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Our Town was a three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder, written in 1938. It presented the fictional American town of Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913.

In the 3190s, as part of a Starfleet Academy class taught by visiting instructor Sylvia Tilly, SAM selected the play for the class to read and study, before life-threatening holographic glitches caused her to leave the school. Accompanying SAM to her homeworld Kasq, The Doctor and Nahla Ake mused on the play, its appeal to SAM, and The Doctor's similarity to the play's Stage Manager character. After SAM's return to the Academy, Ake quoted the play in her personal log, noting "As the play ends, the Stage Manager once again takes the stage and bids everyone goodbye. 'There are the stars doing their old, old crisscross journeys in the sky. Scholars haven't settled the matter yet, but they seem to think there are no living beings up there. Just chalk or fire. Only this one is straining away, straining away all the time to make something of itself.'" (SA: "The Life of the Stars")

The Doctor's remark in his personal log "The sky is beginning to show some streaks of light over in the East." is also one of the first lines of Our Town, spoken by the Stage Manager character with whom he would later compare himself. As this log was recorded before SAM discovers the play, it is unclear if The Doctor was intentionally referencing the play.

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