Under Control (short story)

Under Control was the second short story and third release exclusively in Doctor Who The Official Annual 2024 on 7 September 2023 by Penguin Group and written by Steve Cole. The short story was later reprinted in Ten Days of Christmas on 12 October 2023.

It formed the first part of a story which, in both publications, would continue into a later story titled Into Control, which was presented as a comic strip in the annual, and as another short story in the anthology.

Plot
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Characters

 * Fourteenth Doctor
 * Alfredo
 * Stromboks
 * Vega Raptons
 * Humans
 * Sarnsquids

Worldbuilding

 * Seeing a Strombok makes the Doctor think is on Strombokkaccino.
 * The Vega Raptons are a mining race from Vega Raptos.
 * Earth is twenty light-years from Vega Raptos and "maybe forty" from Strombokkaccino.

Continuity

 * One of the humans alludes to the Sycorax invasion of Earth from, saying that the Sycorax came back for them at Christmas.
 * The Doctor briefly wonders if the Boneless from are onboard the ship when he compares the systems to the humanoid nervous system pinned down in two dimensions.
 * This story sees the Fourteenth Doctor using a sonic screwdriver, which, when used, has a "bright blue buzz"; this aligns with, a feature printed in the same annual, which details the hardware of the new screwdriver. Furthermore, being set after the events of , the use of a new model here is in continuity with the previous model's destruction. However, Liberation does confusingly depict the previous model with a blue emitter.
 * The screwdriver would make its on-screen debut in.