 Zoe was a highly intelligent, dark haired, petite,
no-nonsense companion. A computer taught genius with a degree in pure
mathematics she was an astrophysicist from the 21st Century and had been
trained to function logically and without feeling in everything she does.
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| The Wheel in Space |
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Working
as a librarian on the Space Wheel she is considered by her
colleagues as an asset, especially in the calculating the probabilities
of meteorite strikes, even though the information she supplies
does not contain any emotion or feelings. A fact that she
is made aware
of on a number of
occasions. 'Just like a robot, facts calculations. A proper
little brain child. All brain and no heart.' However, when
the Space Wheel is attacked by the
Cybermen her mathematical brain is put to the test and then
her logical world is completely shattered by the arrival
of The Doctor and
Jamie.
On meeting with The Doctor she is informed by him that 'Logic,
my dear Zoe,
enables one to be wrong with authority.' ("The Wheel in
the Space").
As
this story progresses she becomes more aware of the feelings towards
her 'I don't want to be thought of as a freak. Leo said I was like
a robot, a machine. Well I think he's right. My head's been pumped
full of facts and figures which I reel out automatically when needed.
But, well, I want to feel things as well.' And so after helping in
the defeat of the Cybermen she decides to rebel against her emotionless
education and background and stows aboard the TARDIS
in the hope of using the illogical Doctor and the much less intelligent
Jamie to broaden her horizons.
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| The Space Pirates |
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Despite
trying not to rely on logic alone she was able to show The Doctor
that logic can sometimes be of benefit and during her
time with The Doctor her great mathematical abilities and
photographic memory was often proved to be invaluable in helping
him defeat the many enemies that
they came across. This is well demonstrated when she mentally
calculates, in a fraction of the time a computer would, the correct
position to wipe out a
entire Cybermen invasion fleet with the only missile available
to defend the Earth ("The
Invasion"). The Doctor did not hesitate
to take advantage of this
even though at times she proved that she was more brainy
then even he was. 'The Doctor's almost as clever as I am!' she announces
("The
Krotons").
She
was never afraid to speak her mind and with her strange mixture of
innocence,
intelligence, sharp tongue and wit she liked to have fun
but was sometimes to serious for her own good. She often outsmarted
The Doctor and despite proving
herself more intelligent than The Doctor her inexperience
frequently got her into trouble. She would usually have the last
word and as a Mexican resistance
leader informs her ' For such a little woman, your mouth
is too big.' ("The
War Games").
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| The War Games |
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Jamie
and Zoe made another successful team despite her air of superiority
and greater intelligence. The two of them were eventually forced
to
part company with The Doctor and each other when The Doctor
is put on trial by his own people, the Time Lords. As part of his
punishment Zoe is returned to
the Space Wheel with all her memory and experiences with
The Doctor and Jamie, except for their original encounter, totally
erased ("The War Games"). It is this
fact that alerted the Second Doctor when he is in the Dark
Tower, in the Death Zone, that it was not the real Zoe that he sees
but a phantom to ward him off
("The Five Doctors").
Zoe was the first companion who could not only
take on villains and monsters, without screaming while rooted to the spot
waiting to be rescued, but could beat them as well. |
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