Theory:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/Mission to the Unknown: Difference between revisions

::It's pretty clear that, for some reason, almost every astronomical term we use means something different in the "galactic universe of the solar system" of Doctor Who. I think we have to assume they're using some term that has no real equivalent to anything in our world's science, and "solar system" is just a bad translation.

:::Possibly relevant: Back in ''[[The Daleks (TV story)]]'' there is a moment where the Doctor asks Dyoni "And this- is this a solar system?" - referring to a star chart. Dyoni responds "Yes- Skaro is the twelfth planet." Interestingly however, Hartnell's diction as he delivers the line- whilst hunched over and leaning forward- makes it ambiguously possible to interpret what is spoken as "And this- is this Earth's solar system?"- hence making Dyoni's reply denote Skaro as a notional twelfth planet of ''our'' solar system. Granted, this is rather more astronomically unfeasible than usual, given the temperate climate of Skaro, not to mention its unlikelyhood in relation to almost every other story, but, perhaps, Terry Nation was remembering this line as delivered, when Malpha refers to the Daleks as "A power from the Solar System", and later, to humans as "hostile beings from the ''centre'' of the Solar System", and considering the Daleks as originating on one of the outer planets of our own star system- far closer to home than is usually considered the case.  It doesn't really rationalise it consistently within the fiction, because placing Skaro there would be lunacy from a continuity point of view, but it may explain the presence of the lines in the dialogue.

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