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{{ | {{retitle|''Meet the Doctor'' (DWAN 2006 short story)}} | ||
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{{Infobox Story | {{Infobox Story SMW | ||
| | |range = Doctor Who Annual 2006 | ||
| | |number in range = #5 | ||
|doctor = Ninth Doctor | |name = ''Meet the Doctor'' | ||
|companions = [[Rose Tyler|Rose]] | |image = Meet the Doctor.jpg | ||
|enemy = | |doctor = Ninth Doctor | ||
|setting = | |companions = [[Rose Tyler|Rose]] | ||
|writer = | |enemy = [[Bronze Dalek|Daleks]] | ||
|illustrator = | |setting = | ||
|publication = [[Doctor Who Annual 2006]] | |writer = Russell T Davies | ||
|prev = Doctor vs Doctor (short story) | |illustrator = | ||
|next = The Masks of Makassar (short story) | |genre = Science fiction | ||
}}{{ | |release date = September 2005 | ||
'''''Meet the Doctor''''' was the second | |publisher = Panini UK | ||
|format = Short story | |||
|publication = ''[[Doctor Who Annual 2006]]'' | |||
|series = ''[[Doctor Who Annual 2006]]'' | |||
|prev = Doctor vs Doctor (short story) | |||
|next = The Masks of Makassar (short story) | |||
}}{{you may|Meet the Doctor (DWAN 2007 short story)|n1=the Tenth Doctor short story|Meet the Doctor (feature)|n2=the 2020 feature}} | |||
'''''Meet the Doctor''''' was the second short story and fifth release exclusively published in the ''[[Doctor Who Annual 2006]]'' in [[September (releases)|September]] [[2005 (releases)|2005]] by [[Panini UK]] and the [[BBC]]. Paired with ''[[Meet Rose (short story)|Meet Rose]]'', ''Meet the Doctor'' was one of two prose pieces submitted to the annual by then-showrunner [[Russell T Davies]]. | |||
As the title implied, it served to familiarise the readers with the character of the Doctor and his new place in the universe in the new status quo of [[Series 1 (Doctor Who)|Series 1]]: the survivor of [[Last Great Time War|a terrifying temporal conflict]]. This made it the first story that was wholly ''about'' the Last Great Time War, then referred to as the Great Time War, rather than its consequence, and covered a lot of ground to which Davies would only return over half a decade later in ''[[Doctor Who and the Time War (short story)|Doctor Who and the Time War]]''. | As the title implied, it served to familiarise the readers with the character of the Doctor and his new place in the universe in the new status quo of [[Series 1 (Doctor Who 2005)|Series 1]]: the survivor of [[Last Great Time War|a terrifying temporal conflict]]. This made it the first story that was wholly ''about'' the Last Great Time War, then referred to as the Great Time War, rather than its consequence, and covered a lot of ground to which Davies would only return over half a decade later in ''[[Doctor Who and the Time War (short story)|Doctor Who and the Time War]]''. | ||
== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
For years leading up to the conflict, the two [[superpower]]s that are the [[Time Lord]]s and the [[Dalek]]s have been testing each other's strength, with [[Dalek Puppet Emperor (Meet the Doctor)|one]] of the [[Dalek Puppet Emperor]]s "openly declaring his hostility" to the [[High Council]] of the Time Lords and an attempt being made to replace its members with [[Dalek duplicate]]s. In the end, it was the Time Lords who fired the "first shot" by sending [[Fourth Doctor|one incarnation of the Doctor]] back in time in an [[Genesis Incident|ill-fated effort]] to prevent the [[creation of the Daleks|rise of the Daleks]]. | |||
Weak peace attempts are made, such as the [[Act of Master Restitution]] under which [[Lord President|President]] [[Romana]] attempts to create a [[peace treaty]] with the Daleks, but one way or another, War breaks out for good, a fact some claim was a direct consequence of the so-called [[Etra Prime incident|Etra Prime Incident]]. Reaching back into their own history, the Time Lords assemble a fleet of [[bowship]]s, [[Black Hole Carrier]]s and [[N-Form (Damaged Goods)|N-Forms]], matched by the Daleks via the unleashing of the "full might" of the [[Deathsmiths of Goth]] by the Daleks, who are led into battle by [[Dalek Emperor (The Parting of the Ways)|their Emperor in the flesh]]. | |||
Weak peace attempts are made, such as the [[Act of Master Restitution]] under which [[Lord President|President]] [[Romana]] attempts to create a [[peace treaty]] with the Daleks, but one way or another, War breaks out for good, a fact some claim was a direct consequence of the so-called [[Etra Prime incident|Etra Prime Incident]]. Reaching back into their own history, the Time Lords assemble a fleet of [[bowship]]s, [[Black Hole Carrier]]s and [[N-Form]] | |||
Yet the physical War is fought in the [[Time Vortex]] of which the Time Lords had earlier dubbed themselves the protectors, and beyond even that, in the [[Ultimate Void]], so the [[lesser species|Lesser Species]] live in ignorance of what passes beyond their perception — but not the [[higher species|Higher Species]] such as the [[Tree of Cheem|Forest of Cheem]], the [[Nestene Consciousness]] (to whom its planets are lost because of the War) and the [[Animus|Greater Animus]]. Even the [[Eternal]]s, despairing of [[N-Space|this reality]], decide to flee their "hallowed halls" never to return. | Yet the physical War is fought in the [[Time Vortex]] of which the Time Lords had earlier dubbed themselves the protectors, and beyond even that, in the [[Ultimate Void]], so the [[lesser species|Lesser Species]] live in ignorance of what passes beyond their perception — but not the [[higher species|Higher Species]] such as the [[Tree of Cheem|Forest of Cheem]], the [[Nestene Consciousness]] (to whom its planets are lost because of the War) and the [[Animus|Greater Animus]]. Even the [[Eternal]]s, despairing of [[N-Space|this reality]], decide to flee their "hallowed halls" never to return. | ||
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Years pass, and suddenly, after raging on and on, the War ends. All the universe at large can gather is that only one man walked out alive of the ruins of [[Gallifrey]] and [[Skaro]], a [[Renegade Time Lord]] calling himself [[the Doctor]]. His hearts heavy with all he has seen (and all he has ''done''), the Doctor decides that it is to be his punishment to travel alone from this day forward. | Years pass, and suddenly, after raging on and on, the War ends. All the universe at large can gather is that only one man walked out alive of the ruins of [[Gallifrey]] and [[Skaro]], a [[Renegade Time Lord]] calling himself [[the Doctor]]. His hearts heavy with all he has seen (and all he has ''done''), the Doctor decides that it is to be his punishment to travel alone from this day forward. | ||
For all these reasons and more, when [[the Doctor]] comes to [[Earth]] tracking down the [[Nestene Consciousness]], he has no plans to take on new [[companion]]s, even though [[human]]s were once his | For all these reasons and more, when [[the Doctor]] comes to [[Earth]] tracking down the [[Nestene Consciousness]], he has no plans to take on new [[companion]]s, even though [[human]]s were once his favourite species. Yet all that changes when he takes the hand of one particular Earthling called [[Rose Tyler]] and looks into her eyes. The journey starts again. | ||
Yet far away, on the planet [[Crafe Tec Heydra]], carvings concerning "the invsible War" fought between a race of flesh and a race of metals suggest that the lone survivor who walked away from the wreckage of the final explosion beware. " | Yet far away, on the planet [[Crafe Tec Heydra]], carvings concerning "the invsible War" fought between a race of flesh and a race of metals suggest that the lone survivor who walked away from the wreckage of the final explosion beware. "[[War Master|You are not alone...]]" | ||
== Characters == | == Characters == | ||
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* [[Dalek]]s | * [[Dalek]]s | ||
* [[Time Lord]]s | * [[Time Lord]]s | ||
* [[Romana | * [[Romana II|Romana]] | ||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* The only two [[time war]]s in which the [[Time Lord]]s were engaged before [[Last Great Time War|the Great Time War]] against the Daleks were the [[Skirmish between the Halldons and the Eternals]] and the "brutal slaughter" of the [[Omnicraven Uprising]]. | * The only two [[time war]]s in which the [[Time Lord]]s were engaged before [[Last Great Time War|the Great Time War]] against the Daleks were the [[Skirmish between the Halldons and the Eternals]] and the "brutal slaughter" of the [[Omnicraven Uprising]]. | ||
* Though they discreetly assumed the role of protectors of the [[Time Vortex]], the Time Lords had a [[non-interference policy]] as far as the affairs of the wider universe were concerned. | * Though they discreetly assumed the role of protectors of the [[Time Vortex]], the Time Lords had a [[non-interference policy]] as far as the affairs of the wider universe were concerned. | ||
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* Despite the official statement from Russell T Davies in [[DWM 356]] that due to BBC regulations if nothing else, the [[Last Great Time War|Time War]] of the new TV series could not be conflated with [[War in Heaven|the War]] of the novels, the text of this piece gestures at the two being the same, in that it occasionally slips into referring to the war between the Time Lords and the Daleks as simply "[[War in Heaven#Naming|the War]]", and to the species not part of the conflict as "the [[lesser species|Lesser Species]]". Furthermore, it definitively states that there were only two major Time Wars before it and that it was the final Great Time War. | * Despite the official statement from Russell T Davies in [[DWM 356]] that due to BBC regulations if nothing else, the [[Last Great Time War|Time War]] of the new TV series could not be conflated with [[War in Heaven|the War]] of the novels, the text of this piece gestures at the two being the same, in that it occasionally slips into referring to the war between the Time Lords and the Daleks as simply "[[War in Heaven#Naming|the War]]", and to the species not part of the conflict as "the [[lesser species|Lesser Species]]". Furthermore, it definitively states that there were only two major Time Wars before it and that it was the final Great Time War. | ||
* The only [[incarnation]] of the Doctor to be depicted (via photographs) is the [[Ninth Doctor]], the one who meets [[Rose Tyler]] at the end of the story in a retelling of the first few minutes of ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]''. The Doctor involved in the Time War itself is not identified one way or another. In light of Davies' later ''[[Doctor Who and the Time War (short story)|Doctor Who and the Time War]]'', it would appear that he was picturing [[Paul McGann]]'s [[Eighth Doctor]]. | * The only [[incarnation]] of the Doctor to be depicted (via photographs) is the [[Ninth Doctor]], the one who meets [[Rose Tyler]] at the end of the story in a retelling of the first few minutes of ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]''. The Doctor involved in the Time War itself is not identified one way or another. In light of Davies' later ''[[Doctor Who and the Time War (short story)|Doctor Who and the Time War]]'', it would appear that he was picturing [[Paul McGann]]'s [[Eighth Doctor]]. | ||
* Both this story and ''[[Meet Rose (short story)|Meet Rose]]'' are categorised as [[feature]]s in the annual's table of contents. | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
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[[Category:Stories set in the Last Great Time War]] | [[Category:Stories set in the Last Great Time War]] | ||
