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Sunday, April 21, 2013

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary: The Pirate Planet





Doctor Who: 
The Pirate Planet 
By Douglas Adams

“Appreciate it? Appreciate it? What, you commit mass destruction and murder on a scale that's almost inconceivable and you ask me to appreciate it? Just because you happen to have made a brilliantly conceived toy out of the mummified remains of planets.”

The Doctor and Romana are off to find the second segment to the Key to Time.  They find out that it is on the planet Calufrax but when The Doctor and Romana arrive they find themselves on Zanak.  Now The Doctor is confused and blames it on the disturbance they felt while trying to materialize.  What has the pair of time travelers confused even more is that the locator is picking up strong traces for the second segment. 

Up on the mountain is the Captain.  He is a cyborg type pirate captain who rules by installing fear with the aid of his killer robotic parrot. There with the aid of Mr Fibuli they have come up with a way of materlizing their planet among other planets and stealing the minerals of that world for themselves.  This process has killed billions of species and must be stopped.  With the help of the telepathic Mentiads The Doctor and Romana must return the destroyed planets stop the Pirate Captain and his weird nurse and recover the next segment to the Key to Time.