Emily first met the Doctor during the 1990s, in a different incarnation to the Sixth Doctor. (PROSE: Defining Patterns) Emily met the Doctor when he was attempting to banish an alien parasite called the Darkness . Emily helped the Doctor to do so and he took Emily and her lieutenant, Will Hoffman, back to UNIT HQ in his TARDIS. He took several detours on the way. (PROSE: The Terror of the Darkness) During her travels with the Doctor, Emily witnessed the birth of Edward Grainger's son, John Grainger, in 1951. (PROSE: Incongruous Details)