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* [[Broken Pedestal]]: Toby is devastated when he finds out his father is a pirate, although it is shown that he already has pre-existing resentment about his father never coming back to see his mother before she died.
* [[Call Back]]:
** This isn't the first time that {{spoiler|[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/NS/S1 E9/E09 The Empty Child|malfunctioning alien medical technology]]}} has caused problems.
** This isn't the first time that {{spoiler|[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/NS/S1 /E12 Bad Wolf|people who were apparently being disintegrated -- including a companion -- were actually being teleported to the threat-of-the-week's ship]]}}.
** This isn't the first time that the solution has involved {{spoiler|[[Doctor Who/Recap/S16 E3/E03 The Stones of Blood|being transported to a spaceship that's in the same place but another dimension]]}}.
** This isn't the first time [[Doctor Who/Recap/S4 E1/E01 The Smugglers|a pirate called Avery has been mentioned.]]
** [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 /E05 Flesh and Stone|Comfy sofa!]]
** Near the start of the episode, the Doctor asks Amy what she thinks she is doing and she replies "Saving your life." This may be a [[Call Back]] to The Impossible Astronaut.
* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: A ship is a ship.
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* [[Techno Babble]]: Subverted when The Doctor explains the TARDIS controls.
* [[Tempting Fate]]: "No curse is getting through three solid inches of timber". No points on guessing what happens next.
** It might also be partially the Doctor doing a [[Continuity Nod]] to [[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/NS/S2 E2/E02 Tooth and Claw|a certain werewolf]].
* [[Troperiffic]]: According to [[Word of God]], you simply ''can't'' do a pirate story without using every single pirate trope there is, such as [[Walk the Plank]], [[Pirate Girl]], [[Pirate Booty]] and so on.
** Although, apparently [[Talk Like a Pirate|no-one says "Yo-ho-ho" any more]].
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