The Genocide Machine (audio story)

The Genocide Machine
Doctor:	Seventh Doctor
Companion(s):	Ace
Main enemy:	The Daleks, Dalek test subjects
Main setting:	Kar-Charrat, the 42nd century
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
Writer:	Mike Tucker
Director:	Nicholas Briggs
Post production:	Nicholas Briggs
Cover by:	Clayton Hickman
Release details
Release number:	7
Release date:	May 2000
Format:	4 Episodes on 2 CDs
Production code:	7S
ISBN:	ISBN 1-84435-069-X
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The Genocide Machine is a Big Finish audio drama. It starts the first serial in the Dalek Empire arc, which continues in the Sixth Doctor audio The Apocalypse Element and the Fifth Doctor audio The Mutant Phase before concluding in the Eighth Doctor audio 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!

Plot

to be added

Cast

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

References

• Ace wanders around the TARDIS library. She finds 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.
• According to Bev Tarrant, the Daleks' ziggurat is at least twelve hundred seventy years old, meaning that it was most likely built during the 29th century.
• 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, the Dalek Supreme and the 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 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.
• This story marks the first appearance of the Daleks in an audio drama.
• This audio drama was recorded on 13 and 14 November 1999.
• The first two editions of aHistory dated this story to 4256, as this was the date given by the Big Finish website; however, the third edition redates it to circa 5256, since in The Judas Gift (set in 2607) Bev Tarrant says she's from "three thousand years in the future".

Continuity

• This is the first appearance of art thief Bev Tarrant. She would later feature in AUDIO: Dust Breeding and the Big Finish Bernice Summerfield series.
• The Dalek mission to the Kar-Charrat library would have important ramifications following the Dalek invasion of Mutter's Spiral in 4162. (AUDIO: Invasion of the Daleks, AUDIO: Project Infinity)
• A Dalek Supreme of the same design as the one seen in TV: Planet of the Daleks makes an appearance. It is subordinate to the Dalek Emperor.
• Bev mentions Coralee. The Doctor and Ace visited Coralee in PROSE: Storm Harvest.

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