Citation Needed (short story)

Citation Needed
Main character(s):	Encyclopedia Gallifreya
Featuring:	Thirteenth Doctor, Yasmin Khan, Ryan Sinclair, Graham O'Brien
Main enemy:	Tzim-Sha, Ux
Main setting:	The Doctor's TARDIS
Key crew
Writer:	Jacqueline Rayner
Release details
Part of:	The Target Storybook
Release date:	24 October 2019
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Citation Needed was the thirteenth short story in The Target Storybook.

Publisher's summary

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Plot

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Characters

• Encyclopaedia Gallifreya
• Thirteenth Doctor
• Yasmin Khan
• Ryan Sinclair
• Graham O'Brien
• Eleventh Doctor
• Twelfth Doctor
• Clara Oswald

Worldbuilding

Planets

• The Thirteenth Doctor and friends visit Pfiig for a picnic.

Creatures

• Tigerowls can be found on Pfiig.
• Cats eat birds.
• Owls eat smaller mammals.

Popular culture

• The Doctor has seen Frozen 387 times by their eleventh incarnation.
• There exists an audio file of the Doctor singing Snooker Loopy.
• The Three Little Pigs is about three pigs who are tormented by a bad wolf. There are at least three iterations of the story.

Food and beverages

• The Encyclopaedia Gallifreya mentions sandwiches and sausage rolls.
• The Thirteenth Doctor and her friends bring scotch eggs, and crisps in salt 'n' vinegar, cheese and onion, and possibly smoky bacon flavours, to their picnic.
• Graham remembers a drink he loved as a child, which was orange and bubbly and in a glass bottle.

Notes

• The story drops a reference to Winnie Clarence, a splinter of Clara Oswald who appeared only in the Doctor Who Magazine comic story Blood and Ice, also written by Rayner.

Continuity

• The Encyclopaedia Gallifreya records information on the following:
  • "A million" cross-references for OSWALD, CLARA, including OSWALD, OSWIN (TV: Asylum of the Daleks) and CLARENCE, OSWIN; (COMIC: Blood and Ice)
  • The Eleventh Doctor's regeneration; (TV: The Time of the Doctor)
  • The Moon turning out to be a giant egg; (TV: Kill the Moon)
    • A Time Lord reports that this entry is "fake news", but the Encyclopaedia discounts this report because the Time Lord in question has a history of lying and pretending to be such things as a vicar, (TV: The Dæmons) an adjudicator, (TV: Colony in Space) a sorceror, (TV: Time-Flight) a French magician, (TV: The King's Demons) a scarecrow, (TV: The Mark of the Rani) a paramedic, (TV: Doctor Who) and a Prime Minister. (TV: The Sound of Drums)
  • The Twelfth Doctor repeatedly dying for four and a half billion years inside the confession dial; (TV: Heaven Sent, Hell Bent)
  • The Twelfth Doctor's regeneration; (TV: Twice Upon a Time)
  • The Thirteenth Doctor's taking on of Ryan Sinclair, Yasmin Khan, and Graham O'Brien as her companions, and their encounter with Tzim-Sha; (TV: The Woman Who Fell to Earth)
  • The Thirteenth Doctor's travels to Desolation (TV: The Ghost Monument) and to the American South. (TV: Rosa)
• It also indicates a "numerical confusion" regarding a Metacrisis Doctor. (TV: The Time of the Doctor; Journey's End)
• It gets bored while continually downloading the Question from Trenzalore. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)
• A Cocktail Corsair is two parts Poosh liqueur, (TV: Midnight) one part Refusian rum, (TV: The Ark) dash of Argolin bitters, (TV: The Leisure Hive) two drops Varga juice, (TV: Mission to the Unknown) top with Florana water (TV: Invasion of the Dinosaurs) and a Manussan cherry. (TV: Snakedance)
• Deeondradar was a Time Lord of the Patrexes (TV: The Deadly Assassin) who was loomed. (PROSE: Lungbarrow)
• Tzim-Sha attempts to breach the Encyclopaedia with the Ux. (TV: The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos)