Re: Killer pterosaurs, scifi angle --- further adrift.....

[Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

Christian Darkin wrote:

> perhaps Adric had a cold? - or maybe it was cyber-flu

Or Alzarian flu?


Allan Edels wrote:

> Also, Dr. Who had an explanation for the destruction of the dinosaurs - the 
> Cybermen tried to crash a very large spaceship into eath, but one of the 
> doctor's companions (Adric) sacrificed himself in order to cause the 
> crashing ship to go back in time over 65 million years, thereby killing off 
> the dinosaurs. (See, it wasn't a meteor of asteroid or comet that hit the 
> Yucatan, it was a very large spaceship! :-).

The first episode of this story ("Earthshock") also featured a dinosaur 
skeleton in an underground cavern.  The story begins with a military 
expedition investigating the massacre of a team of paleontologists in the 
cavern!

Also, it was my recollection that Adric didn't actually cause the spaceship 
to go back in time; he was trying to steer the ship off course.  The ship 
traveled back in time as an unintended consequence of the cybermen meddling 
with the ship's controls.  I think.

Cheers

Tim