes out of her 1920s dress in part 1), and at some point after the events of DW: Planet of the Dead as the Doctor references Lady Christina.
  • The reference to Jack's sonic blaster and the veiled reference to River Song indicates that the Doctor hasn't yet met her (at the time this story was published it was unknown when the Doctor first met River (from River's perspective).

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