Jun 07 2008
Doctor Who and the Genesis Device
There was a recent episode of Doctor Who where he, Martha and Donna ended up on an uninhabitable world with a group of humans battling a group of fish people (called the Hath) in an underground city. The Doctor gets his hand stuck in a gene sampler and ends up with a daughter or something. The really interesting part, for me, was that both sides of the subterranean conflict, both human and Hath, were fighting to possess a mythic weapon of unimaginable power. The Doctor discovers that it is actually a device that terraforms planets, or takes dead planets and makes them habitable. That sounds a lot like Project Genesis to me.
So my first thought is: how can we tie in the Star Trek universe with the Doctor Who universe so that there are Klingons searching here for the Genesis Device? Wouldn’t it be cool if Birds of Prey showed up above the planet, and we end up with middle-age Kirk joining up with Doctor Who to keep their quarry out of the wrong hands (all of them). I can just see Christopher Lloyd saying: “So, Doctor Who, you won’t give me the Genesis Device?” Zap! Jenny gets the Klingon disruptor and that’s it for her recurring character. Kirk howls, “You killed my son!” The Doctor cries, “You killed my daughter!” Great stuff. Unfortunately, that’s about as far as my little fanboy brain-wanderings went. Neat idea though.
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