ewan@uw-june (Ewan Tempero) (08/30/85)
Discussions in net.startrek about the best Kirk/Spock fights leads me to
ask "What is your favourite Doctor fight". This should be easy to answer
as there aren't that many. In fact I can only think of one recent
hand-to-hand combat featuring the Doctor. Valid entries must be physical
combat, no guns, sonic screwdrivers or anything else of that nature.
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Ewan
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Ewan Tempero "Oh no, not again"
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Please check all nuclear arms at the door.jeq@laidbak.UUCP (Jonathan E. Quist) (09/01/85)
>ask "What is your favourite Doctor fight". This should be easy to answer >as there aren't that many. In fact I can only think of one recent >hand-to-hand combat featuring the Doctor. Valid entries must be physical >combat, no guns, sonic screwdrivers or anything else of that nature. The first to pop to mind is the fourth Doctor vs. Lt. Styre in <<The Sontaran Experiment>>. The fact that he used strategy rather than Venusian Karate has to put this near the top of my 'favorite' list. Seems the third Doctor was more physical, but I don't remember many examples right off. Didn't #4 also have a prolonged stay in the Matrix, resulting in hand to hand? Jonathan E. Quist ``Have you tried a Fourier analysis? Something to write with.''
nlt@duke.UUCP (N. L. Tinkham) (09/03/85)
[Ewan Tempero:] > "What is your favourite Doctor fight". This should be easy to answer > as there aren't that many. In fact I can only think of one recent > hand-to-hand combat featuring the Doctor. Valid entries must be physical > combat, no guns, sonic screwdrivers or anything else of that nature. [Jonathan E. Quist recalls the fight in "The Sontaran Experiment" and then says, referring to "The Deadly Assassin":] > Didn't #4 also have a prolonged stay in the Matrix, > resulting in hand to hand? Yes, indeed, and this is not only my favorite "Doctor fight" but my favorite sequence in all of the Doctor Who episodes I have seen. The Doctor and Chancellor Goth fight in a world created by the Master inside the Matrix. Goth has a few simple weapons; the Doctor has only what he can steal from Goth or create from his environment. It is mostly a battle of imagination (who will out-think and out-anticipate the other?) rather than of pure strength. The sequence is all the more intriguing to me because it is not really a physical battle at all; the apparent physical world in which they fight exists only in the minds of the Doctor, Goth, and the Master. N. L. Tinkham duke!nlt
nyssa@abnji.UUCP (nyssa of traken) (09/03/85)
>>ask "What is your favourite Doctor fight". This should be easy to answer >>as there aren't that many. In fact I can only think of one recent >>hand-to-hand combat featuring the Doctor. Valid entries must be physical >>combat, no guns, sonic screwdrivers or anything else of that nature. > >The first to pop to mind is the fourth Doctor vs. Lt. Styre >in <<The Sontaran Experiment>>. The fact that he used >strategy rather than Venusian Karate has to put >this near the top of my 'favorite' list. > >Seems the third Doctor was more physical, but I don't >remember many examples right off. A good example was with the Draconians in the Draconian Embassy. >Didn't #4 also have a prolonged stay in the Matrix, >resulting in hand to hand? You are thinking of Deadly Assassin. As an aside, I'm sure the Doctor would state that he'd prefer people not to remember his fights, but remember the times that he used his "diplomatic skills" (who said that?) to prevent fights from occurring. In Frontier in Space, remember how his diplomacy avoided an inter- stellar war. >Jonathan E. Quist > > > ``Have you tried a Fourier analysis? > Something to write with.'' ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| # # ## # #### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ## # # # # #### # # # ##### ##### # #### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ####### # # ##### # # # # # # # # # # # # # ##### # # # #### ### #### # # #### ##### ###### #### ### # # # # # # # # # ### # # # # # # # ##### #### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ### ### # #### #### # ###### #### ### -- James C. Armstrong, Jnr. {ihnp4,cbosgd,akgua}!abnji!nyssa Maybe they'll want one of your women to experiment on, perhaps I shall take this one to them! -who said it, what story? (Get the reply to me by Thursday!)
jeq@laidbak.UUCP (Jonathan E. Quist) (09/04/85)
In article <846@abnji.UUCP> nyssa@abnji.UUCP (nyssa of traken) writes: ># # >## # #### ># # # # # ># # # # # ># # # # # ># ## # # ># # #### > > # > # # ##### ##### # #### > # # # # # # # # # ># # # # # # # # >####### # # ##### # # ># # # # # # # # # ># # ##### # # # #### > > ### > #### # # #### ##### ###### #### ### > # # # # # # # # # ### > # # # # # # # ##### #### # > # # # # # # # # # # > # # # # # # # # # # ### > ### # #### #### # ###### #### ### ``Now I'll never know if I was right.'' jeq@laidbak