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* [[But This Is Ridiculous]]: Jamie, on discovering that people in the future eat cube-shaped [[Food Pills]]: "I've heard of a square meal, but this is ridiculous!"
* [[But This Is Ridiculous]]: Jamie, on discovering that people in the future eat cube-shaped [[Food Pills]]: "I've heard of a square meal, but this is ridiculous!"
* [[Emotionless Girl]]: Zoe, in her first couple of episodes.
* [[Emotionless Girl]]: Zoe, in her first couple of episodes.
* [[Freak Out]]: Jarvis Bennett is the latest in a series of base officers to go nuts during this season.
* [[Freak-Out]]: Jarvis Bennett is the latest in a series of base officers to go nuts during this season.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Gemma Corwyn}}
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Gemma Corwyn}}
* [[Line-of-Sight Name]]: Jamie coins the long-running "[[Mr. Smith|John Smith]]" alias for the Doctor from a piece of medical equipment.
* [[Line-of-Sight Name]]: Jamie coins the long-running "[[Mr. Smith|John Smith]]" alias for the Doctor from a piece of medical equipment.
* [[Sci Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]: The Cybermen's plan requires meteor showers -- which they cause by ''blowing up distant stars''.
* [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]: The Cybermen's plan requires meteor showers -- which they cause by ''blowing up distant stars''.
* [[Space Clothes]]: [[Ms. Fanservice|Zoe's]] [[Future Spandex|catsuits]] are fondly remembered by fandom.
* [[Space Clothes]]: [[Ms. Fanservice|Zoe's]] [[Future Spandex|catsuits]] are fondly remembered by fandom.
* [[Tainted Veins]]
* [[Tainted Veins]]

Revision as of 03:41, 26 January 2014

 Jamie: Just you watch your lip or I'll put you across my knee and larrap you.

Zoe: Oh, this is going to be fun. I shall learn a lot from you.

Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority.
—The Doctor delivers a Take That to rival show Star Trek the Original Series...

The Doctor and Jamie arrive on a spaceship and are attacked by a servo robot. Contacting a nearby space station, simply known as "the Wheel", they are rescued, but needless to say, more peril awaits.

The spaceship also releases some Cybermats which travel to the station and begin to prepare for an attack by the Cybermen. Meanwhile the Doctor and Jamie meet the crew, including a young teenage mathematical genius called Zoe Heriot. Most of the rest of the crew are being hypnotically controlled by the Cybermats, and the Doctor sends Jamie and Zoe to fetch a piece of phlebotinum from the TARDIS which will allow him to beef up the station's laser enough to destroy the approaching cyber-fleet.

Zoe stows away on the TARDIS, but is discovered by the Doctor who asks if she really wants to come with them, and shows a clip of a previous adventure to demonstrate the dangers. She still seems keen, so they agree to let her come along.

Episodes 3 and 6 can be viewed here.

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