There's huge numbers of passing references: TARDIS noise among the upload cacophony of the Intersect in Chuck, and most blatantly Nicholas Courtney's role in Outbreak of Fear (he's posing as a police officer, but eventually admits he's British army, heading a group that deals with odd incidents: not, as someone guesses, a colonel, but "Brigadier, actually.").
Would you like to see Doctor Who crossover with another show?
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Will that involve mass killing of annoying characters?
Maybe an assimilation or two.
What's exciting is how Doctor Who can go from comedy to drama, so why not do that literally.
Yes, I can just imagine the Dakek reaction to the Gallifreyian Xenomorphs.... imagine the Dalek Parliament seeing footage ofthe Doctor's TARDIS materializing, out jumps this Xenomorph, and it just rips apart a Dalek, and it takes hundreds of them to kill just this one.... And then it regenerates.... starts killing the rest.... I'm sure that would go over well in the Patliamentry discussions. The Master would just have his head bitten off when talking too much.
I doubt the Xenomorph would want a face hugger attaching itself to a Dalek uncovered, rather weak species physically, I've had Jello with better fortitude.... so the fact the Dalek's are encased shouldn't matter. Just fun killing and eating them.
Cybermen.... not 100% certain a facehugger could penetrate, but they do have biological components. Worst case scenario is a baby Xenomorph with some cyber attachments.
Predators loose on Gallifrey. Or Clara's school.
I doubt the Xenomorph would want a face hugger attaching itself to a Dalek uncovered, rather weak species physically, I've had Jello with better fortitude.... so the fact the Dalek's are encased shouldn't matter. Just fun killing and eating them.
Cybermen.... not 100% certain a facehugger could penetrate, but they do have biological components. Worst case scenario is a baby Xenomorph with some cyber attachments.
Predators loose on Gallifrey. Or Clara's school.
Frankly, I would love to see a Doctor Who/Aliens crossover. Maybe not quite as much as the now-scuttled Dark Horse/IDW Star Trek: The Next Generation/Aliens crossover (because the 24th-century is just too safe, and the Xenomorphs would puncture Picard's pretensions reallydamnfast), but I'd still love to see it.
Fundamentally, the Alien stories are all "base under siege" stories. One of Doctor Who's basic story types is "base under siege." A Who/Aliens story would hit the body horror buttons in a way that Doctor Who hasn't done in a long time, at least since "Asylum of the Daleks," maybe as far back as "The Tenth Planet," because Doctor Who itself has become somewhat "safe." The Xenomorph could really screw with the Doctor -- he knows the universe isn't made for us (to borrow a phrase from Carl Sagan), he's fought monsters, but he's become complacent in his old age, and he finds himself out of his depth.
About fifteen years ago, after reading Lawrence Miles' The Book of the War, I had this insane idea about how one of the Great Houses might decide to use the Xenomorphs as shock troops in the War against the Enemy. To build an army of Xenomorphs, you need host bodies, and so one of the war powers kept the hosts in a temporal loop, dying as they are killed by the chestburster and then reborn to be impregnated by the facehugger and repeat the cycle. But the Great House found that this was an army impossible to control, because they might as well have tried to corral a force of nature.
Don't think there's a lost or unusable story in my files. There's not. Merely a sketch of about a page.
The Doctor versus the Xenomorphs. There's definitely any number of stories that could be told. If Dark Horse and Titan put their heads together, I'd love to see what they could do. The question, of course, would be, "What does the BBC think about mixing their 'family show' with an R-rated horror franchise?" But it's possible to do Aliens PG-13.
I recall reading on a wiki Doctor Who has done comic crossovers in the past.... I can't remember the comic character, but know it has happened.
I thought about Startrek, but Startrek has teleporters, and phasers that can be adapted via replicators to whatever damn setting you want. You want to scare Picard, make him a substitute school teacher for troubled youth.
I am interested in this "base defence" idea of yours as a class of science fiction. That's mostly what zombies are.
My state of West Virginia is for reasons nobody else seems to grasp, the most addicted to zombie films and literature. Night of the Living Dead was filmed nearby where I live just over the border in Pennslyvania. People don't grasp that in The French and Indian Wars, Lord Dunmore's War, and American Revolution, Indian fighting styles in Western PA and the state we now fall Virginia very closely resembled Indian attacks on blockhouses and fortified houses. One day you get up, go out to farm, or hunt, then 30 Indians surround your house, surrounding it, and you flee inside. They didn't quite grasp how locking mechanisms worked, and not much as far as breech or siege equipment (they only just started experimenting with western style layouts of towns, and their traditional buildings not designed to keep determined people out physically, so they had a long learning curve to figuring it out). A lot of the stories parallel modern zombie stories- people watching for hours to days as people swarm outside. Door kept getting tested, weak spots. You shoot at them. Wait. More waiting. Once in a while, if you could spare someone, a runner sent out to neighboring community to warn, get help.
If you lose, your mutilated, killed, or scalped. Scalped = Eat Brain. Sometimes ritualized cannabalism, but not much. They like to torture people alive, gruesome, like watching people ripped alive by zombies.
The religion of that time was generally protestant, with medieval elements of witchcraft still present. Church of England, or German ideas. Many had a literally monistic view on the resurrection, that it was your dead body in the ground that would crawl up from the grave on judgment day.
That is why my area, in my personal belief, is so heavily addicted to zombie movies. I've researched it a hit, can't find any contradictory data. Yes, zombie stories go back farther in history, but that exact mix, the kind that makes a show like The Walking Dead, that's pretty close to our early history here. Sounds similar to your base defence concept. I'm thinking your thinking Star Ship Troopers 2? That's a castle keep, much bigger than a block house, but same basic idea.
You need to read Heron of Byzantium if your a writer. Unique ideas, one of his books focuses strictly on siegecraft. Endless ideas for a storyteller. Also Aeneas Tacitus, or Mo Tzo. If your interested in architecture, look at The Knights of Rhodes' fortifications on Rhodes.
I thought about Startrek, but Startrek has teleporters, and phasers that can be adapted via replicators to whatever damn setting you want. You want to scare Picard, make him a substitute school teacher for troubled youth.
I am interested in this "base defence" idea of yours as a class of science fiction. That's mostly what zombies are.
My state of West Virginia is for reasons nobody else seems to grasp, the most addicted to zombie films and literature. Night of the Living Dead was filmed nearby where I live just over the border in Pennslyvania. People don't grasp that in The French and Indian Wars, Lord Dunmore's War, and American Revolution, Indian fighting styles in Western PA and the state we now fall Virginia very closely resembled Indian attacks on blockhouses and fortified houses. One day you get up, go out to farm, or hunt, then 30 Indians surround your house, surrounding it, and you flee inside. They didn't quite grasp how locking mechanisms worked, and not much as far as breech or siege equipment (they only just started experimenting with western style layouts of towns, and their traditional buildings not designed to keep determined people out physically, so they had a long learning curve to figuring it out). A lot of the stories parallel modern zombie stories- people watching for hours to days as people swarm outside. Door kept getting tested, weak spots. You shoot at them. Wait. More waiting. Once in a while, if you could spare someone, a runner sent out to neighboring community to warn, get help.
If you lose, your mutilated, killed, or scalped. Scalped = Eat Brain. Sometimes ritualized cannabalism, but not much. They like to torture people alive, gruesome, like watching people ripped alive by zombies.
The religion of that time was generally protestant, with medieval elements of witchcraft still present. Church of England, or German ideas. Many had a literally monistic view on the resurrection, that it was your dead body in the ground that would crawl up from the grave on judgment day.
That is why my area, in my personal belief, is so heavily addicted to zombie movies. I've researched it a hit, can't find any contradictory data. Yes, zombie stories go back farther in history, but that exact mix, the kind that makes a show like The Walking Dead, that's pretty close to our early history here. Sounds similar to your base defence concept. I'm thinking your thinking Star Ship Troopers 2? That's a castle keep, much bigger than a block house, but same basic idea.
You need to read Heron of Byzantium if your a writer. Unique ideas, one of his books focuses strictly on siegecraft. Endless ideas for a storyteller. Also Aeneas Tacitus, or Mo Tzo. If your interested in architecture, look at The Knights of Rhodes' fortifications on Rhodes.
It was in fact Star Trek that Doctor Who had a crossover with in IDW comics. Assimilation-Squared, a story which was the Eleventh Doctor with Amy and Rory team up with the Enterprise D to fight an alliance between the Borg and the Cybermen.
There was a quite ridiculous 1990 comic called Dr. Whom Meets Star Wreck.
Michael J. Fox as either Alex P. Keaton or Marty McFly meeting the Doctor!
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