Venus

For the short story, see Venus.

Venus
Type:	Planet
Location:	Sol system
Natives:	Venusian
Appearances:	MA: Venusian Lullaby DW: Enlightenment DWM: The Shape Shifter ST: Venus DW: Partners in Crime DAN: Invasion of the Daleks

Venus (or Sol II) was the second planet from Sol.

History

Distant past

Although generally believed uninhabited and uninhabitable by the scientists of 20th and early 21st century Earth, in fact several civilisations called the planet home. 3 billion years BC, the planet had a civilisation. (MA: Venusian Lullaby)

20th century

In 1970, a small cult known as the Venus People, led by Arlo, believed that God would return from Venus soon, and bring judgement. (PDA: The Devil Goblins from Neptune)

In the 1970s, Professor Logan claimed to have planned and executed a manned mission to Venus, but this was exposed as a fraud. (TVC: Doctor Who and the Rocks from Venus)

21st century

During Zoe Heriot's time, human scientists found flowers living on the planet. Space Station W3 had some aboard. (DW: The Wheel in Space)

Around the year 2062, the Eighth Doctor and Charley Pollard found Aristede, an artist prepared to crash his craft into the planet as an artistic statement. (ST: Venus)

By 2075, there was a human colony on Venus. Captain Anastas Thrax and his space pirates hijacked supply ships en route there until he was defeated by the First Doctor, John and Gillian. (TVC: The Hijackers of Thrax)

26th century

The Fourth Doctor had a pilot's license for the Mars-Venus pleasure run. (DW: Robot)

27th century

Bernice Summerfield visits Eros, the artificial moon of Venus.(BFA:Venus Mantrap)

40th century

Roald of Space Security expressed an interest in watching the Venus-Mars games in the year 4000. In the same year, Mavic Chen ordered Karlton to take a party to Venus. (DW: The Daleks' Master Plan)

82nd century

Josiah W. Dogbolter owned a company called Intra-Venus, Inc. He owned the planet Venus itself, as well as Mars and Jupiter. (DWM: The Moderator)

Unknown time periods

• Jeff Stone, Andy Stone, and Mary Stone of New Paris, Venus help liberate the planet from a Dalek invasion. (DWAN:The Dalek Book)
• A fleet from the planet Hyperion intercepted a Dalek invasion of Venus in Space Year 17,000, as the Fourth Doctor recounted to Davros. (DW: Genesis of the Daleks)
• Venus was the final obstacle on a race course set up by the Eternals for the prize of Enlightenment. (DW: Enlightenment)
• Susan visited the metal seas on Venus. (DW: Marco Polo)
• In his first and second incarnations, the Doctor visited Venus at least five times. (TVC: Doctor Who and the Rocks from Venus)
• Sometime before his ninth incarnation, the Doctor learned fighting moves on Venus. (DWM: Oblivion)
• The Sixth Doctor encounters aliens who have hijacked the Medusa, a relief vessel bound for human colonies on Venus. (FYF:Mission to Venus)
• The Sixth Doctor, Professor George Litefoot, and Henry Gordon Jago are taken to a Venus of the far future, where Grand Empress Vulpina and her warrior women rule a cloud city. (BFA:Voyage to Venus)

Other information

• Venusian spearmint also grew on the planet, and was used as a toothpaste flavouring. (DW: The Shakespeare Code)
• Donna Noble and her grandfather, Wilfred Mott, observed Venus through his telescope. (DW: Partners in Crime)
• Venusian aikido was a martial art often practised by the Third Doctor. (DW: Inferno)
• The Museum of the Last Ones had specimens from Venus. (NSA: The Last Dodo)
• The Paloma Centre contains work by Venusian artist Radico Harstel. (WC:The War of Art)

External links

• A short article on every reference to Venus in pre-2005 Doctor Who

See also

• Venusian
• New Venus