Trivia and In-Jokes
About the Story:
Ah, this is what came out one night when I was thinking about
V’s original “the Doctor
is Doc’s father” idea. I thought that, maybe, I could write it out as a
dream/nightmare of AL’s. Heck, she’d
dreamt
of Data’s death, so… :)
Title:
Fob Watch: Simply a different name for a pocket watch. The term was
used in Doctor Who “Human Nature”, “Family of Blood” and “Utopia”.
Story:
The refrigerator time machine: This was the early concept in the very
first draft of Back to the Future.
The laser and the lever with plus and minus: Included on that first time machine.
23 NOV ’63: This is, of course, the day Doctor Who first aired, as well as the “present” day in said episode. I decided to write the date the way the British do, just to nod to the Time Lord-ness.
A year and three months: Doc’s mansion burned down on August 2, 1962.
Doc hadn’t met the Doctor until the 90s: In my story The Wrath of Caan.
November 23rd, 1963 was the day they’d picked up Susan’s teachers from Coal Hill School in London: Doctor Who episode “An Unearthly Child”.
The ordeal with the Chameleon Arch and the watch: From Doctor Who “Human Nature”, “Family of Blood” and “Utopia”.
The fiasco with the Master: Doctor Who “Utopia”, “The Sound of Drums” and “Last of the Time Lords”.
Aislin’s dream-tampering: My story Dreaming of You.
The visions of the nightmare: This was originally a drabble written by V. She said I could use it.
Timothy Latimer: From Doctor Who “Human Nature” and “Family of Blood”.
Emit: “Emmett” is supposed to be “time” backwards according to some Back to the Future trivia I read once, so I just used the real spelling.
Un-tempered Schism: Mentioned in Doctor Who “The Sound of Drums”.
The Data Extracts: Info on Time Lords. Mentioned in Doctor Who “The Deadly Assassin”.
“I was a dad once…” The Doctor mentioned this in the Doctor Who episode “Fear Her”.
Susan’s fate: From Doctor Who “The Dalek Invasion of Earth”.