The Quantum Possibility Engine (audio story)
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The Quantum Possibility Engine was the two hundred and forty third story in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by Guy Adams and featured Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor, Sophie Aldred as Ace and Bonnie Langford as Melanie Bush.
Publisher's summary
The Doctor and Ace are locked up. The TARDIS is gone. Things just couldn't get worse, could they?
Of course they could. Things can always get worse — the new President of the Solar System, Josiah W Dogbolter, didn't get where he is in life without learning that. That's why he has a Quantum Possibility Engine. It's a wonderful machine, creating a wonderful Solar System. And with this wonderful device, he can bring happiness and peace to all.
Possibly.
Either that or tear the universe to shreds, it's hard to be sure which.
Plot
to be added
Cast
- The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
- Ace - Sophie Aldred
- Mel - Bonnie Langford
- Narvin - Seán Carlsen
- Dogbolter - Toby Longworth
- Hob/Soldier Robots/Alex - Wayne Forester
- Captain Regent of the Krasi - Jules de Jongh
References
- Mel knocks her fellow TARDIS travellers out with a sonic disruptor.
- Dogbolter is based on Station 14, on the edge of the Solar System.
- Narvin has had his own sonic screwdriver made.
- Narvin implies that the American CIA has ties to the Celestial Intervention Agency.
- Time Lord and Speravore technology is combined to create the Quantum Possibility Engine.
- The Quantum Possibility Engine does not allow for free will.
- In the new timeline, Narvin works for Kaltron, Inc., as an air oven designer. He is continually surprised by others' lack of knowledge around "simple" technology, like vortex manipulators and dimension dams.
- The Doctor works as a cleaner for Narvin, and is fired after he corrects Narvin's equations on his white board to better account for x.
- In the new timeline, Ace is a police officer.
- Alex, Ace's boyfriend, works as a newsreader. When he's late for work, they send him threatening emojis.
- Mel damages Hob by shoving him into a hot tub. Dogbolter later discovers his robot while trying to relax in it.
- The Krasi wage war on Dogbolter's Solar System. Retroactively, Dogbolter makes a major point in his original campaign speeches about defending against the Krasi.
- Dogbolter eats bell flies.
- Dogbolter says that if it were the Crenin or the Duelph waging war, he could handle it easily.
- News broadcasts are produced automatically, through algorithms and special effects, with Alex and Dogbolter's CGI profiles on hand so they can go straight on air.
- The Doctor once played marbles with Virginia Woolf on the Strand.
- The Doctor expects to see the Lyceum Theatre, and recalls that he took Sarah Jane Smith there once to see Henry Irving's King Lear. They were kicked out after the Doctor dropped his choc-ice on one of the Earls.
- The Doctor expects to see Waterloo Bridge, and remembers fighting the Bandrils, "with that chap from The Kinks".
- Attempting to replicate human behaviour, Hob sneezes continually, annoying Dogbolter.
- Dogbolter sold off the majority of the system's military ships to the Foom, leaving only three or four left at their disposal.
- The Doctor tells Ace that Narvin has a superiority complex.
- As people evacuate major cities, Narvin, Ace and the Doctor are caught in a traffic jam.
Notes
- This audio was recorded on 9 and 10 March 2018 at The Moat Studios.
- Other than the bonus story, The Maltese Penguin, this is the first story in the Main Range to feature Josiah W. Dogbolter, a character originally from Doctor Who Magazine comics in the 1980s.
Continuity
- Narvin mentions dimension dams (TV: The Name of the Doctor) and vortex manipulators. (TV: The Empty Child, et al.)
- Emoji are again established as a major form of communication for humanity in far-future centuries. (TV: Smile)
External links
- Official The Quantum Possibility Engine page at bigfinish.com
