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* The [[Tef'Aree]] predict a number of events in Emily's future, including her standing beside a memorial to a dead friend and an encounter with "the Soul Free". The Doctor believes that the Tef'Aree are only mythical.
* The [[Tef'Aree]] predict a number of events in Emily's future, including her standing beside a memorial to a dead friend and an encounter with "the Soul Free". The Doctor believes that the Tef'Aree are only mythical.
* Martha is described as being fresh from her wedding to a man she does not specify. The Doctor got them a wedding gift which reacted badly with champagne and sent [[Francine Jones|her mother]] to the ceiling. Martha gains yet another [[UNIT]] appointment by the time of this story, filling in as UNIT's scientific advisor while Malcolm is in [[Geneva]].
* Martha is described as being fresh from her wedding to a man she does not specify. The Doctor got them a wedding gift which reacted badly with champagne and sent [[Francine Jones|her mother]] to the ceiling. Martha gains yet another [[UNIT]] appointment by the time of this story, filling in as UNIT's scientific advisor while Malcolm is in [[Geneva]].
* The Doctor obliquely mentions [[Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen]]'s role in giving him the [[tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator]] when he mentions "[[Slitheen|big, farting green aliens]]". ([[DW]]: ''[[Boom Town]]'')
* The Doctor obliquely mentions [[Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen]]'s role in giving him the [[tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator]] when he mentions "[[Slitheen|big, farting green aliens]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[Boom Town]]'')


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* The story takes place almost entirely within the bowels of the TARDIS. Only a handful of stories have explored the interior of the TARDIS, including [[DW]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time]]'', [[DW]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', and [[DWM]]: ''[[Changes]]''. ''Invasion of Time'' is referenced in Part 2 when the Doctor revisits the swimming pool area last seen in that story.
* The story takes place almost entirely within the bowels of the TARDIS. Only a handful of stories have explored the interior of the TARDIS, including [[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', and [[COMIC]]: ''[[Changes (comic story)|Changes]]''. ''Invasion of Time'' is referenced in Part 2 when the Doctor revisits the swimming pool area last seen in that story.
* The notion of the TARDIS existing in a state of "[[temporal grace]]" is mentioned, and a sly aside is given to the fact that [[script editor]], [[Eric Saward]], sometimes forgot about the concept, introduced in [[DW]]: ''[[The Hand of Fear]]''.
* The notion of the TARDIS existing in a state of "[[temporal grace]]" is mentioned, and a sly aside is given to the fact that [[script editor]], [[Eric Saward]], sometimes forgot about the concept, introduced in [[TV]]: ''[[The Hand of Fear]]''.


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* The Doctor says the TARDIS is "full of old console rooms", evoking ''[[The Masque of Mandragora]]'', where the secondary console room was introduced. It perhaps also implies that all the old console rooms seen throughout the years still exist within the TARDIS. Indeed, at one point the Doctor goes to a part of the TARDIS that strongly resembles the [[JNT]]-era interior. At another, he goes into the [[Cloister Room]], as seen in [[Doctor Who (1996)|the TV movie]]. [[Matthew Finnegan]] later discovers the [[First Doctor]]'s console room. Although the later TV episode [[DW]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'' would confirm that the old console rooms had been archived, it contradicts this story by establishing that the Doctor wasn't aware of this fact (it's possible he lost this memory during his regeneration). ''It doesn't contradict this story at all; The Doctor is shocked that the TARDIS has control rooms that he has not even made yet as well as the old ones.''
* The Doctor says the TARDIS is "full of old console rooms", evoking ''[[The Masque of Mandragora]]'', where the secondary console room was introduced. It perhaps also implies that all the old console rooms seen throughout the years still exist within the TARDIS. Indeed, at one point the Doctor goes to a part of the TARDIS that strongly resembles the [[JNT]]-era interior. At another, he goes into the [[Cloister Room]], as seen in [[Doctor Who (1996)|the TV movie]]. [[Matthew Finnegan]] later discovers the [[First Doctor]]'s console room. Although the later TV episode [[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'' would confirm that the old console rooms had been archived, it contradicts this story by establishing that the Doctor wasn't aware of this fact (it's possible he lost this memory during his regeneration). ''It doesn't contradict this story at all; The Doctor is shocked that the TARDIS has control rooms that he has not even made yet as well as the old ones.''
* The Doctor's wind-up mouse ([[DW]]: ''[[The Doctor's Daughter]]'') is used and is mistaken for [[K9]] by the Acari.
* The Doctor's wind-up mouse ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Daughter]]'') is used and is mistaken for [[K9]] by the Acari.
* At one point the Doctor spews quotes from various previous adventures. Whilst in the pool from ''[[The Invasion of Time]]'', he recalls precise lines from ''[[State of Decay]]'', ''[[The Ultimate Foe]]'', and ''[[An Unearthly Child]]''. At the same time, he is loitering in the TARDIS pool area seen in ''[[The Invasion of Time]]'', and remarks that he thought the area had been jettisoned. The scene is strongly reminiscent of the [[Fifth Doctor]]'s first moments of consciousness in ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', wherein snatches of his former selves bleed through.
* At one point the Doctor spews quotes from various previous adventures. Whilst in the pool from ''[[The Invasion of Time]]'', he recalls precise lines from ''[[State of Decay]]'', ''[[The Ultimate Foe]]'', and ''[[An Unearthly Child]]''. At the same time, he is loitering in the TARDIS pool area seen in ''[[The Invasion of Time]]'', and remarks that he thought the area had been jettisoned. The scene is strongly reminiscent of the [[Fifth Doctor]]'s first moments of consciousness in ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', wherein snatches of his former selves bleed through.
* The [[tribophysical waveform macrokinetic extrapolator]] is used to disengage the TARDIS from the Acari ship, and the events of [[DW]]: ''[[Boom Town]]'' are referenced.
* The [[tribophysical waveform macrokinetic extrapolator]] is used to disengage the TARDIS from the Acari ship, and the events of [[TV]]: ''[[Boom Town]]'' are referenced.
* The events of [[IDW]]: ''[[Silver Scream]]'' are referenced.
* The events of [[COMIC]]: ''[[Silver Scream]]'' are referenced.
* The Doctor refuses to allow Emily to take possession of [[Jack Harkness]]' [[sonic blaster]] as he says it is reserved for "[[River Song|someone else]]". ([[DW]]: ''[[Silence in the Library]]''/''[[Forest of the Dead]]'')
* The Doctor refuses to allow Emily to take possession of [[Jack Harkness]]' [[sonic blaster]] as he says it is reserved for "[[River Song|someone else]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[Silence in the Library]]''/''[[Forest of the Dead]]'')
* [[Adric]] is mentioned several times, including a reference to his death, which is recalled in detail. ([[DW]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'')
* [[Adric]] is mentioned several times, including a reference to his death, which is recalled in detail. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'')
* [[Malcolm Taylor (Planet of the Dead)|Malcolm Taylor]] and [[Erisa Magambo|Captain Magambo]] are namechecked by [[Martha Jones]]. However, ''[[Don't Step on the Grass]]'' makes it clear that she's no longer a UNIT employee, but "strictly freelance", foreshadowing her statements in ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''.
* [[Malcolm Taylor (Planet of the Dead)|Malcolm Taylor]] and [[Erisa Magambo|Captain Magambo]] are namechecked by [[Martha Jones]]. However, ''[[Don't Step on the Grass]]'' makes it clear that she's no longer a UNIT employee, but "strictly freelance", foreshadowing her statements in ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''.
* Emily arms herself with the [[Fifth Doctor]]'s cricket bat in the cricket club seen in [[DW]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]''.
* Emily arms herself with the [[Fifth Doctor]]'s cricket bat in the cricket club seen in [[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]''.
* Lady [[Christina de Souza]] is briefly mentioned, as the Doctor wonders if it is she who is calling him. ([[DW]]: ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]'')
* Lady [[Christina de Souza]] is briefly mentioned, as the Doctor wonders if it is she who is calling him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]'')


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