B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (306 page)

[
1099
]
Frontier in Space

[
1100
]
Burning Heart
,
The Ultimate Treasure.

[
1101
]
Genocide
(p274-275).

[
1102
] Dating “Children of the Revolution” (
DWM
#312-317) - Kyrol was colonised “a few centuries in the future” according to Izzy, and this is “a few short decades” after
The Evil of the Daleks
according to Alpha.

[
1103
] Dating
The Mutants
(9.4) - The Doctor tells Jo that they have been sent to “the thirtieth century”. The story must take place many years after
Original Sin
, where events are set into motion that will eventually mean the Empire’s collapse.
The Programme Guide
set the story slightly later (“c.3100”),
Timelink
in 2971, and
About Time
in “3000-ish”.

[
1104
] Dating
The Fall of Yquatine
(EDA #32) - The date is given (p43, p150).

[
1105
] Dating
Superior Beings
(PDA #43) - The year is given (p108).

[
1106
] Three hundred years before
The Beast Below
. The Doctor cites this migration as owing to Earth being roasted by solar flares, but see the dating notes on this story for why that’s probably not the case.

[
1107
]
Hope

[
1108
] In
Mission to the Unknown
, set in the year 4000, Lowery confidently says, ‘“The Daleks invaded Earth a thousand years ago,” and Marc Cory replies, “That’s right.” Even allowing for figures of speech, this surely can’t refer to
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
, set around 2157.

[
1109
]
The Art of Destruction
, and consistent with the New Adventures.

[
1110
]
The Dark Path

[
1111
]
Night of the Humans

[
1112
]
The Eye of the Jungle

[
1113
]
Iris: Enter Wildthyme.
Iris’ companion Jenny muses (p169), “We’re leaving our system and our millennium”, so it’s the third millennium if not later.

[
1114
]
The Daleks’ Master Plan

[
1115
]
Placebo Effect

[
1116
]
Hope

[
1117
] “A thousand years” before
The Book of the Still.

[
1118
] “A few years” before
Festival of Death.

[
1119
] Dating
The Space Age
(EDA #34) - The year is given (p216). The people there think it is 2019.

[
1120
] Dating
Festival of Death
(PDA #35) - The year is given (pgs 115, 116, 194).

[
1121
]
Flip-Flop

[
1122
]
Vanderdeken’s Children

[
1123
] There are some distinct continuity problems raised by the Silurian leader Eldane’s voiceover at the end of
Cold Blood
. Eldane says “now as my people awaken from their thousand year sleep, ready to rise to the surface...”, so they explicitly haven’t emerged
yet
, meaning it’s a little early to automatically see this as a triumph for interspecies co-operation. It’s possible that Eldane (and Nasreen and Tom) woke early, to prepare the way and to double-check that the conditions were agreeable to human-Silurian co-habitation. The New Adventures established (in books such as
Eternity Weeps
) that other Silurians emerged in the twenty-first century and peacefully co-existed with mankind until at least the time of
Original Sin
(shortly before Eldane’s group emerges)... but it’s also established in both the books and the TV series (particularly in
The Mutants
, and further detailed in
Original Sin
) that the thirty-first century in the
Doctor Who
universe is that of the overpolluted and corrupt Earth Empire - not exactly the best time for the Doctor to arrange for Eldane’s group to awaken from stasis. The only real alternative makes even less sense, as it entails Earth in this era having been sterilised by solar flares (see the dating notes on
The Beast Below
). Finally, it’s also unclear how Eldane knows of “the far greater losses yet to come” for the Doctor (in Series 5), if he’s been asleep for so long.

[
1124
] Dating
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
(MA #12) - The TARDIS crew discover a spaceship built in “2976” (p17), which leads the Doctor to suggest this is the “end of the thirtieth century” (p33, p48). We learn that the colony was founded in 2145 (p203), eight hundred forty-six (Avalonian?) years ago (p33), making it the year 2991. Later, though, we learn that the “city riots” seen in
Original Sin
were “fifty years ago” (p156), so it must be nearer 3025.

[
1125
] Dating
Kinda
(19.3) - An arbitrary date. The colonists have recognisably English names, so it seems reasonable to assume that they are from Earth. On screen they only refer to a “homeworld”, which Todd says is overcrowded. Sanders’ attitude perhaps suggests an early colonial period, and the story would seem to be set after
Colony in Space
, in which colonists are seen as “eccentric”. The colonists are from Earth in Terrance Dicks’ novelisation, where the Doctor suggests they are from the time of the “Empire”. Earth’s Empire is in decline in this era, but while it would be preferable to date
Kinda
to the twenty-seventh or twenty-eighth centuries, “overcrowded” certainly describes Earth’s state of affairs in
The Mutants
(set circa 2990). It’s also plausible that the Empire would still be assessing new planets for colonisation and resource exploitation, even as it exhausts or loses control of long-standing ones. Previous versions of
Ahistory
dated
Kinda
as “? 2782”, but the new placement of
Snakedance
in this edition necessitates pushing that date forward some, in accordance with the Mara being banished to the dark places of the inside circa 2926.

The TARDIS Logs
set
Kinda
in the “25th Century”.
Timelink
set it in 1981, reasoning that Deva Loka isn’t an Earth colony.

[
1126
] “A thousand years” before
The Bride of Peladon.

[
1127
] “The Love Invasion”

[
1128
] Dating
Flip-Flop
(BF #46) - The dates are given.

[
1129
] “Eighteen years” before
The Ribos Operation.

[
1130
] Dating
The Ultimate Treasure
(PDA #3) - Rovan Cartovall disappeared in 1936 BC, which was “five thousand years ago” (p37).

[
1131
] Dating
Palace of the Red Sun
(PDA #51) - The journalist Dexel Dynes appeared in
The Ultimate Treasure
and remembers Peri from that story, which he describes as a “few years” ago (p39).

[
1132
] Dating
The Ribos Operation
(16.1) - A date is not given on screen. While this date is arbitrary, Ribos is close to the Magellanic Clouds, suggesting that humans have developed at least some level of intergalactic travel. Lofficier placed the story in “the late twenty-sixth century”, apparently confusing the Cyrrhenic Alliance with the force established to fight the Cybermen in
Earthshock
.
Timelink
says 3010.
About Time
couldn’t quite decide, but thought that “some time in the 5000s when humanity is once again expanding away from Earth” seemed the most likely.

[
1133
] Dating “Spider’s Shadow” (BF #109b) - The participants seem human, and the action presumably takes place on one of Earth’s colony worlds in the future. Also, the Doctor says he’s got signed copies of half the books in the princess’ library - not a guarantee that the books were written by humanity, but it seems likely. Proton-knives are mentioned, and there’s an aristocracy, but otherwise the details are so vague that this placement is a shot in the dark.

[
1134
]
Managra

[
1135
] Dating
Superior Beings
(PDA #43) - It’s “over five hundred years” after 2594 (p108).

[
1136
]
Peri and the Piscon Paradox

[
1137
]
The English Way of Death

[
1138
] Decades before
I.D.

[
1139
] Dating
Warmonger
(PDA #53) - The story is a prequel to
The Brain of Morbius
, set when Solon was a young, renowned surgeon.

[
1140
]
Legacy
, expanding on
The Curse of Peladon
and
The Monster of Peladon
.
Warmonger
sees a huge Alliance between many alien races, and talk of a United Planets Organisation being formed.

[
1141
]
Timewyrm: Genesys
(p217).

[
1142
] Dating
The Brain of Morbius
(13.5) - The Doctor informs Sarah Jane that they are “considerably after” her time. If the Mutt at the beginning of the story originated on Solos, that might affect story dating.
The TARDIS Logs
suggested “3047”,
Apocrypha
gave a date of “6246 AD”.
The Terrestrial Index
supposed that the “Morbius Crisis” takes place around “10,000 AD”. The original version of this chronology set the story around the time of
Mindwarp
.
Timelink
says “2973”, and
Warmonger
- the prequel to the story - seems roughly to concur.
About Time
speculated that if the space pilot
was
a Mutt from
The Mutants
, and given that the inhabitants of Solos underwent that transformation every two thousand years, “The 4900s would fit.”

[
1143
] Dating
Vanderdeken’s Children
(EDA #14) - The year is given (p3). The Galactic Federation exists, although neither Emindar nor Nimos are members.

[
1144
] Dating
I.D.
(BF #94) - It’s the “thirty-second century” according to the back cover blurb and the Doctor, who makes his dating solely on the presence of organic digital transfer - suggesting that the technology fell into disuse in centuries to come.