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| The Doctor and Martha |
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 The
Doctor and Martha Jones set off on an adventure
through space to find the datachips to unlock The
Infinite,
a huge spaceship that can grant people their heart's
desire.
First though they have to stop an evil alien named
Baltazar who has set his sights on Earth, planning to
compress its population into diamonds. The Doctor manages
to defeat Baltazar by infecting his ship with a special
fungus which, when it comes into contact with metal,
quickly turns his ship into rust. As the ship falls apart,
The Doctor frees Baltazar's huge metallic bird, Caw,
who carries Baltazar away.
Some time later, Caw hijacks the TARDIS and takes
The Doctor and Martha to his home planet, where he gives
then a datachip and explains that it
and three others like it hold the location of The
Infinite,
an ancient spaceship that can grant people their heart's
desire. Each datachip will lead lead them to the next
one. The Doctor is first unwilling to search for it but
when
Caw reveals that Baltazar also has a copy of the datachip
The Doctor has no choice but to set off
on a quest to locate The Infinite before Baltazar.
However they are not aware that
Caw is working for Baltazar and so could
The
Doctor and
Martha
be heading for a trap that has been set by Baltazar?
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Pirate Captain Kaliko |
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The first chip leads The Doctor and Martha to the
planet Boukan where they meet the pirate captain
Kaliko, who is wearing the next datachip as an earring.
It is revealed that Kaliko is raiding the living oil
rigs. Assuming The Doctor and Martha to be spies for
the oil
companies,
Kaliko tells her crew of skeletons to throw them overboard,
unaware that her first mate, Mr. Swabb Mate, is in fact
the spy. Swabb stages a mutiny and has the oil rigs
shoot down the ship, but their poor aim causes Kaliko's
ship to crash. Kaliko tries to escape in an escape pod,
but is found murdered after landing
near the TARDIS. With nothing left to do, The Doctor
and Martha take her datachip and follows it to the next
one.
The next chip is on the planet Myarr, being used as
a necklace by a lizard alien named Mergrass. Mergrass
has been hired to advise the Mantasphids, alien bugs,
on military strategy against the humans attacking them.
It turns out that the Mantasphids have invaded the planet
for its fertile dung. But the humans
were there first and so to rid themselves
of the bugs, the humans have decided to bomb the entire
area. The Mantasphid Queen therefore has turned
to Mergrass for help. The Doctor is forced to defuse
the situation and in doing so Mantasphid leaves as he
sees no profit in staying. The Doctor and Martha follow
after Mergrass but when they catch up with him they find
that Mergrass has
also been killed, so again The Doctor and Martha take
his datachip and head for the next planet.
The final datachip is on the ice prison planet Volag-Noc.
Upon arriving, The Doctor is quickly identified as a
wanted criminal and dumped in a cell with a damaged robot.
Martha is taken to the Governor of the facility, a human
named Gurney where she discovers that he has the final
datachip locked in a safe. As they discuss things, both
Martha and The Doctor discover that Gurney isn't the
Governor, but one of the prisoners. Locke, the robot
with whom The Doctor is sharing a cell, is in fact the
Governor.
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| Baltazar |
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Upon being fixed by The Doctor, Locke decides that
all the prisoners are irredeemable and orders their execution,
giving Gurney a chance to shoot Locke and escape with
the datachip. On the surface of the planet, Martha catches
up to Gurney just as Baltazar arrives
riding Caw. Baltazar kills Gurney and takes the final
datachip. Baltazar takes The Doctor and Martha hostage
and forces The Doctor to use the datachip in the TARDIS
to show him the way to The
Infinite. However, once The Doctor locks in The
Infinite's location, Baltazar takes control of the TARDIS
and leaves The Doctor to
perish in the snow.
On The Infinite, Baltazar orders Martha to find
the hold where she finds The Doctor waiting for her.
Except that she quickly realises that it is just a creation
of the ship. However, the real Doctor soon arrives on
Squawk, Caw's child, and he quickly knocks
Baltazar out and comes to Martha's
aid by explaining to her that the desires granted by
The Infinite are little more than illusions.
A recovered Baltazar has not yet realised this and The
Doctor and Martha find him standing in a treasure
room.
The Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to vibrate the
wreckage, causing the ship to fall apart. As The Doctor
and Martha flee in the TARDIS Baltazar has to
rely
on
Squawk for his escape. But unknown to him Squawk has
been trained by The Doctor to take Baltazar back to Volag-Noc
to be imprisoned. |
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'That wasn't just any old spoon.
That spoon has passed through the hands of the greatest
chefs
of planet Earth. Fanny, Delia,
Madame Cholet. That spoon was an antique. Forged
by the now extinct inhabitants of a planet which specialised
in '
'Now that is a plan. Thats is indeed
a plan. Is that not just the most incredible plan
you have ever heard?'
The Doctor
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