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Delicious Distraction: Rorvik is trying to brief his men on the very dangerous procedure they're about to carry out with the big laser cannon, but they're more interested in their lunch until their boss draws a gun on them.Deliberately Monochrome: Some of the weirder parts of the story, for thematically-appropriate but difficult-to-summarize reasons.The Gundans obligingly whack each other with their axes. Deadly Dodging: With a Gundan on either side of him, the Doctor bows down and awaits his fate.Particularly noticeable when he and Romana flash-forward in time from the past to the future with the dinner table suddenly covered in cobwebs. Cobweb of Disuse: The banquet hall and the suits of armour (which are actually the Gundan robots) are covered in cobwebs when the Doctor finds them.Only the Doctor realizes what he's trying to say. However, due to his damaged state, his messages come across as gibberish. Cassandra Truth: K9 keeps warning the slavers and anyone else in earshot that their pocket dimension is collapsing.

Blank White Void: The entire N-space/E-space boundary.

Biting-the-Hand Humour: The privateer crew are, according to John Nathan-Turner, based on Stephen Gallagher's many tribulations while writing at Granada TV, and the poor work ethic he found there.

"I don't know what these levers do.but it's pointing in your direction."

BFG: Adric holds off the slave traders with their own giant cannon, the MZ.

Art Imitates Art: The Gate is exactly copied from the German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich's Klosterfriedhof im Schnee ( Monastery Graveyard in the Snow).

Arbitrary Scepticism: Rorvik and his crew are convinced that Romana has to be a time-sensitive like the Tharils despite her explaining that her ship's navigation system operates on a different principle (to be fair, she is a time sensitive, but that has nothing to do with the TARDIS's ability to work).

Animated Armour: The Gundan robots are designed to resemble decorative suits of armour when they're at rest (and are mistaken for such before their true nature is revealed).

Almost Dead Guy: "The secret to the gateway is.

He's at too far a range however and the near-miss only cripples it when the privateer attempts a Blind Jump to escape, they end up in their present predicament.

All There in the Manual: The novelisation shows how the Privateer came to be damaged it was attacked by an anti-slaver patrol pilot who was secretly aiming his energy torpedoes so the detonation would overload the lightspeed drive, destroying the slaver when it tries a Hyperspeed Escape.Also, the Doctor goes through a looking glass at one point. Alice Allusion: When Biroc vanishes during a conversation with the Doctor, the Doctor states that he is gone again, which is "like talking to a Cheshire Cat".And surrounded by surprised and angry human slavers. Then axe-wielding Robot Soldiers burst through the doors and start slaughtering the Tharils an axe slams down into the table in front of the Doctor, who suddenly finds himself at the same table in the present day, with axe and table covered in Cobwebs of Disuse. Age Cut ( In-Universe): The Doctor has a vision of a past where he's having a Fancy Dinner with the Tharils, and it's revealed the Tharils once used their powers to raid other worlds for plunder and slaves.