The Pirate Loop (novel)

The Pirate Loop
Doctor:	Tenth Doctor
Companion(s):	Martha
Main enemy:	Badger pirates
Main setting:	The Brilliant, 40th century
Key crew
Publisher:	BBC Books
Writer:	Simon Guerrier
Read by:	Freema Agyeman
Cover by:	Lee Binding
Release details
Release number:	20
Release date:	26 December 2007
Format:	Hardcover and Paperback, 237 pages
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84607-347-3
BBC New Series Adventures
← Previous	Wishing Well
Next →	Peacemaker

The Pirate Loop was the twentieth novel in the BBC New Series Adventures series. It was written by Simon Guerrier and featured the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones.

Publisher's summary

The Doctor's been everywhere and everywhen in the whole of the universe and seems to know all the answers. But ask him what happened to the Starship Brilliant and he hasn't the first idea. Did it fall into a sun or black hole? Was it shot down in the first moments of a galactic war? And what's this about a secret experimental drive?

The Doctor is skittish, but if Martha is so keen to find out he'll land the TARDIS on the Brilliant, a few days before it vanishes. Then they can see for themselves...

Soon the Doctor learns the awful truth. And Martha learns that you need to be careful what you wish for. She certainly wasn't hoping for mayhem, death and Badger-faced Space Pirates.

Plot

to be added

Characters

• Tenth Doctor
• Martha Jones
• Mrs Wingsworth

Badger pirates

• Florence
• Dashiel
• Jocelyn
• Archibald
• Zazia
• Stanley
• Toby
• Samuel
• Kitty Rose
• Dylan
• Karl
• Robbie

Crew of the Brilliant

• Georgina Wet-Eleven
• Thomas Five-Shoelace
• Gabriel

Worldbuilding

Species

• Mrs Wingsworth's uncle Cecil was a medical consultant to the Yemayan ambassador.

Foods and beverages

• The Doctor orders a Branka juice from the bar. He eats cheese and pineapple on a stick. He drinks tea whilst recuperating from his transmat journey and makes milkshakes for Martha and himself.
• Martha likes tea with a little milk and no sugar.

Science and Technology

• Time fungus exists between quanta of time
• Expressions of atemporal mismatch is measured on the Kodicek Scale

Cities

• The Doctor and Martha visit the Milky-Pink City.

Planets

• The Doctor claims to have visited Slow Station and jumped from the tower.

Galaxies

• The Brilliant is attacked by the Mandelbrot Sett in the Ogidi Galaxy.

Music

• Martha has the song "Grace Kelly" by Mika on her iPod. Both the Doctor and Martha saw the singer live in Denmark.

Notes

• This story was also released as an ebook available from the Amazon Kindle store.

Continuity

• The entry of the Martha Jones Blog from 1 July mentions these creatures as "the badger-faced pirates."
• Martha regrets throwing the gold sovereign down the well in PROSE: Wishing Well.
• The Doctor uses the helmic regulator. (TV: The Ark in Space, Smith and Jones, Time Crash; AUDIO: Creatures of Beauty)
• The last time Martha had been patronised she had been washing floors in a school. (TV: Human Nature)
• The Doctor refers to the Ood, (TV: The Impossible Planet) Monoids (TV: The Ark) and Vocs (TV: The Robots of Death) as slave races and compares them to the badger pirates.

Audiobook

• This novel was released as an audiobook on 10 July 2008 by BBC Audio and read by Freema Agyeman.

• 

  Audiobook cover

External links

• The Pirate Loop at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: The Pirate Loop at The Whoniverse
• The Cloister Library: The Pirate Loop