The second I see the words “Written by Russell T. Davies” I tend to lower my expectations. That being said, and I'm forcing myself to say this, he's actually made a decent Doctor Who story in “Voyage Of The Damned.” With that out of the way, let's proceed with the review.

At the end of the rather bad “Re-Return Of The Master Trilogy” we got last season, we once again watch another attractive woman (Freema Agyeman) leave the Doctor's life. You would think after all that drama that the Doc would simply say, “Let's shag!” Sure, it would make Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) bitter to know that it wasn't her should she meet with the Doctor again, but it would make the series seem a bit more modern and a little more grown up.

I thought it was interesting that there was really no set-up for the TARDIS crash into the Titanic. It would have been nice to insert the scene from "Time Crash" at the end where The 5th Doc (Peter Davison) got a nice send-off from The 10th Doc (David Tennant). You know the part where he tells the 10th Doc to put his shields up?

But that's just a small detail – it's Doctor Who after all.

"Voyage Of The Damned" largely centers on a space cruise ship called — wait for it — The Titanic. It's not the actual ship, just in name, although a disaster does happen in the form of Kylie Minogue. She's attractive and all, but as one commenter pointed out somewhere on the web, she's far shorter than David Tennant. I almost thought she was a teenager.

Monique's Astrid Peth, a waitress on the ship, doesn't really matter to the story. Although Catherine Tate's Donna Noble was a part of "The Christmas Bride" plot, I should have had the sense to put the mute button on as I watched it. Monique's Peth doesn't require muting - just a few re-watches of some early Doctor Who.

She's very much the traditional companion. She clings to The Doctor, obeys everything The Doctor says, and only bothers to be helpful but a few times in crisis. Being as she's an on-off in a Christmas special, I'll give Russy some slack since 72 minutes isn't enough time to really make a good companion in the first place.

The plot? Oh I forgot that. Well, the Titanic gets hijacked and crippled by a race known as The Hosts. Take the baddies from “The Claws Of Axos” and the Ood from “The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit” and you get your usual one-sentence aliens. This time the word overused is “Information” rather than “We must feed!”

Alien bad guys don't talk much in space. Must be the air.

The Titanic being crippled means the ship would crash and wipe out Earth on impact. Luckily The Doctor knows how to fly a space ship since he has one of his own. I think it would have been a bit on the Davison side if he simply crashed into Buckingham Palace as he was doing it. It would have been funny, though.