"Look, do you think this has happened before? That we’ve carried an infection from one age to another, or even one planet to another?"
I was at work today when my brain made a disturbing leap about Dodo. If Dodo really is the descendant of Anne Chaplet, then Anne probably had an illegitimate child to carry her name. Anne spent at least one night alone with Steven. There's nothing to imply that they had a fling, but there is room for the possibility.
I think that I just broke my brain with that one.
The Dodo plague is running its course through the ship. Monoids and humans alike are dying and the second-in-command is eating the scenery in his attempts to get the travelers convicted and executed.
Steven asks an amazingly insightful and disturbing question. Are the TARDIS crew unknowingly passing along diseases as they travel?
The rest of the episode doesn't really live up to this level of thoughtfulness. The travelers are placed on trial, Steven catches the Dodo plague, the travelers are put to death, but are given a commuted sentence if the Doctor can make a cure.
He does and the TARDIS is free to go.
This leads to the cliffhanger. The TARDIS arrives in the same relative spot in the Ark's garden only 700 years in the future. They discover that a statue of a human that was to be completed when the Ark was near it's final destination, has been completed. Only it's a Monoid head on top.
This story has a couple nice ideas, Dodo as plague carrier and taking a glimpse ahead to see what effect that the travelers have had on a culture. They tied those two good ideas with a really crappy story.
Next up: The Return
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