The Dragons of Kekokro (short story)
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The Dragons of Kekokro was a short story published in The Dr Who Annual 1970. It featured the Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot.
The story notably featured an advanced race of humanoids living on Earth during the age of the dinosaurs. Four months after this story's publication, the TV story Doctor Who and the Silurians [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)"] would introduce a similar concept with the Silurians.
Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor suggests that they've landed in the Jurassic or Mesozoic.
- The reason for the extinction of the dinosaurs is a matter of debate. Jamie believes they fought each other to extinction. The Doctor believes they were killed by the Ice Age. The Doctor is familiar with other theories that the dinosaurs died due to being too large.
- The Age of the Dinosaurs lasted 200 million years.
- The Doctor refers to the Jurassic as being "the remote past of our world".
- Creatures they encounter include a Tyrannosaurus, plesiosaurus, stegosaurus, Brontosaurs and pterodactyls.
- The Jurassic apemen include the tribes Kekokro and Kabokos.
- The Kekokro call dinosaurs "dragons".
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- As with other stories of the Annuals, the Doctor refers to Earth as being his own world and refers to his companions as "my children".
- This story shares many textual similarities with the Tarzan story The Time Trap published a year earlier in the TV Tornado Annual 1969, which was likely written by the same author. In that story, Tarzan finds a time portal to the Jurassic and encounters several dinosaurs as well as primitive ape-men. Unlike in The Dragons of Kekokro, the ape-men encountered by Tarzan follow stereotypical cavemen archetypes, with Tarzan reasoning that some of them will survive the Ice Age to become the ancestors of humanity. The language of the ape-men is described very similarly to the apeman language seen in Kekokro. Additionally, the Tarzan story speaks of Fate in a similar manner to various 1960s Doctor Who Annual stories.
- The apemen bear resemblance to the "degenerate Inner World people" described in the non-fiction feature Are We Alone? [+]Loading...["Are We Alone? (feature)"], who in that feature are connected to the Atlanteans.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Advanced humanoid lifeforms from the Jurassic epoch later featured in the Annual story PROSE: Old Father Saturn [+]Loading...["Old Father Saturn (short story)"], although in that story they were from another part of the Solar System and claimed that Earth of their era had no intelligent life.
