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* ChromosomeCasting: Apart from Sarah, Vira is the only female character in the story.
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* OurMonstersAreWeird: The Wirrn has a truly bizarre multigenerational life-cycle that functions as The Virus and parasitism simultaneously. Wirrn larva are created through fertilising the skin of another species (non-sapient animals are used for this purpose on the Wirrn homeworld, but humans and presumably Time Lords work just as well) and converting their body and brain into that of a larva. The larva then pupates and develops into a fully-fledged Wirrn, a huge wasp-like creature, which gains all the knowledge its host knew. It then lays eggs containing larvae that hatch under its direct control, and any hosts they fertilise transfer the knowledge back to the swarm leader as well.
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* HumanPopsicle: Humanity froze itself to wait out an environmental catastrophe. Ironically, the Doctor himself makes the cryogenic/cryonic mistake, while belittling poor Harry's intelligence.
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* TheVirusTheVirus: The Wirrn can work a lot like this.
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TheArk: The Earth is rendered temporarily uninhabitable by solar flares, and the surviving humans, as well as samples of the animal and plant life, sit it out in suspended animation on a space station. (The station commander even adopts the name "Noah"; Vira tells the Doctor that they know it's not much of a joke, but under the circumstances they were taking their laughs where they could find them.)
*BigCreepyCrawliesBigCreepyCrawlies: The Wirrn.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The Doctor gives one to Sarah Jane calculated to hit all of her {{Berserk Button}}s, in order to turn her [[ScreamingWoman screaming]] into screams of UnstoppableRage. (This was the Fourth Doctor's second story and so it serves as something of an EstablishingCharacterMoment for him - it is impossible to imagine the Third Doctor being this manipulative.)
--->'''Doctor''': Oh, stop whining, girl. You're useless.
--->'''Sarah''': Oh, Doctor..!
--->'''Doctor''': "Oh, Doctor", is that all you can say for yourself? Stupid, foolish girl. We should never have relied on you. I knew you'd let us down. That's the trouble with girls like you. You think you're tough, but when you're really up against it, you've no guts at all. Hundreds of lives at stake and you lie there, blubbing.
--->'''Doctor''': Oh, stop whining, girl. You're useless.
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--->'''Doctor''': "Oh, Doctor", is that all you can say for yourself? Stupid, foolish girl. We should never have relied on you. I knew you'd let us down. That's the trouble with girls like you. You think you're tough, but when you're really up against it, you've no guts at all. Hundreds of lives at stake and you lie there, blubbing.
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* SolarFlareDisaster: Solar flares have made the Earth inhabitable, so the humans evacuated it in search of a new home.
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* PocketProtector: The Doctor is saved from being shot by a piece of metal he placed in his pocket while working on the shuttle craft.
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* SleeperStarship: Well, it's meant to be gone for 5millenia.millennia.
* SleeperStarship: Well, it's meant to be gone for 5
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* MutagenicGoo: The slime trail left by the Wirrn larva transforms Noah into a Wirrn.
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-->'''Doctor:''' You're improving, Harry! Your mind is beginning to work. It's entirely due to my influence, of course, you mustn't take any credit.
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->''Homo sapiens. What an inventive, invincible species. It's only a few million years since they crawled up out of the mud and learned to walk. Puny, defenceless bipeds. They've survived flood, famine and plague. They've survived cosmic wars and holocausts. And now, here they are, out among the stars, waiting to begin a new life. Ready to outsit eternity. They're indomitable.''
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->''Homo sapiens. What an inventive, invincible species. It's only a few million years since they crawled up out of the mud and learned to walk. Puny, defenceless bipeds. They've survived flood, famine and plague. They've survived cosmic wars and holocausts. And now, here they are, out among the stars, waiting to begin a new life. Ready to outsit eternity. They're indomitable. Indomitable.''
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* NotNowKiddo: Done to Sarah Jane. ''Twice.'''' Eventually, the Doctor reveals he's doing this as a SecretTestOfCharacter, trying to make Sarah feel undervalued so she will rise to the challenge. In truth, the Doctor is very proud of her.
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->''Homo sapiens. What an inventive, invincible species. It's only a few million years since they crawled up out of the mud and learned to walk. Puny, defenceless bipeds. They've survived flood, famine and plague. They've survived cosmic wars and holocausts. And now, here they are, out among the stars, waiting to begin a new life. Ready to outsit eternity. [[PatrickStewartSpeech They're indomitable.]]''''
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* Chekhov'sGun: ChekhovsGun: While working on the shuttle craft, the Doctor removes a piece of metal and puts it in his pocket. It's still there in the next story and saves his life when the bad guy shoots him.
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* Chekov'sGun: Checkhov'sGun: While working on the shuttle craft, the Doctor removes a piece of metal and puts it in his pocket. It's still there in the next story and saves his life when the bad guy shoots him.
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* Chekov'sGun: While working on the shuttle craft, the Doctor removes a piece of metal and puts it in his pocket. It's still there in the next story and saves his life when the bad guy shoots him.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Get ready, boys and girls; the Doctor's about to monologue!]]
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* ExecutiveMeddling: In the original script, The Wirrn were simply ejected from the Ark in the shuttle. However, the BBC feared that the possiblity of them surviving would frighten younger viewers, forcing Holmes to kill them off at the end.
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'''WARNING! THERE MAY BE UNMARKED SPOILERS!'''
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* BreakHerHeartToSaveHer: The Doctor intentionally insults Sarah Jane and hurts her feelings in order to help her achieve the AirVentPassageway escape. Needless to say, he doesn't mean it.
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* AlmostOutOfOxygen: One of the first things the Doctor needs to fix on the Ark is the oxygen supply. Later on, the Wirrn deliberately cut off the air, because they can survive for longer periods without breathing, but the humans obviously can't.
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* CryonicsFailure: Because the Wirrn sabotaged it, the waking system doesn't work. And Dune is eaten by Wirrn larvae while suspended.
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* EmotionlessGirl: Vira never shows much emotion, at least until the moment she realises the mission has succeeded..
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* FightingFromTheInside: Noah manages to get a message back to Vira while the Wirrn is converting him. And at the end, he is strong enough to not save the Wirrn despite knowing how.
* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: The purpose of the Ark is to make the human race survive.
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* YouAreInCommandNow: Noah appoints Vira as the commander when he realises he's no longer able to.
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Both RussellTDavies Creator/RussellTDavies and StevenMoffat Creator/StevenMoffat have cited this as their favourite serial from the original run of ''Doctor Who''.
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Before ''{{Alien}}'', there was "The Ark in Space".
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Before ''{{Alien}}'', ''Film/{{Alien}}'', there was "The Ark in Space".
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* LawfulStupid: Every human in this time, apparently. Noah is the worst.
