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}}'''Doctor Omega''' was a mysterious scientist and traveller. | }}'''Doctor Omega''' was a mysterious scientist and traveller. | ||
== Description == | |||
=== Physical appearance === | |||
Doctor Omega, as known to [[Jenny Over-There]], was an “old man”. He was “finely dressed” but had “the most atrocious haircut”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Tribulations of Jenny Over-There (short story)|The Tribulations of Jenny Over-There]]'') | |||
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== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
Doctor Omega originated in the 1906 science fiction novel ''{{w|Doctor Omega|Doctor Omega}}'' by {{w|Arnould Galopin|Arnould Galopin}}, which related his first travel in space aboard the spacecraft ''Cosmos''. The character experienced a renaissance starting in 2003 after it was discovered by the ''[[Doctor Who (series)|Doctor Who]]'' fandom; a certain structural similarity between the plot of the novel and the premise of the ''Doctor Who'' series, combined with a striking resemblance between the illustratons given of Doctor Omega and the [http://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/First_Doctor first incarnation] of [[the Doctor]], led some to suspect that the character had been an inspiration for ''Doctor Who''; at any rate, it gave rise to a number of ''Doctor Omega'' retellings and continuations marketed at ''Doctor Who'' fans, occasionally to the point of using Doctor Omega as a thinly-veiled public-domain analogue for the BBC character. | Doctor Omega originated in the 1906 science fiction novel ''{{w|Doctor Omega|Doctor Omega}}'' by {{w|Arnould Galopin|Arnould Galopin}}, which related his first travel in space aboard the spacecraft ''Cosmos''. The character experienced a renaissance starting in 2003 after it was discovered by the ''[[Doctor Who (series)|Doctor Who]]'' fandom; a certain structural similarity between the plot of the novel and the premise of the ''Doctor Who'' series, combined with a striking resemblance between the illustratons given of Doctor Omega and the [http://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/First_Doctor first incarnation] of [[the Doctor]], led some to suspect that the character had been an inspiration for ''Doctor Who''; at any rate, it gave rise to a number of ''Doctor Omega'' retellings and continuations marketed at ''Doctor Who'' fans, occasionally to the point of using Doctor Omega as a thinly-veiled public-domain analogue for the BBC character. | ||
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