Embrace the Darkness was the thirty-first story in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by Nicholas Briggs and featured Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor and India Fisher as Charlotte Pollard.
It was the fourth in a series of six audio stories featuring the Eighth Doctor.
Publisher's summary
The Doctor and Charley travel to the remote Cimmerian System to unravel the mystery of its sun. But darkness has already embraced the scientific base on Cimmeria IV in more ways than one.
In a fight for survival, the Doctor must use all his wits against a deadly artificial life-form and an ancient race whose return to the Cimmerian System threatens suffering and death on an apocalyptic scale.
Plot
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Illustration preview by Martin Geraghty in DWM 316
Cast
- The Doctor - Paul McGann
- Charley Pollard - India Fisher
- Orllensa - Nicola Boyce
- Ferras - Lee Moone
- Haliard - Mark McDonnell
- ROSM / Solarian / Cimmerian - Ian Brooker
- Cimmerian Voice - Nicholas Briggs
References
TARDIS
- Type 70 TARDISes emit a particular temporal energy discharge signature.
- Charley knows how to access the TARDIS' databank.
Technology
- ROSM is an acronym for Rescue Operational Security Module. It was designed by Professor Astrov.
Species
- The Doctor is aware of several species who refer to themselves as the Solarians.
Planets
- Cimmeria IV is located hundreds of light-years from Earth.
Culture
- Ferras and Haliard play draughts.
Notes
- This story was originally to have featured the Morestrans (who appeared in the television story Planet of Evil) instead of the Throxillians, but the rights could not be obtained from the BBC.
- This audio drama was recorded on 22 January, 25 January and 26 January 2001.
- The name of the robot ROSM is a reference to the 1921 play R.U.R. Rossum's Universal Robots by Karel Čapek which introduced the word "robot" to both science fiction and the English language.
Continuity
- ROSM detects the anti-time infection in Charley's system but is unable to recognise it. (AUDIO: Neverland)
- The Doctor runs into a flotilla of Type 70 TARDISes in the Time Vortex and steers around them. He later learns the reasons for their presence from Lady President Romana during the anti-time crisis. (AUDIO: Neverland)
- The Celestial Toymaker would later refer to the Cimmerian in a riddle while Charley was playing his games in the Celestial Toyroom. (AUDIO: Solitaire)
- After Charley escaped from the Ever-and-Ever Prolixity, a Viyran agent was stationed in the Cimmerian system to search for her. (AUDIO: The Fall of the House of Pollard)