The Warrior Meets His Destiny (webcast)

The Warrior Meets His Destiny
Main character(s):	The Warrior
Featuring:	Davros
Main enemy:	Daleks
Main setting:	Time War, the Warrior's universe
Release details
Premiere broadcast:	27 September 2022
Premiere network:	YouTube
Format:	1 minute 28 second minisode

The Warrior Meets His Destiny was a webcast, termed a trailer in its credits, released by Big Finish Productions ahead of the box set Destiny. It was released on YouTube and the Big Finish website.

Plot

A butterfly flutters near a flower in a grassy landscape. The landscape then briefly shifts into a scorched war zone; it flickers back to the grasslands, before stabilising as the war zone. As a Dalek moves across the war zone and observes the ongoing battle, the Warrior begins speaking of the Time War's ending and of how his universe no longer makes sense. He describes the War as being composed of "bloated moments brimming with impossibilities and inconsistencies. As he does, more parts of the universe pass by and change as time shifts, including Mordee and Marinus.

Onboard a Dalek flying saucer, a group of Daleks, including the saucer itself, shift between numerous variants of themselves. As the Warrior ponders what will happen when the Time War finally ends, the Dalek saucer's instability stabilises as a flaming ruin, with the Dalek Supreme reduced to a charred, empty casing.

Inside the console room of the Warrior's TARDIS, the Warrior finds someone onboard, and asks who they are. Davros emerges from the shadows, and remarks that he was about to ask the Warrior the same.

Credits

• Trailer - Chris Thompson
• Music - Howard Carter

Cast (uncredited)

• The Warrior - Colin Baker
• Davros - Terry Molloy

Worldbuilding

to be added

Notes

• The Warrior's dialogue is taken from various points in The Key To Key To Time.
  • Most of his dialogue comes from the story's opening.
  • His dialogue during the scene onboard the Dalek flying saucer is his final lines from the story.
  • His encounter with Davros onboard the former's TARDIS is a scene taken directly from The Key To Key To Time.
• Chris Thompson considered depicting 1990s Spider Daleks in this trailer, but decided they would be too difficult to depict well.

Continuity

• Numerous Dalek variants appear throughout the story.
  • Bronze Daleks, which debuted in TV: Dalek, fight in the fluctuating war zone at the start of the story. They are also the first Dalek variants to appear onboard the Dalek flying saucer, and serve under a Dalek Supreme Type E, which debuted in TV: The Stolen Earth and was named as such in PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual.
  • The Bronze Daleks then transform into Type V Daleks, which debuted in TV: Death to the Daleks and were also named as such in PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual. They serve under a variant of the Black Dalek Leader - introduced in TV: The Chase and named as such in COMIC: Plague of Death - with sense globes coloured silver instead of blue.
  • The Black Dalek Leader variant then transforms into the golden Dalek Emperor who debuted in COMIC: Invasion of the Daleks and appeared in many of TV Century 21's Dalek comic strips. The two Type V Daleks to its sides transform into variants of Daleks from TV: Dr. Who and the Daleks:
    • The Type V Dalek left of the Black Dalek Leader variant transforms into a variant of the Black Dalek, with silver neck rings around its neck grille and alternating silver-and-black weapons platform, sense globes and base unit instead of the Dr. Who and the Daleks Black Dalek's predominantly black-and-gold casing, in addition to possessing blue insulator discs on its eyestalk instead of the gold insulator discs on the Dr. Who and the Daleks Black Dalek.
    • The Type V Dalek right of the Black Dalek Leader variant transforms into a version of the Red Dalek, with a suction cup at the end of its manipulator arm in place of the Dr. Who and the Daleks Red Dalek's claw. It also possesses gold sense globes in place of the latter's black ones.
  • The Black Dalek and Red Dalek variants then transform into Daleks reminiscent of the Skaro City Daleks, introduced in TV: The Daleks and named as such in PROSE: Dalek Survival Guide. The Dalek Emperor shifts into the Black Dalek Leader's Type II casing, which originated from TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth and was named as such in PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual. The Dalek saucer briefly transforms into a DARDIS of the design from TV: The Chase.
  • The Type II Black Dalek Leader then begins to shift back to the Dalek Supreme Type E casing, before stabilising as a charred Bronze Dalek with curved rings around its inactive luminosity dischargers.
• Two Bronze Daleks in the fluctuating war zone each pilot a hoverbout, a type of Dalek vehicle which debuted in PROSE: Doctor Who and the Daleks.