Report on Term's Work (short story)

Report on Term's Work
Main character(s):	Borusa
Featuring:	Theta Sigma
Key crew
Publisher:	BBC Books
Writers:	James Goss, Steve Tribe
Release details
Printed in:	The Doctor: His Lives and Times
Release date:	26 September 2013
The Doctor: His Lives and Times
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Report on Term's Work was a short story released in The Doctor: His Lives and Times.

Summary

To be added

Characters

• Borusa
• Theta Sigma

Worldbuilding

• Theta Sigma is praised for having single-handedly sealed the rift at the Medusa Cascade.
• Theta Sigma and his associated are accused of creating time-flow analogues to spoil each other's time experiments.
• Theta Sigma dismisses artron energy as "silly".
• Theta Sigma doesn't know much about Quasitronics.

Notes

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Continuity

• The concept of a time flow analog originated in TV: The Time Monster ^[+]Loading...["The Time Monster (TV story)"].
• The Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey first appeared in TV: Shada ^[+]Loading...["Shada (TV story)"].
• Theta Sigma's report on "Physical Inactivity" states that he "seems to believe he is some sort of mountain goat". This is a reference to TV: The Time Meddler ^[+]Loading...["The Time Meddler (TV story)"], where an older First Doctor insisting to Steven Taylor that he is not a mountain goat.
• The Doctor failed his driving test. (TV: The Ribos Operation, The Shakespeare Code)
• Theta Sigma gets 97% in thermodynamics, the "only subject in which he truly shines". The First Rani would reference his aptitude for the subject in TV: Time and the Rani ^[+]Loading...["Time and the Rani (TV story)"].
• Theta Sigma visited the Medusa Cascade. (TV: The Stolen Earth)
• At the age of 8, Theta Sigma ran away in fear at what he saw in the Untempered Schism. (TV: The Sound of Drums; PROSE: A Brief History of Time Lords)
• Borusa notes that the Theta Sigma, the Rani, and the Master are involved in a clique. (PROSE: Divided Loyalties, The Quantum Archangel)
• The clique's "least disruptive preoccupation" is said to be running and shouting across the fields of Mount Perdition, a mountain first mentioned in TV: The End of Time ^[+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"].
• Borusa references the fact that the Doctor has been influenced by an Outsider who is a self-styled 'hermit', who was first mentioned in TV: The Time Monster ^[+]Loading...["The Time Monster (TV story)"] and appeared in TV: Planet of the Spiders ^[+]Loading...["Planet of the Spiders (TV story)"].