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== Biography ==
== Biography ==
Medok discovered the existence of the [[Macra]] but was believed by the other colonists to be insane. When attempting to convince the Pilot, he caused some confusion by insinuating that the Macra were insects, and his claims were dismissed. ([[PROSE]]: [[Medok (short story)|Medok]]) However, he succeeded in alerting the [[Second Doctor]] to the threat.
Medok discovered the existence of the [[Macra]] but was believed by the other colonists to be insane. When attempting to convince the Pilot, he caused some confusion by insinuating that the Macra were insects, and his claims were dismissed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Medok (short story)|Medok]]'') However, he succeeded in alerting the [[Second Doctor]] to the threat.


When Medok was captured, he was sent to the gas [[mine]]s to work. He was killed by a Macra when he tried to escape. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Macra Terror (TV story)|The Macra Terror]]'')
When Medok was captured, he was sent to the gas [[mine]]s to work. He was knocked unconscious ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Macra Terror (novelisation)|The Macra Terror]]'') by a Macra when he tried to escape. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Macra Terror (TV story)|The Macra Terror]]'') After he awoke, he fled out of the mine shaft to discover that the Macra had been defeated, and watched the Doctor, [[Ben Jackson]], [[Polly Wright]], and [[Jamie McCrimmon]] depart in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]], but opted not to tell his friends out of resentment that they had not initially believed him about the Macra, even while other residents of the Colony wondered what had happened to the travellers. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Macra Terror (novelisation)|The Macra Terror]]'')
 
== Behind the scenes ==
* In [[Ian Stuart Black]]'s [[The Macra Terror (novelisation)|novelisation of the story]], Medok survives his encounter with the Macra in the mine, and emerges just in time to witness the Doctor and his companions departing in [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] — deciding there and then never to breathe a word of what he has just witnessed.


[[Category:Humans from unknown eras]]
[[Category:Humans from unknown eras]]

Revision as of 18:16, 28 March 2023

Medok was an inhabitant of a human colony secretly ruled by Macra.

Biography

Medok discovered the existence of the Macra but was believed by the other colonists to be insane. When attempting to convince the Pilot, he caused some confusion by insinuating that the Macra were insects, and his claims were dismissed. (PROSE: Medok) However, he succeeded in alerting the Second Doctor to the threat.

When Medok was captured, he was sent to the gas mines to work. He was knocked unconscious (PROSE: The Macra Terror) by a Macra when he tried to escape. (TV: The Macra Terror) After he awoke, he fled out of the mine shaft to discover that the Macra had been defeated, and watched the Doctor, Ben Jackson, Polly Wright, and Jamie McCrimmon depart in the TARDIS, but opted not to tell his friends out of resentment that they had not initially believed him about the Macra, even while other residents of the Colony wondered what had happened to the travellers. (PROSE: The Macra Terror)