Battle Scars (audio story)

Battle Scars was the seventh story of the ninth season of Big Finish Productions Short Trips series.

	Ninth Doctor
	Southampton, April 1912
	Big Finish Productions
	Selim Ulug
	Alfie Shaw
	Alfie Shaw
	Richard Fox @ FoxYason Studios
	Richard Fox @ FoxYason Studios
	Nicholas Briggs
	Mark Plastow
	9.7
	31 July 2019
	BFMSTDL55
	ISBN 978-1-78703-720-5
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Publisher's summary

Nightmarish memories of the Boer War. Crippling debts. An unconscious stranger in the garden. Arthur Daniels is beset with problems. Little does he know that his proposed solution could be the biggest problem of them all: a voyage to America aboard the RMS Titanic.

Plot

to be added

Characters

• Ninth Doctor
• Connie Daniels
• Arthur Daniels
• Edith Daniels
• Hattie Daniels
• Bertie Daniels
• Margaret Daniels
• William Spence

References

• The Doctor has his blue-tipped sonic screwdriver in his pockets.
• The Doctor leaves Connie a copy of The Time Machine.
• Arthur Daniels and William Spence both fought in the Second Boer War.

Notes

• This story was created to answer the questions of why the Doctor was with the Daniels Family in Rose.

Continuity

• The Doctor whispers "no more" while unconscious. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
• The Doctor being with the Daniels Family was part of conspiracy-theorist Clive Finch's investigations into the Doctor in Rose. Clive had previously met the Twelfth Doctor on an adventure as a child, but had his memories of the future and the adventure removed by him (PROSE: The Persistence of Memory).
• The Titanic's sinking was a key part of the Web of Time, and featured in the Doctor's history. The Seventh Doctor, Ace and Bernice Summerfield were on the Titanic (PROSE: The Left-Handed Hummingbird), the Ninth Doctor had been on the ship and clung to an iceberg (TV: The End of the World), and the Eleventh Doctor was on the Titanic shortly before he visited Klimtenburg (PROSE: Plague of the Cybermen). Separately, the Master also travelled on the ship (AUDIO: Mastermind), and both John Hart and Jack Harkness appeared on the Titanic to claim a diamond that was lost during the disaster (AUDIO: The Death of Captain Jack).
• Connie Daniels said "Fantastic" to the Doctor when he awoke from unconsciousness. The Doctor would pick that up as his catchphrase for the rest of his incarnation (TV: Rose, Aliens of London, Father's Day, The Doctor Dances).
• William Spence picked up an alien weapon in Cardiff near the waterfront after it appeared in 'a blinding flash of light'. This seems likely to refer to the Cardiff Space-Time Rift (TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, COMIC: Rift War!)

External links

• Official Battle Scars page at bigfinish.com