The Lonely Computer (short story)

The Lonely Computer (short story)

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The Lonely Computer
Doctor:	[[doctor::Tenth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Donna Noble
Main enemy:	Momus the Wise
Main setting:	Belgium, 800 AD Planet 12 of the Ridion Alliance
Key crew
Writer:	Rupert Laight
Illustrator:	Brian Williamson (2 illustrations)
Release details
Printed in:	BBC website, 2008

The Lonely Computer was a short prose story published online on two pages totalling 3,055 words.

Summary

Landing in 800, The Doctor and Donna find Holy Roman Emperor Charlmagne kidnapped by an insane computer...

Characters

• Tenth Doctor
• Donna Noble
• Momus
• Baldebert
• Macon
• Charlemagne
• Cleopatra
• Winston Churchill
• Michelangelo
• Noel Coward
• Francis Drake
• Caligula
• Cher
• Boudica
• Joan of Arc

Donna also thinks she recognises Galileo Galilei but his presence wasn't confirmed.

References

• If I Could Turn Back Time Written by Diane Warren and performed by Cher.
• I, Claudius is referenced by the Doctor as a film featuring Holy Roman Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus 'Caligula'. At the end of the film, when he is dying, all the main characters come before his eyes and say goodbye to him. This has been said to have inspired the way in which the Fourth Doctor regnenerates.
• The Last Great Time War.
• The Seven Year War.
• KRH Timeloop Theory
• Donna claims to have worked in telemarketing, in which she was stuck with 'primitives', one of which was obsessed with Manchester United Football Club.

Notes

to be added

Continuity

• The Doctor would later recall walking through the forest with a bow and arrow in DW: The Unicorn and the Wasp.

Timeline

• The Lonely Computer occurs after NSA: The Nemonite Invasion
• The Lonely Computer occurs before DW: The Unicorn and the Wasp

External links

• "The Lonely Computer" on the Doctor Who BBC website.