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The Border Worlds are in the grip of a terrible plague
- which the Daleks are offering to cure. Agent Galanar's mission
takes him right into the heart of the tragedy. Meanwhile,
the Graxis Wardens' ecological paradise is about to be torn
apart...
It's
strange, isn't it, how the estate of the Daleks' creator,
Terry Nation, is quite happy to allow smaller companies such
as Big Finish and Telos - which took tremendous liberties
with its Dalek Factor novella - to do pretty much whatever
they like with the metal meanies, but kicked up such a fuss
when it came to granting BBC TV the same privilege. This was
supposedly due to "creative" differences, but you don't suppose
it could have had anything to do with the amount of money
a lucrative television deal might bring in, could it?
Writer/director/sound
designer/musician/Dalek voice Nicholas Briggs continues to
put his favourite Doctor Who monsters to good use.
They may have offered to help cure a plague, but their "partnership"
with the Border Worlds is a very one-sided affair, and their
ways of dealing with the resistance put up by the Graxis Wardens
is distinctly aggressive. Their supposedly equal human partner,
Carniell (well played by Oliver Hume) struggles - and ultimately
fails - to stand up to them, stating his agreement to Dalek
suggestions as if his disagreement would have any effect at
all upon their actions.
As
Galanar (David Tennant) embarks upon his undercover mission
to find proof of the Daleks' menace, there is some resort
to descriptive narration in order to keep the story moving
forward. Fortunately this never lasts for long, and we are
soon back with Galanar as he adopts an amusing, bumbling,
Hugh Grant-like persona as part of his cover story.
An
unusual Dalek voice that is heard at the very end of this
chapter might have caused Terry Nation to raise an eyebrow
or two, but otherwise it's easy to see why his estate would
consider their property to be in good hands so far as audio
productions go.
Richard
McGinlay
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