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* TalkingToHimself: Once Hargreaves is plugged fully into his central processing units he can communicate with all of his different selves at the same time.

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* TalkingToHimself: TalkingToThemself: Once Hargreaves is plugged fully into his central processing units he can communicate with all of his different selves at the same time.
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Ill Girl has been cut per TRS decision. Examples are moved to Delicate And Sickly when appropriate.


* IllGirl: In one of Big Finish's most disturbing [[RunningGag running gags]], Nyssa is once again infected by an alien plant and spends much of the story fighting off its symptoms.
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* ASpotOfTea: Hargreaves regularly lists the types of tea he has on offer to anybody he meets. Due to the time slips and his memory hard-resetting, the TARDIS crew quickly tire of hearing the list.

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* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Poor Jennings.]]

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* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Poor Jennings.]]Jennings]].
* CallForward: The Doctor ends up with [[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor a robot head linked to the TARDIS console]].



* ForScience: Doctor Sergei Akunin 'defends' his actions as preserving a new species, but the Doctor rejects the idea that he has 'created' anything more than a parasite.



* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Doctor Akunin's rant about his plans for the future of his new species give Hargreaves authority to have him stripped of command and arrested for harming other humans.



* ShoutOut: Tegan calls one of the ghosts [[WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost "Casper"]].
* TheSlowPath: Dr Akunin is stranded for decades on the Aquitaine, until Nyssa comes along.

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* ShoutOut: SanitySlippage: Doctor Akunin becomes so consumed by the thought of creating his own species that he [[spoiler:turns his fellow crewmates into his test subjects]].
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Tegan calls one of the ghosts [[WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost "Casper"]].
** The Doctor invokes the Three Laws of Robotics.
* TheSlowPath: Dr Doctor Akunin is stranded for decades on the Aquitaine, shifting back and forth through various time periods, until Nyssa comes along.
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* TheConstant: The crew gets shifted all around in time, but Hargreaves' central processors always remain in the same place. Once The Doctor fixes his memory circuits, Hargreaves gains awareness of the entire ship at every point in the time slip.
* EverybodyLives: Thanks to the laws of time being in flux, The Doctor and Hargreaves are able to ensure that none of the tragic deaths and mutations that befell the crew ever took place.
* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: Nyssa and Hargreaves manage to use weedkiller on the vegetation covering the ship in the past to clue The Doctor in to where she is.

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* TheConstant: The crew gets shifted all around in time, but Hargreaves' central processors always remain in the same place. Once The the Doctor fixes his memory circuits, Hargreaves gains awareness of the entire ship at every point in the time slip.
* EverybodyLives: Thanks to the laws of time being in flux, The the Doctor and Hargreaves are able to ensure that none of the tragic deaths and mutations that befell the crew ever took place.
* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: Nyssa and Hargreaves manage to use weedkiller on the vegetation covering the ship in the past to clue The the Doctor in to where she is.



* MagicAIsMagicA: Not for the first time, The Doctor insists that ghosts are ''not'' real, and that there is some (relatively) rational explanation for the apparitions

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* MagicAIsMagicA: Not for the first time, The the Doctor insists that ghosts are ''not'' real, and that there is some (relatively) rational explanation for the apparitions
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* TimeyWimeyBall: With the black hole and time slips involved, things quickly become very confusing.

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* TimeyWimeyBall: With the black hole and time slips involved, things quickly become very confusing.confusing.
* TransformationHorror: The transition into murderous plant monster is not exactly a fun one.

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* TheConstant: The crew gets shifted all around in time, but Hargreaves' central processors always remain in the same place. Once The Doctor fixes his memory circuits, Hargreaves gains awareness of the entire ship at every point in the time slip.



* [[RobotMaid Robot Butler]]: Hargreaves. Also Robot Gardener.

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* [[RobotMaid Robot Butler]]: Hargreaves. Also Robot Gardener.Gardener and Robot Medic.


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* TalkingToHimself: Once Hargreaves is plugged fully into his central processing units he can communicate with all of his different selves at the same time.
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* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: Nyssa and Hargreaves manage to use weedkiller on the vegetation covering the ship in the past to clue The Doctor in to where she is.



* SuperStrength: One of the side effects of the alien plant is that its infectees gain incredible strength for a time, before the transformation begins.

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* SuperStrength: One of the side effects of the alien plant is that its infectees gain incredible strength for a time, before the transformation begins.begins.
* TimeyWimeyBall: With the black hole and time slips involved, things quickly become very confusing.
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* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Poor Jennings.]]


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* GardenOfEvil: Thanks to Akunin's experiments and decades of disrepair, the botanical gardens have mutated into this.


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* ASpotOfTea: Hargreaves regularly lists the types of tea he has on offer to anybody he meets. Due to the time slips and his memory hard-resetting, the TARDIS crew quickly tire of hearing the list.
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Today should be much like every other day for Hargreaves, the computer consciousness that co-ordinates daily life aboard the spaceship Aquitaine, stationed on the outer fringes of a black hole. Water the plants, run the diagnostics, cook the Captain's breakfast; then tidy the plates away, rotate the ship, clean the windows of the observation deck. When at last the day's work is done, Hargreaves will dim the lights in the sleeping quarters. But no-one will sleep aboard the Aquitaine tonight. Because the Aquitaine's crew is missing.

But today will be different. Today, a space/time ship called the TARDIS will materialise in the botanical section, bringing the Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan aboard the Aquitaine. Together, they'll seek to discover the truth of what happened to Hargreaves' crew...

... if only the ghosts will let them.

!!''Aquitaine'' contains examples of:

* ApocalypticLog: Hargreaves' journal detailing his decades alone on the Aquitaine.
* CatchPhrase: Tegan's "rabbits!" pops up again.
* EverybodyLives: Thanks to the laws of time being in flux, The Doctor and Hargreaves are able to ensure that none of the tragic deaths and mutations that befell the crew ever took place.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Decades cut off from the rest of the crew hasn't done a lot for Dr Akunin's sanity levels.
* IllGirl: In one of Big Finish's most disturbing [[RunningGag running gags]], Nyssa is once again infected by an alien plant and spends much of the story fighting off its symptoms.
* MadScientist: He hides it well at first, but Dr Akunin is more than a little unhinged.
* MagicAIsMagicA: Not for the first time, The Doctor insists that ghosts are ''not'' real, and that there is some (relatively) rational explanation for the apparitions
* [[RobotMaid Robot Butler]]: Hargreaves. Also Robot Gardener.
* ShoutOut: Tegan calls one of the ghosts [[WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost "Casper"]].
* TheSlowPath: Dr Akunin is stranded for decades on the Aquitaine, until Nyssa comes along.
* SuperStrength: One of the side effects of the alien plant is that its infectees gain incredible strength for a time, before the transformation begins.

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