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|name=Pathfinders
|image = Pathfinders.JPG
|series=[[Doctor Who Magazine|Doctor Who]]
|series=''[[Doctor Who Magazine|DWM]]'' short stories
|doctor=Fourth Doctor
|doctor = Fourth Doctor
|companions=[[Romana II]], [[Adric]], [[K9 Mark II]]
|companions=[[K9 Mark II]], [[Romana II]], [[Adric]]
|year=unnamed planet, [[E-Space]]
|setting = [[E-Space]]
|writer=[[Michael E. P. Stevens]]
|writer=Michael E. P. Stevens
|publication= ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' [[DWM 173|173]]
|publication= [[DWM 173]]
|prev=
|release date= 18 April 1991
|next=
|cover date= 15 May 1991
|prev = Teenage Kicks (short story)
|next = Heliotrope Bouquet (short story)
}}
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'''''Pathfinders''''' was a short story published in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]''. It featured the [[Fourth Doctor]], [[Romana II]], [[Adric]] and [[K9 Mark II|K9]], and was set during the [[E-Space]] trilogy.


== Summary ==
== Summary ==
The Doctor, Romana, Adric, and K9 arrive on a planet with a road. K9 can see the projected course for the TARDIS to an extent, but it ends at a "curve in [[destiny]]."
:Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
:And sorry I could not travel both
:And be one traveller, long I stood
:And looked down one as far as I could
:To where it bent in the undergrowth
== Plot ==
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== Characters ==
== Characters ==
''to be added''
* [[Fourth Doctor]]
* [[Romana II]]
* [[Adric]]
* [[K9]]
* [[Lazlo]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
''to be added''
* Romana says she never liked [[metaphysics]].
* Adric refers to [[Robert Frost]] as "[[N-Space]] [[poetry]]."
* There are no seasons in the [[time wind]]s.


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
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* The illustrations are by [[Gary Erskine]].
* The poem is "{{w|The Road Not Taken}}" by [[Robert Frost]].


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
''to be added''
* Romana thinks they've landed on the [[vampire planet]] again, which was the last planet they visited. ([[TV]]: ''[[State of Decay (TV story)|State of Decay]]'')
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Latest revision as of 22:06, 7 March 2024

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Pathfinders was a short story published in Doctor Who Magazine. It featured the Fourth Doctor, Romana II, Adric and K9, and was set during the E-Space trilogy.

Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor, Romana, Adric, and K9 arrive on a planet with a road. K9 can see the projected course for the TARDIS to an extent, but it ends at a "curve in destiny."

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]