Doctor Who:
The Keeper of Traken
By Johnny Byrne
“A new body at last.”
The Doctor and Adric are
invited to Traken or diverted to Traken by the Keeper. The
Keeper needs The Doctor to help him to prevent evil to take over the source
when he dies. It appears that a
calcified statue called Melkur that had appeared on Traken many years ago hasn’t
desolved into the ground as most things that are evil do. The Keeper is worried that when he dies that
somehow Melkur would find a way to get possession of the source and threaten
all the tranquility of the Traken Union.
Things do not go as
planned when The Doctor and Adric arrive as they are surrounded by the Fosters
and taken to the council for questioning.
After not believing The Doctor’s and Adrics story and the TARDIS not
where it should be they call the Keeper to see if The Doctor’s story is correct
in him inviting them. But unfortunately Melkur is peeking through
the door and The Keeper sense great evil and the Councils believe the evil is
The Doctor and Adric.
Now with the suspicion
being planted on them and the council overreacing Tremus has decided to believe
them and decides to have The Doctor and Adric in his care. What they do not know is the Melkur is using
Tremus wife Kassia, who was once the one who took pity on Melkur and seems to
have a bit of a relationship with it, is in league with Melkur and is in fact
his agent. She has been manipulating
things so Tremus wouldn’t become Keeper and stay with her. But what The Doctor has discovered is that
she is the one being manipulated and it will cost Kassia her life and Traken it’s
Keeper as a familiar foe makes his triumphant return.
