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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]]''|[[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]].
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The '''Seventh Drax''' was one of [[Eighth Drax|Inspector McCormick]]'s "half a dozen best men".  


== 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 ===
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]]'')


=== 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.


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]].
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]]'')
== Alternative timeline ==
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]]'')
== Personality ==
Drax showed great technological aptitude. However, he could not grasp [[temporal theory]] and failed the class. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]'')
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]]'')
== Behind the scenes ==
* Drax was [[Barry Jackson]]'s third guest role in ''[[Doctor Who]],'' after [[Ascaris]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Romans]]'') and [[Jeff Garvey]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Mission to the Unknown]]'').
* 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]]''.
* 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, and described his TARDIS as taking the shape of a convertible [[car]], the registration plate of which read: "TARDIS".
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Latest revision as of 16:50, 5 October 2024

The Seventh Drax was one of Inspector McCormick's "half a dozen best men".

As such he was present when McCormick was called to arrest the third, fifth, ninth and twelfth incarnations of Drax. They later all ran away in McCormick's TARDIS. (AUDIO: The Trouble with Drax)

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)