 " Voyage of the Damned " is an episode of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who . First broadcast on 25 December 2007 , it is 72 minutes long and the third Christmas special since the show 's revival in 2005 . The narrative continues from the final scenes of both " Last of the Time Lords " and the mini @-@ episode " Time Crash " , when a luxury space liner called the Titanic , a pastiche of the historical ocean liner , breached the walls of the TARDIS . The ship 's captain , Hardaker ( Geoffrey Palmer ) , sabotages the ship shortly after the Titanic 's collision with the TARDIS . The Doctor ( David Tennant ) works with a waitress named Astrid Peth ( Kylie Minogue ) to prevent an imminent collision with Earth . 
