Do you think the Doctor knows aliens from other universes / franchises?

[Gingerbread Demon]

Just spitballing fun ideas here.

I know it's not canon but do you think the Doctor has had encounters with aliens from things outside of Doctor Who?

For example the Martians from HG Wells, would the good Doctor know them?

 

[Jinn]

The Doctor knows Klingons, Vulcans, Borg and Betazoids!

 

[Markonian]

Good question.
Doctor Who guest-starred in the TNG: Assimilation^2 comics but I don't remember if he was familiar with any species.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

The Doctor knows Klingons, Vulcans, Borg and Betazoids!

yeah that's the kind of thing that made me think of this. I'm picturing the Doctor maybe 12 lecturing the Martians before the first cylinder is launched and they basically shrug and say bugger off.

 

[Timewalker]

Why wouldn't he? Fanfic has been providing such stories for decades.

And technically... humans are aliens from the point of view of Gallifreyans. There are humans in just about any SF/F franchise you care to name.

So the answer is obviously 'yes.'

 

[Starkers]

Well the Doctor implied he knew Arthur Dent which suggests he might have met Ford Prefect and would maybe have met Vogons.

 

[Redfern]

"Age of Steel" suggested travel to parallel and divergent continuums was relatively easy when the TimeLords were still present and the Doctor personally has occasionally "weaved" in and out of alternate universes. So I'd say, yeah, Doctor could possibly visit Wells' Mars, or Burroughs Barsoom, or even encounter the Martians whom Bradbury chronicled.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

"Age of Steel" suggested travel to parallel and divergent continuums was relatively easy when the TimeLords were still present and the Doctor personally has occasionally "weaved" in and out of alternate universes. So I'd say, yeah, Doctor could possibly visit Wells' Mars, or Burroughs Barsoom, or even encounter the Martians whom Bradbury chronicled.

OMG yes the Doctor on Barsoom now that would be fun.....The Therns actually would make for a great villain in Doctor Who

 

[Allyn Gibson]

For example the Martians from HG Wells, would the good Doctor know them?

I would happily have edited a Short Trips: The War of the Worlds anthology for Big Finish once the copyright expired in the United Kingdom on Wells' book. And when I say "happily," I wrote up a proposal, had ideas about who I wanted to write for the book, and had some specific stories in mind. Like, an eighth Doctor story in which he joins Edison's expedition to Mars in Garrett P. Serviss' Edison's Conquest of Mars.

Doctor Who guest-starred in the TNG: Assimilation^2 comics but I don't remember if he was familiar with any species.

No, but Assimilation2 strongly implies that the Slitheen exist in the Star Trek universe and that Picard knows them.

OMG yes the Doctor on Barsoom now that would be fun.....The Therns actually would make for a great villain in Doctor Who

I wrote an outline for this, too.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Well the Doctor implied he knew Arthur Dent which suggests he might have met Ford Prefect and would maybe have met Vogons.

I always thought 80's Ford could be an incarnation of the Doctor. He wore what looks like an alternate version of #5's outfit.


Crossovers with HHGTTG or Red Dwarf (outside of the TARDIS appearance on the RD herself) would have been cool.

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[Markonian]

Well the Doctor implied he knew Arthur Dent which suggests he might have met Ford Prefect and would maybe have met Vogons.

A Hitchhiker's/Who crossover could be neat! Perhaps in the world of comics.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

A Hitchhiker's/Who crossover could be neat! Perhaps in the world of comics.

No, I'd get Dirk Maggs and James Goss to work on it together, perhaps from unused Douglas Adams scraps that could be repurposed. Maggs handles the audio side of it ("The Heptagonal Phase") with, say, Tom Baker reprising the fourth Doctor, Goss writes the novel.

 

[diankra]

I always thought 80's Ford could be an incarnation of the Doctor. He wore what looks like an alternate version of #5's outfit.
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Douglas Adams said somewhere that Ford was the Doctor, but the anti-Doctor. The Doctor lands, gets involved, helps out. Ford lands, keeps out and gets a drink.

 

[XCV330]

I'm not entirely sure Kovich isn't the Doctor

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I'm not entirely sure Kovich isn't the Doctor

That would be a hoot

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Douglas Adams said somewhere that Ford was the Doctor, but the anti-Doctor. The Doctor lands, gets involved, helps out. Ford lands, keeps out and gets a drink.

And instead of a TARDIS, or even a Vortex Manipulator, he uses an electronic thumb.

 

[Lonemagpie]

The Doctor does read a book by Oolon Colluphid in Destiny Of The Daleks (you can see the author name on the cover), and Bernard Quatermass of the British Rocket Group is namechecked in Remembrance Of The Daleks.

 

[diankra]

The Doctor does read a book by Oolon Colluphid in Destiny Of The Daleks (you can see the author name on the cover), and Bernard Quatermass of the British Rocket Group is namechecked in Remembrance Of The Daleks.

Bernard and the British Rocket Group are. Not necessarily Quatermass though it obviously was (in Q continuity, he was being forced out in Pit, but the events there might change that).

 

[Lonemagpie]

Bernard and the British Rocket Group are. Not necessarily Quatermass though it obviously was (in Q continuity, he was being forced out in Pit, but the events there might change that).

It depends when Pit is actually set. It aired in 59 or so, but the series is clearly that "a few years in the future" - and the movie is the 60s, with Remembrance is set in 63, so... Bernie's continuity is knacked anyway cos he dies in Conclusion, but is still alive in the 90s in Tapes on the radio (when Andrew Keir comes back to play him)

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I wonder if trhere's a copy of the Hitchhiker's Guide somewhere in the TARDIS someone left behind.