Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-188432-20130514042227/@comment-4503698-20130524160712

You've misunderstood me I think. I don't particularly care if Strax's Field Report is declare non-canonical, I don' find it particularly interesting. My point was the observation that it seemed to be decided that this would be easily resolvable after The Name Of The Doctor went out. It went out and silence fell nowhere, except on this discussion when it gave us a cliffhanger so open that it still was difficult to resolve.

I note your arguments and in the interests of debate I will try to respond to them. But they were all true before the episode went out and my observation was that, rather to my surprise, it did actually end with Strax being in a position to access the TARDIS communication systems. Does he know how to use them. I don't know. I know he's the only one of the three I can be sure has been in the TARDIS before and, as a Sontaran, I at least credit him with the ability to figure it out. The rest I'll leave rhetorically but that one point seemed worth remarking on.

Do I think it's canon? I'd be quite surprised if it turned out to be but I feel it in unfair not to acknowledge that the episode left us in such an open position as for all this still to be possible. And those Field Reports are still coming, there's three of them now.