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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. Uglosi later quotes Poe's ''The Black Cat''. | * 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 from Poe's ''The Black Cat'' and ''The Pit and the Pendulum'' whereas Berenice Ward quotes from ''The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket''. | ||
* 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" 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. | * 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. | ||
* Tamsin did a module on escapology in drama school. | * Tamsin did a module on escapology in drama school. | ||
* The Doctor met Poe in the autumn of [[1849]] in [[Baltimore]] where his title was mistaken for a medical qualification. He was asked to attend to Poe who was in a bar sitting among a crowd of drunks but was completely sober. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
