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| {{Infobox Individual | | {{Infobox Individual |
| |image = Drax 2.jpg | | |aka = Stern |
| |name = Drax
| | |species = Time Lord |
| |species = Time Lord | | |origin = [[Gallifrey]] |
| |origin = [[Gallifrey]] | | |first mention = The Trouble with Drax (audio story) |
| |appearances = {{il|[[TV]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor (TV story)|The Armageddon Factor]]''|[[NOTDWU]]: ''[[Search for the Doctor]]''|[[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]'' (dream sequence)|[[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]''}} | | |only = Here Lies Drax (audio story) |
| |actor = Barry Jackson}} | | |voice actor = Hugh Ross |
| '''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]]. | | }}{{Draxes}} |
| | The '''Seventh Drax''' was one of [[Eighth Drax|Inspector McCormick]]'s "half a dozen best men". |
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| == Biography ==
| | As such he was present when McCormick was called to arrest the [[Third Drax|third]], [[Fifth Drax|fifth]], [[Ninth Drax|ninth]] and [[Twelfth Drax|twelfth incarnations]] of Drax. They later all ran away in [[Drax's TARDIS|McCormick's TARDIS]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Trouble with Drax (audio story)|The Trouble with Drax]]'') |
| === Youth ===
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| Drax attended the [[Prydonian 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]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]''). Whilst he was at the academy, Drax became a member of [[the Deca]] and had his own self-made skimmer. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'')
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| === As a Renegade ===
| | He posed as Drax's ex-business partner and checked to see if he was alive at the funeral. The [[Eighth Doctor]] later came to him thinking he was Drax's broker. He told the Doctor and [[Liv Chenka]] that Drax was poor so couldn't have brought something for 500 billion credits. He gave the Doctor another item of Gallifreyan origin. He called the Valtressi due to a bounty on his head. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Here Lies Drax (audio story)|Here Lies Drax]]'') |
| Drax had already escaped from Gallifrey when the Doctor was expelled from the [[Time Lord Academy]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') Upon becoming a 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. | |
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| 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]].
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| 450 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. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]'')
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| == Alternative timeline ==
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| In an [[alternative timeline]] Drax cooperated alongside [[the Master]], [[the Monk]], and [[the Rani]] to try to destroy the world using a DNA recombinator, turning the human race into a gestalt consciousness which could be used as a weapon to conquer the universe. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'')
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| == Personality ==
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| Drax showed great technological aptitude. However, he could not grasp [[temporal theory]] and failed the class. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]'')
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| 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. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]'')
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| == Behind the scenes ==
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| * Drax was [[Barry Jackson]]'s third guest role in ''[[Doctor Who]],'' after [[Ascaris]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Romans]]'') and [[Jeff Garvey]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Mission to the Unknown]]'').
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| * The exchange between the Doctor and Drax regarding his accent in ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]'' would be echoed centuries later in a similar exchange between [[Rose Tyler]] and the [[Ninth Doctor]] in ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]''.
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| * 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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| {{Time Lords}}
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| {{NameSort}} | | {{NameSort}} |
| [[Category:Individual Time Lords]]
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| [[Category:Renegade Time Lords]] | | [[Category:Renegade Time Lords]] |
| [[Category:Prydonians]] | | [[Category:Drax incarnations| 07]] |
| [[Category:Prisoners]]
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| [[Category:Residents of Gallifrey]]
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| [[Category:Criminals]]
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| [[Category:The Deca]]
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