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Space Control Bureaucratic Obstacle
The Doctor races against time to decode an alien signal and prevent a disaster, facing bureaucratic obstacles from Space Control while dealing with missing astronauts.
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Season 7
2 events
S7E12 · The Ambassadors of Death Part 1
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TARDIS instability exposes Mars Probe crisis
The Doctor’s reckless tinkering with the TARDIS’s Time Vector Generator sends Liz Shaw flickering in and out of existence—15 seconds into the future—exposing the time machine’s instability. The Doctor, initially …
Doctor Decodes Alien Transmission
The crisis escalates as Space Control loses all contact with Mars Probe 7 and its recovery vessel, Recovery 7, leaving the fate of astronauts Van Lyden, Frank Michaels, and Joe …