User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-31010985-20180428165444/@comment-197.86.143.126-20200620060550

But how about Star Trek? Rose, Izzy etc. clearly know of the television series Star Trek. Only for the Eleventh Doctor to meet Picard and co. in Asdimilation2.

I think the same is true of Quatermass, Blake's 7, and if you count Dimensions in Time, Eastenders. Being established as a fictional character in Doctor Who doesn't mean the Doctor hasn't met Sherlock Holmes either.

Peter Cushing's Doctor Who may now be treated that way, but for 50 years he was just an alternate telling of Hartnell. And let's not forget for many years it was much easier to see the Cushing movies than it was to see the first two Hartnell series.

I think the Cushing Doctor should remain an 'unbound' Doctor, but with a paragraph at the end mentioning the day of the Doctor novelisation

Oh, and the real-world information that Cushing himself believed his Docyor to be a future incarnation of THE Doctor.