10 Important Doctor Who Details That Are Almost Never Mentioned
2. All Human Life Came From A Spaceship Explosion
Doctor Who has had a lot of grand revelations about the history of humanity throughout its run. But something that doesn’t get quite as much attention as it should is that the entire existence of our species hinges on the tragic and accidental end of a spaceship containing the last of another, completely different species. Twice.
In Douglas Adams’ brilliant serial City of Death, the Doctor and Romana encounter Scaroth, the last member of the Jagaroth species, who was fractured across Earth’s timestream when the spaceship he was piloting exploded on take-off while trying to leave prehistoric Earth.
While Scaroth is trying to change history to stop the tragic end of his people, the Doctor has to make sure the same events happen. It turns out that the radiation released by Scaroth's firey end was the spark that led to the evolution of human life on Earth.
If that wasn’t enough of a cosmic coincidence, it’s then revealed in The Runaway Bride that Earth itself is actually formed around the last Racnoss spaceship. That's two different alien motherships meeting an untimely end before we even get as far as humans evolving. Umm... thanks, we guess?