Theory:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/The Macra Terror

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• When Medok is called to provide the Doctor's alibi, the Doctor tells the Pilot not to believe everything that Medok is going to say.

Perhaps because he expects Medok to lie and try and get the Doctor into trouble.

• How the atmospherically challenged Macra could take control (even with the charming voice one seems to possess) is never explained.

It obviously happened a long time before the story begins, and they are obviously an intelligent race. Many possible scenarios exist.

• Scenes such as the Macra standing around the old Pilot, threatening him and pushing a microphone in his face, are hard to imagine.

Not really... They can hold a microphone easily enough, and have no trouble being threatening.