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{{quote|''Create a climate of fear, and it's easy to keep the borders closed. It's just a matter of emphasis. The right word in the right broadcast repeated often enough can destabilise an economy, invent an enemy, change a vote.''}}
Rose, Adam, and the Doctor land on a space station in the year 200,000. The Doctor expects to encounter the center-of-the-British-Empire satire such as was seen in old ''Who'' episodes like "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S19
Rose and Adam are still too new to the whole travelling thing to be disappointed, but the Doctor is thoroughly mystified. He befriends Suki and Cathica, a pair of journalists, and convinces them he's from Management. This leads to them showing him how journalism is done in the future: it consists of Cathica opening ''a '''hole''' in her '''head''''' and having data beamed through it. Now the Doctor is ''also'' grossed out.
The intruders have started to attract the attention of the mysterious Editor (hey, it's [[Simon Pegg]]!). He lives in the icy dump of the 500th floor, overseeing the flow of information. The Editor is even ''more'' intrigued when the computers of the future report that the Doctor is "no one" and Rose is also "no one". Meanwhile, Adam has snuck off to have his very own hole put into his head by the local head doctor (hey, it's [[Black Books|Tamsin Greir]]!).
The Doctor and Rose discover that the Editor is an employee of the Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe (Max for short), an ugly, toothy, slimy monster living on the ceiling of the 500th Floor. Max has taken control of all information on Earth and is responsible for preventing the "humanity at its height" timeline from happening. He's also using the space station as a fridge to keep himself cool. Adam, meanwhile, uses his new head port and Rose's superphone to send information of the future to his Mum's answering machine -- unfortunately, this gives the Editor access to everything he knows about the Doctor and Rose, including where to find a key to the TARDIS. Whoops.
Fortunately, Cathica hacks into the computer, shuts down Adam's feed and tampers with the heating to deep-fry Max. Happy ending for everyone in this satellite [[Doctor Who
== Tropes ==
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* [[Title Drop]]: One doesn't occur here, but the episode gets Title Dropped in the series finale.
* [[Timeline-Altering MacGuffin]] - Adam copies information from the Satellite 5 computers, including the future history of computing, to his mother's answering machine. Even a single invention from the year 200,000 would be worth billions.
* [[The Unintelligible]]: The Jagrafess.
* [[Unusual User Interface]]
* [[What Year Is This?]]
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