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*This story clearly depicts the destruction of the Earth by the Sun 10,000,000 years in the future of the 20th century while the last humans are clearly still recognizably human. However, [[The End of the World (TV story)]] depicts this occurring 5,000,000,000 years in the future of the 21st century (matching the opinion of current real-world science) while the last remaining human is some skin with a face. | *This story clearly depicts the destruction of the Earth by the Sun 10,000,000 years in the future of the 20th century while the last humans are clearly still recognizably human. However, [[The End of the World (TV story)]] depicts this occurring 5,000,000,000 years in the future of the 21st century (matching the opinion of current real-world science) while the last remaining human is some skin with a face. | ||
::Dialogue in [[The End of the World (TV story)]] (specifically, Cassandra's sneering comment about "mongrels" and what's later shown on screen in [[New Earth (TV story)]] and [[Gridlock (TV story)]] makes it fairly clear that Cassandra is the "last human" according to, and only according to, Cassandra's own decidedly elitist and self-serving standards, standards which her rich elite circle of acquaintances in [[The End of the World (TV story)]] apparently share, given their introduction of her, but which would probably be entirely irrelevant to the later human colonies on Refusis, New Earth, Frontios, and so forth, who would likely fairly cheerfully dismiss her labelling them as "human-ish" as the mad ravings of a deluded racist trampoline. | |||
:: As far as the dates go, [[Frontios (TV story)]] makes it clear that Gallifreyan knowledge of this epoch of history is pretty (deliberately?) sporadic, and both [[The Ark (TV story)]] and [[The End of the World (TV story)]] show the human race as using an entirely different calendar system by this time. The Doctor arrives at his conclusion of a 10,000,000 year time lapse after a brief mental calculation based on the Commander's statement about the fifty-seventh segment of time, and may have miscalculated. | |||
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