Jupiter ( short story ) Jupiter was the fifth short story in the Short Trips anthology " " . It was written by Andy Russell . It featured the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smythe . Summary . On the command deck of a gas dredger , Norma Kelligan hears the voice of her dead husband in her head . She is brought back to reality by her first officer , David Nkoto . The cargo thruster is ready to launch . She contacts the refinery and coordinates with Hendryk Koopmaan to launch the thruster . The ship shakes as the view screen shows the thruster explode . In the TARDIS , Evelyn thinks her headache comes from the stress of their recent adventure , but when both the Doctor and the TARDIS are affected as well , the Doctor realises they are being bombarded by a psychic shock . On the dredger , David and Robbie MacKenzie begin their usual argument about the the Corporation , but Norma stops them and plans to make her report to Mr Hepton of the Corporation . She first needs a report from Hendryk , but on her way to the refinery she is again besieged by the voice in her head , and , when she hears a loud groaning noise and sees a large blue box appear in the corridor , she curls up into a ball . The TARDIS has landed " on Jupiter " , according to the readings , but as the Doctor and Evelyn leave the ship , they realise they are on a spaceship in Jupiter ' s atmosphere . They find Norma nearby ; she suddenly hugs the Doctor , thinking he ' s her husband . The Doctor disentangles himself , and when Norma suggests that they are Corporation scientists , he plays along . The ship shakes alarmingly and they head back to the command deck , where the viewscreen shows another ship . Norma claims that it ' s her husband ' s ship . In the refinery , Hendryk complains to his assistant , Leonello Felice , that the captain hasn ' t been down to check on things yet . He heads for the command deck , but on the way a cloud of matter seeps into the corridor and takes the shape of Hendryk ' s friend . It gives him a vision of great riches and encourages him to go to the airlock . The group on the bridge monitors the sudden opening of the airlock as Hendryk leaves the ship that way . As part of the ship ' s defensive procedures , the refinery is cut off from the rest of the ship , trapping Leonello . Norma orders the engineers to fix it , then begins her report to Mr Hepton . Norma ' s report is sent telepathically . She informs Hepton about the cargo loss , but doesn ' t let him know what happened to Hendryk . He tells her that a stream of methane has been detected nearby and orders her to mine it . The Doctor notices that the navigation buoys aren ' t working . He brings it on board the ship for investigation . Meanwhile , Norma goes to her cabin , accompanied by Evelyn . Norma tells her that her husband Thom had been a dredger captain but lost his ship and crew . Before the ship was lost , he sent a message stating , " It ' s controlling me now . " The Corporation ruled he was drunk and therefore liable for the loss of ship and crew . As his widow , Norma is required to work for the Corporation until that debt is paid . The Doctor works with engineers Ajay Thakrar and Tracie Wilson to examine the faulty navigation buoy . They discover that it has a telekinetic circuit . Back on the command deck , Norma is in a kind of trance , staring at the screen . The Doctor orders David to set a course away from the ship on screen , but Norma reacts by destroying the helm . The ship heads towards the Great Red Spot . The Doctor suggests evacuating the ship using one of the cargo thrusters . Most of the crew gets into the thruster , but Evelyn is staying behind with the Doctor and Norma . After the thruster leaves , she realises that Ajay is still on board . He grabs her by the neck and takes her to the loading bay . Norma is shocked that he ' s been the one attacking her , but learns that it is actually Mr Hepton who is controlling Ajay . Hepton explains that there is a telepathic gestalt entity living in the Great Red Spot . It attacks anything that comes near it . It destroyed Thom ' s ship . Hepton plans to destroy it , but the Doctor hits Ajay with a blast from the power cables . Norma and Evelyn go to the command deck to pilot the ship while the Doctor tries to fix the force field . Norma hears the voice in her head again — it ' s Thom , who was absorbed the entity . He asks her to come to him , and she goes to the airlock and steps out into the storm . Hepton tries to control the unconscious Ajay , and finally succeeds . He attacks the Doctor , but is in turn attacked by the entity . Evelyn is trying to understand Norma ' s death , but the Doctor thinks that the entity has absorbed her and that she is now with Thom . Ajay wakes up and thinks he ' s hungover . Notes . " to be added "