Profits of Doom! (comic story)
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Profits of Doom! was a Sixth Doctor comic published in Doctor Who Magazine.
Summary
Arriving on the Mayflower, the Sixth Doctor, Peri and Frobisher find themselves under attack.
Plot
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Characters
References
The Doctor
- The Doctor has described the TARDIS as "the primary social artefact upon which Gallifreyan culture made its quantum evolutionary bound from time-locked to time-spanned."
- Among potential candidates for a holiday retreat include the planet Argolis, Quiexly Major, Placet and Trantor. The Doctor dismisses each, respectively, for past faux pas, being "too touristy", having "crazy geography" and being "far too cosmopolitan." Eventually, he decides on a holiday to Arcadia, a paradise planet.
- Indulging in his penchant for recitation, the Doctor quotes William Wordsworth's Resolution and Independence.
The TARDIS
- The TARDIS chambers include the Falloean Gardens and the Bagdejalucian phosphorescent anti-gravity shrubs. The Diamond Avenue features the brightest gems from a dozen star systems.
- Frobisher plays chess with the TARDIS console and loses (though he claims that it cheated).
Planets
- Arcadia is described as a planet of "verdant rolling fields, glittering still lakes, vast cloudless skies."
- The Profiteers of Ephte come from Ephte Major, their tax haven on the spur of Friedman's Curve, and are an ancient race who have ravaged the galaxy under the philosophy of "profit or die". They communicate in a number-orientated language. When Peri and Frobisher are captured, they intend to sell them off to other races for enormous profit. Peri will go to the Grodomorphs of Cebalias Alpha as a handmaiden and Frobisher to the Tralfamadorians of Vonnegut as a zoo animal.
Individuals
- Seth, a Methuselah-like figure, also adopted the titles of a 14th-century grand schemer in Rome and Vincent Grant who unified the Western Alliance in the 22nd-century, The latter is known to the Doctor as the Butcher of Strasbourg.
- Kara McAllista is a third-class maintainance technician responsible for the cryo-sleep chambers aboard the Mayflower. One of ten awoken every six months and assisted by a mobile robot designated as Monitor. She curses with the epithets of "skaj", "seg-jak" and "what the jaxx".
Notes
- This story was reprinted in the Panini Comics graphic novel The World Shapers.
- The planet Trantor featured as a prominent location in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series. It was the location of the First Galactic Empire and a single planetwide city with a heavy dependence on external trade to maintain its stability.
- The Tralfamadorians of Vonnegut feature in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five. A story with a singularly unusual approach to time travel. Their potential interest in Frobisher as a zoo animal echoes the protagonist, Billy, and his own experiences in the novel.
Continuity
- Despite the secondary console room's brief appearance in COMIC: Changes, the Doctor has chosen to remain with his more frequently-used grey console room. Albeit with a minor maintainance to the time rotor. (TV: The Masque of Mandragora, The Five Doctors)
- The TARDIS chambers are widely populated with specimens of botanical life. Among their number include the Vortis zarbi-trap and the Traken praying flower. (TV: The Web Planet, The Keeper of Traken)
- Frustrated with the quiet, Peri asks to visit somewhere her fellow travellers won't meet "furry alien princesses, alien chefs, Cybermen or the Master". (COMIC: Nature of the Beast; TV: The Two Doctors, Attack of the Cybermen, The Mark of the Rani)
- The Doctor wishes to avoid Argolis after what happened during his last visit. (TV: The Leisure Hive)
- Prior to landing, Frobisher's concerns over the Doctor's sudden confidence echo Peri's own during TV: Vengeance on Varos.
- The planet Arcadia appears most prominently in PROSE: Deceit.
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