Gallifrey: Reborn
Gallifrey: Reborn is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The series is set on the Doctor's home planet of Gallifrey.
Plot
Gallifrey will fall. Either by the Dogma Virus or by the cure for the Dogma Virus, or from the economic and social devastation of the recent civil war or from the stockpile of unstable temporal weapons headed toward it or even from a greater threat in the near future.
Romana, Leela, K9 Mark II, Braxiatel and Narvin are safely tucked away outside of time, inside the remains of Braxiatel's famous art museum. But they have no TARDIS or ship or any other means of escape. Brax reveals that their actual location is the Axis, the centre of a spinning wheel of truncated timelines, universes that went so horribly wrong, the Time Lords separated them from established continuity. Braxiatel and his four refugees explore some of these alternate universes, hoping to find solutions to their many problems. He has found a portal that leads directly to different versions of Gallifrey. If they can't find the answers they're looking for, they can, at the very least, find a new home.
Their first world is Gallifrey Incorporated. Here, the Time Lords are greedy and conniving, selling their time technology and weapons to any civilization that can afford it. Even individual Time Lords have taken to selling their future regenerations to each other. Narvin is captured by suspicious government officials and has most or all of his regenerations siphoned out of him. Meanwhile, Romana meets a far less adventurous, alternate version of herself. This Romana never travelled with the Doctor, never regenerated and never got into politics. Instead she got married and raised an adventurous son.
Cast
Gallifrey
- Romana II - Lalla Ward
- Leela - Louise Jameson
- K9 Mark II - John Leeson
- Irving Braxiatel - Miles Richardson
- Narvin - Sean Carlsen
Alternate Gallifrey
- Romana I - Mary Tamm
- Chancellor Dondequest - Sarah Douglas
- Surgeon-Master Rexus - Brian Miller
- Prime Usher Antonin - Conrad Westmaas
- Vansell - Anthony Keetch
- Commander Faradac - Lewis Rae
- Jevon - Scott Handcock
Continuity
- The Axis was introduced in the 2004 Fifth Doctor audio, The Axis of Insanity.
- In The Primary timeline, Andred was Leela's husband. They met in the TV story Invasion of Time. He died in the audio Insurgency. An alternate version of him appears in the next story, Disassembled.
- Romana briefly visited her family home, Heartshaven, in the previous story, Panacea.
- Romana uses the alias Astra, after the princess she met in The Armageddon Factor, whose form she regenerated into in Destiny of the Daleks.
- In this alternate reality, Leela searched for The Key to Time. In the standard universe, it was Romana who sought the Key, starting with the story The Ribos Operation.
- Vansell died in the 2002 audio Neverland. An alternate version of him was in He Jests at Scars... and more crop up in further Gallifrey IV stories.