Well Met in Time & Space

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Title:	Well Met in Time & Space
Publisher:	Permanent Press
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Date(s):	November 1985
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Medium:	print
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Fandom:	Battlestar Galactica (1978)/Doctor Who
Language:	English
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Well Met in Time & Space is a gen 118-page collection of three crossover stories that make up a novel by Mary A. Fall and M.D. Bloemker. The art is by M.D. Bloemker.

Summary

From a July 1993 ad in GAZ:

Photocopy reprint with offset printed covers. Part 1: The Doctor and Sarah invite Apollo and Starbuck along for their first real look at Earth, and end up in the middle of an alien invasion of Earth. Part 2 (The Doctor Strikes Back!): With Leela, the Doctor returns to ask Apollo and Starbuck's help to avert a cosmic disaster. Part 3 (The Return of the Doctor!): As far as Apollo and Starbuck are concerned, they have been callously abandoned on Earth by the Doctor, but that's not how it looks from the Doctor's point of view.

Contents

• Part I: Well Met in Time & Space (previously printed in Felgercarb) (50 pages)
• Part II: The Doctor Strikes Back (27 pages) (previously printed in Felgercarb)
• Part III: The Return of the Doctor (New) (31 pages)

Summary

When a large, blue, wheezing box suddenly appears on the Galactica from out of thin air, the crew is startled. But when a man calling himself The Doctor, along with a woman named Sarah Jane, steps out of the box, things start to get really weird. Discovering that the Galactica and her 'rag-tag fugitive fleet' are searching for Earth, the Doctor offers to take a few of the Colonials with him to see the planet. Starbuck and Apollo volunteer, and even before they get over the shock that the blue box is much bigger inside than out, they've arrived. Unfortunately, they've travelled in time as well as space, putting them down in the middle of a science fiction convention in 'present day' America rather than 2,000 years in Earth's future, which is when the Galacticans would have linearly arrived. Met by one of a secret group of people who are still knowledgeable about Kobol and its decendents, the Doctor, Sarah Jane, Apollo and Starbuck try to explain the situation. That's when the Lumarians arrive...and all hell breaks loose.

Reactions and Reviews

I am not a Doctor Who fan... but this zine almost makes me want to start watching the series. This crossover with BG is done beautifully and presents several alternate realities to BG and Galactica 1980. It's always bothered me to remember Starbuck stranded on the planet and Apollo lost in battle and the way they are restored it to Galactica is nothing short of fantastic.