Martha Jones' Translator
In the year that never was, Martha Jones walked the earth telling the world about the Doctor. But how with the Tardis converted into a Paradox machine how did the people of the world understand her? Occum's razor dictated that Martha Jones had a translator. One Daniel Jackson.
She met him during her first couple of days back on earth after escaping the Valient. He had glasses, long straggly hair, was a genius and could speak 20 different languages and when Martha Jones declared she had to travel across the earth didn't immediately tell her it was impossible. The irony was not lost on her.
When she spoke on their travels, telling her tales haltingly, he would translate and as she watched the people's faces lit up with understand at his impassioned words and she her words take effect provoking interest, or disagreement, or hope. It was amazing.
This doctor "of archaeology, a Phd not a Doctor doctor though the Toclafane didn't get that distinction immediately so I slipped through the net. It's interesting because it suggests that their programming or instructions presumed a level of background knowledge or familiarity with the terms that they didn't possess..." listened to her words and her silences during the trips.
His legs soon learnt to eat up the great distances between camps and he adapted well to the danger and constant alertness that Martha's new life required.
Once on a long trip she broke the silence and asked about his past.
"Who were you back in the World?" They always called it the World, before it all happened, before Jackson's precious Nile frozen and cities burned at the Master's Command. It was so distant from the reality they lived in where food shortages and the packs of wild dogs were the least of everyday worries.
"I was an archaeologist, a linguist. I had just made a lecture about the age of the Egyptian pyramids – I had evidence to show they are much older – were much older" the ancient wonders of the world had become shooting targets for the Master over the last few months "than originally thought. Some, well most of them took it to mean that I believed that aliens built them and I was laughed out of town" His smile was bitter-sweet now "When I wanted to be proved right, I didn't quite mean it to be like this..."