The Best-Laid Plans (audio story)
The Best-Laid Plans was a special free release in the Short Trips audio range from Big Finish Productions. It was the winning entry in The Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trip Opportunity.
Publisher's summary
Dracksil Forg sells ideas. For the right price, he's got a solution to every possible problem. His reputation is impeccable, and whilst his ideas aren't flawless, he has a 100% money-back guarantee.
Dracksil has started selling to a new type of customer. They are dictators, warlords; species having trouble conquering galaxies or controlling populations. However, for these clients, Dracksil's ideas keep falling apart.
There's something that unites these failing ideas. A name, screamed and whispered angrily among the rants of Dracksil's new clientele: the Doctor, the Doctor, the Doctor...
Plot
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Characters
Worldbuilding
- Currently profitable careers include graphic designer and architect.
- One property mogul was a postman before changing careers on Dracksil's advice. He later assisted Dracksil with his cottage on the beaches of Titania 9.
Notes
- Tedds developed the idea for Forg's business after speaking with a friend who had also entered the competition. Tedds "bemoaned [his] struggle to come up with something, ending [his] own message with ‘Why can’t we just go into a shop and buy an idea?’".[1]
- The Doctor is described as "a tall man with short grey hair", although the cover depicts him with longer hair.
- This episode was released as a download only,
Continuity
to be added
External links
- Official The Best-Laid Plans page at bigfinish.com
Footnotes
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