The Great Mercury Plot (short story)

From Tardis Wiki, the free Doctor Who reference
RealWorld.png

prose stub

The Great Mercury Plot was the final prose story original to The Dalek Outer Space Book, a Dalek annual of the 1960s.

Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

Long after a mysterious flash is observed on the surface of Mercury by astronomers, Space H.Q. finally release the true story: that of Commander "Z". A heroic pilot, "Z" flew closer to Mercury than usually advised and discovered a base of Daleks who were assembling a gigantic proton-beam projector capable of wiping out Earth and Venus. In an act of heroic self-sacrifice, "Z" opened all his ship's solar energy ports, which, so close to the sun, overloaded them and caused his ship to explode, also destroying the Daleks' doomsday device.

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Mercury is very close to the sun, making its surface searing hot.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

v • e
Dalek prose stories
For the purposes of this list, a "Dalek prose story" is one in which one living, authentic Dalek plays a part within the confines of the story, outside of flashbacks to previous stories and cliffhangers that lead into the following story.
Dalek annuals
The Dalek Book
The Dalek World
The Dalek
Outer Space Book
Terry Nation's Dalek
Annual 1976
Terry Nation's Dalek
Annual 1977
Terry Nation's Dalek
Annual 1978
Doctor Who Magazine
Doctor Who
Poster Magazine
Virgin New Adventures
BBC Eighth
Doctor Adventures
Telos Doctor Who
novellas
Quick Reads
Doctor Who Files
Short Trips
BBC New
Series Adventures
Puffin eshort
NSA anthologies
The Brilliant Book 2011
Dr. Men
Now We Are Six Hundred
Dalek: The Astounding
Untold History of the
Greatest Enemies
of the Universe
Time Lord Victorious
Others
Because of the ubiquity of this race, no attempt will be made here to list every appearance in every medium. Instead, we focus on prose appearances here, and invite you to explore a complete list of appearances elsewhere.
Retrieved from "https://tardis.wiki/w/index.php?title=The_Great_Mercury_Plot_(short_story)&oldid=3699475"