The Ultimate Foe


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The Ultimate Foe

BOOK DETAILS

Pages 126
ISBN 0-426-20329-1
Publication Date 15 September 1988

SYNOPSIS

Snatched out of time and space and brought before the Time Lords on Gallifrey, the Sixth Doctor is on trial for his life.

While The Doctor asserts that the evidence of the Matrix, the repository of all Time Lord knowledge, has been tampered with, the mysterious and vengeful prosecuting council, the Valeyard, is confident that The Doctor will be sentenced to death.

In a dramatic intervention the Valeyard’s true identity is revealed but he escapes from the courtroom into the Matrix, and it is into this nightmare world that The Doctor must follow – to face his ultimate foe …

NOTES

CHAPTER TITLES


  • Prologue

  1. The Key of Rassilon
  2. An Unwelcome Intruder
  3. Evil Intent
  4. Twelve-and-a-half
  5. Treason
  6. A World Apart
  7. A Lethal Greeting
  8. Mr Popplewick
  9. A Sticky End
  10. To Be Or Not To Be
  11. Out of the Frying Pan
  12. The Baiter Bitten
  13. False Witness
  14. off With His Head
  15. Mesmeric Riches
  16. Point and Counterpoint
  17. About-face
  18. Two-faced
  19. Double-faced
  20. Particles of Death
  21. The Price of Vanity
  22. The Keeper Vanishes
  23. Carrot Juice



  • Epilogue

DEVIATIONS FROM THE TELEVISED STORY


  • The Master states”The Valeyard, Doctor, is your penultimate reincarnation… Somewhere between your twelfth and thirteenth regeneration“. In the televised show the line is”The Valeyard is an amalgamation of the darker sides of your nature, somewhere between your twelfth and final incarnation.”
  • Glitz initially mistakes The Valeyard for The Doctor’s brother, noting that they possess similar facial features.
  • The Inqusitor’s place at the trial is noted to be part of her ambitious career. To preside over such an important inquiry would earn her a seat on the High Council, but the unusual nature of the Master’s interference has jeopardised those prospects.
  • The Court is permitted to watch The Doctor’s first entry to the Matrix unfurl as they had with the events on Ravolox, Thoros Beta and aboard the Hyperion III.
  • Maintenance of the Matrix is delegated to the Elzevirs, inhabitants of Leptonica in the constellation of Daedalus. Specialists in delicate micro-technology, the supervisorof the supercomputer repair team, Nilex, was hypnotised by The Master who used the opportunity to make a duplicate Key of Rassilon.
  • The novelisation features an epilogue aboard the TARDIS between The Doctor and Mel. Despite her eagerness to travel with him, he points out to her that she must be returned to where she was abducted in order to maintain the continuity of time. Mel departs to the surface of Oxyveguramosa, where she reunites with her Sixth Doctor. The story goes on to state that The Doctor would experience a series of adventures that would culminate in a confrontation with The Rani.

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