The Doctor (Time Lord)

The Doctor was a man in the 24th century. He wore a blue suit and a long brown coat.

Soleta once met the Doctor, and thought that he was "very odd". When Seven of Nine introduced her to another Doctor, the former Emergency Medical Hologram of the USS Voyager, at the Daystrom Institute in 2380, Soleta was initially confused by their similar names (NF novel: Blind Man's Bluff).

This character is a reference to the Tenth Doctor of Doctor Who.

The upcoming TNG comic: "Assimilation²" miniseries will be a crossover between Doctor Who and Star Trek: The Next Generation. This will likely feature the Doctor making a definite appearance within the Star Trek universe.

Other appearances

Various incarnations of the Doctor have been referenced or made cameo appearances in other licensed Star Trek works, though unnamed. These are collected here for reference, though within the context of the Star Trek universe and given the sometimes limited descriptions, they may not necessarily be the same person.

He potentially came from a stagnant civilization that had mastered time travel in the Kasteroborous galaxy (TOS novel: Ishmael).

In Doctor Who, the Doctor is a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey, which is located in the Kasterborous constellation. However, this connection has not yet been made in a Star Trek source. In Star Trek, the Aegis occupy a somewhat similar role as the Time Lords, and their homeworld was described similarly to Gallifrey in the DTI novel: Watching the Clock.

A small man in a scruffy frock coat with a flute visited a gambling hall on Montgomery Street, San Francisco, on Earth in 1867. He left with a young woman who'd been the topic of an argument between two trail-hands and a gambler (TOS novel: Ishmael).

The main character of an Earth science fiction series made some time before 2200 was a British-sounding humanoid with curly hair, a burgundy-colored coat, floppy hat, and an incredibly long scarf. He seemed quite intelligent and charming, and also seemed to have a childish ingenuousness. He traveled in a machine resembling a large blue police public call box that made a loud wheezing, groaning sound. In 2275, Jerry Freeman, Nyota Uhura and Harb Tanzer of the USS Enterprise converted an episode of this series into a three-dimensional hologram in the ship's recreation room. They and James T. Kirk saw the machine materialize and the main character step out and ask if he was in Heathrow (TOS novel: My Enemy, My Ally).

The line never appeared in real-world Doctor Who suggesting that this series progressed slightly differently in the Star Trek universe circa 1980.

Cervantes Quinn once stole a sonic screwdriver from "a rather daft chap" on Barolia, prior to 2265 (VAN novel: Harbinger).

The Doctor is of course famous for using a sonic screwdriver, though these have a wide use in the Star Trek universe.

A tall, curly-haired man in eccentric dress like that of a space-tramp visited the Wonder Bar on Starbase 12 in 2267. He left with a young woman who'd been the topic of an argument between a spice-smuggler and a pair of migrant fleet pilots (TOS novel: Ishmael).

A time machine resembling his police public call box appeared in the trophy room of Emperor Vandar in an alternate reality (TOS - Legion of Super Heroes comic: "Issue 5") and another appeared in the Eridian Vault in 2369 (DTI novel: Watching the Clock).

These of course resemble the Doctor's TARDIS, suggesting that he lost it on one or two occasions, and that he may even have been captured by Vandar. It also possible that these are other TARDISes with the same appearance (such as The Monk's TARDIS), or that these are from separate alternate universes.

External links

• Doctor (Doctor Who) article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
• The Doctor article at Tardis Data Core, the Doctor Who wiki