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* The Doctor and Ian investigate the TARDIS's power rooms, which are contained in a complex of fifteen separate rooms containing power stacks capable of powering every aspect of the TARDIS. Ian is sealed in with the internal scanner - a piece of equipment designed to survey the other fourteen rooms - and nearly suffocates to death before he can get the door open. | * The Doctor and Ian investigate the TARDIS's power rooms, which are contained in a complex of fifteen separate rooms containing power stacks capable of powering every aspect of the TARDIS. Ian is sealed in with the internal scanner - a piece of equipment designed to survey the other fourteen rooms - and nearly suffocates to death before he can get the door open. | ||
* Barbara explores the TARDIS laboratory, where she is assaulted by books flying from the bookcase, as well as boxes and various bits of equipment flying from the shelves. The storeroom door in the shadow of the bookcase is lead-lined against its stock of radioactive isotopes. If she'd have entered without a protective suit, as Susan explains, she'd have been dead within thirty seconds. | * Barbara explores the TARDIS laboratory, where she is assaulted by books flying from the bookcase, as well as boxes and various bits of equipment flying from the shelves. The storeroom door in the shadow of the bookcase is lead-lined against its stock of radioactive isotopes. If she'd have entered without a protective suit, as Susan explains, she'd have been dead within thirty seconds. | ||
* The blinding flash is qualified to be not the Big Bang, for not even the TARDIS could survive such an event, but instead the birth of the [[Milky Way]] Galaxy. | * The blinding flash is qualified to be not the Big Bang, for not even the TARDIS could survive such an event (as is later seen in ''[[Castrovalva (novelisation)|Castrovalva]]''), but instead the birth of the [[Milky Way]] Galaxy. | ||
* | *The Doctor's apology to Barbara is significantly expanded. He touches upon the time-traveller's need for one another and their shared wonder in an as yet unexplored Universe. The Doctor asks, explicitly, for her friendship, which she accepts with a shake of his hand. | ||
* The transition into ''[[Marco Polo (TV story)|Marco Polo]]'' exists, but is more vague than its televised counterpart and lacks the cliffhanger ending (fitting the opening of its novelisation, which lacks the transition from ''The Edge of Destruction''). Enough time has passed between one scene and the next that Barbara has been able to fall asleep. While the Doctor is at the controls, Susan and Ian are having breakfast as the TARDIS materialises. | |||
== Writing and publishing notes == | == Writing and publishing notes == | ||
