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* The TARDIS has a mile of [[Margate]] beach with [[seagull]]s, a laundry, a greenhouse and a sauna. | * The TARDIS has a mile of [[Margate]] beach with [[seagull]]s, a laundry, a greenhouse and a sauna. | ||
* After the cat appears in the console room, Tamsin refers to ''[[Bagpuss]]'' and ''Animals Do the Funniest Things''. | * After the cat appears in the console room, Tamsin refers to ''[[Bagpuss]]'' and ''Animals Do the Funniest Things''. | ||
* The Doctor quotes extensively from ''The Raven'' by [[Edgar Allan Poe]]. The robot-like ravens are modelled after the eponymous bird due to Senior Prosecutor Uglosi's obsessions with the works of Poe. | * The Doctor quotes extensively from ''The Raven'' by [[Edgar Allan Poe]]. The robot-like ravens are modelled after the eponymous bird due to Senior Prosecutor Uglosi's obsessions with the works of Poe. Uglosi later quotes Poe's ''The Black Cat''. | ||
* The pilot of the ship which flew Senior Prosecutor Uglosi and Dr. Berenice Ward to Nevermore lost his eyes by looking into a sunburst several years earlier. He was then fitted with bionic eyes. | * The pilot of the ship which flew Senior Prosecutor Uglosi and Dr. Berenice Ward to Nevermore lost his eyes by looking into a sunburst several years earlier. He was then fitted with bionic eyes. | ||
* Nevermore was previously called Corinth Minor located in [[Cassopeia]], which contained [[volcano]]es that showered semi-precious gemstones instead of lava. It became a playground for the rich and famous including General Verdagast. The general was involved in what the Doctor describes as a "particularly nasty factional war" against one of the rival Cassopeian colonies. His rival, General Morella Wendigo, detonated a biological weapon in Corinth Minor's troposphere. Faced with the outbreak of a previously unknown flesh-eating plague, the Galactic Authority sought the help of the [[Time Lord]]s. The Time Lords passed the planet through a belt of ultraviolet radiation, killing almost the entire population of the planet through the [[Red Death]]. The authorities renamed it " | * Nevermore was previously called Corinth Minor located in [[Cassopeia]], which contained [[volcano]]es that showered semi-precious gemstones instead of lava. It became a playground for the rich and famous including General Verdagast. The general was involved in what the Doctor describes as a "particularly nasty factional war" against one of the rival Cassopeian colonies. His rival, General Morella Wendigo, detonated a biological weapon in Corinth Minor's troposphere. Faced with the outbreak of a previously unknown flesh-eating plague, the Galactic Authority sought the help of the [[Time Lord]]s. The Time Lords passed the planet through a belt of ultraviolet radiation, killing almost the entire population of the planet through the [[Red Death]]. The authorities renamed it "Nevermore" as a reminder of the folly of war. Wendigo was sentenced by a war crimes tribunal to a lifetime of exile to Nevermore so that she could contemplate her crimes. | ||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
