Dream Team (audio story)
Dream Team was the second and final story in the audio anthology The Dream Team, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Lizzie Hopley and featured Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor, Matthew Waterhouse as Adric, Sarah Sutton as Nyssa and Janet Fielding as Tegan Jovanka.
Publisher's summary
"Welcome to Concordium! The one stop destination for elite and effective corporate bonding."
A protected wonder of space is being exploited for 'company away days' but when the Doctor, Tegan, Nyssa and Adric land to challenge the organisers, they fall into a web of perfectly tailored nightmares. As the Doctor confronts one of the most dangerous monsters in existence, one that uses your own mind against you while it feeds, his companions fall deeper into the trap and a nasty truth is revealed – you can die in dreams.
Plot
Part one
The TARDIS is targeted by a hard sell virus from the protected Trine Archipelago which broadcasts an advertisement for Concordium's corporate away days all over the ship, waking Nyssa up despite her sleeping in the delta wave augmenter. Even when the Doctor manages to stop it, he, Nyssa, Adric and Tegan continue to hear it due to the earworm technology and he flies the TARDIS to the archipelago due to it having been closed to tourists for years. The travellers are subject to what seems to be an antiseptic gas when they arrive at Concordium and the Doctor leaves his three companions in reception whilst he looks around, but they and the TARDIS are gone by the time he gives up on finding anybody. He finds Nyssa on the beach and wakes her up from a dream given to her by a Kantrofarri of Adric and Tegan killing animals.
Adric and Nyssa run from exploding hailstones after Adric attempts to operate a computer and run through a door into a rainforest which Tegan recognises as Cape Tribulation, somewhere she and her mother were once caught in a hailstorm. They deduce that their minds must be being read and attempt to return to the TARDIS, but the door has vanished and Tegan hears her mother, whom she refuses to leave behind. The Doctor and Nyssa search for them, only to realise that they are both dreaming and wake themselves up by slapping one another. They wake up to find that Adric and Nyssa, as well as numerous other visitors, have Kantrofarri on their faces and they use mathematics to distract themselves from thinking about and attracting the Kantrofarri.
to be completed
Part two
to be added
Cast
Worldbuilding
- The Trine Archipelago is a planetary archipelago and a protected natural wonder.
- The facility uses hard sell technology.
- Tegan once walked into the web of a huntsman spider and got bitten.
- The TARDIS informs the Shadow Proclamation of the Porcians.
Notes
- Unusually for a Big Finish full-cast audio story, all speaking parts are played by the main cast: Peter Davison, Matthew Waterhouse, Sarah Sutton and Janet Fielding.
Continuity
- Nyssa has been sleeping in her TARDIS bedroom using the delta wave augmenter. (TV: Kinda [+]Loading...["Kinda (TV story)"], PROSE: The Sands of Time [+]Loading...["The Sands of Time (novel)"])
External links
- Official Dream Team page at bigfinish.com
