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The '''''UK-201''''' ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Crash of the UK-201 (audio story)|The Crash of the UK-201]]'') or '''''Astra Nine''''' ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Rescue (novelisation)|The Rescue]]'') was a [[human]] [[spacecraft]] which operated in the [[25th century]]. It bore a [[Union Flag]] on its hull. | The '''''UK-201''''', ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Crash of the UK-201 (audio story)|The Crash of the UK-201]]'') or '''''Astra Nine''''', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Rescue (novelisation)|The Rescue]]'') was a [[human]] [[spacecraft]] which operated in the [[25th century]]. It bore a [[Union Flag]] on its hull. | ||
== Features == | |||
The ship had a ship-wide [[sport]]s channel, which broadcast such events as [[judo]] tournaments, featuring beings with two or more arms or legs. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eleventh Tiger (novel)|The Eleventh Tiger]]'') | |||
== History == | == History == | ||
The ''UK-201'' left [[Earth]] in the year [[2493]], destined for the planet [[Astra]]. Its passengers included [[Newton Pallister]], his daughter [[Vicki Pallister]], and [[Bennett (The Rescue)|Bennett]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Rescue (TV story)|The Rescue]]'') Vicki once recalled that there were no boys her age on the ship. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eleventh Tiger (novel)|The Eleventh Tiger]]'') | |||
During the journey, Bennett killed one of the crew members on the ship, later claiming that it was done to save his own life. Consequently, he was arrested. Before Earth could be informed of the crime, the ship crash-landed on the planet [[Dido]]. On the planet, Bennett killed all of the other members of the ship and the native [[Didoan]]s at a meeting between the two peoples, leaving just him and Vicki alive, who was unaware of his original arrest or his subsequent [[genocide]]. | |||
Vicki | Following these events, Vicki and Bennett lived aboard the broken ship. Vicki barely left, using the ship's [[radio]] to send out [[distress call|distress signals]]. Bennett occasionally ventured out in secret to disguise himself as Koquillion, then visit the ship in this guise to confront Vicki and convince her that Bennett was keeping her safe. Bennett rigged the door to his cabin aboard the ship with a [[tape recorder]] so that when the door was opened, recordings of his voice saying phrases such as "You can't come in!" and "Go away!" were played. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Rescue (TV story)|The Rescue]]'') | ||
After the [[First Doctor]], [[Ian Chesterton]] and [[Barbara Wright]] landed on Dido, they visited the ship and befriended Vicki. When the appearance of two surviving [[Didoan]]s caused Bennett to fall over a cliff to his death, the Doctor took Vicki away with him in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]], leaving ''UK-201'' empty. The Didoans then destroyed the communications system on this ship. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Rescue (TV story)|The Rescue]]'') | After the [[First Doctor]], [[Ian Chesterton]] and [[Barbara Wright]] landed on Dido, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Rescue (TV story)|The Rescue]]'') by which time Vicki was fourteen-years-old, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Byzantium! (novel)|Byzantium!]]'') they visited the ship and befriended Vicki. When the appearance of two surviving [[Didoan]]s caused Bennett to fall over a cliff to his death, the Doctor took Vicki away with him in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]], leaving ''UK-201'' empty. The Didoans then destroyed the communications system on this ship. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Rescue (TV story)|The Rescue]]'') | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
