History Recap / BigFinishDoctorWho011TheApocalypseElement

* EyeScream

* StormingTheCastle: Well, storming Gallifre].

* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: Serves as one of sorts for:
** The ''AudioPlay/{{Gallifrey}}'' audio series, setting up Romana as Lady President and providing the impetus for the creation of the Temporal Powers alliance with the Monan Host and others.
** And the ''Dalek Empire'' series, about the ongoing Dalek war from the Seriphia Galaxy.

** The Doctor counters the aforementioned BorrowedBiometricBypass by replacing the Eye of Harmony’s recognition system from Time Lord to human. [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMovie That comes back to bite him 700 years later]].

** The Doctor counters the aforementioned BorrowedBiometricBypass by replacing the Ey of Harmony’s recognition system from Time Lord to human. [[Recap/DoctorWhoTheTVMovie That comes back to bite him 700 years later]].

* NotSoDifferent: One of the Time Lords accuses another of this compared to the Daleks.

* TheHighQueen: As soon as Romana is back on Gallifrey, she picks up the role quickly. ISurrenderSuckers: By proxy.

!!Tropes:

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: The Daleks get exactly what they were ''really'' after - they destroy-and-recreate the Seriphia Galaxy in a time bubble, leaving them with an entire galaxy empty of life in which to create "a million Skaros!" letting them launch attacks on the rest of the universe.]]

* {{Eye Scream}}

* [[spoiler: HolographicDisguise]]: See below.
* ISurrenderSuckers: By proxy.

** The ''{{AudioPlay/Gallifrey}}'' audio series, setting up Romana as Lady President and providing the impetus for the creation of [[spoiler:the Temporal Powers alliance with the Monan Host and others]].

* StormingTheCastle: Well, [[StormingTheCastle Storming Gallifrey]].
* TeleportersAndTransporters: The Whoniverse Transmat system returns.

* TheBusCameBack: [[FanService Romana appears for a Sixth Doctor adventure!]]
* TheHighQueen: As soon as Romana is back on Gallifrey, she picks up the role quickly.
* TheParalyzer: [[spoiler: Dalek weaponry]] works like this [[spoiler: If they want to]].

* YouAreNumberSix: Unit 117? You are Unit 117?

* GhostTown: Using technology [[spoiler: The Doctor]] locks all of the inhabitants of the Gallifreyan capital inside.
** GhostPlanet: If not this.

* WhamEpisode: For Creator/BigFinish - this was their first episode with such a large scope - and indeed for ''Doctor Who''. The Daleks make one of the first great strikes of the Time War, gaining a whole galaxy for themselves, and a spearhead force ''invades Gallifrey itself''. They also cause the first coalition of Temporal Powers, who will also play a role in the Last Great Time War.
* TwoOfYourEarthMinutes: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. ''Evelyne'' asks if time is measured in [[SpaceX Space Minutes]] or Earth Minutes.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Unintentionally to the [[GreatOffscreenWar Time War]]. Creator/RussellTDavies, and later ''Literature/ABriefHistoryOfTheTimeLords'' would mention the "Etra Prime Incident" as one of the events that led to the Time War.

* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: Serves as one of sorts for the ''{{AudioPlay/Gallifrey}}'' audio series, setting up Romana as Lady President and providing the impetus for the creation of [[spoiler:the Temporal Powers alliance with the Monan Host and others]].

The Daleks turn out to be behind the planetary kidnapping, and they've kept Romana as a slave for twenty years. She's rather broken, but bounces back as best as she can after the Doctor rescues her.

The Daleks announce that they plan to destroy all of time and space using the MacGuffin bomb. They need Gallifreyan technology to keep themselves JustOneSecondOutOfSync from the explosion. The Doctor, Romana, Evelyn and Vansell team up to stop them. Although the Daleks fail to explode the entire universe, they succeed in killing billions of people and creating a new galaxy all for themselves.