Queen of the Mechonoids (audio story)
Queen of the Mechonoids, or Queen of the Mechanoids, was the fourth and final story of the audio anthology The Diary of River Song: Series Eight. It was written by Jonathan Morris and featured Alex Kingston as River Song, Jane Slavin as Anya Kingdom and Joe Sims as Mark Seven.
Publisher's summary
Space Security agents Anya Kingdom and Mark Seven answer a distress call – and find River Song, ruling a city of Mechonoids.
But another shock awaits beneath this planet's icy surface. The Mechonoids have been upgraded and are about to be unleashed upon the galaxy!
Plot
Returning to Earth with a month of leave, Anya is prepared to relax and hike the Great Lakes whilst Mark Seven returns to the SSS, but they receive a distress call from River on the ice planet Gelidius and are bound by law to investigate. They find an empty crashed spaceship and follow the signal to an apparently brand new city on stilts which appears to be deserted until they encounter a Mechonoid. At Anya's request, the Mechonoid takes them to their leader: River, who has been fed and waited upon by the Mechonoids since she crash-landed on the planet thirty-one days prior. Anya and Mark take her to their ship to return to Earth, but they find that the mercury core is missing and go to collect the one from River's ship.
to be completed
Cast
- River Song - Alex Kingston
- Anya Kingdom - Jane Slavin
- Mark Seven - Joe Sims
- Annam Henic - Derek Griffiths
- The Mechonoids - Nicholas Briggs
Worldbuilding
- Gelidius is an ice planet.
- The Interplanetary Convention for the Preservation of Life dictates that distress calls must be investigated without delay.
Notes
- This story marks the Mechanoids' first appearance in a Big Finish audio drama since The Juggernauts in 2005.
- This story features Anya Kingdom and Mark Seven and helps reintroduce them for 2021's Dalek Universe series.
- As was the case in other audio stories, the name of the robots is pronounced quite clearly as "Mechanoids", despite the title and marketing using the "Mechonoid" spelling.
Continuity
- The Mechanoids were sent out to prepare worlds ready for colonisation 1,650 years ago. (TV: The Chase)
External links
- Official Queen of the Mechonoids page at bigfinish.com
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