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The Doctor and Rose find themselves in Coldstar, an orbital freezer store which is under attack from pirates. But the pirates defrosting the place as a show of power means that it's soon also under attack from something else...

  • Accidental Misnaming: Brona mistakenly calls Lorna "Laura" at one point.
  • Continuity Nod:
  • Cycle of Vengeance: Lord Hasskar wants revenge on the humans of Enyo, even though the ones he fought died centuries ago. In turn, the Enyoans of his time period attacked a perfectly peaceful Martian colony because they remembered the wars with other Ice Warriors.
  • Fantastic Ghetto: The Ice Warrior refugees and their descendents live in these. Most humans barely even know they're there, but Lorna does, because they still need their bins emptied.
  • Humans Are the Real Monsters: The humans were the agressors in the war between Enyo and Bellona.
  • Not Now, Kiddo: Lorna keeps trying to explain that there are Ice Warriors now living on Enyo, but neither Hasskar nor the Doctor will listen.
  • Recoil Boost: Rose, Lorna and Callum Volta manage to escape the Coldstar in an industrial wheelie bin, propelled by the welding torches on the Voltas' robotic "wreckers".
  • Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: As the Doctor points out, Enyo and Bellona are both names of the Consort of Mars in Roman mythology.
  • Revenge Before Reason: Lord Hasskar is totally consumed by vengeance, at one point saying that it doesn't even matter if he wins, as long as his enemy loses.
  • Space Pirates: The Voltas, mother and son. Brona claims that her family have been space pirates for generations, and her ship was originally her grandmother's.
  • Town with a Dark Secret: Enyo tries to hush up the destruction of the Ice Warrior colony on Bellona, only refering to the planet by its astronomical designation of K-Z-Alpha-9, and keeping the refugees in shantytowns where no-one will ask awkward questions about where they came from.

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