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{{Infobox Individual
|image = Drax 2.jpg
|aka              = Fleur McCormick
|name = Drax
|species           = Time Lord
|species = Time Lord|
|origin           = [[Gallifrey]]
|origin = [[Gallifrey]]
|job              = Police inspector
|appearances = [[DW]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]'', [[FYF]]:''[[Search for the Doctor]]'', [[PDA]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]'', [[PDA]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]''
|only              = The Trouble with Drax (audio story)
 
|voice actor      = Miranda Raison
|actor = Barry Jackson}}
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'''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]].
[[Drax]]'s '''eighth incarnation''' posed as '''Inspector Fleur McCormick''', a galactic [[police inspector]], during a plot hatched by [[Third Drax|a previous incarnation]] of hers. The first female incarnation of the Time Lord, she led a band of her previous and future incarnations who posed as her "half a dozen best men". With the unwitting help of the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Romana II]], they raided the most secure safe-house in history. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Trouble with Drax (audio story)|The Trouble with Drax]]'')


== Biography ==
== Biography ==
=== Youth ===
After regenerating into her first female body, which was apparently planned long in advance with the paradox of the theft of the [[Blinovitch Limitation Effect limiter|Blinovitch Limitation Effect Limiter]], Drax aided her various selves in a scheme to ensure that they could successfully cooperate with one another. Upon arriving on [[Altrazar]], she confronted the [[Fourth Doctor]], whom she had "mistaken" to be Drax.
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 ===
When the Doctor and Romana believed that they had rounded up all of the Draxes on the ''[[Rutan's Tendril]]'', they called her to arrest the Time Lord. By the time the Doctor and Romana realised that Drax must have known he would have been arrested over different incarnations, they realised the truth about McCormick and her men. When they returned all of Drax's incarnations had escaped in [[Drax's TARDIS|their TARDIS]]. The [[Fifth Drax]] commented later after their escape the gender switch had been worth it. This Drax and her [[Twelfth Drax|twelfth Incarnation]] teased one another at the same time. ([[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]].
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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 ==
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]]'')
 
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]]'')


== 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 16:50, 5 October 2024

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Drax's eighth incarnation posed as Inspector Fleur McCormick, a galactic police inspector, during a plot hatched by a previous incarnation of hers. The first female incarnation of the Time Lord, she led a band of her previous and future incarnations who posed as her "half a dozen best men". With the unwitting help of the Fourth Doctor and Romana II, they raided the most secure safe-house in history. (AUDIO: The Trouble with Drax)

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After regenerating into her first female body, which was apparently planned long in advance with the paradox of the theft of the Blinovitch Limitation Effect Limiter, Drax aided her various selves in a scheme to ensure that they could successfully cooperate with one another. Upon arriving on Altrazar, she confronted the Fourth Doctor, whom she had "mistaken" to be Drax.

When the Doctor and Romana believed that they had rounded up all of the Draxes on the Rutan's Tendril, they called her to arrest the Time Lord. By the time the Doctor and Romana realised that Drax must have known he would have been arrested over different incarnations, they realised the truth about McCormick and her men. When they returned all of Drax's incarnations had escaped in their TARDIS. The Fifth Drax commented later after their escape the gender switch had been worth it. This Drax and her twelfth Incarnation teased one another at the same time. (AUDIO: The Trouble with Drax)

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