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Mesopotamia -- the cradle of civilization. In the fertile crescent of land on the banks of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, mankind is turning from hunter gatherer into farmer, and from farmer into city-dweller. | Mesopotamia -- the cradle of civilization. In the fertile crescent of land on the banks of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, mankind is turning from hunter gatherer into farmer, and from farmer into city-dweller. | ||
Gilgamesh, the first hero-king, rules the city of Uruk. An equally legendary figure arrives, in a police telephone box: the TARDIS has brought the Doctor and his companion Ace to witness the first steps of mankind's long progress to the stars. | Gilgamesh, the first hero-king, rules the city of Uruk. An equally legendary figure arrives, in a police telephone box: the TARDIS has brought the Doctor and his companion Ace to witness the first steps of mankind's long progress to the stars. | ||
And from somewhere amid those distant points of light an evil sentience has tumbled. To her followers in the city of Kish she is known as Ishtar the goddess; to the Doctor’s forebears on ancient Gallifrey she was a mythical terror -- the Timewyrm. | And from somewhere amid those distant points of light an evil sentience has tumbled. To her followers in the city of Kish she is known as Ishtar the goddess; to the Doctor’s forebears on ancient Gallifrey she was a mythical terror -- the Timewyrm. | ||
==Plot== | |||
===Preface=== | |||
A [[spacecraft]], holding the mysterious [[Timewyrm]] drifts into [[Mutter's Spiral]]. The Timewyrm is possessing the crew, but kills them all when they frustrate her. She plans to set up a slave world on [[Earth]], but soon realises the ship is falling apart. As she meets her apparent death, she can only see the irony in this. | |||
==Characters== | ==Characters== | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
* The Timewyrm refers to Earth's galaxy as [[Mutter's Spiral]]. | |||
* The [[Chronovore]]s name the reborn Ishtar the [[Timewyrm]]. | * The [[Chronovore]]s name the reborn Ishtar the [[Timewyrm]]. | ||
*The Doctor uses the [[the Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]]'s [[telepathic circuits]] to delete some superfluous memories, accidentally deleting Ace's; he gives them back but accidentally gives her some of [[Melanie Bush]]'s also, allowing her to remember [[Paradise Towers]]. | *The Doctor uses the [[the Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]]'s [[telepathic circuits]] to delete some superfluous memories, accidentally deleting Ace's; he gives them back but accidentally gives her some of [[Melanie Bush]]'s also, allowing her to remember [[Paradise Towers]]. | ||