Astrid Peth

Biography
Astrid Peth was an alien from the planet Sto who worked as a waitress aboard the Titanic. All her life she dreamed of seeing other planets. She first met The Doctor when he broke a glass and he offered to bring her another one but he rejected. Instead he decided to take her on a teleport trip down to Earth. There she met Wilfred Mott who told her and The Doctor that people had abondoned London due to all the alien invasions and that they happened at Christmas. As she was teleported up to the starship The Doctor noticed the defence shields on the Titanic where not working and there where three asteriods heading for the ship. The Doctor and a group of passengers which consisted on Rickston Slade, Foon Van Hoff, Morvin Van Hoff, Bayldon Copper, Bannakaffalatta. They all complained to the Steward but the Asteriods crashed and killed most of the passengers apart from them. They then discovered that The Heavenly Hosts where killing all the survivors. They then found there way to saftey but Foon, Morvin and Bannakaffalatta died along the way. Astrid then decided to help The Doctor by creeping down to Max Capricorns lair. She uses a fork lift to push him over the edge but he had cut the brakes and Astrid fell down with him into the engines. The Doctor treid to resurect her but failed miseribly so he let her fly as Atoms so she could fufill her dreams of exploring the Galaxy. (DW: Voyage of the Damned)

When Davros made the comment "Every where you go there are always deaths". The Doctor has a flashback of deceased people he had lost Astrid was among those people. (DW: Journey's End)

Personality
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Alternative Timeline
When Donna Noble turned right to the wrong job interview time was changed as the doctor was killed on Christmas Eve 2007. He would never have crashed into the Titanic causing Astrid to die a different way as the ship would crash into London killing every one on board. (DW: Turn Left)

Conception and behind the scenes

 * It was officially announced that Kylie Minogue was to feature as Astrid in "Voyage of the Damned" by the BBC on 3 July 2007 following rumours in the press and sightings of her filming. It was confirmed that she is the next companion after Freema Agyeman's Martha Jones by Russell T. Davies on a 14 August 2007. Her surname, Peth, is confirmed in the Christmas edition of Radio Times.


 * Russell T Davies has stated that the character was always be going to be a "one-off" even before Kylie Minogue was cast and that Astrid will demonstrate "a whole new take - again - on what a companion can be."


 * Tenth Doctor actor David Tennant interviewed Kylie Minogue about her role in "Voyage of the Damned" on BBC Radio 2 in X-Amining Kylie first broadcast on 27th November 2007. On Doctor Who Confidential, Minogue describes Astrid as a "dreamer" and that meeting with the Doctor rekindles Astrid's desire to explore. Russell T. Davies reveals that when he first discussed the role of Astrid with Kylie Minogue he had not written that she would be killed off.


 * Astrid is the first companion in the revived series of Doctor Who to never set foot in the TARDIS, let alone travel in it. She only sees the TARDIS from a distance adrift.