Enemy Lines (audio story)
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Enemy Lines was a single release comprising the eighth season of Gallifrey and featured the return of Lalla Ward as Romana II and Louise Jameson as Leela.
Publisher's summary
In the distant future, President Romanadvoratrelundar will do anything it takes to save her world, even if it means sacrificing her allies and friends...
In the distant past, President President Romanadvoratrelundar will also do anything it takes to save her world, even if it means sacrificing her own life in the process...
Unfortunately for Romana, there is no easy option.
With the threat of impending war, and negotiations still ongoing, the Temporal Powers are growing restless. Every day, they find their future slipping away from them. Every decision they make proves critical. And no one can escape the fact that sacrifices have to be made...
Time is running out... and it's running straight to Gallifrey.
Plot
Part one
In a TARDIS running out of oxygen, Narvin and Ace wonder where Romana has gone, having disappeared after they heard the sound of another TARDIS materialising. A projection of Colonel Trave appears; she informs them that their TARDIS is surrounded and that they have been found guilty of high treason by the High Council. They are executed by the use of time torpedoes.
In the past, Romana's second incarnation materialises aboard the Moros, a Monan Host spacecraft which she plans to repair to show Ambassador Malkino that the Time Lords had no part in its sabotage following an incident on Terra Phallax. She sends her TARDIS back to Narvin so that, should the core of the Moros fail, the resulting singularity will not travel through the Time Vortex, and begins a recording in case she does not survive. After finding only armed droids aboard, she communicates with the computer and learns that it killed the 536 crewmembers with severe trauma as it believes that the ship runs more efficiently without them.
Romana believes that Moros has been deliberately infected with a virus. The computer wants the core to fail, but Romana goes to stabilise it, avoiding lasers on the way and hearing what sounds like the sound of a staser. She reaches the engine room and is confronted by several droids who block her way, but Leela appears and destroys them with a staser. Leela reveals that she had stowed away in the TARDIS and sneaked out whilst Romana was speaking with Narvin.
Continuing on, Romana tells Leela that she plans to regenerate in order to use the energy to stabilise the core. Leela loses her staser thanks to the gravity generators and tells Romana that, even if they do both die on this mission, she has no regrets and is glad to have met her and thankful to the Fourth Doctor for coming to Mordee. They climb to the core, where Romana tricks Leela into entering a teleportation unit and sends her away before the droids arrive. The computer tells her that he was not infected but given enlightenment. Before he can have Romana shot, she is rescued by a TARDIS.
Braxiatel greets Romana and tells her that he has come from a war-torn future, sent by her next incarnation. In his time, the High Council have found her, Narvin and Ace guilty of starting a war with Omega and have executed the latter two. Romana, however, was saved by Braxiatel's intervention and has tasked Braxiatel with ensuring that the Adherents of Ohm are stopped before they can begin to enact their plans. Romana agrees to help once they have recovered Leela; they do so and head back to Gallifrey.
Part two
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Part three
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Part four
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Part five
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Part six
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Cast
- Romana - Lalla Ward
- Leela - Louise Jameson
- Ace - Sophie Aldred
- Narvin - Seán Carlsen
- Braxiatel - Miles Richardson
- Livia - Celia Imrie
- Plutus - Tom Allen
- Gaal - George Watkins
- Trave - Hannah Genesius
- The Watchmaker - Eve Karpf
- Kalbez - Nigel Fairs
- Moros - Sean Biggerstaff
Uncredited cast
References
- In the aborted timeline, Colonel Trave belonged to the Fifth Battalion.
- The Time Lords intervened on Terra Phallax when the Monan Host mined illegally. The intervention was seen as aggressive, which was not helped by Leela's diplomacy; she threatened Ambassador Malkino with violence.
- The crew of the Moros included Captain Barsgar and Second Officer Ural.
- Chronules are a Monan unit of energy.
- Romana has not seen Braxiatel for centuries.
- The Sycorax once tried to invade Mandorla in another timeline.
- Both Leela and Romana dream of their respective negated timelines.
Notes
- This story was recorded on 6 October and 12 and 13 November 2015 at The Moat Studios.
- This story was the first to depict a female incarnation of a Time Lord regenerating into a male one.
Continuity
- Leela remembers learning the word "anomaly." (AUDIO: Square One)
- The Time Lords once went to war with the Vondrax. (PROSE: Trace Memory)
- In one timeline, Leela is left on Legion. (AUDIO: Vesuvius Falling)
- Ace lists the phrases time storm, milkshake, Time Lord, (TV: Dragonfire) Daleks, (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks) Cheetah people (TV: Survival) and Spacefleet (PROSE: Deceit) when giving Gaal a potted history of her exploits.
- Livia and Kalbez mention the Archetryx Convention. (AUDIO: The Apocaypse Element)
- Livia mentions Space Station Zenobia. (TV: The Mysterious Planet, Mindwarp, Terror of the Vervoids, The Ultimate Foe, AUDIO: Trial of the Valeyard, The Brink of Death)
External links
- Official Enemy Lines page at bigfinish.com
Footnotes
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