Quotes
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Griesenko: Oh, Vienna. Have I interrupted something?
Zhukov: We were about to blow up the world, Professor.
Griesenko: Again? Ultravox. I bloody love them. Got a friend who sends me the tapes.
Stepashin: Stranger on the bridge!
Zhukov: Who the hell are you?
Clara: Not Vegas, then.
The 11th Doctor: No. No, this is much better.
"You're going to let this madman give the orders?" ~ Stepashin
"Hair, shoulder pads, nukes. It's the Eighties. Everything's bigger." ~ The Eleventh Doctor
"Ah. It never rains but it pours." ~ The Eleventh Doctor
Clara: What is it, then?
The 11th Doctor: It's an Ice Warrior. A native of the planet Mars. And we go way back. Way back.
Zhukov: A Martian? You can't be serious.
The 11th Doctor: I'm always serious. With days off.
The 11th Doctor: Skaldak won't talk to you. You're an enemy soldier.
Zhukov: And how would he know that?
The 11th Doctor: A soldier knows another soldier. He'll smell it on you. Smell it on you a mile off.
Zhukov: And he wouldn't smell it on you, Doctor?
"I was Fleet Commander of the Nix Tharsis. My daughter stood by me. It was her first taste of action. We sang the songs of the Old Times. The Songs of the Red Snow. Five thousand years. Now my daughter will be dust. Only dust." ~ Skaldak
"This sub's stuffed with nuclear missiles, Zhukov. It's fat with them. What do you think Skaldak's going to do when he finds that out? How bad can it be? How bad can it be? It couldn't be any worse." ~ The Eleventh Doctor
Stepashin: Both sides are capable of completely obliterating the other. It's a state we call mutually assured destruction.
Skaldak: Mutually assured destruction. But this has not occured.
Stepashin: No.
Skaldak: Not yet.
The 11th Doctor: I told you, Clara. Earth is like a storm waiting to break, right now. Both sides baring their teeth, talking up war. It would only take one tiny spark.
Clara: Yeah, but the world didn't end in 1983, did it, or I wouldn't be here.
The 11th Doctor: New. History's in flux. It can be changed. Re-written.
"Karaoke? Hen night? You speak excellent Russian, my dear, but sometimes I don't understand a word you're talking about." ~ Griesenko
Griesenko: And the Doctor, what he said. Is it true you're from another time? From our future? Clara?
Clara: Yes.
Griesenko: Tell me what happens.
Clara: I can't.
Griesenko: Well, I need to know.
Clara: I'm not allowed.
Griesenko: No, please.
Clara:: I can't!
Griesenko: Ultravox, do they split up?
"My distress call has not been answered. It will never be answered. My people are dead. They are dust. There is nothing left for me except my revenge." ~ Skaldak
"My world is dead but now there will be a second red planet. Red with the blood of humanity!" ~ Skaldak
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Trivia
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This story features some similarities to TV: The Ice Warriors. Both involve an Ice Warrior being frozen in ice, being found by a scientist, and then thawed out by someone who was impatient. Both scientists mistake their Ice Warriors for prehistoric Earth creatures — in Warriors it's a mastodon; here it's a mammoth. Both take place in extreme cold. Both have the Doctor initially saving a team of humans from an immediate crisis — in Warriors is an uncontrolled weather event; here it's the submarine sinking.
This story's ending has some similarities to TV: Battlefield. In both stories the antagonist is prepared to launch a nuclear weapon to destroy the world (in Battlefield it is Morgaine), and in both cases The Doctor helps talk them out of it.
This is the first televised story to feature the Ice Warriors since the Monster of Peladon in 1974, and the first to not be written or co-written by Brian Hayles.
1983 was indeed a point in which the the Cold War could have very easily run hot, due to the (alluded to) Able Archer '83 exercises that terrified the already paranoid Soviets. There were even several close calls throughout the year, including one famous incident where only the cool head of a Soviet radar operator deciding that the missile that appeared on his screen was not a launch but most likely an equipment malfunction prevented a full-scale nuclear launch.
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