User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Reference Desk/@comment-4139960-20131026222317/@comment-188432-20131119041432

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Reference Desk/@comment-4139960-20131026222317/@comment-188432-20131119041432 Well, the first thing to know about Bennelong Point is that it's told in first person, from the POV of a boy named Harvey. So all you have is what the Doctor says to him, really.

I would say that it doesn't outright contradict Tooth and Claw. The Doctor says, "I'm the Doctor. I was parked in orbit myself, watching it all happen."

By "it" he means the Zalphons crashing into Skylab, and Skylab's descent to Earth. If you take that line super-strictly, then I guess you might sense a little contradiction. If he was just watching then he wasn't "helping" Skylab fall. But I think we can safely say that the two things aren't mutually exclusive of each other. He could easily have watched after somehow doing some jiggery-pokery on Skylab.

As for when this story happens, honestly, it could go a lot of places. It could be in the post-Donna gap of its publication. Or it could just as easily be the implied gap between Christmas Invasion and New Earth. (Remember, the TARDIS is in a different place at the beginning of New Earth than it is at the end of Invasion) So it's possible this was an adventure of the very newly-regenerated Ten while Rose was packing. Could literally go anywhere, as the first person limited POV doesn't give us that much of a window into the Doctor.