Doctor Oliver "M" Morgenstern was a medical student at Royal Hope Hospital when it was transported to the Moon.
In an attempt to process what he had witnessed, Morgenstern wrote a novel, Accidental Moon, about the incident. His novel was widely criticised. As Morgenstern descended into an obsession with finding out the truth, he lost his girlfriend and friends, and his family grew concerned about his mental state.
Eventually, Morgenstern re-evaluated his experience and attempted to move on from that chapter of his life. He became a psychiatrist and extensively researched mass hysteria in order to write a book on the subject.
Biography[]
Oliver Morgenstern was a medical student at the Royal Hope Hospital (TV: Smith and Jones) and a friend of Martha Jones. (AUDIO: Hysteria) "M" was a big Dungeons & Dragons fan, as well as advocate of writing things down to help them make sense in your head; he prompted Martha to start her MySpace blog, where she described him as a "geek".
A few days before Martha first met the Tenth Doctor, M cleaned his glasses before checking a patient's chart, leading Stoker to mock him by offering him binoculars and telling him to get laser surgery so his patients wouldn't die as he polished his cheap glasses. This made M cry, which outraged Martha. (PROSE: Martha Jones)
When the hospital was transported to the Moon by the Judoon in the 2000s,[nb 1] Morgenstern kept following the Judoon captain and reassuring the patients that they were safe. When the hospital was returned to Earth, he was interviewed on the radio about the experience. (TV: Smith and Jones)
He wrote the novel Accidental Moon, based on his experience. In his account of events, Hazel Magee fainted when a Judoon captain removed his helmet. (PROSE: The Secret Lives of Monsters) His book was self-published and resulted in him receiving abuse online as well impacting his friendships and relationships. He lost his girlfriend, friends, and his family thought he had lost his mind.
Over the following years, Morgenstern grew to re-evaluate his experience. He became a psychiatrist and re-examined the incident as a potential example of mass hallucination or mass hysteria. He remembered the panic, the fear and the trauma of the event, but no longer remembered being on the moon. As far as he was concerned, the past was the past. He was safe, well and his focus was now on the future.
In 2022, Oliver was interviewed in Edinburgh by Abby McPhail, who was looking into the Royal Hope incident as part of her podcast The Blue Box Files. Oliver was embarrassed (AUDIO: Hysteria) by Accidental Moon (PROSE: The Secret Lives of Monsters) and claimed to have re-evaluated, believing himself a victim of mass hysteria. He had researched the subject of mass hysteria extensively and was working on a new book. He remembered Martha Jones, but hadn't seen her since she became obsessed with the Doctor and "vanished off the face of the earth". (AUDIO: Hysteria) Oliver disappeared shortly after meeting Abby, (AUDIO: Interrogation) due to a psychic virus infecting the Thirteenth Doctor and targeting people who had had contact with her. The Doctor and Cleo Proctor eventually restored the disappeared. (AUDIO: Salvation)
Other realities[]
Donna's World[]
Oliver Morgenstern, following being returned to Earth. (TV: Turn Left)
Oliver Morgenstern had his life changed for the worse on 25 June 2007, when Donna Noble created a parallel world by turning right instead of left. He was inside the Royal Hope Hospital when it was transported to the Moon. (TV: Turn Left) There, the hospital was invaded by Judoon. A woman - Sarah Jane Smith - took control of the situation. With the hospital running out of air, Morgenstern was given the last oxygen tank to one of his colleagues, Martha Jones. As a result, when the Hospital returned to Earth, Morgenstern was the only survivor. He was interviewed by BBC News. (TV: Turn Left)
Footnotes[]
- ↑ According to the episode The Sound of Drums, Martha Jones' present day during series 3 of Doctor Who takes place over a six-day period, with the Saxon Master being elected three days after Smith and Jones, and the Toclafane invading Earth five days after Smith and Jones. However, sources differ on which dates these stories are set. According to PROSE: The Paradox Moon, the Toclafane invasion happens on 23 June 2007, placing the events of Smith and Jones on 18 June. According to AUDIO: Hysteria, Smith and Jones takes place in 2008, with a UNIT mission log in AUDIO: Recruits referring to the recovery of moon rocks from Royal Hope Hospital in March 2008. A newspaper clipping in PROSE: The Secret Lives of Monsters places Smith and Jones on a Sunday 4 June, thus placing the Toclafane invasion on Friday 9 June. In the real world, these dates do not fall on a Sunday and Friday in either 2007 or 2008.
