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I tend to avoid race, gender, and sexuality discussions within fan forums and communities, because in our present age, people have forgotten or just don't know how to have a sensible, reasonable discussion about such serious and sensitive topics. That said, there's been a rather interesting discussion going on in the Doctor Who community over what
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As a geeky follow up - I just want to say that we don't know where Stormcage Containment Facility is. We see River and Liz 10 in the Royal Collection the scene after, though we don't see any travel between there and the Cantina where River gets the Vortex Manipulator, so we could postulate that Stormcage and the Royal Collection were not on the same planet. The Royal Collection COULD be on a New Earth, or colony planet. Also, the 51rst century would be from the year 5001 to 5100. 5145 would be in the 52nd century. Although River is a time-traveller, she does seem to be human, as does Jack. Earth totally is aware it is in the midst of vast alien empires by then, but it would seem that the Time Agents - the major travellers of the period, Earth's first true time/space manipulators - were mostly from Earth. Magnus Greel fostered a cul-de-sac in time travel with his Zigma experiment during World War 5 which ended in the year 5000. He escaped at that point back into Earth's past (1860-90) and accused the Doctor and Leela of being Time-Agents sent to fetch him. Perhaps there were some experiments going on concurrently? Anyways - the entire RTD basis for all this is from a few brilliant throw-away exposition lines from Robert Holmes' classic "The Talons of Weng Chiang".
Also, although Martha was the first POC companion on screen, the first POC companion the Doctor had was Sharon in the comics of Marvel's Doctor Who Magazine in 1979.
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