The Pirate Loop (novel)

The Pirate Loop was the fourteenth Tenth Doctor novel released.

Publisher's summary
The Doctor's been everywhere and everywhen in the whole of the universe and seems to know all the answers. But ask him what happened to the Starship Brilliant and he hasn't the first idea. Did it fall into a sun or black hole? Was it shot down in the first moments of a galactic war? And what's this about a secret experimental drive?

The Doctor is skittish, but if Martha is so keen to find out he'll land the TARDIS on the Brilliant, a few days before it vanishes. Then they can see for themselves...

Soon the Doctor learns the awful truth. And Martha learns that you need to be careful what you wish for. She certainly wasn't hoping for mayhem, death and Badger-faced Space Pirates.

Characters

 * Tenth Doctor
 * Martha Jones
 * Mrs Wingsworth

Badger pirates

 * Florence
 * Dashiel
 * Jocelyn
 * Archibald
 * Zazia
 * Stanley
 * Toby
 * Samuel
 * Kitty Rose
 * Dylan
 * Karl
 * Robbie

Crew of the Brilliant

 * Georgina Wet-Eleven
 * Thomas Five-Shoelace
 * Gabriel

Species

 * The Doctor refers to the Ood, Monoids and Vocs as slave races and compares them to the badger pirates.
 * Mrs Wingsworth's uncle Cecil was a medical consultant to the Yemayan ambassador.

Foods and beverages

 * The Doctor orders a Branka juice from the bar.

Cities

 * The Doctor and Martha visit the Milky-Pink City.

Planets

 * The Doctor claims to have visited Slow Station and jumped from the tower.

Galaxies

 * The Brilliant is attacked by the Mandelbrot Sett in the Ogidi Galaxy.

Music

 * Martha has the song "Grace Kelly" by Mika on her iPod. Both the Doctor and Martha saw the singer live in Denmark.

Continuity

 * The entry of the Martha Jones Blog from 1 July mentions these creatures as "the badger-faced pirates."
 * Martha regrets throwing the gold sovereign down the well in PROSE: Wishing Well.
 * The Doctor uses the helmic regulator. (TV: The Ark in Space, Smith and Jones, Time Crash; AUDIO: Creatures of Beauty)
 * The last time Martha had been patronised she had been washing floors in a school. (TV: Human Nature)

Audio release

 * An abridged reading of the story was released as an audiobook on 2x CD read by Freema Agyeman.