Citation Needed (short story)

	Encyclopedia Gallifreya
	Thirteenth Doctor, Yasmin Khan, Ryan Sinclair, Graham O'Brien
	Tzim Sha, Ux
	The Doctor's TARDIS
	Jacqueline Rayner
	The Target Storybook
	24 October 2019
The Target Storybook
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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

References

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)