Day of the Vashta Nerada (audio story): Difference between revisions

When the Doctor stumbles across Synthesis Station, he discovers that the Time Lords have sponsored a project to weaponise already-lethal creatures. But in doing so, Eva Morrison and her team have unwittingly used a colony of Vashta Nerada with a very unfortunate history of humanoid contact.

The Doctor finds himself leading a desperate race for survival, in which the shadows may be the least of their worries...

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor - Paul McGann
Ollistra - Jacqueline Pearce
Dr. Eva Morrison - Jan Ravens
Biotech Dendry - Himesh Patel
Commander Roxita / Security Chief Raldon - Tim Wallers

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Eva's team create the Nerada Vashta, which thrive in the light.
The Time Lords intend for the Vashta Nerada to be engineered with the ability to consume Dalekanium, planning to unleash them on Dalek battlecruisers and ultimately Skaro itself.
Dendry plans to sip cocktails at Dorium Maldovar's Maldovarium.
As the survivors prepare to return to Gallifrey, the Doctor comments that he has half a mind to drop the War Ollistra on Pluto and have her walk the rest of the way.
Ollistra describes the TARDIS as "an antiquated contraption".
The TARDIS does not have a Zero Room "at the moment."
The Doctor ejects his Fledershrews from the TARDIS alongside the Vashta Nerada.
The survivors take refuge in the secondary control room.
The Doctor acquired three space suits from one of the Apollo missions: "32, 33, I forget." Ollistra refers to them as Bronze Age.
A guard is devoured by the Vashta Nerada.
The Doctor mentions dignity.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor mentions his encounter with the Vashta Nerada on Funworld during his fourth incarnation. (AUDIO: Night of the Vashta Nerada)
Ollistra travelled to Synthesis Station in a Battle TARDIS. (COMIC: The Stockbridge Horror; AUDIO: Neverland; PROSE: Engines of War)
The Doctor met Ollistra's previous incarnation in New York City in the 1970s. (AUDIO: The Side of the Angels)
The Doctor refuses to fight in the Time War. (TV: The Night of the Doctor; AUDIO: The Sontaran Ordeal)
Following the deaths of Georgia Donnelly and the Funworld's skeleton crew, the project was abandoned and the world became known as Theta 49. (AUDIO: Night of the Vashta Nerada)
Dendry mentions "Maldovar's bar." (TV: The Pandorica Opens, A Good Man Goes to War)
Defending the Vashta Nerada experiments being conducted off Gallifrey, Ollistra comments that there are enough shadows in the Cloisters as it is. (TV: Hell Bent)
Ollistra refers to the Time Lords' War Council. (TV: The Day of the Doctor; AUDIO: The Innocent)
Roxita mentions that TARDISes exist in a state of temporal grace. (TV: The Hand of Fear)
The Doctor's TARDIS currently lacks a Zero Room. Its original Zero Room was ejected shortly after the Doctor's regeneration into his fifth incarnation. (TV: Castrovalva) It was eventually reconstructed. (AUDIO: Zaltys, Renaissance of the Daleks)
The Doctor notes that the secondary control room has wood panelling. (TV: The Masque of Mandragora, et. al)
The Doctor notes that he has allowed the Fledershrews to live in the TARDIS for many years. (AUDIO: And You Will Obey Me, Black and White, Nevermore, Relative Dimensions)
Offering the remaining space suits to the others, the Doctor assures that he will simply hang onto the TARDIS shell as he is ejected into the Time Vortex before it returns to real space only for Roxita to point out that such an act would be impossible. Nevertheless, this feat would be achieved by the immortal Captain Jack Harkness, reviving shortly after it killed him. (TV: Utopia) The Doctor would eventually find himself successfully holding onto the TARDIS exterior to escape a pocket universe. (TV: Hide)
The Doctor remembers taking space suits from either Apollo 32 or Apollo 33. Apollo 34 would establish Bowie Base One on Mars in the late 2050s. (TV: The Waters of Mars)
The Doctor tells Ollistra that he is not a warrior. (TV: The Night of the Doctor)
The Doctor would later face the Vashta Nerada again during his tenth (TV: Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead; COMIC: Untitled) and eleventh incarnations. (GAME: Shadows of the Vashta Nerada; COMIC: Space Oddity)

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

Official Day of the Vashta Nerada page at bigfinish.com

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-'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the fourth and final story in ''[[Classic Doctors, New Monsters Volume Two (audio anthology)|Classic Doctors, New Monsters Volume Two]]''.
+'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the fourth and final story in ''[[Classic Doctors, New Monsters: Volume Two]], ''produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Matt Fitton]] and featured [[Paul McGann]] as the [[Eighth Doctor]].
 == Publisher's summary ==
-As the [[Last Great Time War|Time War]] rages, [[Lord Cardinal|Cardinal]] [[Ollistra]] of [[Gallifrey]] seeks to create ever more dangerous [[weapon]]s to deploy against [[Dalek|the enemy]].
+As the [[Last Great Time War|Time War]] rages, [[Lord Cardinal|Cardinal]] [[War Ollistra|Ollistra]] of [[Gallifrey]] seeks to create ever more dangerous [[weapon]]s to deploy against [[Dalek|the enemy]].
 When [[Eighth Doctor|the Doctor]] stumbles across [[Synthesis Station]], he discovers that the [[Time Lord]]s have sponsored a project to weaponise already-lethal creatures. But in doing so, [[Eva Morrison]] and her team have unwittingly used a colony of [[Vashta Nerada]] with a very unfortunate history of humanoid contact.
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 == Cast ==
 * [[Eighth Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Paul McGann]]
-''more to be added''
+* [[War Ollistra|Ollistra]] - [[Jacqueline Pearce]]
+* Dr. [[Eva Morrison]] - [[Jan Ravens]]
+* Biotech [[Dendry]] - [[Himesh Patel]]
+* Commander [[Roxita]] / Security Chief [[Raldon]] - [[Tim Wallers]]
-== References ==
+== Worldbuilding ==
-''to be added''
+* Eva's team create the [[Nerada Vashta]], which thrive in the light.
+* The Time Lords intend for the Vashta Nerada to be engineered with the ability to consume [[Dalekanium]], planning to unleash them on [[Dalek]] [[Dalek Battlecruiser|battlecruisers]] and ultimately [[Skaro]] itself.
+* Dendry plans to sip [[cocktail]]s at [[Dorium Maldovar]]'s [[Maldovarium]].
+* As the survivors prepare to return to [[Gallifrey]], the Doctor comments that he has half a mind to drop the [[War Ollistra]] on [[Pluto]] and have her walk the rest of the way.
+* Ollistra describes [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] as "an antiquated contraption".
+* The TARDIS does not have a [[Zero Room]] "at the moment."
+* The Doctor ejects his [[Fledershrew]]s from the TARDIS alongside the Vashta Nerada.
+* The survivors take refuge in the [[TARDIS control room#Second control room|secondary control room]].
+* The Doctor acquired three [[space suit]]s from one of the [[Apollo mission]]s: "[[Apollo 32|32]], [[Apollo 33|33]], I forget." Ollistra refers to them as [[Bronze Age]].
+* A [[Guard (Day of the Vashta Nerada)|guard]] is devoured by the Vashta Nerada.
+* The Doctor mentions [[dignity]].
 == Notes ==
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 == Continuity ==
-''to be added''
+* The Doctor mentions his encounter with the Vashta Nerada on [[Funworld]] during his [[Fourth Doctor|fourth incarnation]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Night of the Vashta Nerada (audio story)|Night of the Vashta Nerada]]'')
+* Ollistra travelled to Synthesis Station in a [[Battle TARDIS]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Stockbridge Horror (comic story)|The Stockbridge Horror]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Neverland (audio story)|Neverland]]''; [[PROSE]]: ''[[Engines of War (novel)|Engines of War]]'')
+* The Doctor met Ollistra's previous incarnation in [[New York City]] in the [[1970s]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Side of the Angels (audio story)|The Side of the Angels]]'')
+* The Doctor refuses to fight in the Time War. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Night of the Doctor (TV story)|The Night of the Doctor]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sontaran Ordeal (audio story)|The Sontaran Ordeal]]'')
+* Following the deaths of [[Georgia Donnelly]] and the Funworld's skeleton crew, the project was abandoned and the world became known as Theta 49. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Night of the Vashta Nerada (audio story)|Night of the Vashta Nerada]]'')
+* Dendry mentions "[[Dorium Maldovar|Maldovar]]'s [[The Maldovarium|bar]]." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'', ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'')
+* Defending the Vashta Nerada experiments being conducted off [[Gallifrey]], Ollistra comments that there are enough [[Cloister Wraith|shadows]] in the [[Cloisters]] as it is. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'')
+* Ollistra refers to the Time Lords' [[War Council]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Innocent (audio story)|The Innocent]]'')
+* Roxita mentions that TARDISes exist in a state of [[temporal grace]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Hand of Fear (TV story)|The Hand of Fear]]'')
+* The Doctor's TARDIS currently lacks a Zero Room. Its original Zero Room was ejected shortly after the Doctor's [[regeneration]] into his [[Fifth Doctor|fifth incarnation]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'') It was eventually reconstructed. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zaltys (audio story)|Zaltys]]'', ''[[Renaissance of the Daleks (audio story)|Renaissance of the Daleks]]'')
+* The Doctor notes that the secondary control room has wood panelling. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Masque of Mandragora (TV story)|The Masque of Mandragora]]'', et. al)
+* The Doctor notes that he has allowed the Fledershrews to live in the TARDIS for many years. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[And You Will Obey Me (audio story)|And You Will Obey Me]]'', ''[[Black and White (audio story)|Black and White]]'', ''[[Nevermore (audio story)|Nevermore]]'', ''[[Relative Dimensions (audio story)|Relative Dimensions]]'')
+* Offering the remaining [[space suit]]s to the others, the Doctor assures that he will simply hang onto the TARDIS shell as he is ejected into the [[Time Vortex]] before it returns to real space only for Roxita to point out that such an act would be impossible. Nevertheless, this feat would be achieved by the [[immortal]] [[Captain]] [[Jack Harkness]], reviving shortly after it killed him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') The Doctor would eventually find himself successfully holding onto the TARDIS exterior to escape a [[pocket universe]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hide (TV story)|Hide]]'')
+* The Doctor remembers taking space suits from either [[Apollo 32]] or [[Apollo 33]]. [[Apollo 34]] would establish [[Bowie Base One]] on [[Mars]] in the late [[2050s]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars (TV story)|The Waters of Mars]]'')
+* The Doctor tells Ollistra that he is not a warrior. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Night of the Doctor (TV story)|The Night of the Doctor]]'')
+* The Doctor would later face the Vashta Nerada again during his [[Tenth Doctor|tenth]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Silence in the Library (TV story)|Silence in the Library]]'' / ''[[Forest of the Dead (TV story)|Forest of the Dead]]''; [[COMIC]]: ''[[Untitled (10DY3 3 comic story)|Untitled]]'') and [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh incarnations]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Shadows of the Vashta Nerada]]''; [[COMIC]]: ''[[Space Oddity (comic story)|Space Oddity]]'')
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