Prelude The Highest Science (short story)

Prelude The Highest Science
Doctor:	Seventh Doctor
Companion(s):	Bernice Summerfield
Key crew
Writer:	Gareth Roberts
Illustrator:	Phil Bevan
Release details
Printed in:	DWM 196
Release date:	21 January 1993
Cover date:	17 February 1993
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Prelude The Highest Science was, as the name suggested, a prelude to The Highest Science by Gareth Roberts. It did not appear in the published novel.

Summary

Six days after a raid on Checkley's World, workers are sent into the gene labs to check for any traps left there. In the far future, General Fakrid of the Chelonian Empire is en route to the human colony Vaagon. In the TARDIS, the Doctor finds the ship reporting a reverse Fortean flux.

Characters

• Seventh Doctor
• Bernice Summerfield
• Cooper
• Pethering
• Yanos
• Fakrid
• Jinkwa

References

• The Doctor and Bernice have played Scrabble, but in their last game she challenged his use of the word Dynatrope.
• The Doctor suggests they go to Miradilus 4.

Notes

• The "reverse Fortean flux" is renamed a "Fortean Flicker" in the novel.

Continuity

to be added

External links

• The entire text of the piece at the Doctor Who Reference Guide