“We
like the Mister Master!”
Episode appeared in: Sound of
Drums, The Last of the Time Lords
Doctor appeared with: Tenth
Doctor
Original Broadcast: 23rd June 2007
Species: Human cyborg/Toclafane
Danger Level: Code RED
The word Toclafane comes from
Gallifrey childhood, it was another name for what we on Earth call the
bogeyman, a creature born of myths and legends, ideal for scaring children.
It must have been horrible for
the humans to travel in the rocket ship bound for Utopia only to discover that
it was nothing like the paradise they had been told of. At the end of the
Universe, there were no stars, there was no daylight and there was no
sun. It was just cold and dark.
When the Master in the stolen
TARDIS travelled to Utopia he found the last six billion humans had
cannibalised themselves, experimenting on each other in order to preserve life,
as food was scarce at the end of the Universe and the darkness, the never
ending darkness, was something they strove to escape from.
The Cyborgs as they had now
become were spherical in shape, black and silver and when opened up held a self
sustaining shrunken head that appeared blind. The humans had regressed
into a childlike state, they each shared each other’s emotions, and when
Professor Docherty and Tom Milligan in ‘Last of the Time Lords’ opened up one
of the captured spheres, Martha Jones was horrified to discover that the boy
she had met upon Malcassairo in Silo 16 was one of the Toclafane.
Standing at a height of 0.04m,
the metal sphere appears little more than a miniature ‘Death Star’ but it has
many aggressive features. It has retractable blades and spikes which it
uses to attack and kill with. It also contains lasers which can disintegrate
its target.
When the Master, with the use of
the Paradox Machine crafted from cannibalising the Doctor’s TARDIS brought the
Toclafane through time itself, he ordered the creatures to decimate 10% of
their human ancestors.
The Master himself wanted to
create his own Time Lord Empire, and with the aid of the Toclafane that was a
possibility. The human race became slaves to the Toclafane. When
the Doctor with Jack, Martha and Martha’s family rebelled against the Master’s
plans aboard the Valiant, the Doctor was able to reset time, sending the
Toclafane back, ultimately to their own deaths at the end of time itself.
©BBC Doctor Who 1963
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