A little further along the fourth dimension, we return to Doctor Who as presented in TWO dimensions.
The Tenth Doctor mothers the short-lived fruit of his loins following his arm being raped by newborn soldiers fighting fish people without a backstory.
Podcast: Play in new window | Embed
Written by Stephen Greenhorn of The Lazarus Experiment fame, The Doctor’s Daughter sees The Tenth Doctor, Martha and, sadly, Donna materialise in the middle of a war that’s been raging for ages. The Doc’s arm gets raped muy pronto, spawning his illegitimate offspring, Jenny, whom he both fathers and mothers.
Jenny is but the latest in many generations’ worth of clones fighting against a race of fish dudes for The Source, a nebulous, high-concept, low-brow, no-clue thingy they all think they want.
Queue even more of The Clone Wars.
I know eons have passed since this ep was posted but I have so many thoughts. Bear in mind this is one of my favorite episodes.
This ep requires so much head canon it might as well be a choose your own adventure. We have to accept that a) some computer glitch erased all other professions from the clone machine and
b) started a war.
It doesnt make sense but there we are. Also, its only been seven days? Ridiculous! To me this is a fascinating high concept that only works if the civilization that sent the ships intended to send later ships to fully colonize. They send soldiers first to kill or contain any indigenous threats (or other beasties from space like Daleks for example). They assumed the two groups would work together, but oopsie poopsie something something angry generals ipso factor big war.
My theory is that the computer didnt recognize the Hath as allies after some cosmic ray goofemup and thus the machines went into overdrive to eliminate the threat. It produces all types of soldiers in case its a prolonged contact with multiple types of combat (including sexy seduction methods). It produced a couple old generals and things got into motion.
My main concern here is that it didnt produce any engineers who might have solved the problem. Maybe engineers only get produced after two weeks?