TDP 19: Infinite Quest & Christmas thoughts

Описание: The Infinite Quest


Doctor
David Tennant (Tenth Doctor)


Companion
Freema Agyeman (Martha Jones)


Writer
Alan Barnes


Director
Gary Russell


Length
13 episodes, approx 3:30 each


Originally broadcast
2 April - 30 June 2007
30 June 2007 (full story)






The Infinite Quest is an animated serial based on the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was aired in twelve weekly parts (three and a half minutes each) starting 2 April 2007[1] as a segment of the children's spin-off show Totally Doctor Who. However, on Totally Doctor Who,
it was revealed that the final episode (after episode 12) will be shown
at the end of the "Omnibus" episode, thus increasing the total to
thirteen parts, making the compiled series the equivalent length of a
standard episode of Doctor Who.[2][3] The compiled story was broadcast on 30 June 2007, coinciding with the finale of Series 3.[4]








Contents
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1 Synopsis2 Plot3 Voices
3.1 Cast notes


4 Continuity5 Outside references6 Production7 References










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[edit] Synopsis
The Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones set off on an adventure through space to find the datachips to unlock The Infinite, a huge spaceship that can grant people their heart's desire. However, the evil Baltazar is also searching for the ship.









[edit] Plot




The Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones, animated.


An alien named Baltazar has set his sights on Earth, planning to compress its population into diamonds. The Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones
arrive on his ship to stop him. The Doctor threatens him with a spoon,
which Baltazar cuts in half with his metal claw hand. The spoon happens
to be made of a special fungus, which when introduced to the metal ship
quickly begins to rust it. As the ship falls apart, the Doctor frees
Baltazar's huge metallic bird, Caw, who carries Baltazar away. The
Doctor muses that Baltazar will end up on the ice prison planet
Volag-Noc at some point.




Some time later, Caw takes the Doctor and Martha to his home planet,
where he gives Martha a brooch as a gift. He also spits up a datachip,
explaining that it and three others like it hold the location of The Infinite,
an ancient spaceship that can grant people their heart's desire. Each
datachip leads to the next one. At first unwilling to search for it,
the Doctor is forced to when Caw notes that Baltazar has a copy of the
datachip. As the two set off on their quest, Caw is revealed to be
working for Baltazar.




The first chip leads to the planet Boukan, where the pirate captain
Kaliko is raiding the living oil rigs they find there. She is wearing
the next datachip as an earring. Assuming the Doctor and Martha to be
spies for the oil companies, Kaliko tells her crew of skeletons to
throw them overboard, unaware that her first mate, Mr. Swabb Mate, is
in fact the spy. Swabb stages a mutiny and has the oil rigs shoot down
the ship, but their poor aim causes them to scatter the crew in doing
so. After Swabb is knocked out, the Doctor reveals the reason for their
visit to Kaliko. She tries to escape in a pod, but is found murdered
after landing near the TARDIS. With nothing left to do, the Doctor and
Martha take her datachip and follow it to the next one.




The next chip is on the planet Myarr, being used as a necklace by a
lizard alien named Mergrass. Mergrass has been hired to advise the
Mantasphids, alien bugs, on military strategy against the humans
attacking them, but in reality is little more than a gun-runner. During
an attack by the humans, a pilot is captured. He reveals that the
Mantasphids invaded the planet for its fertile dung, and that the
humans were there first. To rid themselves of the bugs, the humans have
decided to bomb the entire area. The Mantasphid Queen turns to Mergrass
for help, but is unwilling to pay him for it, and as such he refuses to
arm the weapons he provided her with. As Mergrass leaves, the Doctor is
forced to defuse the situation by impersonating the supposed
pirate-master of the Mantasphid, which proves successful. Quickly
telling the pilot to work with the Mantasphid for the benefit of both
species, he follows after Mergrass. By this point, Mergrass has also
been killed, so again the Doctor and Martha take the left-behind
datachip and head for the next plant.




The final datachip is on the ice prison planet Volag-Noc. Upon
arriving, the Doctor is quickly identified as a wanted criminal and
dumped in a cell with a damaged robot. Martha is taken to the Governor
of the facility, a human named Gurney. He has the final datachip locked
in a safe. As they discuss things, both Martha and the Doctor discover
that Gurney isn't the...