Doctor Who: Big Finish - Short Trips [021] - Snapshot by Joseph Lidster

Author:Joseph Lidster
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science-Fiction - Doctor Who
Publisher: Big Finish
Published: 2007-06-02T21:15:52+00:00

Piecemeal

James Swallow

An Adventure of Saya Rohar,

with the Fifth Doctor and Vizlor Turlough

I’ve done my best to assemble what I could find and place it together in a kind of coherent order. It has been difficult to be sure of the placement of some elements. The damage from the ionic plume was quite severe, and we lost a lot of systems, including the ship’s redundant memory cores. Some of this is personal recollection, some of it comes from material I managed to salvage from the records that were still intact, and other places… I can’t vouch for the veracity of everything. It seems right this way. Don’t ask me to give you any more than this. This is all I have. Just pieces.

Personal diary, Technician Saya Rohar. Five days after the incident.

Cumil got most of the damage on the outer hull repaired, and everyone seems to be breathing a little easier now without the threat of another explosive decompression looming over our heads. The drones have stopped crying, which is a blessed relief. The doctor, especially, was quite jolly about the whole thing. He helped me reconstruct some of the navigational logs and we went ahead and programmed a short hyperspace jump. Nothing much, just a parsec or so to make sure we were still capable, but it went fine and so we’ll be going into a full transition next shipday. I couldn’t find anything in the chaos of the memory banks that resembled anything like a destination code, but the doctor pulled it out of thin air. We’ll be in N-space for a few more lights, and then with luck we’ll make orbit at a world called Soloto. The name means nothing to me, but the doctor says that’s nothing to worry about. I’m glad we have him here. If he hadn’t been protected inside his lab pod, the energy pulse would have affected him too.

That’s a terrifying idea, isn’t it? That we would have woken up, every single one of us, every crewmember, every bio-data system and dronemind, all of us missing the last year of our memories. But at least one of us didn’t. The doctor, despite the pressure that’s on him now, helping us all find our way, he’s rising to it. He’s a curious person, full of odd turns of phrase and he dresses eccentrically – how he got away with bucking uniform regulations so blatantly I don’t know, but that’s hardly important right now. I shudder to think what might have happened if he hadn’t been isolated from the plume. We’d be a whole starship full of amnesiacs. Funny thing is, I can’t remember his name.

Actually, he’s not the only one. I said ‘one of us’ but there’s also the doctor’s assistant, Turlough. I don’t like him very much. He keeps watching me like he’s waiting for me to say something, do something. I don’t know what. Turlough was inside the blue research pod as well, according to the doctor, but he seems to have been affected by the memory loss at least tangentially.

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