Dominion (audio story)
Dominion was a full cast audio story released on 23 October 2012 by Big Finish Productions as part of the UNIT audio series. It featured Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor, Beth Chalmers as Raine Creevy, Tracey Childs as Dr. Elizabeth Klein, Sophie Aldred as Ace and introduced Alex Macqueen as the Reborn Master.
This story is the debut story for another incarnation of the Master, played by MacQueen, who masquerades (and is credited) as "the Other Doctor", a supposed future incarnation, and for the first 3 parts of the story he is "the Doctor" of the story, filling the role that the Doctor would normally fill in a story of this style. It was the first time Big Finish had invented a unique incarnation of the Master, as opposed to reusing an incarnation from the television series.
According to Nicholas Briggs on the behind the scenes CD, this story was much about doing another UNIT series featuring the Doctor, unlike the previous series which barely mentioned him. At four 60 minute parts, this is the single longest story to feature the Seventh Doctor, having a running time of four hours, double the length of most stories featuring him.
Publisher's summary
The universe stands on the brink of a dimensional crisis — and the Doctor and Raine are pulled into the very epicentre of it.
Meanwhile, on Earth, UNIT scientific advisor Dr Elizabeth Klein and an incarnation of the Doctor she's never encountered before are tested to the limit by a series of bizarre, alien invasions.
At the heart of it all is a terrible secret, almost as old as the Time Lords themselves. Reality is beginning to unravel and two Doctors, Klein, Raine and all of UNIT must use all their strength and guile to prevent the whole of creation being torn apart.
Plot
Part one
Dr Elizabeth Klein, UNIT's scientific advisor, makes a recording in which she says that she is being stalked, in real life and in her dreams, by the Doctor, whom she calls the "Umbrella Man". Whilst she can go months or even years without seeing him, he always returns.
The Doctor and Raine Creevy are about to drink tea in the TARDIS when they receive a distress call from another dimension, which the Doctor says never happens. They receive a message from Ace, who they believed was on Gallifrey, in which she tries to pass on a message from the Time Lords before she seemingly loses signal. The distress call drags the TARDIS off-course and through the dimensional divide.
In a tent in the middle of London, Dr Klein analyses a twelve-foot carbuncle of living stone and informs Colonel Lafayette that it is buried too deep to be removed. She takes a sliver of the stone and analyses it further at the laboratory, but she is interrupted by the materialisation of a TARDIS. The Reborn Master steps out and identifies himself as the Doctor.
Sylvie Wilson wakes up her husband, Pete.
to be completed
Part two
to be added
Part three
to be added
Part four
to be added
Cast
- The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
- Raine Creevy - Beth Chalmers
- Dr Elizabeth Klein - Tracey Childs
- The Other Doctor - Alex Macqueen
- Colonel Lafayette - Julian Dutton
- Sergeant Pete Wilson - Bradley Gardner
- Sylvie / Liz Morrison - Miranda Keeling
- Private Phillips / John Starr - Ben Porter
- Major Wyland-Jones - Sam Clemens
- Private Maynard / Arunzell - Alex Mallinson
- Ace - Sophie Aldred
References
Culture
- Klein mentions the Financial Times.
Individuals
- Klein met Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart briefly before his retirement. Major Wyland-Jones describes him as "a great man" and tells Klein that UNIT files indicate that he worked with three different incarnations, namely the second, third and fourth incarnations.
- Sylvie is pregnant. She and Pete have named the unborn baby Chloe.
Technology
- The Doctor hands Klein a space-time telegraph before he leaves.
- The Master uses his Tissue Compression Eliminator to kill a Time Lord on Tersurus.
UNIT
Notes
- As part of the UNIT series, the CD spine was numbering as 2.1, 2.2 etc., with the first series having concluded seven years earlier with The Wasting.
- Nicholas Briggs has indicated that this story is set near the end of the Doctor's seventh incarnation. Raine Creevy is travelling with him (possibly a later trip) while Ace is on Gallifrey. The Master is in an unidentified incarnation. (Behind the Scenes content on disc 5)
- This audio drama was recorded on 12, 13, 15 and 16 December 2011 at The Moat Studios.
- This was the debut performance for Alex Macqueen as the Reborn Master.
- After the 2019 redesign of the Big Finish website, this release was added to The Seventh Doctor Adventures.
- Due to creative differences with Andrew Cartmel over her appearance in this story, this marks Raine's last appearance in a Big Finish audio to date.[source needed]
Covers
This story was released across 4 CDs each with its own cover. Each cover featured one of the four main characters of this story; the Seventh Doctor, Elizabeth Klein, Raine Creevy and the Master.
The TARDIS the Master uses as depicted on the cover for the first part is that of the Eleventh and Twelfth Doctor's, one of the rare instances where Big Finish was, at that time, allowed to incorporate elements from the post-2005 version of the show. This tied into the fakeout that Macqueen was a future Doctor.
Part one
Part two
Part three
Part four
Continuity
- The Other Doctor refers to Raine and Sgt. Wilson as his "faithful acolytes". He refers to Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart as "a splendid fellow". (TV: The Five Doctors)
- The Other Doctor mentions General Adrienne Kramer being among the leaders of UNIT. (PROSE: Vampire Science)
- The Doctor states that in his old age he may forget the rules of time, or worse, think himself above them. (TV: The Waters of Mars)
- The Doctor is confused how his "future self" could cross dimensions, saying the Time Lords are unlikely to start allowing that. Raine says that maybe the Time Lords are gone in the "Other Doctor's" time. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell, TV: Rose, Rise of the Cybermen)
- The Other Doctor reminisces about the Axons, the Autons and the Sea Devils. (TV: The Claws of Axos, Terror of the Autons, The Sea Devils)
- The Doctor tells Raine of his past with Klein, the fact that she was a Nazi in an alternative timeline and his ultimate re-writing of her history. (AUDIO: Colditz, The Architects of History)
- Klein mentions the "Omega business" while Major Wyland-Jones refers to a meeting with more than one Doctor at the same time. (TV: The Three Doctors)
- The Master still has Lord Chancellor Goth's TARDIS, which he stole after his death on Gallifrey. (TV: The Deadly Assassin)
- The Master refers to the fact that the Doctor's TARDIS is the last remaining Type 40 TARDIS still in operation. (TV: The Deadly Assassin)
- The Master tells the Doctor that he likes the sound of the phrase "Master Race." (TV: The End of Time)
- The Master mentions the Key to Time. (TV: The Ribos Operation)
- The Doctors says the distress calls he receives are "first come, first serve," saying "you'd go mad otherwise." (TV: Planet of Evil et al.)
- Ace is on Gallifrey. (AUDIO: Thin Ice, The Lights of Skaro)
- The Master claims the Doctor is filled with "the cancer of compassion". Davros would later tell the Twelfth Doctor that "[compassion] grows strong in [him] like a cancer". (TV: The Witch's Familiar)
- Before saying farewell, the Doctor gives to Klein a space-time telegraph in case she needed to contact him directly. He previously gave one to Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. (TV: Revenge of the Cybermen, The Day of the Doctor et al)
External links
- Official Dominion page at bigfinish.com
- DisContinuity for UNIT: Dominion at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide
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