The TV may not clearly support this viewpoint, without squinting, but in Audio-land, the Government of Earth quickly figures out that something is wrong with Zoe after she is returned from her final adventure in the War Games and strenuously interrogated the beautiful teenager to reveal future history and the secrets of time travel.
Maybe the political department in charge of protecting Earth against alien aggression weren't entirely evil for classifying the pretty little girl as an enemy of the state with a personal Future no more prospective than a rat in a cage, as human built mind probes hammered impotently against the Timelord mental blocks segmenting her intellect, almost lobotomising my girlfriend.
Zoe can't have been the only person this had ever happened to, others (political dissidents?) must have had their human rights limited to improve the functionality of the state, and maybe if Zoe had had any control on how she came home, she would have hid her travels better from The Man, or simply ran so that Big Brother wouldn't have had a chance to intrude needles through her eyballs and vacuum all the useful forbidden alien knowledge out of her gorgeous brain.
If this fate was a predictable doomed destination waiting down the line for Zoe, she might have been tempted to look for some nexus in the late 20th century, or early 21st where she could consider bending time to her will, shaking down her home time zone into a nicer and safer place to live out her retirement via some hopefully Butterfly proof enlightened alterations to history?
Maybe Zoe was going to stop someone (I'm looking at Trump, are you looking at Trump?) coming to power (with a bullet? Nooo. With a sex scandal in the newspaper?), or awarding a more benign politician or technologist with the clout to push ahead of the mob which historians didn't remember happening so that the mid 21st century wouldn't even consider chaining her to a wall and waiting, or maybe Zoe didn't realize that this was going to happen to her because she was good and loyal, and only bad traitors wind up in detention camps with bar codes tattooed onto their foreheads? That sort of thing only happens to other people surely?
Maybe the political department in charge of protecting Earth against alien aggression weren't entirely evil for classifying the pretty little girl as an enemy of the state with a personal Future no more prospective than a rat in a cage, as human built mind probes hammered impotently against the Timelord mental blocks segmenting her intellect, almost lobotomising my girlfriend.
Zoe can't have been the only person this had ever happened to, others (political dissidents?) must have had their human rights limited to improve the functionality of the state, and maybe if Zoe had had any control on how she came home, she would have hid her travels better from The Man, or simply ran so that Big Brother wouldn't have had a chance to intrude needles through her eyballs and vacuum all the useful forbidden alien knowledge out of her gorgeous brain.
If this fate was a predictable doomed destination waiting down the line for Zoe, she might have been tempted to look for some nexus in the late 20th century, or early 21st where she could consider bending time to her will, shaking down her home time zone into a nicer and safer place to live out her retirement via some hopefully Butterfly proof enlightened alterations to history?
Maybe Zoe was going to stop someone (I'm looking at Trump, are you looking at Trump?) coming to power (with a bullet? Nooo. With a sex scandal in the newspaper?), or awarding a more benign politician or technologist with the clout to push ahead of the mob which historians didn't remember happening so that the mid 21st century wouldn't even consider chaining her to a wall and waiting, or maybe Zoe didn't realize that this was going to happen to her because she was good and loyal, and only bad traitors wind up in detention camps with bar codes tattooed onto their foreheads? That sort of thing only happens to other people surely?
