Alaska (spacecraft): Difference between revisions

{{title|''Alaska'' (spaceship)}} The '''''Alaska''''' was a spaceship that crashed into the [[Dalek Asylum]] and launched several escape pods to the planet's surface. There were at least two survivors: one of them was named [[Harvey (Asylum of the Daleks)|Harvey]], who died soon after on the frigid surface and was reanimated by the [[Nanogene|nanocloud]] field, becoming a [[Dalek puppet]] along with the other crew members who died on impact; the other was [[Oswin Oswald]], who instead used a ladder to descend below the surface of the planet, but was captured and fully converted into a [[Dalek]]. However, she managed to retain her human consciousness within a delusion of life — believing she had set up camp in the cockpit of the ''Alaska'' — and it was this humanity that caused her to hack the Daleks' databanks in the real world, deleting all Dalek memory of [[the Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)| Asylum of the Daleks]]'')

*The two crew members who survived the crash, Harvey and Oswin Oswald, respectively bear the middle name and surname of [[Lee Harvey Oswald]], who assassinated [[President of the United States|President]] [[John F. Kennedy]] on [[22 November]] [[1963]], the day before ''[[Doctor Who]]'' premiered with ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]''.  The [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]] were at [[76 Totter's Lane]] and the [[Coal Hill School]] during the assasination and the series' premiere the next day. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'') Exactly twenty-five years later (Earth's perspective), the Seventh Doctor attributed the assassination to the [[Nemesis|Nemesis comet]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis (TV story)|Silver Nemesis]]'') The [[Ninth Doctor]] witnessed the assassination, standing steps away from the President at Dealey Plaza in [[Dallas]] as the shots were fired. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'', [[WEB]]: ''[[Defending the Earth!]]'') Lee Harvey Oswald's arrest is reported on the front page of a newspaper on the 23rd. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Cambridge Spy (TV story)|The Cambridge Spy]]'') However, [[James Stevens]] discovered the true identity of the assassin when he used a [[Time Ring]] to travel back to 1963 and, to his horror, it turned out not to be Oswald at all... ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy]]'')