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'''The Doctor:''' ''What happened to it all?''
'''Range:''' ''It failed.'' }}
Tegan wants to see something of humanity's future. So when the Doctor takes the TARDIS to Frontios, where sometime in the distant future the last remnants of humanity huddle together under semi-primitive conditions and occasionally get devoured by the ground or squashed by meteor showers, she insists on going out and checking up on them.
The Doctor, as usual easily talked out of disregarding Time Lord rules about not interfering, tries to help out. The locals, also in the usual way, treat the Doctor as a threat not a helper, but Turlough saves him by waving a hatstand in a threatening manner. Then it turns out the problem is giant insect aliens that used to attack Turlough's people too, and he has prolonged fit of [[Chewing the Scenery|scenery chewing]]. Eventually our heroes, together with the more reasonable Frontios-humans, fight the Tractators by [[Briar Patching|outwitting]] their only articulate, thinking member, the Gravis. So that's all right. And they'll all get a nice break next, [[Blatant Lies|promise]].
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* [[Apocalypse How]]: Class X. Apparently the Earth ''collided with the sun'' somehow.
* [[The Ark]]: Brought the humans to Frontios, then promptly crashed, leaving them without their advanced technology.
* [[Big Creepy
* [[Bound and Gagged]]: Norna in Episode Four.
* [[Colony Drop]]: The meteor showers engineered by the Tractators
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Five, by this point, has become almost as prone to this as his squabbling companions. E.g. "Oh, marvellous. You're going to kill me. What a finely tuned response to the situation."
* [[Death Glare]]: Tegan manages a serious one when the Doctor, having [[It Makes Sense in Context|passed her off as an android to save her from the Tractators]], throws in a gratuitous (and uncharacteristically bitchy) bit about having got her cheap because "the walk is wonky and the accent's wrong".
* [[Genetic Memory]]: With a large side of [[Incoming Ham]], punctuated by [[Heroic BSOD|BSOD-ing]].
* [[Good Samaritan]]
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* [[Gravity Sucks]]: And the Tractators use it to swallow people through holes in the ground.
* [[Hive Queen|Hive King]]: The Gravis. Without him the other Tractators become harmless.
* [[Humans Through Alien Eyes]]: Apparently we're quite pathetic compared to Trions. Says Turlough. And Tractators. Says the Gravis.
* [[Improvised Weapon]]: A hatstand, which also, thanks to the Doctor's rambling "Not hat people, are you?" talk, counts as [[Chekhov's Gun]]. It works, too.
* [[I Was Never Here]]: And he means it literally.
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