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}}'''''Ships''''' was a short story in the [[Brief Encounter]] range in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]''. It was the only such story to feature [[Dodo Chaplet]] and details a possibility for Dodo's post-[[The TARDIS|TARDIS]] life quite different from that in ''[[Who Killed Kennedy]]''. | }}'''''Ships''''' was a short story in the [[Brief Encounter]] range in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]''. It was the only such story to feature [[Dodo Chaplet]] and details a possibility for Dodo's post-[[The TARDIS|TARDIS]] life quite different from that in ''[[Who Killed Kennedy]]''. | ||
The title plays on the phrase "ships | The title plays on the phrase "ships that pass in the night". It details an exceptionally brief encounter between Dodo Chaplet and [[Sarah Jane Smith]] in which they never recognise each other as people who know [[the Doctor]]. | ||
== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
Walking home from her secretarial job, [[Dodo Chaplet]]'s mind wanders back to her days in [[the TARDIS]]. As she encounters reminders of her mundane existence on the way home, she increasingly castigates herself for having left [[First Doctor|the Doctor]] so abruptly. Lost in thought, she turns a corner and runs into a young woman. Their respective armfuls are dumped onto the ground. In the haste to collect their belongings, Dodo accidentally grabs the young woman's diary. It's too late to return it to her, though — she's long gone. Dodo examines it to determine something that might identify the owner. Luckily there's an address — and the name [[Sarah Jane Smith|S. J. Smith]]... | Walking home from her secretarial job, [[Dodo Chaplet]]'s mind wanders back to her days in [[the TARDIS]]. As she encounters reminders of her mundane existence on the way home, she increasingly castigates herself for having left [[First Doctor|the Doctor]] so abruptly. Lost in thought, she turns a corner and runs into a young woman. Their respective armfuls are dumped onto the ground. In the haste to collect their belongings, Dodo accidentally grabs the young woman's diary. It's too late to return it to her, though — she's long gone. Dodo examines it to determine something that might identify the owner. Luckily, there's an address — and the name [[Sarah Jane Smith|S. J. Smith]]... | ||
== Characters == | == Characters == | ||
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== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* This appears to contradict the novel, ''[[Who Killed Kennedy]]'', which kills off Dodo after seeing her institutionalised immediately after her departure in ''[[The War Machines]]''. Dodo here is portrayed as being a quite functional member of society | * This story appears to contradict the novel, ''[[Who Killed Kennedy]]'', which kills off Dodo after seeing her institutionalised immediately after her departure in ''[[The War Machines]]''. Dodo here is portrayed as being a quite functional member of society — a secretary, with all the normal sorts of concerns of adult life. She claims to be "older and wiser" and speaks of her TARDIS life being "such a long time ago", which ''suggests'' that she's alive long after her death in ''Kennedy''. However, no actual dates are given. Because of this, there's also no guarantee that Sarah Jane has even met the Doctor yet, since she claims to be from [[1980]] at one stage of her televised career – namely [[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars]]''. The story could be set in [[1972]] just as easily as [[1992]]. However, this still makes it impossible for it to makes sense concurrently with ''[[Who Killed Kennedy]]'', as that story suggests Dodo spent years in bad conditions and mental institutions, including the [[Glasshouse]], and spent years being homeless — thus contradicting this story's claim of her good life. Therefore, it would perhaps be best to class ''Ships'' as being "imaginary". | ||
* Dodo mentions the way in which [[Cyril]] 'died' in ''[[The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)|The Celestial Toymaker]]'' and [[Steven Taylor]]'s departure in ''[[The Savages]]''. | * Dodo mentions the way in which [[Cyril]] 'died' in [[TV]]: ''[[The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)|The Celestial Toymaker]]'' and [[Steven Taylor]]'s departure in [[TV]]: ''[[The Savages (TV story)|The Savages]]''. | ||
== External Links == | == External Links == | ||
