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|series=[[Short Trips (series)#In print|Short Trips short stories]] | |series=[[Short Trips (series)#In print|Short Trips short stories]] | ||
|doctor=Fifth Doctor | |doctor = Fifth Doctor | ||
|companions=[[Tegan]] | |companions=[[Tegan]] | ||
|setting= | |setting = [[Salient Point]] | ||
|writer= | |writer=Joseph Lidster | ||
|anthology= | |anthology = Short Trips: The Ghosts of Christmas | ||
|release date = 5 December 2007 | |||
|prev=The Stars Our Contamination (short story) | |prev=The Stars Our Contamination (short story) | ||
|next=Christmas Every Day? (short story) | |next = Christmas Every Day? (short story) | ||
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'''''Keeping It Real''''' was the twenty-third short story in the [[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]] anthology ''[[Short Trips: The Ghosts of Christmas]]''. It was written by [[Joseph Lidster]]. It featured the [[Fifth Doctor]] and [[Tegan]]. | '''''Keeping It Real''''' was the twenty-third short story in the [[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]] anthology ''[[Short Trips: The Ghosts of Christmas]]''. It was written by [[Joseph Lidster]]. It featured the [[Fifth Doctor]] and [[Tegan]]. | ||
== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
''to | Responding to a distress call, Tegan and the Doctor land on [[Salient Point]] in the middle of a snow storm — only the [[snow]] is made of [[paper]]. The town is in the old [[English]] style. The townspeople go around wishing each other "joy" and singing [[Christmas carol]]s. | ||
They soon realise that nothing there is real, except for one man, [[Vivash O'Connell]]. The Doctor goes to inspect the village while Tegan talks to Vivash. Every time she tries to tell him nothing here is real, she is interrupted. She finds the Doctor inside a paper [[snowman]], having been put there by the villagers when he tried to state that nothing here was real. The Doctor and Tegan learn that Vivash thinks they aren't real either. | |||
Vivash tells them that he was on a colony ship that crashed on the planet. He was the only survivor. He programmed the [[food replicator]] to make [[Christmas]] every day, but since none of it is real, he is starving to death. | |||
The Doctor and Tegan take him on board [[the TARDIS]], where they have [[Christmas dinner]]. | |||
== Characters == | == Characters == | ||
* [[Fifth Doctor]] | * [[Fifth Doctor]] | ||
* [[Tegan]] | * [[Tegan]] | ||
* [[Vivash O'Connell]] | |||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* Tegan and the Doctor are headed back to [[Frontios]]. | |||
* Tegan mentions [[Sherlock Holmes]]. | |||
* The people's clothes come from many eras: [[Victorian era|Victorian]], [[Edwardian]], [[Georgian era|Georgian]], [[Elizabethan era|Elizabethan]] and [[Martian]]. | |||
* "[[Ding Dong Merrily on High]]" plays. | |||
* The Doctor, Tegan and Vivash have [[Christmas pudding]], [[mince pie]]s and [[brandy butter]]. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* This story is narrated by Tegan. | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
'' | * Tegan mentions that she and the Doctor had been trying to take the [[Gravis]] to [[Kolkokron]], but on the way they stopped on [[Queth]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Life After Queth (short story)|Life After Queth]]'') | ||
* Tegan mentions that they left [[Vislor Turlough]] behind on [[Frontios]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontios (TV story)|Frontios]]'') | |||
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