Bill Lester
Bill Lester was a member of the Nerva Beacon crew. (AUDIO: Return of the Cybermen)
Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Voga account[[edit] | [edit source]]
Lester, Commander Stevenson and Kellman were the last survivors of the plague affecting the station. When the CyberNomads captured him, they forced him to carry Cyberbombs deep inside Voga on a suicide mission, but he was rescued. When the Fourth Doctor's plan to suffocate their chest cavities by plugging them up with gold did not work and the Cybermen overpowered him and Harry Sullivan, Lester leapt down from a rock ledge, catching the Cybermen by surprise. He immediately released his Cyberbomb harness, setting off a fail-safe in the event the bomb was detached from him before it reached the core of Voga. Instead of exploding at full power, a secondary explosion went off, killing the Cybermen, but also disintegrating Lester. (TV: Revenge of the Cybermen)
The asteroid account[[edit] | [edit source]]
According to another version of events, where the Cybermen sought to destroy a gold-rich asteroid, Lester never left Nerva. He was injured facing the Cyber-Leader, but survived. (AUDIO: Return of the Cybermen)
Appearance[[edit] | [edit source]]
Lester was a tough and burly man. (PROSE: Revenge of the Cybermen [+]Loading...["Revenge of the Cybermen (novelisation)"])
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The differing fates of Lester in Revenge of the Cybermen and Return of the Cybermen were originally accounted for in a post-credit scene written by John Dorney for the latter. As a result of the fallout of Genesis of the Daleks and the Last Great Time War, the Return timeline becomes redundant and is overwritten by the Revenge timeline. However, the scene was cut from the script and not included in the final product.[1]
