Hi Sports Fans! Been a while, hasn't it?
Look I'm gonna be honest, this timeline won't continue in the way it has. I found it far more difficult to conjure and flesh out fictional Who stories to a respectable quality than I originally thought it was going to be. My bad.
But I didn't want to just leave this thread to gather dust and have your once-burning questions unanswered. So I'm going to do the next best thing. I said above that I've mapped out where I wanted this to go. Well, here's the map. Over several posts I'm going to offer what is left of the timeline. This won't be to the same detail as before; as fun as it was to make alternate Wikiboxes with fictional serials it proved quite tough. At the very least I can give you a glimpse into what the Palmer Era looked like before I briefly show you what followed.
With that being said, here's the Road Map.
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Season 11 – Geoffrey Palmer's first season. Palmer is drawn to the show on the promise of Hinchcliffe's Gothic horror sensibilities. Tired of the constant action of the UNIT era, the Fourth Doctor is more modest, calmer, almost brooding. Known in some circles as the Accountant in Space. His first Serial, The Quiet Horror, sees The Doctor recuperating in 17th Century France after his stressful Regeneration on Halmarth. While relaxing, peasants in the nearby village begin to mutate into creatures most foul. It's up to Emma and a still affected Doctor to solve the mystery.
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In Brief
Curse of the Terromogs
The Doctor and Emma are arguing about paradoxes when the TARDIS makes an emergency landing on the moon Omebera in the 23rd Century. He inspects the ship and while it will be fine in a few days, they need to leave as the oxygen generator has been temporarily impaired. After donning spacesuits they exit their ship in an attempt to reach a nearby Moonbase. After encountering a strange flash of light, they reach the base only to find the listed crew of eighty has been reduced to seventeen. Every night two crew members at random mysteriously vanish. Every attempt to monitor and counter this occurrence does nothing to stop it from happening.
That night two more vanish. The next day the crew's designated leader, Neil, accuses his brother Terry of perpetrating these events as he saw him out walking late. Terry strongly denies any involvement and a row ensues. These brothers have had a long history of sibling rivalry. After the Doctor stops the both of them, he points out that if a crew of eighty had two people go missing every night, why is there an odd-number of people left? Neil explains that the base's Chief Scientist, McMaster, went crazy and left the base after his wife was among the first two to vanish. The Doctor remembers a flash of light he saw on the way into the base and leaves with Emma to investigate.
Reaching the light's point of origin, he finds a cave where small, tentacled creatures live. Emma screams when she finds a human skull, which causes some movement from the creatures. The Doctor deduces that these creatures have devoured McMaster, but finding no further evidence of other human remains, the pair of them return to base before the creatures move any further.
The Doctor informs the remaining crew of his theory. These creatures are Terromogs; small psychic creatures that feast on an emotional being's body and inherit its mind. They then play out memories from their victim in the real world. These creatures had lured McMaster, a person under great mental anguish, to their cave and ate him. They then read his memories and applied them to the base, causing two people to vanish every night leaving no trace.
Terry speaks up. He knew where McMaster's wife went. She left the moonbase with the Sous Chef Harry in the dead of night and told no one. Terry only found out as he was out on one of his occasional late walks. The Doctor frowns. The only way for the Terromogs to 'complete the puzzle' and stop taking people is for them to access those memories, and they can only do that by killing. Terry realises what needs to be done; though the Doctor insists that he can find another way of stopping this. Terry ignores the Doctor's pleas and prepares for his fate. After apologising to his brother for their past indiscretions and saying goodbye to everyone, Terry leaves the base and enters the cave. Suddenly all the people who went missing (except McMaster, his wife and Harry) have been returned. The Doctor and Emma solemnly leave for the TARDIS and return to space.
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The four-part story was well received though there was some controversy over the suggestion of two characters eloping, and of the depiction of McMaster's remains.