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The story so far…The Doctor is an alien, the last of the powerful Time Lords. He is an intrepid traveller through time and space, armed only withhis incredible intelligence and his fix-anything sonic screwdriver. He travels alone except for the human companions hebefriends, briefly sharing his life with them and showing them the astonishing wonders of the universe.

Space... the Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange newworlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.

Federation planet Delta IV has fallen under attack by the Borg, a collective of vastly powerful and feared cyborgs. Strangely,the Borg have been joined by the Cybermen, a similar race of cyborgs previously unknown to this galaxy. Meanwhile, the Doctorand his companions have traveled to 1941 San Francisco, but they soon discover some very unusual inhabitants for that timeand place...

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