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|image           = The Quantum Possibility Engine.jpg|
|image             = The Quantum Possibility Engine.jpg|
|range           = Main Range
|range             = Main Range
|number in range = 243
|series            = ''[[Main Range]]''
|number         = 243
|number in range   = 243
|doctor         = Seventh Doctor
|number           = 243
|companions     = [[Ace]], [[Melanie Bush|Mel]]  
|doctor           = Seventh Doctor
|featuring       = [[Narvin]]
|companions       = [[Melanie Bush|Mel]], [[Ace]]
|enemy           = [[Josiah W. Dogbolter|Dogbolter]], The [[Krasi]]
|featuring         = [[Narvin]]
|setting         = [[Solar system]]
|enemy             = [[Josiah W. Dogbolter|Dogbolter]], the [[Krasi]]
|writer          = [[Guy Adams (writer)|Guy Adams]]
|setting           = [[Station 14]] and [[London]], [[82nd century]]
|director        = [[Jamie Anderson]]
|writer           = Guy Adams
|music           = [[Joe Kraemer]]
|director         = [[Jamie Anderson]]
|sound           = Joe Kraemer, [[Josh Arakelien]]
|producer          = [[Nicholas Briggs]]
|cover           = [[Simon Holub]]
|music             = [[Joe Kraemer]]
|publisher       = Big Finish Productions
|sound             = Joe Kraemer, [[Josh Arakelien]]
|release date   = [[16 October (releases)|16 October]] [[2018 (releases)|2018]]
|cover             = [[Simon Holub]]
|format         = 4 parts, 2 CDs
|epcount          = 4
|production code = BFPDWCD243
|publisher         = Big Finish Productions
|isbn           = ISBN-978-1-78178-835-6
|release date     = 16 October 2018
|prev           = The Dispossessed (audio story)
|format           = 2 CDs<br/>Download
|next           = Warlock's Cross (audio story)
|production code   = BFPDWCD243
|soundcloudtrailer = https://soundcloud.com/big-finish/doctor-who-the-quantum-possibility-engine-trailer
|isbn             = ISBN 978-1-78178-835-6 (physical); ISBN 978-1-78178-836-3 (digital)
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the two hundred and forty third story in [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]'s [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|monthly range]]. It was written by [[Guy Adams (writer)|Guy Adams]] and featured [[Sylvester McCoy]] as the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Sophie Aldred]] as [[Ace]] and [[Bonnie Langford]] as [[Melanie Bush]].
|next             = Warlock's Cross (audio story)
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the two hundred and forty third story in [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]'s [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|monthly range]]. It was written by [[Guy Adams]] and featured [[Sylvester McCoy]] as the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Sophie Aldred]] as [[Ace]] and [[Bonnie Langford]] as [[Melanie Bush]].
 
Notably, it saw the return of [[Josiah W. Dogbolter]], an early ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comic character, who had previously appeared on audio in 2002's ''[[The Maltese Penguin (audio story)|The Maltese Penguin]]''.


== Publisher's summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
[[Seventh Doctor|The Doctor]] and [[Ace]] are locked up. [[The TARDIS]] is gone. Things just couldn't get worse, could they?
[[Seventh Doctor|The Doctor]] and [[Ace]] are locked up. [[The Doctor's TARDIS|The TARDIS]] is gone. Things just couldn't get worse, could they?


Of course they could. Things can always get worse — the new [[President of the Solar System]], [[Josiah W Dogbolter]], didn't get where he is in life without learning that. That's why he has a [[Quantum Possibility Engine]]. It's a wonderful machine, creating a wonderful [[Solar System]]. And with this wonderful device, he can bring happiness and peace to all.
Of course they could. Things can always get worse — the new [[President of the Solar System]], [[Josiah W Dogbolter]], didn't get where he is in life without learning that. That's why he has a [[Quantum Possibility Engine]]. It's a wonderful machine, creating a wonderful [[Solar System]]. And with this wonderful device, he can bring happiness and peace to all.
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* [[Narvin]] - [[Seán Carlsen]]
* [[Narvin]] - [[Seán Carlsen]]
* [[Josiah W. Dogbolter|Dogbolter]] - [[Toby Longworth]]
* [[Josiah W. Dogbolter|Dogbolter]] - [[Toby Longworth]]
* [[Hob]]/[[Soldier Robots]]/[[Alex (The Quantum Possibility Engine)|Alex]] - [[Wayne Forester]]
* [[Hob]] / [[Soldier Robots]] / [[Alex (The Quantum Possibility Engine)|Alex]] - [[Wayne Forester]]
* [[Captain Regent of the Krasi]] - [[Jules de Jongh]]
* [[Regent (The Quantum Possibility Engine)|Captain Regent of the Krasi]] - [[Jules de Jongh]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
''to be added''
* Mel knocks her fellow TARDIS travellers out with a [[sonic disruptor]].
* She seeks to settle a debt with the [[Speravore]]s.
* Dogbolter demands [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] and the [[TARDIS manual]]. Mel later reveals that he duplicated the TARDIS and left the original intact. Mel herself learns tricks about piloting a [[TARDIS]] by reading the manual.
* Dogbolter is based on [[Station 14]], a diplomatic station on the edge of the [[Solar System]].
* Narvin has had [[Narvin's sonic screwdriver|his own sonic screwdriver]] made.
* Narvin implies that the [[Criminal Investigation Department|American CIA]] has ties to the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]].
* [[Time Lord]] and [[Speravore]] technology is combined to create the [[Quantum Possibility Engine]]. Specifically, Dogbolter has made use of a [[dimensional stabiliser]], a [[temporal manifold]], a retrofitted [[reality gate manipulator]], and a Sperovore [[possibility tracker]].
* The Quantum Possibility Engine does not allow for [[free will]].
* In the new timeline, Narvin works for [[Kaltron, Inc.]], as an [[air oven]] designer. He is continually surprised by others' lack of knowledge around "simple" technology, like [[vortex manipulator]]s and [[dimension dam]]s.
* The Doctor works as a [[caretaker|cleaner]] for Narvin, and is fired after he corrects Narvin's [[equation]]s on his [[white board]] to better account for ''[[x (mathematics)|x]]''. He also thought up a new risotto recipe, but Narvin refuses to give him a piece of paper and pen to write it down.
* In the new timeline, Ace is a [[police officer]]. She meets the Doctor, and is prepared to give him [[phone number]]s to help him find a new job, but the strange little man informs her he doesn't have a [[mobile phone|phone]].
* [[Alex (The Quantum Possibility Engine)|Alex]], Ace's boyfriend, works as a [[newsreader]]. When he's late for work, they send him threatening [[emoji]]s.
* Mel damages [[Hob]] by shoving him into a [[hot tub]]. Dogbolter later discovers his robot while trying to relax in it.
* The [[Krasi]] wage war on Dogbolter's Solar System. As a species, they are ruthless, but forever obsessed with public image, wanting to appear benevolent. Retroactively, Dogbolter makes a major point in his original [[campaign speech]]es about defending against the Krasi.
* Dogbolter eats [[bell fly|bell flies]].
* Dogbolter says that if it were the [[Crenin]] or the [[Duelph]]<!--spelling unclear--> waging war, he could handle it easily.
* News broadcasts are produced automatically, through [[algorithm]]s and [[special effects]], with Alex and Dogbolter's [[CGI]] profiles on hand so they can go straight on air.
* The Doctor once played [[marbles]] with [[Virginia Woolf]] on [[The Strand (street)|the Strand]].
* The Doctor expects to see the [[Lyceum Theatre]], and recalls that he took [[Sarah Jane Smith]] there once to see [[Henry Irving]]'s ''[[King Lear]]''. They were kicked out after the Doctor dropped his [[choc-ice]] on one of the Earls.
* The Doctor expects to see [[Waterloo Bridge]], and remembers fighting the [[Bandril]]s, "with that chap from [[The Kinks]]".
* Attempting to replicate human behaviour, [[Hob]] [[sneezing|sneezes]] continually, annoying Dogbolter.
* Dogbolter sold off the majority of the system's military ships to the [[Foom]], leaving only three or four left at their disposal.
* The Doctor tells Ace that Narvin has a [[superiority complex]].
* As people evacuate major cities, Narvin, Ace and the Doctor are caught in a [[traffic jam]].
* When he gives his broadcast address to the people of the [[Solar System]] via [[security camera]], thanks to Alex, the Doctor is on the corner of [[Theobald's Road]] and the [[Grays Inn Freeway]]. This is also where Mels reunites with them, via [[the TARDIS]].
* Dogbolter has the Solar System [[insurance|insured]], and hoped for more destruction. After [[transmat]]ting away, he blows up [[Station 14]], also insured, destroying three [[Krasi]] fleet ships in the process.
* [[Narvin's TARDIS]] is a [[Type 400]], "top of the range". Narvin loses his ship so he has to ask the Doctor to take him back in the "scrap" which he refers to the Doctor's own [[The Doctor's TARDIS|Type 40 TARDIS]].


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
[[File:The Quantum Possibility Engine Alternate.jpg|thumb|Alternate cover.]]
[[File:The Quantum Possibility Engine Alternate.jpg|thumb|Alternate cover.]]
* This audio was recorded on [[9 March (production)|9]] and [[10 March (production)|10 March]] [[2018 (production)|2018]] at [[The Moat Studios]].
* This audio was recorded on [[26 March (production)|26]] and [[27 March (production)|27 March]] [[2018 (production)|2018]] at [[the Moat Studios]].
* Other than the bonus story, ''[[The Maltese Penguin (audio story)|The Maltese Penguin]]'', this is the first story in the [[Main Range]] to feature Josiah W. Dogbolter.
* Unusually, the credits for this story are delivered "in character" by Hob.
* Other than the bonus story, ''[[The Maltese Penguin (audio story)|The Maltese Penguin]]'', this is the first story in the [[Main Range]] to feature [[Josiah W. Dogbolter]], a character originally from ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comics in the 1980s.
[[File:The Quantum Possibility Engine (DWM 532).jpg|thumb|right|''The DWM Review'', [[DWM 532]].]]
* An [[DWM illustrated previews|illustration]] by [[Jamie Lenman]] represented this story in ''The DWM Review'' of [[DWM 532]].


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
''to be added''
* Narvin mentions [[dimension dam]]s ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'') and [[vortex manipulator]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Child (TV story)|The Empty Child]]'', et al.)
* [[Emoji]] are again established as a major form of communication for [[human]]ity in far-future centuries. ([[TV]]: ''[[Smile (TV story)|Smile]]'')
* [[Bernice Summerfield|Bernice]] considered spending an evening with Woolf. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Highest Science (novel)|The Highest Science]]'')
* Upon regaining his memories, the Doctor refers to himself as a [[caretaker|cleaner]] of the [[universe]], cleaning up little messes along the way. The [[Tenth Doctor]] would later find "maintenance man of the universe" to be a rather apt self-description, along the same line of thinking. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars (TV story)|The Waters of Mars]]'')
* Narvin calls [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] "scrap", as it is [[Type 40|woefully out-of-date]]. Other [[Time Lord]]s have made similar comments. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos (TV story)|The Claws of Axos]]'', ''[[The Ribos Operation (TV story)|The Ribos Operation]]'')
* The Doctor says he's never bothered to read the [[TARDIS manual]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Vengeance on Varos (TV story)|Vengeance on Varos]]'') On other occasions, he's stated that he has read some of it, and strongly disagreed with it. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pirate Planet (TV story)|The Pirate Planet]]'', ''[[Amy's Choice (TV story)|Amy's Choice]]'')
* Ace is shocked that the Doctor tells Mel that friends don't keep secrets from each other or plan their own schemes. ([[TV]]: ''[[Ghost Light (TV story)|Ghost Light]]'', ''[[The Curse of Fenric (TV story)|The Curse of Fenric]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Nightshade (novel)|Nightshade]]'', ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'', ''[[Deceit (novel)|Deceit]]'')
* The Doctor works as a cleaner in Dogbolter's alternate timeline. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Harvest (audio story)|The Harvest]]'')
* Mel speaks with an AI construct of the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Power of the Doctor]]'')


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