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|series=''[[Doctor Who Magazine|DWM]]'' short stories
|series=''[[Doctor Who Magazine|DWM]]'' short stories
|doctor=Fourth Doctor
|doctor = Fourth Doctor
|companions=[[Romana II|Romana]], [[Adric]], [[K9 Mark II]]
|companions=[[K9 Mark II]], [[Romana II]], [[Adric]]
|setting=[[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]]
|release date= [[18 April (releases)|18 April]] [[1991 (releases)|1991]]
|release date= 18 April 1991
|cover date= [[15 May (releases)|15 May]] [[1991 (releases)|1991]]
|cover date= 15 May 1991
|prev = Teenage Kicks (short story)
|prev = Teenage Kicks (short story)
|next = Heliotrope Bouquet (short story)
|next = Heliotrope Bouquet (short story)
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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]]."
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,
:Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
:''And sorry I could not travel both
:And sorry I could not travel both
:''And be one traveller, long I stood
:And be one traveller, long I stood
:''And looked down one as far as I could
:And looked down one as far as I could
:''To where it bent in the undergrowth
:To where it bent in the undergrowth


== Plot ==
== Plot ==
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* [[Lazlo]]
* [[Lazlo]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
* Romana says she never liked [[metaphysics]].
* Romana says she never liked [[metaphysics]].
* Adric refers to [[Robert Frost]] as "[[N-Space]] [[poetry]]."
* Adric refers to [[Robert Frost]] as "[[N-Space]] [[poetry]]."
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== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* The illustrations are by [[Gary Erskine]].
* The illustrations are by [[Gary Erskine]].
* The poem is ''[[The Road Not Taken]]'' by [[Robert Frost]].
* The poem is "{{w|The Road Not Taken}}" by [[Robert Frost]].


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* Romana thinks they've landed on the [[vampire planet]] again, which was the last planet they visited. ([[TV]]: ''[[State of Decay]]'')
* 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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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.

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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

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