Omega (BFM audio story)

Omega
Script release:	The Audio Scripts: Volume Four
Doctor:	Fifth Doctor
Main enemy:	Omega
Main setting:	The Sector of Forgotten Souls
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Nev Fountain
Director:	Gary Russell
Music:	Russell Stone
Post production:	Gareth Jenkins
Cover by:	Clayton Hickman
Release details
Release number:	47
Release date:	August 2003
Format:	4 Episodes on 2 CDs
Production code:	6E/A
ISBN:	ISBN 1-84435-029-0
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Omega was the forty-seventh monthly Doctor Who audio story produced by Big Finish Productions. It was the first audio story in a rough tetralogy of single-word title stories featuring each Doctor from Big Finish's range; aside from the Eighth Doctor story Zagreus, each features an individual from the TV series. The next story was Davros, followed by Master. It was originally set to feature the Celestial Toymaker instead of Omega.

Publisher's summary

A strange telepathic message prompts the Doctor to travel to the Sector of Forgotten Souls, a place where, thousands of years ago, Omega's ship vanished whilst detonating a star.

He's not the only one journeying towards it. Jolly Chronolidays prides itself on giving its tourists an experience of galactic history that is far better than mere time travel.

Its motto is, "We don't go into history, we prefer to bring history to you".

When Omega's ship suddenly materialises in front of their shuttle, and one of their employees goes insane and tries to destroy his hands...

...suddenly it's not just a motto anymore.

And Omega — and his madness — is closer than they think.

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Peter Davison
• Omega - Ian Collier
• Sentia - Caroline Munro
• Professor Ertikus - Patrick Duggan
• Daland - Hugo Myatt
• Tarpov - Conrad Westmaas
• Zagreus - Jim Sangster
• Maven - Faith Kent
• Glinda - Anita Elias

References

The Doctor

• The Doctor mentions that he is almost nine hundred years old.
• The Celestial Preservation Agency state that the Doctor is a great hero of their time in Gallifrey's history.

Energy and radiation

• There is a high level of psionic radiation in the Sector of Forgotten Souls. It occasionally drives people mad.

Organisations

• A member of the Celestial Preservation Agency arrives in what appears to be a Type 103 sentient TARDIS.

Time Lords

• Rassilon was a Prydonian and stole all of Omega's glory for himself.

Spacecraft

• Omega's starship is an Omegan sun skimmer.

Illustrated preview from DWM 334 by Martin Geraghty.

Notes

• This story marks the first and only appearance of Omega in an audio drama.
• The Doctor is sitting in seat 6E on the tour shuttle. 6E is the production code for Arc of Infinity.
• This audio drama was recorded on 4 and 5 February 2003 at The Moat Studios.
• An illustrated preview for this story featured in DWM 334 with artwork by Martin Geraghty.

Continuity

• Omega last appeared in TV: Arc of Infinity.
• Omega refers to the Sontaran invasion of Gallifrey. (TV: The Invasion of Time)
• While the Doctor is dealing with Omega in the Sector of Forgotten Souls, his companions Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka spend several days on holiday in Amsterdam in January 1983 before the three of them travel to Florana. (AUDIO: The Elite)
• The Doctor would later visit the "elephants' graveyard" of TARDISes in the company of Peri Brown and Erimem. (AUDIO: The Axis of Insanity)

External links

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