The Genocide Machine (audio story)

The Genocide Machine
Doctor:	[[doctor::Seventh Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Ace
Main enemy:	The Daleks
Main setting:	Kar-Charrat
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
Writer:	Mike Tucker
Director:	Nicholas Briggs
Producer:	Jason Haigh-Ellery and Gary Russell
Release details
Release number:	7
Release date:	May 2000
Format:	4 Episodes on 2 CDs
Production code:	7S
ISBN:	ISBN 1-84435-069-X

The Genocide Machine is a Big Finish audio drama. It creates the first serial in the Dalek Empire arc, which continues in The Apocalypse Element and The Mutant Phase. It finishes in The Time of the Daleks.

Publisher's summary

The library on Kar-Charrat is one of the wonders of the Universe. It is also hidden from all but a few select species. The Doctor and Ace discover that the librarians have found a new way of storing data - a wetworks facility - but the machine has attracted unwanted attention, and the Doctor soon finds himself pitted against his oldest and deadliest enemies - the Daleks!

Cast

• The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
• Ace - Sophie Aldred
• Bev Tarrant - Louise Falkner
• Chief Librarian Elgin - Bruce Montague
• Cataloguer Prink - Nicholas Briggs
• Rappell - Daniel Gabriele
• The Daleks - Alistair Lock, Nicholas Briggs
• Phantom Voices - Daniel Gabriele

References

• Ace wanders around TARDIS library, finding a book from Kar-Charrat.

Daleks

• The Daleks were kept in cryogenic hibernation in what was thought to have been a ziggurat on the planet.
• The Daleks' ziggurat is at least (according to Bev Tarrant) 1270 years old.
• The Daleks use a duplicate of Ace to bring down the Kar-Charrat library defences..
• The Kar-Charratans attack the Daleks by flooding their shells and drowning the mutants inside of them.
• A Special Weapons Dalek, Dalek Supreme and Dalek Emperor are all present or are in contact during the course of events.
• The Daleks count in rels.

Technology

• The Doctor's consciousness/mind was used as a buffer to control data transfer from the wetworks facility to the Dalek test subject.
• The Doctor blows up the wetworks facility, freeing the captive natives.

Time technology

• The Kar-Charrat Library is hidden behind a temporal barrier.

Notes

Art by Lee Sullivan from DWM Issue 290

• This is Big Finish's first Dalek audio drama, marked as "Dalek Empire Part One".
• This audio was featured in Doctor Who Magazine issue 290 with an accompanying illustration by Lee Sullivan.

Continuity

• This is the first appearance of art thief Bev Tarrant she would later go on to feature in BFA: Dust Breeding and the Big Finish Bernice Summerfield Series.
• Details of the Dalek mission to Kar-Charrat are discussed in BFDE: Invasion of the Daleks.
• The Supreme Dalek that is the same design of the one in DW: Planet of the Daleks makes an appearance, being a subordinate to the Dalek Emperor.

Timeline

• The Genocide Machine occurs after PDA: Storm Harvest
• The Genocide Machine occurs before PDA: The Colony of Lies

External links

• Official The Genocide Machine page at bigfinish.com
• The Genocide Machine at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• DisContinuity for The Genocide Machine at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide