First Frontier (novel)

Publisher's Summary

Ace raised her blaster. 'You've already killed me once, girl,' Kreer said. 'Didn't you learn anything from that?'

When Bernice asks to see the dawn of the space age, the Doctor takes the TARDIS to the United States of America in 1957 - and into the midst of distrust and paranoia. The Cold War is raging, bringing the world to the brink of atomic destruction.

But the threat facing America is far more deadly than Communist Russia. The militaristic Tzun Confederacy have made Earth their next target for conquest - and the aliens are already among us.

Two nuclear warheads have been stolen; there are traitors to the human species in the highest ranks of the army; and alien infiltrators have assumed human form. Only one person seems to know what’s going on: the army’s mysterious scientific advisor, the enigmatic Major Kreer.

Characters

The Doctor

Has Majestic clearance with the US government.

Ace

Will be 27 in a few months.
Can fly a Hercules miltary plane, thanks to what the Doctor refers to as the 'narrow minded military'. keeping things similar in all air born craft.
She used to fly a spacehopper in the Spacefleet.

Bernice Summerfield

Thinks of the Doctor and Ace as her only family.
Is immune to the Master's hypnotism.
Imagines the Doctor marrying the TARDIS.

Major Kreer (aka The Master)

Was able to recover enough following his fight with the Doctor on the Cheetah Planet to teleport back to Earth, however the explosion of the planet transported him back 32 years.
Used Tzun genetic engineering to remove the Trakenite DNA from his body to restore him to a full Time Lord.
The Master regenerates after Ace shoots him in the back.
He respects Bernice for her paper on Martian Feudalism.
Claims to be a Time Lord of the first rank.

References

The Nestene Consciousness controls a section of the Tau Qudrant.
Bandranginus Five was a shipyard for the Vegans.
Before being trapped on the Cheetah Planet the Master tried to start a war between Antari Two and Antari Three.
The Cheetah Planet had an atmosphere rich in artron energy.
The Master has read Bernice's paper on Martian Feudalism.
The Master regenerates into someone a little bit taller than his previous body (which had been infected with the Cheetah virus). The body has a high foreheead, glossy moustache, neat beard, aristocratic nose and a lean face.
The Master uses his Tissue Compression Eliminator once more.
The Master and Ace can detect each other due to them both being infected with the Cheetah virus.
The Master constructs a Stattenheim Remote Control to retrieve his TARDIS.
The Tzun are from the planet S'Arl.
There is some discussion of Dimensional Transcendence, which in turn leads to discussions of Gallifreyan warp matrix engineering and block transfer computations.
It is best (supposedly) to have five arms and five legs when using Venusian Aikido.
The Sidhe are mentioned.

Notes

The Master regenerates from the 'Anthony Ainley' body into a new body.

Continuity

The Master acquired the Trakenite DNA after stealing Tremas's body in The Keeper of Traken.
The Master last appeared in Survival.
The Sidhe (mentioned in this novel) appear in Autumn Mist.
The Tzun appear in Mission: Impractical.
A single Tzun appears in Return of the Living Dad.
Bandranginus Five was mined and squashed to a ball in The Pirate Planet.

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