Barney (Blue Moon): Difference between revisions

'''Barney''' was one of the ground crew at [[Mission Control]] during the ''[[Apollo 11]]'' mission. The [[Tenth Doctor]] said of this team: "It's [[Neil Armstrong|Neil]] and [[Buzz Aldrin|Buzz]] that land on [[the Moon]] and plant the [[flag]] and play [[golf]], but without all these wonderful people down here... Without these unsung heroes, none of it [...] will happen." When the Doctor dragged the agents [[Spencer (Blue Moon)|Spencer]] and [[Milledge]] into the control room, he pointed out the wasted potential that was caused by the secret service taking over the aborted [[first contact]] with an [[Species (Blue Moon)|alien species]], saying, "Look at these people. Look at every single face here: [[Justin (Blue Moon)|Justin]], [[Sean (Blue Moon)|Sean]], [[David (Blue Moon)|David]], [[Dan (Blue Moon)|Dan]], [[Colin (Blue Moon)|Colin]], [[Jake (Blue Moon)|Jake]], [[Trevor (Blue Moon)|Trevor]], Barney... Each one of these people whose only motivation is to test the limits of what [[human]]ity can achieve. Imagine what could have happened if you had left them to it. If it was one of these men that had received the message once ''Apollo'' had landed." He also said, "Who knows, if it had been one of these people", rather than Spencer or Milledge that caught the alien transmission, "first contact might have unified [[Earth|the world]]." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Blue Moon (short story)|Blue Moon]]'')