Alaska (spacecraft)
The Alaska was a spaceship that crashed into the Dalek Asylum and launched several escape pods to the planet's surface.
There were at least two survivors: one of them was named Harvey, who died soon after on the frigid surface and was reanimated by the nanocloud field, becoming a Dalek puppet along with the other crew members who died on impact. Harvey's body was preserved by the cold, along with his mind, but the crew inside the Alaska degenerated to purely skeletal remains. The other survivor was Oswin Oswald, Junior Entertainment Manager, who was able to use a ladder and descend below the surface of the planet, but was later captured and fully converted into a Dalek.
She managed to retain her human consciousness within a delusion of life however, believing she had set up camp in the cockpit of the Alaska, (TV: Asylum of the Daleks)
Behind the scenes
- The two crew members who survived the crash, Harvey and Oswin Oswald, respectively bear the middle name and surname of Lee Harvey Oswald, who is believed to have been the assassin of President John F. Kennedy on 22 November 1963, the day before Doctor Who premiered with An Unearthly Child.
