Doctor Who:
The Monster of Peladon
By Brian Hayles
“Haroon, haroon, haroon.
Haroon, haroon, haroon. Haroon, haroon, haroon. Haroon, haroon, haroon. Haroon.
That's better. You remember me now, don't you, old chap.”
The Doctor brings Sara
Jane to Peladon but he gets the time wrong.
He has arrived 50 years later than when he was last there and King Peladon
is dead and now his daughter Queen Thalira is sitting on the throne and she
seems to have problems of her own. The
miners are feeling exploited by the Government of Peladon since the Federation
is at war with Galaxy 5 and the demand for trisilicate is in high demand the miners feel
they have not been getting any improvements in their way of life.
Ettis gets the miners to
rise up and strike against the Federation and they successfully seize the
armory. Things are getting really out
of hand and Eckersley calls in Federation security force to help quell the
strike and get mining of trisilicate back on track. The Doctor is pretty suspicious of all the
situations going around especially the statue of Aggedor appearing out of thin air.
Plus what has him worried the most is
that the security force showed up awfully fast and now it appears The Ice
Warriors and Eckersley may in fact be working for Galaxy 5.
