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[1] and written by Steve Cole. The short story was later reprinted in Ten Days of Christmas on 12 October 2023.[2]
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.
Notes[]
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Continuity[]
- One of the humans alludes to the Sycorax invasion of Earth from The Christmas Invasion [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who Christmas special (BBC One, 2005)., saying that the Sycorax came back for them at Christmas.
- The Doctor briefly wonders if the Boneless from Flatline [+]Jamie Mathieson, Doctor Who series 8 (BBC One, 2014). are onboard the ship when he compares the systems to the humanoid nervous system pinned down in two dimensions.
- Under Control saw the Fourteenth Doctor using a sonic screwdriver, which, when used, has a "bright blue buzz", aligning with Super Sonic [+]Paul Lang, Doctor Who The Official Annual 2024 (Penguin Group, 2023). detailing the hardware of the new screwdriver, and subtly referencing the destruction of the Thirteenth Doctor's sonic screwdriver in Liberation of the Daleks [+]Alan Barnes, DWM Comics (Panini Comics, 2022-2023)..
