2023

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2023 was a year.

Events

Dated

In late November, (PROSE: The Star Beast ^[+]Loading...["The Star Beast (novelisation)"]) The Meep crashed their ship into Millson Wagner Steelworks, evading the Wrath Warriors chasing the Meep by exploiting Rose Noble's kindness. Controlling UNIT soldiers using a psychedelic sun, the Meep plotted to repair the ship to again menace the universe. The Fourteenth Doctor and Donna Noble prevented the Meep from leaving Earth, destroying London in the Meep's wake, and enabled the Meep's arrest by the Wrarth Warriors. (TV: The Star Beast ^[+]Loading...["The Star Beast (TV story)"])

Days after the Meep's arrest, the satellite KOSAT 5 was launched. Although this brought all of humanity online, it also triggered a waveform the Toymaker had subliminally embedded with an arpeggio through Stooky Bill's giggle that caused every human to believe that they alone were right. Supported by UNIT to stop the ensuing chaos, the Doctor and Donna learned of the Toymaker's involvement and traveled to 1925 London to confront him.

The Toymaker arrived in 2023 just after the duo returned and turned UNIT personnel into his playthings. Unable to convince him to leave the Earth alone, the Doctor demanded the Toymaker finish their game. The Toymaker shot the Doctor with UNIT's galvanic beam, assuming he would regenerate into a third Doctor to play a third round, and was shocked when he instead bi-generated into the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Doctors. The Doctors challenged the Toymaker to a game of catch and upon triumphing, banished him from existence, forever folded into a salt-surrounded box in a UNIT vault deep underground. (TV: The Giggle ^[+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"])

On 24 December, the Seventh Doctor and Ace visited a Los Angeles toy shop. (PROSE: Instead of You)

Undated

By this time, dyslexia had reliable remedies. (PROSE: Artificial Intelligence)

Helen Thomson cured a number of childhood diseases and won an Outstanding Citizen Award in 2023. (PROSE: The Little Things)

Demeter Glauss's Cybercrime: An Analysis of Hacking was published in 2023. (PROSE: Millennial Rites)

Dodo Chaplet noticed people in London were wearing face masks, which the First Doctor told her was a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. (AUDIO: The Demon Song)

Behind the scenes

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The Eurovision Song Contest was held in the United Kingdom. (TV: 2023: The Eurovision Audition Tapes ^[+]Loading...["2023: The Eurovision Audition Tapes (TV story)"])