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{{Infobox Individual
{{Infobox Individual
|image = Drax 2.jpg
|image             = Third Drax.jpg
|name = Drax
|species           = Time Lord
|species = Time Lord|
|origin           = [[Gallifrey]]
|origin = [[Gallifrey]]
|only              = The Trouble with Drax (audio story)
|appearances = [[DW]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]'', [[FYF]]:''[[Search for the Doctor]]'', [[PDA]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]'', [[PDA]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]''
|voice actor      = Ray Brooks
 
}}{{Draxes}}
|actor = Barry Jackson}}
[[Drax]]'s '''third incarnation''' was, much like [[Second Drax|his predecessor]], a [[renegade Time Lord]] with a knack for tinkering and [[engineering]]. He hatched a con with his various future incarnations, raiding the most secure safe-house in history, using the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Romana II]] as pawns. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Trouble with Drax (audio story)|The Trouble with Drax]]'')
 
'''Drax''' was a [[renegade Time Lord]] with a knack for tinkering. He knew [[First Doctor|the Doctor]] before either had left their home [[planet]] of [[Gallifrey]].


== Biography ==
== Biography ==
=== Youth ===
Shortly after regenerating, Drax gained the map to [[Altrazar]]. In order to stage a con that involved the use of all ten of his future incarnations, Drax required a [[Blinovitch Limitation Effect limiter]] to avoid temporal catastrophe. Needing a fall guy, Drax conned the [[Fourth Doctor]] into stealing the limiter, which was what allowed his future incarnations to successfully cooperate on this scheme and others in the first place.
Drax attended [[Prydon Academy]] with [[First Doctor|the Doctor]] in the [[Class of 92]]. They took the tech course together. Though his practical work was satisfactory, he failed his exams, done in by [[Temporal Theory]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]'') Drax and the Doctor belonged to [[the Deca]], a social group of rebellious students at Prydon Academy. Drax and [[the Monk]] became the first two members of the Deca to permanently flee Gallifrey and turn [[Renegade Time Lord|renegade]]. ([[PDA]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]'')


=== As a Renegade ===
By the time the Doctor and [[Romana II]] realised that Drax must have known he would have been arrested over different incarnations, they realised the truth about [[Eighth Drax|McCormick]] and her men, and by the time they returned all of Drax's incarnations had escaped in [[Drax's TARDIS|their TARDIS]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Trouble with Drax (audio story)|The Trouble with Drax]]'')
Upon going renegade, Drax travelled the [[universe]], doing repair and maintenance work in the fields of [[cybernetics]], guidance systems and armaments. When Drax's [[TARDIS]] suffered a breakdown in its [[hyperbolics]], Drax was stranded on [[Earth]]. He engaged in criminal activity to procure replacement parts and did time in [[Brixton]] prison.
 
Later, the [[Black Guardian]]'s agent, [[the Shadow]], imprisoned Drax and forced him to build and maintain a giant [[computer]] called [[Mentalis]] on the deserted [[planet]] [[Zeos]]. Mentalis carried out a war against the neighbouring planet of [[Atrios]].
 
Four hundred and fifty years later in their personal timelines, Drax and the Doctor met again. While searching for the last segment of the [[Key to Time]], the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Romana I|Romana]] arrived on Zeos. Drax, under the Shadow's orders, reluctantly led the Doctor into a trap. Easily seeing through Drax's pretence, the Doctor talked him into joining forces against the Shadow. With Drax's assistance, the Doctor recovered [[Astra of Atrios|the final segment of the Key to Time]]. Afterward, Drax stayed on Atrios to help rebuild that world. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]'')


== Personality ==
== Personality ==
Drax showed great technological aptitude. As a youth on Gallifrey, Drax had a [[skimmer]] he had built himself. ([[PDA]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]'') However, he could not grasp [[temporal theory]] and failed the class. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]'')
Drax showed great technological aptitude. However, he could not grasp [[temporal theory]] and failed the class. While Drax could not grasp temporal theory, he had worked out enough about the [[Blinovitch Limitation Effect limiter|Blinovitch Limitation effect limiter]] to know its limitations and also to create an endless paradox with his various future incarnations to possess the device and also commit numerous crimes with two or more of his future lives.


During his prison stay Drax picked up Brixton's local accent and idioms, which remained part of his speech patterns after he left Earth and resumed his travels. When Drax met [[K9 Mark II]] and marvelled at the "little tin dog", K9 noted Drax's silliness. Although Drax was not above criminal activity and weapons dealing for personal gain, he displayed a sense of what was morally right and bemoaned having to assist the Shadow in his schemes. The Doctor talked him round to joining him against the Shadow without much trouble. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]'')
He also showed disrespect towards the [[Laws of Time]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Trouble with Drax (audio story)|The Trouble with Drax]]'')
 
== Behind the scenes ==
* Drax was [[Barry Jackson]]'s third guest role in ''[[Doctor Who]],'' after [[Ascaris]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Romans]]'') and [[Jeff Garvey]] ([[DW]]: ''[[Mission to the Unknown]]'').
 
* The exchange between the Doctor and Drax regarding his accent in ''The Armageddon Factor'' would be echoed decades later in a similar exchange between [[Rose Tyler]] and the [[Ninth Doctor]] in ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]''.
 
* Although Drax's TARDIS is somewhere around in ''The Armageddon Factor'', only components from it are seen on-screen. The interactive ''[[Make Your Own Adventure with Doctor Who]]'' book ''[[Search for the Doctor]]'' included Drax as a character, in which his TARDIS was in the shape of a convertible [[car]], the registration plate of which read '''TARDIS'''.
 
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Latest revision as of 16:48, 5 October 2024

Drax's third incarnation was, much like his predecessor, a renegade Time Lord with a knack for tinkering and engineering. He hatched a con with his various future incarnations, raiding the most secure safe-house in history, using the Fourth Doctor and Romana II as pawns. (AUDIO: The Trouble with Drax)

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

Shortly after regenerating, Drax gained the map to Altrazar. In order to stage a con that involved the use of all ten of his future incarnations, Drax required a Blinovitch Limitation Effect limiter to avoid temporal catastrophe. Needing a fall guy, Drax conned the Fourth Doctor into stealing the limiter, which was what allowed his future incarnations to successfully cooperate on this scheme and others in the first place.

By the time the Doctor and Romana II realised that Drax must have known he would have been arrested over different incarnations, they realised the truth about McCormick and her men, and by the time they returned all of Drax's incarnations had escaped in their TARDIS. (AUDIO: The Trouble with Drax)

Personality[[edit] | [edit source]]

Drax showed great technological aptitude. However, he could not grasp temporal theory and failed the class. While Drax could not grasp temporal theory, he had worked out enough about the Blinovitch Limitation effect limiter to know its limitations and also to create an endless paradox with his various future incarnations to possess the device and also commit numerous crimes with two or more of his future lives.

He also showed disrespect towards the Laws of Time. (AUDIO: The Trouble with Drax)

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