The Sontarans made their first appearance in 1973 in the serial The Time Warrior by Robert Holmes, where a Sontaran named Linx is stranded in the Middle Ages.

Another Sontaran named Styre appears in The Sontaran Experiment, experimenting on captured astronauts on a future Earth.

In The Outsider ( DWM # 25-26 ), by Steve Moore and David Lloyd, a Sontaran named Skrant invaded the world of Brahtilis with the unwitting help of Demimon, a local astrologer.

In the Middle Ages, the bandit Irongron and his aide Bloodaxe together with their rabble of criminals find the crashed spaceship of a Sontaran warrior named Linx.

The Sontaran home planet is named Sontara.

Commander Linx, an original Sontaran.

Aside from a ritualistic chant in " The Sontaran Strategem "/" The Poison Sky ", they are never seen to engage in any activity that would be considered recreation, though a few offhand comments by Commander Skorr in " The Poison Sky " suggest they do consider hunting a sport ( according to their creator Robert Holmes, Sontarans do have a highly developed artistic culture, but have put it on hold for the duration of the war, while the opening chapter of the novelisation of The Time Warrior, based on Holmes ' incomplete draft, refers to Linx listening to the Sontaran anthem while his spaceship is in flight ).

Commander Strax, the Sontaran in question, was condemned to work as a battlefield nurse ( a punishment implied to have been meted out by the Doctor himself ) to restore the honour of his clone stock.

The Invasion of Time saw Commander Stor using the small rod again, but also in episode six, a Sontaran trooper uses a short black rifle-like laser to try to burn through a lock on a door inside the TARDIS.

Commander Kaagh, a surviving pilot from the tenth Sontaran battle fleet, had slightly different armour due to being from the special forces.

These include General Staal, Commander Skorr and several Sontaran soldiers.

In 2008, he again guest starred in Doctor Who in the episodes " The Sontaran Stratagem " and " The Poison Sky ", as the Sontaran leader General Staal, and in the 2010 episode " The Pandorica Opens ", playing another Sontaran character, Commander Stark.

All the Sontarans depicted in the television series have monosyllabic names, many beginning with an initial ' st ' sound ( e. g. Styre ( The Sontaran Experiment ), Stor ( The Invasion of Time ), Stike ( The Two Doctors ), Staal ( The Sontaran Stratagem ), and Strax ( A Good Man Goes To War ); exceptions are Linx ( The Time Warrior ), Varl ( The Two Doctors ) Skorr ( The Sontaran Stratagem ) and Kaagh ( The Sarah Jane Adventures )).

Subdivisions of the Sontaran military structure mentioned in the series include the Sontaran G3 Military Assessment Survey and the Grand Strategic Council, the Ninth Sontaran Battle Group, the Fifth Army Space Fleet of the Sontaran Army Space Corps, and the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet.

The Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet in the new series consists of a Command Ship and a number of capsules that can be moved into position when Battle Status is enjoined.

These rifles are the Sontaran gun of the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet.

The Sontarans make their return in the revived series in the episodes " The Sontaran Strategem " and " The Poison Sky ", with Christopher Ryan playing the Sontaran leader, General Staal of the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet and also being the story arc's primary antagonist.

The Sontaran Empire has ostracised him for his failures and the failures of the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet, and he is forced to work as a mercenary for the alien Bane and later colludes with their renegade Mrs Wormwood to unleash the ancient entity Horath.

Varl announces that Group Marshal Stike of the Ninth Sontaran Battle Fleet is in descent orbit.

Mickey next makes a brief final appearance in the Tenth Doctor's final episode The End of Time ( 2010 ), when the dying Tenth Doctor visits all his companions and saves the now-married Mickey and Martha, " freelance alien hunters ", from a Sontaran sniper.

The Sontaran design was revamped for the new series, though not to a great extent.

In 2008, as part of Character options first series 4 2008 wave of action figures, they released some Sontaran action figures.

* In one of the few times in the series that the Doctor directly kills anyone, he uses the de-mat gun to disintegrate the Sontaran warriors.

The Sontaran Experiment is the third serial of the 12th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was originally broadcast in two weekly parts on 22 February and 1 March 1975.

A Sontaran from the television series Doctor Who ( from The Time Warrior ).

It would not be until The Sontaran Stratagem that General Staal would show that the baton can fire an orange beam that could stun the target.

# Series 4 ( 2008 ) episodes Partners In Crime, The Sontaran Strategem / The Poison Sky and The Stolen Earth / Journey's End ; and Turn Left, ( which is set in a parallel universe ).

The Rutans only appeared on television in the serial Horror of Fang Rock, in which a single Rutan is encountered, though they are mentioned in some serials featuring Sontarans ( The Time Warrior, The Sontaran Experiment, The Two Doctors, The Poison Sky and The Last Sontaran and Enemy of the Bane episodes of Doctor Who spin off The Sarah Jane Adventures ).

Even something as simple as a squash ball aimed at that point ( The Sontaran Stratagem ) or contact by the heel of a shoe (" The Last Sontaran ") is capable of incapacitating them temporarily.

The Sarah Jane Adventures story The Last Sontaran showed further technological advancements of the modern Sontarans.

* This serial, along with The Time Warrior was referred to in The Sarah Jane Adventures serial The Last Sontaran.

Ross Jenkins in The Sontaran Stratagem describes a Sontaran as resembling " a talking baked potato " but The Doctor sticks up for the Sontarans by saying that, to them, he looks like a pink weasel.

In The Sontaran Experiment, the Fourth Doctor comments that " Sontarans never do anything without a military reason.

While the Sontaran wear protective helmets in battle, to fight without their helmets, or to be " open-skinned ," is an honor for the Sontaran.

In the episode The Poison Sky, it is revealed that the Sontaran Empire have been at war with the Rutan Host for more than 50, 000 years, and which, at a time around 2008, they are losing.

However, the war is still raging at least 20, 000 years later, in the serial The Sontaran Experiment.

The newly married Martha Smith-Jones and Mickey Smith are seen being chased by a Sontaran sniper in the last Tenth Doctor serial The End of Time, for unknown reasons.

A Sontaran appeared in A Good Man Goes to War, but as an ally of the Eleventh Doctor.

Strax expressed irritation at the task at the Battle of Zaruthstra in the 41st century after helping to heal an injured human boy, claiming this was " the greatest punishment a Sontaran can endure: to help the weak and sick.

In 1806 Francis II ( now Francis I of Austria ) named the Archduke Charles, already a field marshal, as Commander in Chief of the Austrian army and Head of the Council of War.

* The hall inspired the name of an Asgard starship commanded by Supreme Commander Thor, in the television series Stargate SG-1 named Beliskner.

Chiang was even named the Supreme Commander of Allied forces in the China war zone.

The ship's captain, Commander John Clements Wickham, named the port after Charles Darwin, the British naturalist who had sailed with them both on the earlier second expedition of the Beagle.

Robcol — in line with normal British Army practice for ad hoc formations — was named after its commander, Brigadier Robert Waller, the Commander Royal Artillery of the 10th Indian Infantry Division.

At the beginning of Season 2, he was promoted to Lieutenant and named Chief Engineer ; in Season 3, he rose to Lieutenant Commander and has retained this rank for the duration of the series and movies.

The President of the Third French Republic, Jules Grévy, on the recommendation of his Minister of Foreign Affairs Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire and with the presentations of the Minister of Posts and Telegraphs Louis Cochery, designated Edison with the distinction of an ' Officer of the Legion of Honour ' ( Légion d ' honneur ) by decree on November 10, 1881 ; He also named a Chevalier in 1879, and a Commander in 1889.

* August 26 – WWII: Lord Louis Mountbatten is named Supreme Allied Commander for Southeast Asia.

* In Wolfenstein RPG, a character named Commander Keen aids B. J.

Lee also received various other titles: in 1776, he was named Commander of the so-called Canadian Department, although he never got to serve in this capacity.

The island was originally named Quadra's and Vancouver's Island in commemoration of the friendly negotiations held by Spanish Commander of the Nootka Sound settlement Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, and British Naval Captain George Vancouver on Nootka Sound in 1792, to find a solution to the Nootka Crisis.

The first superintendent of the United States Naval Observatory, Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury, advocate of the creation of the United States Naval Academy, after whom Maury Hall is named, similarly served in the Confederate States Navy.

He received the 2002 IEEE John von Neumann Medal ( with Kristen Nygaard ) and was named Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 2000.

In August 1977, he was named Commander of Air Force Systems Command.

When the king Lê Long Đĩnh died in 1009 AD, a Palace Guard Commander named Lý Công Uẩn was nominated by the court to take over the throne, and founded the Lý dynasty.

The shooting came less than a week after Davies was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II.

Marvin was never named in the original shorts ( though he was called the Commander of Flying Saucer X-2 in The Hasty Hare in 1952 ), but decades later when the character attracted merchandising interest, the current name was selected.

Named as Scawfell Island in 1879 by Staff Commander E. P. Bedwell of the British Royal Navy who surveyed and named many islands of the Whitsundays in 1879 in SS Llewellyn.

The town was named after George Washington, who, in his capacity as Commander of the Continental Army during the American Revolution, passed through the area several times.

At a ceremony in St. Patrick's Old Cathedral, Michael is named a Commander of the Order of St. Sebastian.

Formed in 1822, it is named for American Revolutionary War Commander John Barry and was formed from parts of Norwegian and Schuylkill Townships.

Herndon was named for Commander William Lewis Herndon, American naval explorer and author of Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon.

The characters of Commander Gilmour and General Borchevsky were named after Doug Gilmour and Nikolai Borschevsky, two former players from Myers ' favorite National Hockey League team, his hometown Toronto Maple Leafs.

* She was named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1965.