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'''Dora''' ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Transcendence of Ephros (audio story)|The Transcendence of Ephros]]'') was the [[President of Earth]] in [[2540]]. She was closely advised by [[Earth]]'s primary military officer, [[John Williams|General Williams]].
'''Dora''' ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Transcendence of Ephros (audio story)|The Transcendence of Ephros]]'') was the [[President of Earth]] in [[2540]]. She was closely advised by [[Earth]]'s primary military officer, General [[John Williams]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Space War (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Space War]]'')
 
She and Williams had once been friends. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'') In [[2520]] she served as a [[senator]]'s aide on a peace initiative that ended in Williams inadvertently beginning the [[Human-Draconian War]] in what he believed to be an act of self-defense. Years later, after her successful campaign for [[President of Earth]], she appointed Williams to be her military advisor. She wore a [[silver]] locket with a picture of twenty-year-old Williams. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Space War (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Space War]]'')


After a series of raids against [[Earth]] [[cargo ship]]s, believed to be the work of [[Draconia]], the president personally met with the [[Draconian prince|Draconian Emperor's son]] in order to negotiate an end to hostilities. She came under pressure from both her [[military advisor]]s and the [[Brook (Frontier in Space)|political opposition]] to take military action against Draconia. Eventually, she agreed to break off [[diplomacy|diplomatic]] relations. However, she refused to fire the first shot in a war.
After a series of raids against [[Earth]] [[cargo ship]]s, believed to be the work of [[Draconia]], the president personally met with the [[Draconian prince|Draconian Emperor's son]] in order to negotiate an end to hostilities. She came under pressure from both her [[military advisor]]s and the [[Brook (Frontier in Space)|political opposition]] to take military action against Draconia. Eventually, she agreed to break off [[diplomacy|diplomatic]] relations. However, she refused to fire the first shot in a war.


Thanks to the [[Third Doctor]], it was revealed that the raids were the actions of [[Ogron]] mercenaries, and war was averted. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'')
Thanks to the [[Third Doctor]], it was revealed that the raids were the actions of [[Ogron]] mercenaries, and war was averted. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'')
== Behind the scenes ==
* According to [[Doctor Who and the Space War|the novelisation]], she was not the first woman to hold [[President of Earth|the office]]. The adaptation also sheds greater light onto her uneasy relationship with [[John Williams]]. In it, readers discover that Williams had actively campaigned against her for an "aggressive inter-stellar policy". When she won, she appointed Williams as her [[military advisor|military]] aide "to heal political wounds". The novel also gives rise to the notion that the two were former lovers, something the episode offers only vaguely through body language. Adapter [[Malcolm Hulke]] tells readers that the president had a silver [[locket]] around her neck and within that was a picture of a 20-year-old Lieutenant Williams.
* The President remained unnamed both in the television story and the novelisation. The audio story ''[[The Transcendence of Ephros (audio story)|The Transcendence of Ephros]]'' finally gives her the first name Dora.
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