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{{Infobox Individual
{{Infobox Individual
|image = [[file:Drax 2.jpg|250px]]
|species          = Time Lord
|individual name = Drax
|origin            = [[Gallifrey]]
|race = [[Gallifreyan]] ([[Time Lord]])
|first mention    = The Trouble with Drax (audio story)
|home planet = [[Gallifrey]]
}}{{Draxes}}
|appearances = [[PDA]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]''<br>[[DW]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]''<br>[[PDA]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]''<br>''[[Search for the Doctor]]''
The '''Eleventh Drax''' was one of [[Eighth Drax|Inspector McCormick]]'s "half a dozen best men".
|actor = [[Barry Jackson]]}}


'''Drax''' was a [[renegade Time Lord]] with a knack for tinkering. He knew [[the Doctor]] before either left their home [[planet]] of [[Gallifrey]].
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]]'')


==Biography==
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===Youth===
Drax attended school on their home [[planet]] [[Gallifrey]] with the [[First Doctor]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]'')


As a youth on Gallifrey, Drax had a [[skimmer]] he had built himself.
Both Drax and the Doctor belonged to [[the Deca]], a social group of rebellious students at [[Prydon Academy]]. Drax and [[Mortimus]] became the first two members of the Deca to permanently flee Gallifrey and turn [[Renegade Time Lord|renegade]]. ([[PDA]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]'')
===As a Renegade===
Drax did jail time in [[Brixton]] on [[Earth]], where some of the local accent rubbed off. During the [[Fourth Doctor]]'s search for the sixth and final segment of the [[Key to Time]], the Doctor and [[Romana I|Romana]] arrived on the planet [[Atrios]], which was at war with their neighbouring planet [[Zeos]].
In reality, the planet Zeos was deserted save for a giant computer called [[Mentalis]], which was controlling the war. The true enemy was a third planet called the [[Third planet]], ruled by [[The Shadow|the Shadow]].
The Shadow had imprisoned Drax and made him work for him. He agreed to help the Doctor. With his assistance, The Doctor recovered the final segment of the Key to Time. Afterwards, Drax stayed on Atrios to help rebuild. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]'')
==Behind the scenes==
* 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]]''.
* The [[Make Your Own Adventure with Doctor Who]] book ''[[Search for the Doctor]]'' included Drax as a character that the reader/main character could interact with. He and [[K9]] helped the reader defeat [[Omega]] and rescue the [[Sixth Doctor]]. In this book his [[TARDIS]] was in the shape of a convertible [[car]], the license plate of which read "TARDIS."
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Latest revision as of 16:52, 5 October 2024

The Eleventh 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)