Yes, Strax (formerly Commander Strax) is from the same story arc as Vastra and Jenny. He's a Sontaran battlefield nurse (well, they would have no other kind, would they). Canonically, he evidently owed the Doctor a solid, or possibly had just concluded that his kung fu was best; it's ambiguous. He gets dragged into the adventure, anyway, and goes home with Vastra and Jenny to Victorian London at the end instead of back to his own time. Here, the Doctor isn't involved and they're meeting for the first time in... wherever that last scene takes place.

>Given just how unexplained the Fleet of Fog is according to H2G2
>(inaccurate as that may be), I have to wonder whether the item Miss
>James is offering really is the item the Castellan told Nanami to look
>out for.

Well, even if it isn't, she's likely to be pretty pleased with it.

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