Doctor Who:
The Ark In Space
By Robert Holmes
“Homo sapiens. What an
inventive, invincible species. It's only a few million years since they've
crawled up out of the mud and learned to walk. Puny, defenseless bipeds.
They've survived flood, famine and plague. They've survived cosmic wars and
holocausts, and now here they are amongst the stars, waiting to begin a new
life, ready to outsit eternity. They're indomitable. Indomitable!”
Instead of a quick trip to
the moon thanks to Harry messing with the helmic regulator they instead land on
space station Nerva way in the far future.
But The Doctor discovers they are not the first visitors to Nerva as
they discover some sheared wires and the oxygen off. The Doctor gets all this fixed including the
defense mechanism which is shooting electric bolts at them. While The Doctor
and Harry are pinned down Sarah is resting on a bed that also gets you ready for
cryogenic sleep. After shutting down the
defenses the realize Sarah has been transported somewhere and start searching
for her when they stumble upon the humans that are asleep waiting to awake to habitat
Earth and start life anew.
Among them is now Sarah as
The Doctor and Harry discover and they are trying to find the device to revive
her. While looking for the device Harry
comes upon something really nasty in the storage cabinet. It’s a Wirrn and it’s a nasty insect like race
that absorbs the mind of those it kills or infects. At this time others have started waking
up. Vira and Noah have woken and they
are in charge of reviving everyone. But
Noah is leery of The Doctor and goes off to stop him from restoring the power
to Nerva. After knocking The Doctor out
the Wirrn grub infects Noah and thus endangers the revival of the human race as
the Wirrn now will take over unless The Doctor can find a way of stopping them.
