Pathfinders (short story)
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Pathfinders was a short story published in Doctor Who Magazine. It featured the Fourth Doctor, Romana II, Adric and K9, and was set during the E-Space trilogy.
Summary
The Doctor, Romana, Adric, and K9 arrive on a planet with a road. K9 can see the projected course for the TARDIS to an extent, but it ends at a "curve in destiny."
- Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
- And sorry I could not travel both
- And be one traveller, long I stood
- And looked down one as far as I could
- To where it bent in the undergrowth
Plot
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Characters
Worldbuilding
- Romana says she never liked metaphysics.
- Adric refers to Robert Frost as "N-Space poetry."
- There are no seasons in the time winds.
Notes
- The illustrations are by Gary Erskine.
- The poem is "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost.
Continuity
- Romana thinks they've landed on the vampire planet again, which was the last planet they visited. (TV: State of Decay)
