"At the start of 'New Life and New Civilizations,' before the primary plot gets going, Pelia (Carol Kane) offhandedly mentions, 'Remind me to tell you about the time-traveling Doctor I once knew...' Now, Pelia is over 5000 years old, and has made claims that have lived on Earth throughout nearly all of human history. Her species, the Lanthanites, are unusually long-lived, and when La'an (Christina Chong) and Kirk (Paul Wesley) met Pelia in the early 21st century, she looked to be about the same age as she is in the 23rd."
"Clearly this gives her something in common with the Doctor from Doctor Who, but Star Trek has introduced other long-lived aliens who might have a connection to Time Lord before. Guinan's species, the El-Aurians, are also very long-lived, and in a 2012 IDW comic book crossover between The Next Generation and Doctor Who, it was implied that Guinan was aware of the the 11th Doctor."
The Season 3 finale 'New Life and New Civilizations' centers on inverted cause-and-effect and time-travel paradoxes driving the plot. Pelia, a Lanthanite over 5,000 years old, offhandedly references a time-traveling Doctor and appears visually unchanged across centuries. The episode parallels Doctor Who thematically, particularly in its handling of temporal sacrifice and analogues to characters like Rose Tyler. Star Trek previously introduced very long-lived species such as the El-Aurians, and a 2012 IDW comic crossover implied Guinan knew the 11th Doctor. Comic crossovers are not strict canon, so such Easter eggs read as nods rather than confirmed links.
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