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|series=''[[Doctor Who Magazine|DWM]]'' short stories | |series=''[[Doctor Who Magazine|DWM]]'' short stories | ||
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|companions=[[K9 Mark II]], [[Romana II]], [[Adric]] | |companions=[[K9 Mark II]], [[Romana II]], [[Adric]] | ||
|setting = [[E-Space]] | |setting = [[E-Space]] | ||
|writer= | |writer=Michael E. P. Stevens | ||
|publication= [[DWM 173]] | |publication= [[DWM 173]] | ||
|release date= | |release date= 18 April 1991 | ||
|cover date= | |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) | ||
Latest revision as of 22:06, 7 March 2024
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]]
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Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Romana says she never liked metaphysics.
- Adric refers to Robert Frost as "N-Space poetry."
- There are no seasons in the time winds.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The illustrations are by Gary Erskine.
- The poem is "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Romana thinks they've landed on the vampire planet again, which was the last planet they visited. (TV: State of Decay)
