h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'd like:
1. An male companion

2. An alien companion (noticably)

I'd like both.

The alien companion would just give problems when travelling into the earth´s past.

Could be good for some comedy disguises though. Also there may be less time spent in Earth's past and more on other planets, or in their pasts.

how did they deal with K9 when travelling in the past?

Computer flu, mostly.

Gif

is the actually true?

if the TARDIS can hide out-of-period clothes and out-of-period speech I'm sure it can cope of off-this-planet species.

Can it do clothes though? Yes the Doctor seldom changes, but Rose changed for Unquiet Dead, and in Tooth and Claw Queen Victoria commentd on her 'nakedness'. Martha wears period clothes a lot in Human Nature, but with that one I guess it's a bit different because they're there for a while.

maybe sometimes - or maybe just down to the acceptance of the society they are in as per the Doctor to Donna comment in the Pompey one. Hmm - you could well be right. Maybe it is just speech (except Judoon's for some reason).

maybe Judoon can only speak jibberish...

Wa choo ta kin bou Joz Coz?

Gif

>>(except Judoon's for some reason)<<

"ho so no ro blo ro no so..." (etc)

That's what we hear... and we SHOULD hear English

Therefore they must only comunicate in jibberish (I think i spelt it right)

The Tardis has that translator thing. However they still have to change clothes, Rose comments on that as well at one point in Unquiet Dead. Male fashion hasn´t changed that much though, so you can get away with a lot more if you´re the Doctor. However having four arms and red skin might give problems even the Tardis can´t help. A companion from something other than the present would be nice though.

Ah, Victoria and Jamie ...

Mol

Just for the record it's ...

Sco! Bo! Tro! No! Flo! Jo! Ko! Fo! To! Do!

To which TD-DT replies ...

No! Bo! Ho! Sho! Ko! Ro To! So! Bo Ko Do Zo Go Bo Fo Po Jo! ... Mo Ho!

Would be interesting to have a definately alien companion. Though maybe one with some subtle markings, like brow ridges or three fingers on eaxch hand. The sort of thing where they're still humanoid, but just different enough to show they're alien and give rise to a few funny hats and stuff.

Rose and Martha and Donna all clothes changed before. Like Rose in her pink dress in the 1950s for the coronation.

Maybe the Judoon are deliberately obtuse.

Maybe it it's something like the universal greeting in the (animated) Transformers movie. It's not any specific language, just a collection of sounds.

Or, and here's an odd memory, there was an episode of Strek Trek TNG where the universal translator was rendered useless, because even after the individual words of the alien of the week's language where translated, the alien in question spoke purely in culturally specific metaphors. So, while everyone understood the words without any effort, they still had to learn the meaning of the metaphors before any real communication could be established.

Maybe it's somthing like that. The sounds the Judoon make are being translated. But the meaning they attach to those sounds is not.


Geggs

Oh, and the Babel fish couldn't translate Caveman speech as I recall. Because wasn't yet a real language. Maybe it's a similar thing to that.


Geggs

well, a bit odd if the galactic police converse in a purely cultural or meaningless language. Not terribly easy to police if you can't communicate. OTOH I suppose looking pretty scary and pointing a gun tends to get the message across anyway