The Oxaqua Incident (short story)

The Oxaqua Incident was a short story published in Doctor Who Annual 1984. It featured the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough.

	Fifth Doctor
	Tegan, Turlough
	Oxaqua
	Doctor Who Annual 1984
	August 1983
Doctor Who annual
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Summary

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Characters

• Fifth Doctor
• Tegan Jovanka
• Vislor Turlough
• Ghum
• Obedee

Worldbuilding

• The Basks are a humanoid species on Oxaqua. The only other sentient life form on Oxaqua are the Thiegs.
• The Doctor has stopped on Oxaqua for some Rellium crystals for a miniature transporter ray he was working on.
• Ghum believes that the Basks have violated the Co-existence Code.
• The Basks have tiny attack Bubblecraft equipped with Beam Guns.
• The Doctor is given an exact replica of the Oxaquan Sword of Office by Ghum.
• According to the Doctor, they always say Skirri bip hoom da lunce on Capu 2.

Notes

• This story is clearly a parable about ethnic conflict back on Earth, most likely an allusion to the Troubles in Northern Ireland, still very much ongoing in 1983. (Thieg, or rather "Teig," was and remains a term of abuse for Northern Irish Catholics.)

Continuity

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