Übermensch (audio story)

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Übermensch was the third story in The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield audio anthology Blood & Steel, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Rochana Patel and featured Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield and David Warner as the Unbound Doctor.

Publisher's summary

Why does the Doctor want Bernice to join a German archaeological expedition?

Plot

The Doctor takes Benny to see a rock covered in theta particles, keeping the idiograms etched into it from being translated by the TARDIS's telepathic circuits. Although Benny wants to leave 1930s Berlin, she agrees that they need to solve the mystery before the museum is looted in 1945 and they an expedition to the Teutoburg Forest led by Lotte Bergmann, who has decoded the rock and believes that it is a map to the centre of Vril culture.

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Cast

Worldbuilding

  • Benny and the Doctor claim to be from the University of Munich.
  • The Doctor uses the alias Johann Schmidt.
  • The Doctor offers Benny a marshmallow.
  • Benny notes the students are no older than Wulf.
  • Benny mentions her son Peter and his Killoran father.
  • Benny discusses the theories around the "tear-drop" motif of the Cybermen's appearances, which the Doctor dismisses as a fluid reservoir to prevent obscuring of vision.
  • The Doctor speculates the intelligence test is designed to select minds for Cyber-Leaders and Cyber-Planners.
  • The Doctor identifies Mondasian technology.

Notes

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Continuity

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