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}}'''''Project: Destiny''''' was the one-hundred-and-thirty-ninth [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|monthly ''Doctor Who'' audio story]] produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was a direct sequel, leading directly on from June 2009's ''[[The Angel of Scutari (audio story)|The Angel of Scutari]]'', the last [[Seventh Doctor]] story featuring [[Philip Olivier]] as [[Hex]] and [[Sophie Aldred]] as [[Ace]]. It was also the third in the "Project:" series of audio stories ''[[Project Twilight (audio story)|Project: Twilight]]'' (which featured the [[Sixth Doctor]]) and ''[[Project Lazarus (audio story)|Project: Lazarus]]'' (which featured the [[Sixth Doctor|Sixth]] and [[Seventh Doctor]]s). | }}'''''Project: Destiny''''' was the one-hundred-and-thirty-ninth [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|monthly ''Doctor Who'' audio story]] produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was a direct sequel, leading directly on from June 2009's ''[[The Angel of Scutari (audio story)|The Angel of Scutari]]'', the last [[Seventh Doctor]] story featuring [[Philip Olivier]] as [[Hex]] and [[Sophie Aldred]] as [[Ace]]. It led directly into the next Seventh Doctor story ''[[A Death in the Family (audio story)|A Death in the Family]]''. | ||
It was also the third in the "Project:" series of audio stories ''[[Project Twilight (audio story)|Project: Twilight]]'' (which featured the [[Sixth Doctor]]) and ''[[Project Lazarus (audio story)|Project: Lazarus]]'' (which featured the [[Sixth Doctor|Sixth]] and [[Seventh Doctor]]s). | |||
== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
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[[File:Project Destiny.jpg|thumb|Textless cover art]] | [[File:Project Destiny.jpg|thumb|Textless cover art]] | ||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* Despite the blurb saying the story takes place in 2025, the year is given as 2026 in a scene in part two of the story. | |||
* According to writers [[Cavan Scott]] and [[Mark Wright]], this story was at one point written with [[Elizabeth Klein]] as the director of the Forge. This had to be rewritten after the character was brought back to serve as the Doctor's companion in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Thousand Tiny Wings (audio story)|A Thousand Tiny Wings]]''.<ref>''Project: Destiny'' - CD Extras, 2010, CD, Big Finish Productions</ref> | * According to writers [[Cavan Scott]] and [[Mark Wright]], this story was at one point written with [[Elizabeth Klein]] as the director of the Forge. This had to be rewritten after the character was brought back to serve as the Doctor's companion in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Thousand Tiny Wings (audio story)|A Thousand Tiny Wings]]''.<ref>''Project: Destiny'' - CD Extras, 2010, CD, Big Finish Productions</ref> | ||
* This audio drama was recorded on [[26 April (production)|26]] and [[27 April (production)|27 April]] 2010 at [[The Moat Studios]]. | * This audio drama was recorded on [[26 April (production)|26]] and [[27 April (production)|27 April]] 2010 at [[The Moat Studios]]. | ||
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* The events of [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Project Lazarus (audio story)|Project: Lazarus]]'' (to which this story serves as a sequel) are in the past but are in the Doctor's personal future. Nimrod informs the Doctor that he was present at the destruction of the Forge's alpha facility in [[2008]]. The Doctor attempts to prevent Nimrod from telling him too much about his personal future so as not to disrupt the [[Web of Time]]. | * The events of [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Project Lazarus (audio story)|Project: Lazarus]]'' (to which this story serves as a sequel) are in the past but are in the Doctor's personal future. Nimrod informs the Doctor that he was present at the destruction of the Forge's alpha facility in [[2008]]. The Doctor attempts to prevent Nimrod from telling him too much about his personal future so as not to disrupt the [[Web of Time]]. | ||
* The Seal of Rassilon is displayed above the inner doors of the TARDIS as is seen in [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (1996)|Doctor Who]]'', confirming that the console room now looks as it did in the TVM. | * The Seal of Rassilon is displayed above the inner doors of the TARDIS as is seen in [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (1996)|Doctor Who]]'', confirming that the console room now looks as it did in the TVM. | ||
* The Forge's files on Hex state that he was present during the [[Charnage Hospital]] incident in the north of [[France]] during [[World War I]] in [[1917]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[No Man's Land (audio story)|No Man's Land]]'') | * The Forge's files on Hex state that he was present during the [[Charnage Hospital]] incident in the north of [[France]] during [[World War I]] in [[1917]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[No Man's Land (audio story)|No Man's Land]]'') | ||
* Ace mentions that on their previous visit to [[St. Gart's Brookside Hospital]], when the Doctor mentions her fire safety training, that she was the one in Human Resources and he was the caretaker, so there was no need to quote the book at her. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Harvest (audio story)|The Harvest]]'') | * Ace mentions that on their previous visit to [[St. Gart's Brookside Hospital]], when the Doctor mentions her fire safety training, that she was the one in Human Resources and he was the caretaker, so there was no need to quote the book at her. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Harvest (audio story)|The Harvest]]'') | ||
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[[Category:Stories set in 2026]] | |||
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[[Category:Ace audio stories]] | [[Category:Ace audio stories]] | ||
[[Category:Audio stories that use the Keff McCulloch theme]] | [[Category:Audio stories that use the Keff McCulloch theme]] | ||
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Project: Destiny was the one-hundred-and-thirty-ninth monthly Doctor Who audio story produced by Big Finish Productions. It was a direct sequel, leading directly on from June 2009's The Angel of Scutari, the last Seventh Doctor story featuring Philip Olivier as Hex and Sophie Aldred as Ace. It led directly into the next Seventh Doctor story A Death in the Family.
It was also the third in the "Project:" series of audio stories Project: Twilight (which featured the Sixth Doctor) and Project: Lazarus (which featured the Sixth and Seventh Doctors).
Publisher's summary
1999: Leaving her infant son behind, a young mother named Cassandra Schofield departs Bolton, seeking a better life amid the lights of London.
2004: Despite the best efforts of the time-travelling Doctor, "Cassie" Schofield dies on Dartmoor, a vampirised victim of the sinister organisation called the Forge.
2021: All grown up, and a nurse at St Gart's Hospital, Thomas Hector Schofield, known as "Hex", meets and becomes a companion to that time-travelling Doctor... but remains unaware that his alien friend knew his mother, and watched her die.
1854: In the Crimean War, Hex takes a bullet, and is seriously injured. The Doctor promises to return him to St Gart's.
2025: Now. In a London ravaged by a deadly contagion... destiny awaits.
Plot
to be added
Cast
- The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
- Ace - Sophie Aldred
- Hex - Philip Olivier
- Sir William Abberton - Stephen Chance
- Captain Lysandra Aristedes - Maggie O'Neill
- Sergeant Jarrod - Philip Dinsdale
- Helen/Oracle - Ingrid Oliver
References
The Doctor
- The Doctor's files concerning "Project: Twilight" are listed under "T" in the TARDIS' filing cabinet.
Cultural references to the real world
- Ace refers to Nimrod as "Dracula" and to Lysandra as "Rambo".
- Ace always hated A-ha.
- She's also never seen Dawn of the Dead.
Organisations
- Nimrod refers to Internal Counter-Intelligence Service (ICIS), a British ultra-nationalistic group which served as a rival organisation to UNIT until it was closed down in 2005 following its involvement in ethnic cleansing and an attempted coup.
People
- Mark Matthias was one of Hex's St Gart's associates.
Politics
- In 2025, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is a woman.
Science
- It requires just a drop of family-blood to regenerate Cassandra Schofield's dusty remains into a body.
Species
- The "contagion" aliens exist as a hive mind.
Substances
- The Forge archive is reinforced with Dalekanium.
TARDIS
- Ace looks for the TARDIS key in the cubby-hole above the "P" in "Police Box" on the roof of the TARDIS.
- The Seal of Rassilon is displayed above the inner doors of the TARDIS.
Notes
- Despite the blurb saying the story takes place in 2025, the year is given as 2026 in a scene in part two of the story.
- According to writers Cavan Scott and Mark Wright, this story was at one point written with Elizabeth Klein as the director of the Forge. This had to be rewritten after the character was brought back to serve as the Doctor's companion in AUDIO: A Thousand Tiny Wings.[1]
- This audio drama was recorded on 26 and 27 April 2010 at The Moat Studios.
- Ingrid Oliver would later play the recurring role of Petronella Osgood in the Doctor Who TV series, debuting in TV: The Day of the Doctor.
- Subscribers whose subscriptions included this story also received the audio short story Lepidoptery for Beginners.
Continuity
- The events of AUDIO: Project: Lazarus (to which this story serves as a sequel) are in the past but are in the Doctor's personal future. Nimrod informs the Doctor that he was present at the destruction of the Forge's alpha facility in 2008. The Doctor attempts to prevent Nimrod from telling him too much about his personal future so as not to disrupt the Web of Time.
- The Seal of Rassilon is displayed above the inner doors of the TARDIS as is seen in TV: Doctor Who, confirming that the console room now looks as it did in the TVM.
- The Forge's files on Hex state that he was present during the Charnage Hospital incident in the north of France during World War I in 1917. (AUDIO: No Man's Land)
- Ace mentions that on their previous visit to St. Gart's Brookside Hospital, when the Doctor mentions her fire safety training, that she was the one in Human Resources and he was the caretaker, so there was no need to quote the book at her. (AUDIO: The Harvest)
- UNIT had records of Ace's involvement in this incident. (AUDIO: Signs and Wonders)
External links
- Official Project: Destiny page at bigfinish.com
- Project: Destiny at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- DisContinuity for Project: Destiny at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide
Footnotes
- ↑ Project: Destiny - CD Extras, 2010, CD, Big Finish Productions
