The Peace Strike (comic story)
The Peace Strike (comic story) was a Doctor Who Adventures comic strip published in 2011.
Summary
The Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams arrive in the TARDIS in the belly of a missile packed with explosives. The missiles automatic defence computer identifies itself, and detects the intruders are not Nabrili. The Doctor realises the missile is on its way to its neighbours the Jells with who the Nabrili have pointless disputes and there is only about six and a half minutes to impact (943.8 Haldecs). The Doctor busies his team, Amy is sent to flood the explosives with water from the TARDIS while Rory assists the Doctor in modifying the computer. With an electronic conscience fitted the computer realises that when the missile hits Jelledge billions of people will die and agrees to the Doctors help to stop it. On Jelledge they can only watch as the huge missile heads closer, believing the end to have arrived the missile suddenly explodes in the sky spelling out in fireworks the local language for “give peace a chance”. Having removed the computer from the missile and making it into a mobile unit, it is left safely on the planet Jelledge having been programmed with the peace agreement suggested by the Doctor but credited to being the Nabrili’s idea!
Individual named characters
References
- The Doctor is aware of the pointless hostilities between the planets of Jelledge and Nabrili.
- A haldec is a unit of time of Nabrili. (943.8 haldrecs = 6 minutes 29 seconds)
- Jelledge is named after Doctor Who fan Jonn Elledge
Notes
- Although standing outside the TARDIS, the Doctor has to translate the wording of the firework letters from the local language for Amy and Rory – at odds with the TARDIS’s ability to translate for its regular occupants.
- The mention of K-9 to Rory, explaining where the electronic conscience comes from, would not be a familiar reference, although readers of DWA are likely to know K-9 from The Sarah Jane Adventures or his own spin-off series.
Original print details
- Publication with page count and closing captions
- DWA 215 (4 pages) NEXT WEEK –THE DOCTOR, AMY AND RORY FACE A DINOSAUR ATTACK!!
- No reprints to date.
Continuity
- The electronic conscience that thae Doctor fitted to the Nabrili missile’s computer was a spare component from K-9 retrieved from the TARDIS.
- There may be another reason why the Doctor did not want to known to have brought about the peace between the Nabrili and the Jell (bearing in mind he knew of them), other than the old Time Lord way of strictly not getting involved - or being seen to!
Timeline
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