Theory:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/The Sun Makers

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• How will the liberated humans prevent the artificial suns from burning-out now that the Usurian controlling them has been dispatched?

The Doctor could have shown them how before leaving. It's also possible the Usurian was lying, to make the people believe they needed him.

Unlikely as he talked about it to the doctor, describing them as ineficent.

At the end the doctor tells them to leave pluto and return to earth, as its stated that the suns will last for a few years before buring out, its likely this is why he told them to leave.

• In retrospect, the reference to Pluto being a planet is an anachronism, since it was stripped of planetary status in 2006.

K-9, who references Pluto being a planet, is from the year 5000; presumably at some point before then the demotion was rescinded, or new criteria for determining planetary status established. The reference to a 10th planet, Cassius, might support the latter argument, as none of the formerly-planet-sized bodies found beyond Pluto in real life, such as Eris, would appear to have qualified as a 10th planet.