Dune
Dune was First Technician of Space Station Nerva. He was eaten by and absorbed into the Wirrn, becoming its first casualty out of the Nerva crew.
Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]
Dune ran simulations of the destruction of Earth with Noah to prepare and informed him after Sato and Donnelly, murdered by Dastur Tausend, disappeared. As Garrison Clay's men attacked to prevent Nerva Beacon from leaving Earth's orbit, Noah contacted Dune and ordered him to act in accordance with the simulation regardless. (AUDIO: Last Words [+]Loading...["Last Words (audio story)"])
He was to have been one of the first humans revived, but the Wirrn Queen laid her eggs inside his body while he was still in cryogenic suspension. The Queen's larvae consumed his body and his intellect, absorbing all of his knowledge, enabling them to operate and sabotage systems aboard the Ark.
When his body was found missing by Vira, Noah blamed the Fourth Doctor and his party. As the alien presence inside Noah's mind grew stronger, the commander claimed that he was Dune. He later revealed that he had been given all Dune's knowledge. (TV: The Ark in Space [+]Loading...["The Ark in Space (TV story)"])
Personality[[edit] | [edit source]]
Dune knew high energy physics and quantum mechanics. (TV: The Ark in Space [+]Loading...["The Ark in Space (TV story)"])
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Apart from Brian Jacobs as Dune and two voice-over artists, Gladys Spencer and Peter Tuddenham, no-one but the regular cast appears in The Ark in Space part one. This had not occurred since Season 1's two-parter The Edge of Destruction [+]Loading...["The Edge of Destruction (TV story)"] (1964) and has not happened since [through Feb 2022].
