Zocci are red and Vinvocci are green! They are completely different! However, both alien species originate from the same planet. The Doctor has encountered members of both races during his travels in Doctor Who.

Voyage of the Damned

★★★☆☆

TX: 25/12/2007

Written by Russell T Davies      Directed by James Strong

The Tenth Doctor is in his newly repaired TARDIS when suddenly the Titanic crashes into it! However, this is not the famous vessel that sank in 1912. The Titanic is a gigantic space liner replica full of wealthy passengers, including a Zocci called Bannakaffalatta. The Doctor stows away as one of the guests, where he meets waitress Astrid Peth. However, a meteor storm crashes into the Titanic, killing most of the passengers. The Heavenly Hosts onboard, which are similar to Voc Robots, begin killing the rest of the survivors. The whole disaster is a ruse by Max Capricorn, the cyborg, failed business owner of the Titanic. Max Capricorn intends to take his revenge on the board of his own company by crashing the Titanic into Earth and making it look like an accident. The Doctor, Astrid and a few survivors make their way to the bridge, fighting many Heavenly Hosts along the way. The Doctor confronts Max Capricorn, who reveals his plan to him. Astrid uses a forklift truck to throw herself and Max Capricorn into the ship’s engines. The Doctor makes sure that Astrid’s sacrifice was not in vain, as her data ghost is later scattered into space by him. The Doctor pilots the Titanic and prevents it from crashing into Buckingham Palace. I have met King Charles III and I tried to meet his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. However, I no longer support the British Monarchy (because I am opposed to privilege), however I can see the benefit that they bring in terms of tourism. The Monarchy is an anachronism and there are too many embarrassing scandals in the Royal Family. The Queen was the glue that held the Monarchy together, but since she passed away I’ve grown cold over the Royal Family. A survivor called Mr Copper is given a new life on Earth by the Doctor. When I was a kid, I always believed that the Doctor was a god who could “choose who lives and who dies”, as Mr Copper says.

The End of Time

★★★★★

TX: 25/12/2009 – 1/1/2010

Written by Russell T Davies      Directed by Euros Lyn

The Tenth Doctor travels to the Ood Sphere after being summoned by Ood Sigma, whom the Doctor previously met in Planet of the Ood. The Ood tell the Doctor that the Master has been resurrected and that Donna’s grandfather Wilf is connected. I tried to meet Bernard Cribbins, but unfortunately he dropped out of the Comic Con I was heading to and then a few months later he passed away. The Doctor returns to Earth where he confronts the Master, who reveals that the drumming in his mind has a greater meaning. The Doctor and Wilf reunite and they travel to the Naismith Mansion, where the Master uses an Immortality Gate to turn everyone on Earth into himself (except Donna, who has been protected by the Doctor). The Master even turns US President Barack Obama into himself! I am planning to meet Barack Obama. The Doctor and Wilf are rescued by the Vinvocci, the green cousins of the Zocci. Aboard the Vinvocci spaceship in orbit around Earth, the Doctor explains to Wilf that his death is inevitable in his final confrontation with the Master. Meanwhile, the Time Lords decide that they wish to escape destruction at the end of the Time War, which has been time-locked. So Rassilon and the other members of the Time Lord High Council retroactively place a drumbeat in the Master’s mind as a child, which sends him mad in the first place. Rassilon sends a Gallifreyan White-Point Star to the Master on Earth, which acts as a homing beacon. The Doctor pilots the Vinvocci spaceship back down to the Naismith Mansion, dodging the Masters’ missiles along the way. The Doctor jumps from the spaceship into the Naismith Mansion, where he confronts the Master and Rassilon with a gun given to him by Wilf. Rassilon reveals that the Time Lord High Council plans to ascend to become creatures of consciousness alone, whilst creation itself collapses around them. The Doctor explains to the Master that that is the reason why he had to end the Time War by committing double genocide and destroying both the Daleks and his own people. The Doctor cannot bring himself to shoot either the Master or Rassilon, especially when he notices a Time Lord woman who is possibly his mother. Instead, the Doctor shoots a machine containing the White-Point Star behind the Master, which breaks the link to Gallifrey and the Time Lords return to oblivion. The Master disappears with the Time Lords and returns to Gallifrey, the Doctor does not encounter his incarnation again until World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls. Wilf is stuck in one of the machines that operates the Immortality Gate, so the Doctor releases him and sacrifices himself by absorbing all of the excess radiation (a similar death to the Third Doctor’s in Planet of the Spiders). This triggers the Tenth Doctor’s regeneration, but beforehand the Doctor is able to go back and revisit all of his previous companions to say goodbye. Alone inside the TARDIS, the Tenth Doctor regenerates and causes the TARDIS to explode. The newly regenerated Eleventh Doctor has barely enough time to examine his new features before the TARDIS begins crashing down to Earth! This episode leads directly into the events of The Eleventh Hour. I can’t watch the Tenth Doctor’s regeneration without crying (strong men cry i.e. the Fifteenth Doctor and weak men bottle it up). 😢 David will always be my Doctor! 💪