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== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
Landing in [[800]], The Doctor and Donna find Holy Roman Emperor Charlmagne kidnapped by an insane computer... | Landing in [[800]], The Doctor and Donna find Holy Roman Emperor Charlmagne kidnapped by an insane computer... | ||
==Plot== | |||
When trying to reach the [[[19805]] for a shopping trip, [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] drags [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]] and [[Donna Noble|Donna]] off course by 1,200 years, landing them in [[Belgium]] in the year [[800]]. They arrive in a pantry used for storing vegetables and meat. Using his [[sonic screwdriver]], the Doctor opens the only door avaliable but are told to stop by two guards who takes them into the kitchen. A man named [[Baldebert]] confronts them and declares the Doctor as the Emporer's official food taster. Baldebert welcomes them to the court of [[Charlemagne]]. He then lets the Doctor tast several dishes to see if they are [[poison]]ed. In the middle of testing, a young boy named [[Mocon]] runs in, declaring that Charlemagne had disappeared. The Doctor becomes worried, because the Emporer had a meeting with [[Leo III|the Pope]] later that day and if that meeting did not happen, then Charlemagne would never have been crowned head of the [[Roman Empire]]. The Doctor and Donna follow Macon to the place where Charlemagne had disappeared. There the Doctor finds [[quantum detritus]], which is left behind when someone or something has been taken out of [[time]]. | |||
Just then, the Doctor and Donna disappear and find themselves in a palace that had long since been abandoned. A booming voice informs them that they are in the [[Palace of Hy-Ridion]]; the Doctor looks out the window to see they are not on [[Earth]]. The voice introduces itself as [[Momus]] and says they are on [[Planet 12 of the Ridion Alliance]]. Momus says that the Doctor is the final guest in the Great Dinner Party, which Momus has spent a long time gathering. Momus himself is a small computer hovering in the air. A hidden door in the wall opens to reveal some of history's greatest leaders, artists and scientists (including Charlemagne) who were arguing and demanding that they be released. The Doctor has a talk with Momus; he says that after his planet's population of great scientists decreased after the [[Seven Hundred Year War]], he decided to bring all of Earth's greatest minds to bring the planet to a new age. The Doctor reasons with Momus and persuades him to take the people home. | |||
== Characters == | == Characters == | ||
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== External links == | == External links == | ||
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/ | *[http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/features/stories/fiction_the_lonely_computer_01 "The Lonely Computer" on the Doctor Who BBC website]. | ||
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