Straxus (The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel): Difference between revisions

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|other voice actor = [[Peter Miles]], [[Peter Egan]], [[Oliver Hume]], [[Toby Jones]]

Straxus once worked for the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]]. Unbeknownst to the [[High Council]], he was instructed to gather from the [[Vess]] weapons that would allow the Time Lords to defend themselves and defeat races that posed a threat to Gallifrey. He was discovered by {{Pratt}}, who blackmailed him and the CIA by threatening to inform the High Council. In exchange for his silence, Straxus let him buy a [[conceptual bomb]] from the Vess. The Master used the device to attack the Doctor's timeline, using the bomb to erase [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] and consequently everything he had accomplished. Recognising that the loss of the Doctor from history was causing too much damage, Straxus then captured the [[Sixth Doctor]] to ask for his help in defeating the Master. Eventually, he regretted his own actions and claimed he meant to report to the High Council. His TARDIS was destroyed by the Sixth Doctor by forcing and expanding its dimensional stabilisation field, in order to let the Doctor's other incarnations land in the pocket dimension of the Vess at the same time. Although the first three Doctors were only able to partially materialise, this was enough for the other Doctors to work out what the Master had done and undo his attack, essentially erasing the whole crisis from existence. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'')

Yet another Straxus became [[Coordinator]] of the CIA. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Death of Hope (audio story)|The Death of Hope]]'') This was when he next interfered in his own future. His next incarnation became fed up with the morally questionable actions of himself and his people, and allied himself with the [[Dalek Time Controller]]. The Dalek Time Controller helped him rewrite his biodata to remove his Time Lord heritage, so that when they retroactively destroyed the Time Lords the new Straxus — now calling himself Kotris — would survive. Kotris knew that as Straxus he had attempted to avoid regenerating, and sent a [[temporal drone]] to prevent Straxus killing himself. Kotris and the Time Controller planned to incubate "[[retro-genitor particle]]s" in a human named [[Molly O'Sullivan]]. They sent Daleks after her and the Doctor, forcing them to spend time together and allowing the retro-genitor particles to latch onto the Doctor's Gallifreyan DNA. The particles were then intended to follow that DNA back through history, undoing not just the Doctor's life, but all of Gallifrey's past.

== Behind the scenes ==

* On the [[12 July (production)|12 July]] [[2011 (production)|2011]] edition of ''[[The Big Finish Podcast]]'', [[Nicholas Briggs]] revealed that the original actor hired to play Straxus had to be fired. When the original actor proved unsuitable for the role, Briggs quickly called someone he knew — [[Nickolas Grace]] — to take over. The crew became so enamoured of his performance on the audio story ''[[Human Resources (audio story)|Human Resources]]'' that they wrote Straxus into ''[[The Vengeance of Morbius (audio story)|The Vengeance of Morbius]]''. Briggs went on to claim that this was the only time in Big Finish's ''Doctor Who'' production where an actor had to be fired for performance deficiencies.

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