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|name = ''Project: Destiny'' | |||
{{Infobox Story | |image = Project Destiny cover.jpg | ||
|name= Project: Destiny | |range = Main Range | ||
|image= Project | |number in range = 139 | ||
|series=[[ | |series = ''[[Main Range]]'' | ||
|number= 139 | |number = 139 | ||
|doctor= Seventh Doctor | |doctor = Seventh Doctor | ||
|companions= [[Ace]], [[Hex]] | |companions = [[Ace]], [[Hex]] | ||
|enemy= [[William Abberton| | |featuring = [[Lysandra Aristedes|Lysandra]] | ||
| | |enemy = [[William Abberton|Nimrod]] | ||
|writer= | |setting = [[London]], [[18 April|18]]-[[23 April]] [[2026]] | ||
|director= [[Ken Bentley]] | |writer = Cavan Scott, Mark Wright | ||
| | |director = [[Ken Bentley]] | ||
|cover=[[Simon Holub]] | |producer = [[David Richardson]] | ||
|publisher= | |music = [[Howard Carter (composer)|Howard Carter]] | ||
|release date= | |sound = Howard Carter | ||
|format= | |cover = [[Simon Holub]] | ||
|production code= 7W/M | |epcount = 4 | ||
|isbn=ISBN 978-1-84435- | |publisher = Big Finish Productions | ||
|prev= The Cradle of the Snake (audio story) | |release date = 13 September 2010 | ||
next= A Death in the Family (audio story) | |format = 2 CDs<br/>Download | ||
}}{{audio stub}} | |production code = [[List of production codes#Based off TV story production codes|7W/M]] | ||
'''''Project: Destiny''''' was the one | |isbn = ISBN 978-1-84435-474-0 (physical)<br/>ISBN 978-1-78575-685-6 (digital) | ||
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|next = A Death in the Family (audio story)|A Death in the Family | |||
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'''''Project: Destiny''''' was the one hundred and thirty-ninth story in [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]'s [[Main Range|monthly range]]. It was written by [[Cavan Scott]] and [[Mark Wright]] and featured [[Sylvester McCoy]] as the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Sophie Aldred]] as [[Ace]], [[Philip Olivier]] as [[Hex]], [[Stephen Chance]] as Sir [[William Abberton]] and introduced [[Maggie O'Neill]] as [[Lysandra Aristedes]]. | |||
It was a direct sequel, leading directly on from June 2009's ''[[The Angel of Scutari (audio story)|The Angel of Scutari]]'', the last Seventh Doctor story featuring Ace and Hex. It led directly into the next Seventh Doctor story ''[[A Death in the Family (audio story)|A Death in the Family]]''. | |||
It was also the third and final in the "Project:" series of audio stories ''[[Project Twilight (audio story)|Project: Twilight]]'' (which featured the [[Sixth Doctor]]) and ''[[Project Lazarus (audio story)|Project: Lazarus]]'' (which featured the [[Sixth Doctor|Sixth]] and [[Seventh Doctor]]s). | |||
Unknowing to listeners at the time, this saw the audio debut of a character who would later become the Seventh Doctor's companion - [[Lysandra Aristedes]], a soldier working for [[the Forge]]. | |||
== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
[[1999]]: Leaving her infant son behind, a young mother named [[Cassandra Schofield]] departs Bolton, seeking a better life amid the lights of London. | |||
[[2004]]: Despite the best efforts of the time-travelling Doctor, "Cassie" Schofield dies on Dartmoor, a vampirised victim of the sinister organisation called the Forge. | |||
[[2021]]: All grown up, and a nurse at [[St Gart's Bankside Hospital|St Gart's Hospital]], [[Hex|Thomas Hector Schofield]], known as "Hex", meets and becomes a companion to that time-travelling Doctor... but remains unaware that his alien friend knew his mother, and watched her die. | |||
[[1854]]: In the [[Crimean War]], Hex takes a bullet, and is seriously injured. The Doctor promises to return him to St Gart's. | |||
[[2025]]: Now. In a [[London]] ravaged by a deadly contagion... destiny awaits. | |||
== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
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== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
*[[Seventh Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Sylvester McCoy]] | * [[Seventh Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Sylvester McCoy]] | ||
* [[Ace]] - [[Sophie Aldred]] | * [[Ace]] - [[Sophie Aldred]] | ||
* [[Hex]] - [[Philip Olivier]] | * [[Hex]] - [[Philip Olivier]] | ||
* Sir [[William Abberton | * Sir [[William Abberton]] - [[Stephen Chance]] | ||
* Captain [[Lysandra Aristedes]] - [[Maggie O'Neill]] | * Captain [[Lysandra Aristedes]] - [[Maggie O'Neill]] | ||
* Sergeant [[Jarrod]] - [[Philip Dinsdale]] | * Sergeant [[Jarrod]] - [[Philip Dinsdale]] | ||
* [[Helen (Project Destiny)|Helen]]/[[Oracle]] - [[Ingrid Oliver]] | * [[Helen (Project: Destiny)|Helen]]/[[Oracle (Project Lazarus)|Oracle]] - [[Ingrid Oliver]] | ||
== Crew == | |||
* Cover Art - [[Simon Holub]] | |||
* Director - [[Ken Bentley]] | |||
* Executive Producers - [[Nicholas Briggs]] and [[Jason Haigh-Ellery]] | |||
* Music and Sound Design - [[Howard Carter (composer)|Howard Carter]] | |||
* Producer - [[David Richardson]] | |||
* Script Editor - [[Alan Barnes]] | |||
* Writers - [[Mark Wright]] and [[Cavan Scott]] | |||
== Worldbuilding == | |||
* The Doctor and Hex use a [[Triscilian matter transportation unit]]. | |||
=== The Doctor === | === The Doctor === | ||
* The Doctor's files concerning "Project: Twilight" are listed under "T" in the TARDIS' filing cabinet. | * The Doctor's files concerning "[[Project Twilight|Project: Twilight]]" are listed under "T" in the TARDIS' [[filing cabinet]]. | ||
=== | === Cultural references to the real world === | ||
* Ace refers to Nimrod as "[[Dracula (fictional character)|Dracula]]" and Lysandra as "Rambo". | * Ace refers to Nimrod as "[[Dracula (fictional character)|Dracula]]" and to Lysandra as "[[Rambo]]". | ||
* Ace always hated [[A-ha]]. | |||
* She's also never seen ''[[Dawn of the Dead]]''. | |||
=== Organisations === | === Organisations === | ||
* Nimrod refers to [[Internal Counter-Intelligence Service|Internal Counter-Intelligence Service (ICIS)]], a British ultra-nationalistic group which served as a rival organisation to [[ | * Nimrod refers to [[Internal Counter-Intelligence Service|Internal Counter-Intelligence Service (ICIS)]], a British ultra-nationalistic group which served as a rival organisation to [[UNIT]] until it was closed down in [[2005]] following its involvement in ethnic cleansing and an attempted coup. | ||
=== People === | |||
* [[Mark Mathias]] was one of [[Hex]]'s St Gart's associates. | |||
=== Politics === | === Politics === | ||
* In | * In 2026, the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] is a woman. | ||
=== Science === | === Science === | ||
* It requires just a drop of family-blood to regenerate [[Cassandra Schofield]]'s dusty remains into a body. | * It requires just a drop of family-blood to regenerate [[Cassandra Schofield]]'s dusty remains into a body, although she is reduced to a fundamentally feral state that barely recognizes Hex as her son. | ||
=== Species === | === Species === | ||
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=== TARDIS === | === TARDIS === | ||
* Ace looks for the [[TARDIS key]] in the cubby-hole above the "P" in "Police Box" on the roof of | * Ace looks for the [[TARDIS key]] in the cubby-hole above the "P" in "Police Box" on the roof of [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. | ||
* The [[Seal of Rassilon]] is displayed above the inner doors of the TARDIS. | * The [[Seal of Rassilon]] is displayed above the inner doors of the TARDIS. | ||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* According to writers [[Cavan Scott]] and [[Mark Wright]], this story was at one point written with [[Elizabeth Klein]] as the director of the Forge. This had to be rewritten after the character was brought back to serve as the Doctor's companion in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Thousand Tiny Wings (audio story)|A Thousand Tiny Wings]]''.<ref>''Project: Destiny'' - CD Extras, | * Despite the blurb saying the story takes place in 2025, the year is given as 2026 in a scene in part two of the story. | ||
* This audio drama was recorded on [[26 April|26]] and [[27 April]] [[2010]] at [[ | * According to writers [[Cavan Scott]] and [[Mark Wright]], this story was at one point written with [[Elizabeth Klein]] as the director of the Forge. This had to be rewritten after the character was brought back to serve as the Doctor's companion in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Thousand Tiny Wings (audio story)|A Thousand Tiny Wings]]''.<ref>''Project: Destiny'' - CD Extras, 2010, CD, Big Finish Productions</ref> | ||
* This audio drama was recorded on [[26 April (production)|26]] and [[27 April (production)|27 April]] [[2010 (production)|2010]] at [[the Moat Studios]]. | |||
* Ingrid Oliver would later play the recurring role of [[Petronella Osgood]] in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' TV series, debuting in [[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]''. | |||
* Subscribers whose subscriptions included this story also received the audio short story ''[[Lepidoptery for Beginners (short story)|Lepidoptery for Beginners]]''. | |||
* This story was originally released on CD and download on [[13 September (releases)|13 September]] [[2010 (releases)|2010]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100921023753/http://www.bigfinish.com:80/whatsnew.aspx LATEST AND UPCOMING RELEASES - Archived on 21-09-2010]</ref> | |||
== Gallery == | |||
<gallery position="center" captionalign="center" hideaddbutton="true" widths="250"> | |||
Project Destiny cover.jpg|Original CD cover art. | |||
Project Destiny.jpg|Textless cover art. | |||
</gallery> | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* The events of [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Project Lazarus (audio story)|Project: Lazarus]]'' (to which this story serves as a sequel) are in the past but are in the Doctor's personal future. Nimrod informs the Doctor that he was present at the destruction of the Forge's alpha facility in [[2008]]. The Doctor attempts to prevent Nimrod from telling him too much about his personal future so as not to disrupt the [[Web of Time]]. | * The events of Parts 3 and 4 of [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Project Lazarus (audio story)|Project: Lazarus]]'' (to which this story serves as a sequel) are in the past but are in the Doctor's personal future. Nimrod informs the Doctor that he was present at the destruction of the Forge's alpha facility in [[2008]]. The Doctor attempts to prevent Nimrod from telling him too much about his personal future so as not to disrupt the [[Web of Time]]. | ||
* The Seal of Rassilon is displayed above the inner doors of the TARDIS as is seen in [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who ( | * The Seal of Rassilon is displayed above the inner doors of the TARDIS as is seen in [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'', confirming that the console room now looks as it did in the TVM. | ||
* The Forge's files on Hex state that he was present during the [[Charnage Hospital]] incident in the north of [[France]] during [[World War I]] in [[1917]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[No Man's Land (audio story)|No Man's Land]]'') | * The Forge's files on Hex state that he was present during the [[Charnage Hospital]] incident in the north of [[France]] during [[World War I]] in [[1917]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[No Man's Land (audio story)|No Man's Land]]'') | ||
* Ace mentions that on their previous visit to [[St Gart's Bankside Hospital]], when the Doctor mentions her fire safety training, that she was the one in Human Resources and he was the caretaker, so there was no need to quote the book at her. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Harvest (audio story)|The Harvest]]'') | |||
* [[UNIT]] had records of Ace's involvement in this incident. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Signs and Wonders (audio story)|Signs and Wonders]]'') | |||
* Hex mentions the [[Dalek]]s killing injured people on [[Bliss (planet)|Bliss]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Enemy of the Daleks (audio story)|Enemy of the Daleks]]'') | |||
* After Nimrod's death, Lysandra was appointed acting director of the Forge. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Black and White (audio story)|Black and White]]'') | |||
* The Forge operates out of the Crichton Building, named after [[Charles Crichton]], the former deputy director of the Forge. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Project Valhalla (novel)|Project Valhalla]]'') | |||
== Footnotes == | |||
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== External links == | == External links == | ||
{{bigfinish|releases/v/project-destiny-305|Project: Destiny}} | |||
{{dwrefguide|who_bf139.htm|Project: Destiny}} | |||
* {{tetrap|7/projectdestiny.html|Project: Destiny}} | * {{tetrap|7/projectdestiny.html|Project: Destiny}} | ||
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[[Project Destiny (audio story)|Project: Destiny]], or {{cs|Project Destiny (audio story)|Project: Destiny}} if making use of {{cite source}}.Project: Destiny was the one hundred and thirty-ninth story in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright and featured Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor, Sophie Aldred as Ace, Philip Olivier as Hex, Stephen Chance as Sir William Abberton and introduced Maggie O'Neill as Lysandra Aristedes.
It was a direct sequel, leading directly on from June 2009's The Angel of Scutari, the last Seventh Doctor story featuring Ace and Hex. It led directly into the next Seventh Doctor story A Death in the Family.
It was also the third and final in the "Project:" series of audio stories Project: Twilight (which featured the Sixth Doctor) and Project: Lazarus (which featured the Sixth and Seventh Doctors).
Unknowing to listeners at the time, this saw the audio debut of a character who would later become the Seventh Doctor's companion - Lysandra Aristedes, a soldier working for the Forge.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
1999: Leaving her infant son behind, a young mother named Cassandra Schofield departs Bolton, seeking a better life amid the lights of London.
2004: Despite the best efforts of the time-travelling Doctor, "Cassie" Schofield dies on Dartmoor, a vampirised victim of the sinister organisation called the Forge.
2021: All grown up, and a nurse at St Gart's Hospital, Thomas Hector Schofield, known as "Hex", meets and becomes a companion to that time-travelling Doctor... but remains unaware that his alien friend knew his mother, and watched her die.
1854: In the Crimean War, Hex takes a bullet, and is seriously injured. The Doctor promises to return him to St Gart's.
2025: Now. In a London ravaged by a deadly contagion... destiny awaits.
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
to be added
Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
- Ace - Sophie Aldred
- Hex - Philip Olivier
- Sir William Abberton - Stephen Chance
- Captain Lysandra Aristedes - Maggie O'Neill
- Sergeant Jarrod - Philip Dinsdale
- Helen/Oracle - Ingrid Oliver
Crew[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Cover Art - Simon Holub
- Director - Ken Bentley
- Executive Producers - Nicholas Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery
- Music and Sound Design - Howard Carter
- Producer - David Richardson
- Script Editor - Alan Barnes
- Writers - Mark Wright and Cavan Scott
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor and Hex use a Triscilian matter transportation unit.
The Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor's files concerning "Project: Twilight" are listed under "T" in the TARDIS' filing cabinet.
Cultural references to the real world[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Ace refers to Nimrod as "Dracula" and to Lysandra as "Rambo".
- Ace always hated A-ha.
- She's also never seen Dawn of the Dead.
Organisations[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Nimrod refers to Internal Counter-Intelligence Service (ICIS), a British ultra-nationalistic group which served as a rival organisation to UNIT until it was closed down in 2005 following its involvement in ethnic cleansing and an attempted coup.
People[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Mark Mathias was one of Hex's St Gart's associates.
Politics[[edit] | [edit source]]
- In 2026, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is a woman.
Science[[edit] | [edit source]]
- It requires just a drop of family-blood to regenerate Cassandra Schofield's dusty remains into a body, although she is reduced to a fundamentally feral state that barely recognizes Hex as her son.
Species[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The "contagion" aliens exist as a hive mind.
Substances[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Forge archive is reinforced with Dalekanium.
TARDIS[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Ace looks for the TARDIS key in the cubby-hole above the "P" in "Police Box" on the roof of the TARDIS.
- The Seal of Rassilon is displayed above the inner doors of the TARDIS.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Despite the blurb saying the story takes place in 2025, the year is given as 2026 in a scene in part two of the story.
- According to writers Cavan Scott and Mark Wright, this story was at one point written with Elizabeth Klein as the director of the Forge. This had to be rewritten after the character was brought back to serve as the Doctor's companion in AUDIO: A Thousand Tiny Wings.[1]
- This audio drama was recorded on 26 and 27 April 2010 at the Moat Studios.
- Ingrid Oliver would later play the recurring role of Petronella Osgood in the Doctor Who TV series, debuting in TV: The Day of the Doctor.
- Subscribers whose subscriptions included this story also received the audio short story Lepidoptery for Beginners.
- This story was originally released on CD and download on 13 September 2010.[2]
Gallery[[edit] | [edit source]]
Original CD cover art.
Textless cover art.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The events of Parts 3 and 4 of AUDIO: Project: Lazarus (to which this story serves as a sequel) are in the past but are in the Doctor's personal future. Nimrod informs the Doctor that he was present at the destruction of the Forge's alpha facility in 2008. The Doctor attempts to prevent Nimrod from telling him too much about his personal future so as not to disrupt the Web of Time.
- The Seal of Rassilon is displayed above the inner doors of the TARDIS as is seen in TV: Doctor Who, confirming that the console room now looks as it did in the TVM.
- The Forge's files on Hex state that he was present during the Charnage Hospital incident in the north of France during World War I in 1917. (AUDIO: No Man's Land)
- Ace mentions that on their previous visit to St Gart's Bankside Hospital, when the Doctor mentions her fire safety training, that she was the one in Human Resources and he was the caretaker, so there was no need to quote the book at her. (AUDIO: The Harvest)
- UNIT had records of Ace's involvement in this incident. (AUDIO: Signs and Wonders)
- Hex mentions the Daleks killing injured people on Bliss. (AUDIO: Enemy of the Daleks)
- After Nimrod's death, Lysandra was appointed acting director of the Forge. (AUDIO: Black and White)
- The Forge operates out of the Crichton Building, named after Charles Crichton, the former deputy director of the Forge. (PROSE: Project Valhalla)
Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- ↑ Project: Destiny - CD Extras, 2010, CD, Big Finish Productions
- ↑ LATEST AND UPCOMING RELEASES - Archived on 21-09-2010
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Official Project: Destiny page at bigfinish.com
- Project: Destiny at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- DisContinuity for Project: Destiny at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide
