History Recap / DoctorWhoNSS3E742

* ContinuityNod: As he's being put into stasis, the Doctor tries to tell Martha [[TheNthDoctor what happens to Time Lords who are near death]], having obviously learnt from the confusion Rose went through way back when.

The Doctor and Martha land the TARDIS aboard a spaceship, only to have the room they landed in rise to unbearable temperatures, trapping them aboard the ship, which is being pulled into a nearby sun. Martha and the Doctor have only forty-two minutes to save the ship, the crew, and themselves. Meanwhile, a member of the crew has contracted a mysterious illness. His body temperature rises to an impossible height just before he opens his burning-white eyes and absolutely fries a fellow crewmember to a scorch on the wall.

The only way to save the ship is to pass through a security system, which the crew inconveniently programmed while they were drunk, and decided that it would be a good idea to make it a series of obscure trivia questions. It's like the Pub Quiz from Hell. Martha phones her mum, her own VoiceWithAnInternetConnection, and gets some answers... unaware that Mrs. Jones' phone is being tapped by the mysterious people from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E6TheLazarusExperiment The Lazarus Experiment]]", the ones with sinister music cues; they are revealed to be government agents working for Mr. Saxon.

Before Martha and the other guy make it to the finish, though, another crewmember gets infected with the mysterious burning illness and corners Martha and another crewmember in an escape pod. The Doctor freezes the infected crewman, but it is too late, and the escape pod has already been released. Martha and the crewman are falling into the sun, and the escape pod retrieval controls are on the outside of the ship... Fat lot of good they'll do there.

The Doctor dons a familiar orange spacesuit and saves Martha's ass, but as he's clinging to the side of the spaceship, he gets a very clear view of the sun -- and the sun gets a very clear view of him. Apparently the sun is alive, and it's angry. The Doctor, succumbing to the same possession by the sun that claimed the other two crew members, reveals that the only way the sun will let them go is if they return the stolen sun particles the ship has been using for fuel. Martha takes care of it and saves the day, because the Doctor's a bit preoccupied with going batshit insane.

* ConvectionSchmonvection: Sort of, it's more radiant heat than convection. Apparently stars are only lethally hot when you actually touch them, and being ten minutes away just means sweating a lot.

* DuelingMovies: Or "Dueling Episode and Movie", as the basic plot of this episode shares a striking similarity with the plot of DannyBoyle's film ''Film/{{Sunshine}}'' which came out a few months after the episode aired.

* OhCrap: "''Burn with me...''" Dialed UpToEleven near the end. ''"Burn with me, [[spoiler: Martha..]]"''

* ShoutOut: [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 42]], in honour of the late Classic Who writer/producer DouglasAdams

** After Martha asks the Doctor about Elvis and the Beatles, he says, "Here comes the sun"...which is a song by the Beatles.

* MenAreTheExpendableGender: [[spoiler:Averted. Only male crew members survive the episode.]]

* ShoutOut: [[HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 42]], in honour of the late Classic Who writer/producer DouglasAdams

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Mister Saxon sent people to listen to Martha's mother's phone.

* UnitConfusion: For American Whovians, it's a bit confusing at first to hear that Corwin's body temperature has "risen to 100˚"—that's only a mild fever for us in the States.

* SpaceWhaleAesop: Remember kids, always check to make sure that the star you're using as a fuel source isn't [[spoiler:sentient]]...

** In fact, in a brief close-up of the Doctor in his orange space suit at around 31 min in, you can read the word "Icarus" at top of his helmet (and the word "Transtellar" at the bottom).

** Also marks the first appearance of the Master's {{Leitmotif}} and the [[HellIsThatNoise drumbeat.]]

It's [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS2E8TheImpossiblePlanet "The Impossible Planet"]], InTheStyleOf ''[[TwentyFour 24]]''... InSpace

* TheHeartless: The sun was essentially turned into this, driving it insane.

* InTheStyleOf: The entire episode is in real time, complete with a handy timer describing how much time is left until [[strike: the ship crashes into the sun]] the episode ends, just like [[TwentyFour a certain suspense show that moves forward in real time and has an ever-present timer.]]

** It's also ''TwentyFour'' flipped around, which is a more relevant reference (see InTheStyleOf above).

* MeaningfulName: At least part of the device used to open the door is appropriately branded "Icarus".

* MeaningfulName: At least part of the device used to open the door is appropriately branded Icarus.

* MeaingfulName: At least part of the device used to open the door is appropriately branded Icarus.

It's [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS2E8TheImpossiblePlanet "The Impossible Planet"]] all over again. Or ''[[TwentyFour 24]]''... InSpace

It's ''[[TwentyFour 24]]''... InSpace

[[IGotBetter He gets better.]]

* TheHeartless: The sun was essentially turned into this, driving it insane. [[IGotBetter It gets better.]]

It's ''[[TwentyFour 24]]''... InSpace!

The only way to save the ship is to pass through a security system, which the crew inconveniently programmed while they were drunk, and decided that it would be a good idea to make it a series of obscure trivia questions. It's like the Pub Quiz from Hell. Martha phones her mum, her own VoiceWithAnInternetConnection, and gets some answers... unaware that Mrs Jones' phone is being tapped by the mysterious people from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E6TheLazarusExperiment The Lazarus Experiment]]", the ones with sinister music cues; they are revealed to be government agents working for Mr Saxon.

The Doctor dons a familiar orange spacesuit and saves Martha's ass, but as he's clinging to the side of the spaceship, he gets a very clear view of the sun-- and the sun gets a very clear view of him. Apparently the sun is alive, and it's angry. The Doctor, succumbing to the same possession by the sun that claimed the other two crew members, reveals that the only way the sun will let them go is if they return the stolen sun particles the ship has been using for fuel. Martha takes care of it and saves the day, because the Doctor's a bit preoccupied with going batshit insane.

It's ''{{TwentyFour}}'''... InSpace!

It's ''{{24}}'''... InSpace!

The Doctor and Martha land the TARDIS aboard a spaceship, only to have the room they landed in rise to unbearable temperatures, trapping them aboard the ship, which is being pulled into a nearby sun. Martha and the Doctor have only forty-two minutes to save the ship, the crew, and themselves. Meanwhile, a member of the crew has contracted a mysterious illness. His body temperature rises to an impossible height just before he opens his burning-white eyes and absolutely fries a fellow crewmember to a scorch on the wall.

* ConvectionSmonvection: Sort of, it's more radiant heat than convection. Apparently stars are only lethally hot when you actually touch them, and being ten minutes away just means sweating a lot.

* ConvectionSmonvection: Sort of, its more radiant heat than convection. Apparently stars are only lethally hot when you actually touch them, and being ten minutes away just means sweating a lot.

* TooDumbToLive: Irina, griping about being asked to fetch tools to fix the ship ''while it's falling into the sun because of instrument failure''.