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Doctor Who: On Ghost Beach

by Niel Bushnell

A haunting tale of mystery and adventure for the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday!

The TARDIS arrives in County Durham, England, in 1958. Seaham Chemical Beach was once a scene of heavy industry, long since abandoned, but now local residents are having nightmares and seeing apparitions.

It isn’t long before the Doctor and Ruby are affected by the beach’s peculiar atmosphere. As they begin to forget exactly who they are, Ruby hears a distant voice calling her on.

Whose memories are filling the travellers’ heads, and what is the significance of Ghost Beach, in the Sea of Despair, on the planet Farfrom? Even more importantly – who is Reg?

Susan Twist, who played the recurring woman in the BBC TV series, reads this atmospheric original chiller by Niel Bushnell.


Doctor Who: Sting of the Sasquatch

by Darren Jones

A full-throttle adventure in America for the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday

In a National Park in North-West America, the Doctor and Ruby are pursued by large, ape-like creatures who seem to literally disappear into the trees. When Ruby falls ill after apparently being stung, the Doctor believes the infection is extra-terrestrial in origin.

They meet Dixie and Greg, two Bigfoot hunters determined to track down the mythical Sasquatch. Standing in their way is Ranger Peone, who’s adamant that the forest is too dangerous to explore. Dozens of people have vanished, or reappeared with no memory, in the last month alone.

Then the ape creatures kidnap Ruby, and the Doctor is determined to both save her life and solve the mystery of the Sasquatch.

Genesis Lynea, who played Harriet Arbinger in the BBC TV series, reads this tense and dramatic original story by Darren Jones.

 

The specific regions should be the Nordics, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, and Central and Eastern Europe.

First of all, I'm very sorry for your loss.

Secondly, you knew he was receiving care from trained experts. And you showed up to be with him, which is a hell of a lot more than some people would be able to do.

In my experience, when it comes to the death of a loved one, there will always - always - be regrets of this nature. You'll always be searching for the thing you could have done differently, or the thing you did "wrong." It takes a long time to get to, "I think I can live with it."

Or, to mix episodes, it is possible commit no mistakes and still lose.

Yeah, it will be a shock if they don't clean house once the Olympics are over.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 29 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The pair then told the story of how Paul Giamatti was cast as the season 1 villain:

Alex Kurtzman: So this happened because he was doing press for The Holdovers, and when he was asked about the part that he would most want to play, he said, “I want to play a Klingon on Star Trek.”… So we called his agent and said, “Was that a thing he just said, was that a bit?”… And she called back and she said, “He’d love to sit down with you. We got on a Zoom with him and he cried. He was so excited at the prospect of playing in the world of Star Trek and he was talking about how meaningful it was him… It was just one of those moments where you’re like, “Oh, one of the greatest actors in the world, and he really wants to come join us.” So that was pretty amazing.

Noga Landau: He also chose which role he wanted to play. We came to him and we said, “You could be this guy or that guy, or that guy.” And he thought about it and he came back and told us that the part he plays is the one he wanted.

Alex Kurtzman: We thought it was going to be like one episode because his schedule is so busy, and he was like, “No, I want to play the villain.” We’re like, “That’s the whole season.” He was like, “Great, let’s do it!”

Love to see it.

Nothing says "not interested" like pulling the comment car over to tell the world.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website -1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

And yet here you are...

What's the foundation for your belief that they approached the vehicle with the intent to arrest the driver?

It sure isn't this article.

Turns out Voyager also established an area of the Vulcan brain that's responsible for suppressing emotions:

EMH: There's a definite neurochemical imbalance in the mesiofrontal cortex.

JANEWAY: Which means what?

EMH: That's where the Vulcan psycho-suppression systems are located. This may be the result of an incompatibility with the Betazoid telepathic neural centre, I'm not sure.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You should watch

spoilerthe new season of Prodigy.

They're probably limited by the fact that the mobile game in question is a Lower Decks game, though it doesn't sound like that's an impossible obstacle.

I've never played the game, but it appears to include every incarnation of the Doctor.

I'm disappointed that they went with Tennant for the promotional material, but it hopefully doesn't reflect the gameplay (such as it is, these games tend to be pretty...low-calorie).

If I see it anywhere else, I'll update the OP.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 30 points 3 months ago (2 children)

When officers approached the car, it quickly drove off. Police said the driver was operating the vehicle erratically; running red lights, weaving through traffic, and hitting speeds around 90 km/h in the downtown core.

The driver was arrested and officers discovered he had a quantity of methamphetamine in his possession.

The investigation also revealed the same vehicle was involved in an erratic driving incident on Pembina Highway a day prior.

Yeah, sounds like a real upstanding citizen.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Gwyn's rendition of "Johnny B. Goode" in the finale is going to be killer.

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