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It's [[Big Finish Doctor Who (Radio)/CC/Recap/S5 E8/E08 The Perpetual Bond/CC|Oliver's]] first trip in the TARDIS with the Doctor and Steven, and the three of them end up on a spherical space station which appears at first glance to be a giant greenhouse. Upon further inspection, Steven finds that they're orbiting Earth--the Earth of his past and Oliver's future, with its sky clogged full of detritus and debris. Steven knows how dangerous this can be for space traffic, but the aliens who run the station don't seem to ... Or do they?
 
They're tall, red-skinned humanoids, it turns out, and they know perfectly well what they're doing. They are able to navigate the clutter of debris with surprising skill, except when inconvenient space/time travellers land on their ship and knock it out of its path with their extra mass. The Doctor and co have just done this. Possible disaster is averted when the aliens jettison the excess mass--specifically the TARDIS--and tell the Doctor and crew that they're lucky they weren't sent out along with it.
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* [[Humanoid Aliens]]
* [[Improvised Microgravity Maneuvering]]: In this case, with a canister of air they can ill afford to spare, and Steven has to do the required maths in his head.
* [[The Reveal]]: Oliver's secret from [[Big Finish Doctor Who (Radio)/CC/Recap/S5 E8/E08 The Perpetual Bond/CC|The Perpetual Bond.]]
* [[Space Is Cold]]: Steven sticks a hand out into space for a bit; it ends up frostbitten when he pulls it back in.
* [[StraightInvisible Gayto Gaydar]]: {{spoiler|Oliver.}}
* [[We Are Asas Mayflies]]: "Poor Doctor. He loses all of us. [...] He must know it, too. Those he lets travel in his ship, we're all on borrowed time. Our lives must seem to flicker past him--the old man, an exile from his own people. How many has he lost? ... And is that why [[Determinator|he never gives up on us?"]]
 
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