The Lonely Computer (short story)

	[[doctor::Tenth Doctor]]
	Donna Noble
	Momus
	Belgium, 800 AD Planet 12 of the Ridion Alliance
	[[publisher::BBC website]]
	Rupert Laight
	2
	2008
	Short Story
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Summary

Landing in 800 BC, 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
• Galileo Galilei
• Noel Coward
• Francis Drake
• Caligula
• Cher
• Boudica/Boadicea
• Joan of Arc

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

Notes

Donna claims to have worked in telemarketing, in which she was stuck with 'primitives', one of which was obsessed with Manchester United Football Club.

Continuity

The Doctor would later recall walking through the forest with a bow and arrow in 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.