 Their
only appearance was in "The
Two Doctors" by Robert Holmes. Original airtime
February 16 - March 2, 1985.
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| Shockeye |
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Shockeye (o' the Quawncing Grig) played by
John Stratton
He was chef on the ill-fated Space Station Camera. Shockeye
spent a remarkable day on Earth in Seville, Spain hunting Jamie, Peri, and the
Sixth
Doctor. ("I can just taste that flesh!" - Shockeye) He had a much more
pleasant time with the briefly Androgum-augmented Second
Doctor in the Las
Cadenas restaurant (the Cage) devouring a "gargantuan repast (- Oscar)" and
running up a huge tally. ("You know the cuisine of this planet?" -Shockeye)
Following the murder of erstwhile actor Oscar Botcherby, Shockeye was brought
down by a lethal dose of cyanide by the Sixth Doctor as easily as a butterfly.
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| Chessene |
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Chessene (o' the Franzine Grig) played by Jacqueline
Pearce
We first meet Chessene in her role as chatelaine to Dastari, the
chief scientist on the Space Station Camera. A lovely, focused, mega-genius,
Chessene did not appear to be of Androgum stock. (The Time Lords had sent the
Second Doctor to the space station to put a stop to the experiments in time
travel pursued by Professors Kartz and Reimer). Dastari, and old friend of The Doctor, brags that he has been biologically augmenting Chessene. ("Give a
monkey control of its environment and it will fill the world with bananas!"
Second Doctor).
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She was to serve as a starting point in 'augmenting'
his own race, presumably genetically, as he felt they had become "tired and
effete (- Dastari)" and needed a genetic boost. Or, more likely, the tired and
effete populace would sit back and watch the Androgum TA (technologically
augmented) do their dirty work for them. ("I have no doubt that you could
augment an earwig to the point where it understood nuclear physics, but it
would still be a very stupid thing to do!" - Second Doctor). For her part,
Chessene had secretly allied with Group Marshal Stike of the Ninth Sontaran
Battle Group to speed her progress with Dastari in locating the sympathetic
nuclei, or Rassilon Impremature, of a Time Lord. The Time Lord's genes would
enable them to use the K+R module at will as the Time Lords do with their
TARDISes. Chessene also spent a remarkable day in Seville (with the Sontarans
Group Marshal Stike and Major Varl, as well as with Shockeye and Dastari)
chasing down Jamie, Peri and the two Doctors. Her augmentation began to wear
thin as the passion for an Androgum-augmented Time Lord mate began to surface.
("She's an Androgum, you can't change nature!" - Second Doctor) Chessene met
her end through molecular disintegration in the unprimed time machine. |
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Home Planet: Unknown, presumably
Androgum?
Appearance: Humanoid, robust, shock of red, bushy
eyebrows, facial warts.
Unusual Strength: ("He could break us both
in half with one hand." - Sixth Doctor)
Philosophy:
("The gratification of pleasure is the sole motive of action. Is that not
our law?" - Shockeye)
Passions: A sensual race of hunters,
intelligent, and curious for new sensations, especially taste sensations,
particularly the flesh of beasts (regardless of whether the 'beasts' wish to be
tasted!)
Anthropology: Clans are linked through strong blood
ties (presumably producing little Androgums!)
Employment:
found on the Space Station Camera in the Third Zone working as servitors.
Chefs will always sample the raw flesh of a new beast before deciding on the
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| The Two
Doctors |
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| The Two Doctors |
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The
Second
Doctor and
Jamie are
sent by the Time Lords to the space station Camera in order to put a stop to
unauthorised time travel experiments being carried out there. However, while
during a meeting with Dastari, the head of projects and The Doctor's former
friend, The Doctor and Jamie find themselves in the middle of a Sontaran raid
on the station. The Sontarans kill almost all aboard except for Dastari and two
Androgums - The augmented Chessene and the space station's chef Shockeye. The
Doctor is captured and is taken to Earth, and imprisoned in a hacienda near the
Spanish city of Seville. Jamie manages to escape capture and is left on the
space station.
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Some time latter the Sixth
Doctor and his companion Peri, for
a totally different reason, arrive on the space station so as to visit Dastari.
They are horrified to find it battle damaged and apparently deserted.
However, they soon come across Jamie and The Doctor is able
to deduce his former self's whereabouts and so follow his trail to Spain. It is
there that they learn that Dastari has been biologically augmenting Androgums,
a race of voracious gourmands, and that Chessene has secretly allied herself
with Group Marshal Stike of the Ninth Sontaran Battle Group who are trying to
obtain the secret of time travel.
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The Sixth
Doctor also learns that Dastari, who is also in league with the Sontarans,
plans to dissect the Second Doctor so as to find the Rassilon Imprimature - the
symbiotic nuclei within a Time Lord's genes that are the key to time travel.
However after numerous interruptions Destari decides to use genes taken from
Shockeye to augment the Second Doctor but the Sixth Doctor rescues him before
the procedure has fully taken effect and Shockeye is killed.
Meanwhile
Chessene destroys the Sontarans and, reverting to base instincts, kills
Dastari. Thinking that Dastari's time capsule has been primed with the Sixth
Doctor's Imprimature she attempts to time travel but dies in the attempt.
With
the Second Doctor restored and reunited with Jamie he summons his
own TARDIS
and they depart leaving the Sixth Doctor and Peri to make their way
back to their own TARDIS.
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The
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| The symbiotic nucleus contained within the Time
Lords physiology that is somehow linked to their ability to withstand the
molecular destabilisation caused by time travel, and to achieve quasi-symbiotic
control of their TARDISes. The Rassilon Imprimature is needed to 'prime' a
TARDIS before it can be used. |
| Parts of this article were compiled with the assistance of
Justin Burchfield |
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