Tell me more about the 51st Century.

[Guy Gardener]

Home of K9 Mark I, The library, Magnus Greel, World War V, the Madame De Pompadour and Jack Harkness, lo it might be that they lived/existed on opposite quarters of the century... Anything else whovian happen between the years 5000 (yes, I know, shut up.) and 5099?

 

[Bacl]

I still wish I knew what the hell the Time Agency really was.

 

[Guy Gardener]

They're the ones that make you go to Murder Addiction councilling when you're just a good ol' boy having a good ol' time.

Though I find it odd that there could be a time Agency since in the Talons of Weng Chiang, the doctor pomped on and on about the 51st century being a technological dark age as their time travel experiments using Zygma Energy were a dead end and quite dangerous ecologically and biologically speaking.... but then after a couple Zygma explosions destroying cities if not countries and continents, you can bet your life that there would be a freshly minted Time Agency created to make sure that time travel wasn't casually used by blundering morons no more.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

It's been awhile, but the novel Emotional Chemistry implied that the Earth was covered with ice by that time. A new Ice Age happened in the intervening time. (That novel also deals with the formation of the Time Agents, and mentions Magnus Greel)

 

[denmaroca]

K9 was created in the year 5000 (seen in The Invisible Enemy (Wikipedia)).

 

[Guy Gardener]

Today I have watched the Invisiblke Enemey, the talons of Weng Chaing, the image of fendhal and I'm half way through the sun makers... Look IT'S VILLA!

Thus the question.

The New Ice Age was mentioned in Talons of Weng Chiang as part of the butcher of Brisbans person history.

I wonder how many banana forests the doctor made in the 51st century and how much of his affair with his missus happened int he 51st century since it's her home?

 

[David cgc]

Portions of humanity had apparently advanced enough to understand meta-time. At least, the Time Agency did, since Jack had apparently had dealings with Time Lords and Daleks and knew they'd both been wiped out, and he, John, and Gray didn't have any problems with meeting at different points in their personal histories. River Song didn't have a command of the concept, though, since she had to use more mundane means of making sure she and the Doctor were in sync than just relying on how time travelers so rarely meet each other out of order.

 

[The Mirrorball Man]

You should probably read this.

 

[Guy Gardener]

And how is that conducive to a living conversation other than anything but a bullet in the back of its brain pan?

It's about the journey, not the destination surely?

Thank you however.

besides I assumed that once we ran out of facts that people would start getting silly.

 

[Worf2DS9]

Isn't Bernice Summerfield also from the 51st century?

 

[Cyke101]

As a Filipino, I lovelovelove that the Filipino Army of the 51st Century took down the Supreme Alliance.

Heck, for that matter, I'm also quite happy that Iceland apparently became a superpower itself. I'd be interested to hear the histories of both nations between the 21st and 51st Centuries.

 

[The Wormhole]

Jack had apparently had dealings with Time Lords and Daleks and knew they'd both been wiped out,

Jack obviously had experiance with the Daleks, since in Bad Wolf he says "I know those ships." However, I don't think he had dealings with the Time Lords. He heard of them, obviously since in The Sound of Drums he speaks of legends about them and Gallifrey.

 

[David cgc]

Well, he knew some amount of detail about regeneration.

 

[Stevil2001]

Isn't Bernice Summerfield also from the 51st century?

Nope, the 26th/27th-- basically 600 years after whenever her stories are being published.

 

[The Wormhole]

Well, he knew some amount of detail about regeneration.

I assumed Jack read up on whatever info Torchwood and UNIT had about regeneration, or the Doctor and Time Lords during his stay in the 20th century.