Astrid Peth was the main supporting character in the Doctor Who Christmas special "Voyage of the Damned". She was serving as a stewardess aboard the luxury starliner Titanic during the ship's disastrous voyage to Earth. She was portrayed by singer Kylie Minogue.
History[]
For most of her life, Astrid dreamed of seeing other planets. She met the Tenth Doctor when she broke a glass and he offered to help her clean it up. She refused. When he told her he was a stowaway and she offered to get him a drink on the house, he decided to take her on a teleport trip down to Earth. They beamed down to London to find the city deserted; since London had suffered alien attacks two Christmases in a row, the population expected another invasion that year and had fled the city altogether.
The Doctor and Astrid were teleported back to the ship, where the Doctor noticed that the Titanic's shields were down and three asteroids were on course to hit the ship. He complained to the steward, but the asteroids hit the ship and killed most of the passengers apart from the Doctor, Astrid and a few passengers including Rickston Slade, Foon Van Hoff, Morvin Van Hoff, Mr Copper and Bannakaffalatta. They learned that the Heavenly Hosts, the angelic-looking servant robots aboard the ship, were killing all the survivors.
Though Foon, Morvin and Bannakaffalatta died along the way, the others made their way to safety. Astrid asked the Doctor if she could be his companion and he agreed. Before they parted she kissed him, claiming it was a tradition. Astrid used a teleportation bracelet to get to Deck 31 to help the Doctor.
Fate[]
To save the Doctor and defeat Max Capricorn, she lifted Capricorn and his life support system with a forklift and threw him into the engines. The forklift's brakes were cut by a halo thrown by a Heavenly Host. She plunged to her death along with Capricorn, but was dematerialised by an automatic function of her teleport bracelet. Using the advanced transmat system, the Doctor tried to recover Astrid, but only succeeded in creating a partially cohesive form, neither truly alive nor dead, trapped in a non-corporeal form for all eternity. He allowed her atoms to scatter into space, fulfilling her dream of travelling the galaxy.