Déjà vu
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Déjà vu, was, according to the Eighth Doctor, an occupational hazard of being a time traveller. He associated it with the ability to remember different versions of history, (AUDIO: UNIT Dating [+]Loading...{"timestamp":"00:35:35","1":"UNIT Dating (audio story)"}) whilst Jack Harkness identified déjà vu as an effect of ghosts. (TV: Ghost Machine [+]Loading...["Ghost Machine (TV story)"])
History
In UNIT HQ in either the 1970s or 1980s, when caught in a time loop due to an Ogron's malfunctioning time machine, Andy Davidson asked the Eighth Doctor how they could remember previous iterations of the loop; he responded by saying that déjà vu was an occupational hazard for time travelers. (AUDIO: UNIT Dating [+]Loading...["UNIT Dating (audio story)"])
In the mid-to-late 2000s, Jack Harkness explained to Torchwood Three that déjà vu was one of the effects of the presence of a "ghost". (TV: Ghost Machine [+]Loading...["Ghost Machine (TV story)"])
A hologram of John Hart that once appeared to Torchwood Three quipped about déjà vu. (TV: Fragments [+]Loading...["Fragments (TV story)"])
In ELF Storage on 31 December 2021, when the Thirteenth Doctor and her companions were trapped in a time loop, Dan Lewis referenced the phenomenon after the first iteration of the loop following their extermination. (TV: Eve of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Eve of the Daleks (TV story)"])
Behind the scenes
- A track from the soundtrack of Eve of the Daleks is named "Deja Vu".
- Some media, such as the short story Déjà Donna [+]Loading...["Déjà Donna (short story)"] and the Adobe Flash game K9: Deja Who [+]Loading...["K9: Deja Who (video game)"], are named after the phenomenon.