2025

2025 was a year.

Events

Dated

2025 was a year that the Fourth Doctor and Leela accidentally visited on 30 January, actually heading for 2015. By this time, holographic Internet access was readily available by fingerprint access, and everyone on Earth carried portable televisions with them. All theatres had been closed by this point to save energy. (AUDIO: Energy of the Daleks)

31 January was the date set for a huge GlobeSphere-funded energy transfer from the company's moonbase, a culmination of work started in 2021. Unknown to everyone, the Daleks intended to boost the energy to 100 times the amount necessary, creating a bubble around the planet that could counteract gravity. It would then cause the Moon to go off course, Earth's axis to shift wildly and many natural disasters and severe climate changes. Earth would be uninhabitable, and humanity would be wiped out.

The day before, Jack Coulson led an energy protest in Trafalgar Square against GlobeSphere. The Fourth Doctor and Leela attended the protest, and defeated the Daleks by redirecting the energy transfer to their ship as they fled. (AUDIO: Energy of the Daleks)

Undated

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The Ring of Steel

The Tenth Doctor takes Donna Noble to the World of Aunty Winnie. (PROSE: Hello Children, Everywhere)

The Tenth Doctor takes Rose Tyler to a theme park styled off fairy tales. Humans genetically modified apples to taste like other things to get children to eat them. (COMIC: Down the Rabbit Hole)

At some point during this year, the Eleventh Doctor investigated some mysterious disappearances on Moonbase Laika. (PROSE: Horror of the Space Snakes)

Borozhev published a manifesto calling for a return to pure Marxism and a revolt against remaining pro-Soviet sentiment, founding the influential movement of neo-communism, which would persist into the 22nd century. (GAME: The Legions of Death ^[+]J. Andrew Keith, The Doctor Who Role Playing Game (FASA, 1986).)

Alternate timelines

In 2025, the Seventh Doctor visited a timeline in which there had been no innovation or invention for decades and the Benanki had claimed Earth as part of their empire. He then travelled to 1992 to prevent this timeline from coming to pass. (PROSE: Testament)

In an alternate timeline, Ruby Sunday meets with Kate Stewart to seek her help in resolving the threat of the the old woman that perpetually stalks Ruby from 73 yards away at an outdoor tea shop. After telling Kate about Carla Sunday's injunction against her and the Fifteenth Doctor's disappearance and the abandonment of the TARDIS, Kate reveals that UNIT personnel have arrived to apprehend the woman. However, the curse on her spreads to Kate and UNIT when they move to arrest her, causing them to abandon Ruby as well. (TV: 73 Yards ^[+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 14 (BBC One and Disney+, 2024).)

Births and deaths

On 18 January, Andy Stone was born in Iowa. (TV: The Waters of Mars ^[+]Russell T Davies and Phil Ford, Doctor Who Autumn Special 2009 (BBC One, 2009).)