Project Destiny (Doctor Who audio)
Encyclopedia
Project: Destiny is a Big Finish Productions
audio drama based on the long-running British
science fiction television
series Doctor Who
. It is a sequel to Project: Twilight
and Project: Lazarus
.
. At its head, Nimrod
, now knighted and going by his birth name. He has been waiting for the Doctor to return ever since the destruction of the original Forge headquarters, but now they have to join forces. The Doctor must save Hex's life and find a cure to rescue humanity while navigating through painful revelations and bitter revenge.
Big Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays based, primarily, on cult British science fiction properties...
audio drama based on the long-running British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
science fiction television
Science fiction on television
Science fiction first appeared on a television program during the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Special effects and other production techniques allow creators to present a living visual image of an imaginary world not limited by the constraints of reality; this makes television an excellent medium...
series Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
. It is a sequel to Project: Twilight
Project Twilight
Project: Twilight is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
and Project: Lazarus
Project Lazarus
Project: Lazarus is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is a sequel to Project: Twilight and a predecessor to Project: Destiny.-Plot:...
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Plot
2026. Hex is brought home after being shot, but St Gart's Hospital and the rest of London have been evacuated due to a disfiguring alien contagion. Working to restore normality is the public face of extraterrestrial incidents, The ForgeForge (Doctor Who)
The Forge is a fictional black operations organisation from the Big Finish Productions audio plays based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
. At its head, Nimrod
Nimrod (Doctor Who)
Nimrod is a character in the Big Finish Productions audio plays Project: Twilight, Project: Lazarus and Project: Destiny written by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright, which are based on the British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
, now knighted and going by his birth name. He has been waiting for the Doctor to return ever since the destruction of the original Forge headquarters, but now they have to join forces. The Doctor must save Hex's life and find a cure to rescue humanity while navigating through painful revelations and bitter revenge.
Cast
- Seventh DoctorSeventh DoctorThe Seventh Doctor is the seventh incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by the actor Sylvester McCoy....
- Sylvester McCoySylvester McCoySylvester McCoy is a Scottish actor. As a comic act and busker he appeared regularly on stage and on BBC Children's television in the 1970s and 80s, but is best known for playing the seventh incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1987 to... - AceAce (Doctor Who)Dorothy Gale McShane, better known by her nickname Ace, is a fictional character played by Sophie Aldred in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
- Sophie AldredSophie AldredSophie Aldred is an English actress and television presenter, best known for her portrayal of The Doctor's companion Ace in the television series Doctor Who during the late 1980s.-Early life:... - HexHex (Doctor Who)Thomas Hector Schofield, nicknamed Hex, is a fictional character played by Philip Olivier in a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A staff nurse working for St. Gart's Hospital in London in the year...
- Philip OlivierPhilip OlivierPhilip Olivier is an English actor, model and stage performer best known for playing the role of Tim O'Leary in the soap opera Brookside.-Early life:... - Sir William Abberton (NimrodNimrod (Doctor Who)Nimrod is a character in the Big Finish Productions audio plays Project: Twilight, Project: Lazarus and Project: Destiny written by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright, which are based on the British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
) - Stephen Chance - Captain Lysandra Aristedes - Maggie O'NeillMaggie O'Neill-Biography:The youngest of six Catholic brothers and sisters, born to head teacher parents, O'Neill grew up in the Midlands, where she was educated at a convent school, and after being inspired by a sixth-form drama teacher, "fell" into acting....
- Sergeant Jarrod - Philip Dinsdale
- Helen/Oracle - Ingrid OliverIngrid OliverIngrid Oliver is a British actress and comedian, and one half of comedic double act Watson and Oliver.-Career:In September 2005, Ingrid Oliver and Lorna Watson performed their first show together at The Canal Cafe Theatre in London...
Continuity
- Nimrod and the Forge were introduced in the Sixth DoctorSixth DoctorThe Sixth Doctor is the sixth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Colin Baker...
story Project TwilightProject TwilightProject: Twilight is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
. Their story continued with both the Sixth and Seventh Doctors in Project LazarusProject LazarusProject: Lazarus is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is a sequel to Project: Twilight and a predecessor to Project: Destiny.-Plot:...
. - Cassie, another character introduced in Twilight, was Hex's mother. She was murdered by Nimrod in Lazarus.
- The events of Destiny occur over a decade after Lazarus, but in the Seventh Doctor's personal time line, Lazarus hasn't happened yet.
- St Gart's was where Hex worked as a nurse, and where he first met the Doctor and Ace, in The Harvest.
- The TARDIS was rendered white during The Angel of ScutariThe Angel of ScutariThe Angel of Scutari is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
. At the end of that story, Hex was shot. - The events of this audio directly continue to the next, A Death in the FamilyA Death in the Family (Doctor Who audio)A Death in the Family is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. -Plot:...
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