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*CollectorOfTheStrange: Ten-year-old Troy has an exotic shell collection. The Doctor is reminded of his own boyhood.
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* DefiantToTheEnd: Despite overwhelmment by the Krill, the Cythosi fight fiercely.
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* DefiantToTheEnd: Despite overwhelmment being overwhelmed by the Krill, the Cythosi fight fiercely.
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* NuclearNasty: The Krill feed on radiation.
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* WeNeedADistraction: In order to borrow Professor Mackenzie’s entry pass, the Doctor, with a clockwork mouse, incites a nearby cat to minor commotion.
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* WeNeedADistraction: In order to borrow Professor Mackenzie’s Mackenzie's entry pass, the Doctor, with a clockwork mouse, incites a nearby cat to minor commotion.commotion.
* XenomorphXerox: [[DownPlayedTrope Downplayed]]. While the egg-hatched Krill's [[BizarreAlienBiology inexhaustibly self-repairing bodies]] render them [[NighInvulnerable near-invincible]], their overall frame is [[HumanoidAliens humanoid]].
* XenomorphXerox: [[DownPlayedTrope Downplayed]]. While the egg-hatched Krill's [[BizarreAlienBiology inexhaustibly self-repairing bodies]] render them [[NighInvulnerable near-invincible]], their overall frame is [[HumanoidAliens humanoid]].
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* MythologyGag: Ace wonders what else a four-armed Dreekan man "[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar got four of]]" - an unused gag written for the [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTvMovie TV Movie]], and eventually used in ''[[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion The Christmas Invasion]]''.
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* MythologyGag: Ace wonders what else a four-armed Dreekan man has "[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar got four of]]" - an unused gag written for the [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTvMovie TV Movie]], and eventually used in ''[[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion The Christmas Invasion]]''.
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* DeviousDolphin: Blu'ip, an interstellar terrorist in Cythosi employ, loathes both humans and human-allied dolphins. He aims to [[spoiler: arrange their slaughter by the Krill]].
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* DeviousDolphin: DeviousDolphins: Blu'ip, an interstellar terrorist in Cythosi employ, loathes both humans and human-allied dolphins. He aims to [[spoiler: arrange their slaughter by the Krill]].
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* SapientCetaceans: Dolphins, having fled Earth's pollution, are equipped with telepathic translators.
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* DeflectorShields: The colony's colossal storm shutters are roofed with a force field.
* DeviousDolphin: Blu'ip, an interstellar terrorist in Cythosi employ, loathes both humans and human-allied dolphins. He aims to [[spoiler: arrange their slaughter by the Krill]].
* DomedHometown: The ancient undersea city.
* DeviousDolphin: Blu'ip, an interstellar terrorist in Cythosi employ, loathes both humans and human-allied dolphins. He aims to [[spoiler: arrange their slaughter by the Krill]].
* DomedHometown: The ancient undersea city.
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*HiddenDepths: Cythosi Commander Bisoncrawl, on a long cargo haul, developed a taste for painting - he particularly enjoys the work of JMW Turner.
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* {{Teleportation}}: From the ocean floor, the Cythosi shuttlecraft transmat-beams Krill eggs into the orbiting ship.
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* SheCleansUpNicely: For the colony square, the Doctor dons a white linen suit. For the hotel restaurant, Ace splashes out on seashell-bedecked sea-green dress.
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* SheCleansUpNicely: For the colony square, the Doctor dons a white linen suit. For the hotel restaurant, Ace splashes out on seashell-bedecked sea-green blue-green dress.
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** On a Cythosi corpse recovered from undersea temple, the Doctor conducts a post-mortem.
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* ImprovisedWeapon: When the [[spoiler: several Krill through a dolphin tunnel to the Coralee Hilton swimming pool]], Ace, from various combinations of booze and robot oil, makes several bombs.
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* ImprovisedWeapon: When the [[spoiler: several Krill through a dolphin tunnel to reach the Coralee Hilton swimming pool]], Ace, from various combinations of booze and robot oil, makes several bombs.
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* BizarreAlienBiology: A Krill’s self-repairing organs can adopt each others’ functions. On terminal damage, they excrete a black ooze, which calcifies into a regenerative cocoon.
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* BioweaponBeast: The ancient masters of Coralee bred the Krill for interstellar warfare. Man-sized eggs, impervious to vacuum and friction, were launched to other planets, whereupon the Krill destroyed all before them.
* BizarreAlienBiology: A Krill’s self-repairing organs can adopt eachothers’ others' functions. On terminal damage, they excrete a black ooze, which calcifies into a regenerative cocoon.
* BizarreAlienBiology: A Krill’s self-repairing organs can adopt each
* DeadpanSnarker: R'tk'tk, the dolphin tour guide.
** The Krill, while spiny, hulking and razor-clawed, are broadly humanoid.
* NighInvulnerable: While sufficient doses of weaponry may dismember or halt a Krill, the damaged body simply forms a regenerative chrysalis - which can survive in space. At one point, another LivingWeapon was bred specifically to best them - but that's [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho021DustBreeding another story]]...
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* SealedEvilInACan: The Doctor [[spoiler: sets the deserted Cythosi shuttlecraft to fly into Coralee’s ring belt, and self-destruct. Both the Krill eggs and their destructor device, sent by transmat, end up floating amidst the rings]].
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* SealedEvilInACan: The Doctor [[spoiler: sets the deserted Cythosi shuttlecraft to fly into Coralee’s Coralee's ring belt, and self-destruct. Both the Krill eggs and their destructor device, sent by transmat, end up floating amidst the rings]].
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* OminousFloatingSpaceship: The huge, pockmarked Cythosi ship, hangs broodingly in orbit.
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* OminousFloatingSpaceship: The huge, pockmarked Cythosi ship, ship hangs broodingly in orbit.
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-->'''Ace:''' You’ve taken me to my past and my future, you’ve shown me planets I couldn’t have begun to dream about. I’ve met monsters and criminals, I’ve [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield held Excalibur]]… I’ve travelled in time! Yes, there are dangers, but for God’s sake, people die crossing the road. Life’s too short to live like that. I stay on my own terms, Professor. If ever I’ve got a problem with it, I’ll let you know.
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-->'''Ace:''' You’ve taken me to my past and my future, you’ve shown me planets I couldn’t have begun to dream about. I’ve met monsters and criminals, I’ve [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield held Excalibur]]… I’ve travelled in time! Yes, there are dangers, but for God’s God's sake, people die crossing the road. Life’s too short to live like that. I stay on my own terms, Professor. If ever I’ve got a problem with it, I’ll let you know.
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* SheCleansUpNicely: For colony square, the Doctor dons a white linen suit. For the hotel restaurant, Ace splashes out on seashell-bedecked sea-green dress.
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** The ''Hyperion Dawn''s hull is made of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks polycarbide]].
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Next day, while Ace joins Bryce on a submarine cruise, the Doctor, posing as an [[=InterOceanic=]] inspector, joins Professor Alex Mackenzie on an underwater visit to the ruins of an undersea temple. Here lies a device keyed to the biorhythms of the Krill: a horde of genetically engineered, insatiably murderous beasts - some of whom Ace and friends narrowly escape.
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Next day, while Ace joins Bryce on a submarine cruise, the Doctor, posing as an [[=InterOceanic=]] [=InterOceanic=] inspector, joins Professor Alex Mackenzie on an underwater visit to the ruins of an undersea temple. Here lies a device keyed to the biorhythms of the Krill: a horde of genetically engineered, insatiably murderous beasts - some of whom Ace and friends narrowly escape.
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* NamingYourColonyWorld: Colony Co-ordinator Brenda Mulholland is running out of names to give Coralee’s islands.
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* RunningGag: Like his brolly, the Doctor’s Doctor's spade has a question mark-shaped handle.
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-->'''Ace:''' Professor, you are in a class of your own.* GuyOfTheWeek: To submarine tour bus captain Rajiid Woozeer, Ace gets quite close, and mournfully ponders his probable incompatibility with TARDIS life.
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-->'''Ace:''' Professor, you are in a class of your own.own.
* GuyOfTheWeek: To submarine tour bus captain Rajiid Woozeer, Ace gets quite close, and mournfully ponders his probable incompatibility with TARDIS life.
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* BiggerOnTheInside: Yes, Ace, the Doctor’s gladstone bag is also dimensionally transcendental.
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* BiggerOnTheInside: Yes, Ace, the Doctor’s gladstone Doctor's Gladstone bag is also dimensionally transcendental.
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* GadgeteerGenius: The Doctor builds a massive sandcastle of the City of the Exxilons - with a silica-powered beacon. He looks forward to spending his holiday working on a way to add powered doors.
-->'''Ace:''' Professor, you are in a class of your own.
-->'''Ace:''' Professor, you are in a class of your own.
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* GadgeteerGenius: The Doctor builds a massive sandcastle of the City of the Exxilons - with a silica-powered beacon. He looks forward to spending his holiday working on a way to add powered doors.
-->'''Ace:''' Professor, you are in a class of your own.* GuyOfTheWeek: To submarine tour bus captain Rajiid Woozeer, Ace gets quite close, and mournfully ponders his probable incompatibility with TARDIS life.
-->'''Ace:''' Professor, you are in a class of your own.* GuyOfTheWeek: To submarine tour bus captain Rajiid Woozeer, Ace gets quite close, and mournfully ponders his probable incompatibility with TARDIS life.
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* IdentityAmnesia: On twenty years’ cover of a personal morphing generator, Cythosi agent Skuarte succumbs to the identity of [[spoiler: chief engineer Phillip Garret]]. He alternates between the two, and eventually believes himself to be the Dreeka’Dwra, an animalistic vengeful god.
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* IdentityAmnesia: On twenty years’ cover of a personal morphing generator, Cythosi agent Skuarte succumbs to the identity of [[spoiler: chief engineer Phillip Garret]]. He alternates between the two, and eventually believes himself to be the Dreeka’Dwra, Dreeka'Dwra, an animalistic vengeful god.
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* LongGame: Via undercover agent Skuarte, in the human guise of [[spoiler: chief colony engineer Phillip Garret]], the Cythosi arranged [[spoiler: the founding of Coralee’s colony]]. With the Krill, they aim to best their enemies the Zithra.
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* LongGame: Via undercover agent Skuarte, in the human guise of [[spoiler: chief colony engineer Phillip Garret]], the Cythosi arranged [[spoiler: the founding of Coralee’s Coralee's colony]]. With the Krill, they aim to best their enemies the Zithra.
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* MythologyGag: Ace wonders what else a four-armed Dreekan man “[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar "[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar got four of]]” of]]" - an unused gag written for the [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTvMovie TV Movie, Movie]], and eventually used in ‘’The ''[[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion The Christmas Invasion.”Invasion]]''.
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'''Warning - spoilers may be unmarked.'''
Written by Robert Perry and Mike Tucker; published 1999, and featuring the Seventh Doctor and Ace.
On the small ocean planet of Coralee, the Doctor and Ace arrive for a seaside holiday. While Ace has a swim, the Doctor sees ten-year-old Troy to have found a strange, claw-shaped seashell. Meanwhile, colony Co-ordinator Brenda Mulholland has lost contact with cable-laying ship the ''Hyperion Dawn''.
That evening, in the Coralee Hilton’s bar, travelling author Edwin Bryce mentions local legends of monsters.
Next day, while Ace joins Bryce on a submarine cruise, the Doctor, posing as an [[=InterOceanic=]] inspector, joins Professor Alex Mackenzie on an underwater visit to the ruins of an undersea temple. Here lies a device keyed to the biorhythms of the Krill: a horde of genetically engineered, insatiably murderous beasts - some of whom Ace and friends narrowly escape.
In search of the anti-Krill weapon, Cythosi General Mottrack lands a shuttlecraft on the colony. However, the only thing that can stop the Krill has been stolen - and a hurricane is about to hit the island…
!!Tropes:
*AbusivePrecursors: The ancient masters of Coralee bred the Krill, insatiably murderous, virtually indestructable humanoid predators.
*ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: On the hotel bar's terrace, the Doctor and Ace sip wine, watch the stars, and fondly reminisce.
*ActionPolitician: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] with Colony Coordinator Brenda Mulholland, who, as the storm hits, continues to direct safety measures.
*AlienAutopsy:
** On a Cythosi corpse recovered from undersea temple, the Doctor conducts a post-mortem.
** He also has a poke around inside a [[NighInvulnerable currently]] dismembered Krill.
*AlienLandmass: At ninety-eight percent water, Coralee’s only dry land is a broken line of equatorial islands. At less than half the size of Earth, its ocean horizon reveals the planetary curve.
*AllPlanetsAreEarthlike: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] and [[JustifiedTrope justified]]: the colony’s architecture has a seemingly deliberate Mediterranean aesthetic; the place rather reminds Ace of the Greek islands.
*AlienSky: Coralee has [[BinarySuns two]] glaringly bright suns. At night, the planet’s rings shine splendidly.
*AttackItsWeakpoint: By severing a tangle of nerves, the Doctor manages to permanently kill one Krill. Their only other apparent weakness is a cylindrical weapon keyed to their biorhythms.
*AwesomeAussie: Greg Mallory helps submarine captain Rajiid Woozeer divert several Krill by luring out a train-sized Ramara eel.
*BeachEpisode: At least to start with - on the white Coralee sands, the TARDIS lands beneath a palm tree; Ace goes for a swim, and the Doctor builds a sandcastle in the shape of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E3DeathToTheDaleks the City of the Exxillons]]. With a working flashing beacon.
*BiggerOnTheInside: Yes, Ace, the Doctor’s gladstone bag is also dimensionally transcendental.
*BigFun: Rotund, jovial Edwin Bryce.
*BizarreAlienBiology: A Krill’s self-repairing organs can adopt each others’ functions. On terminal damage, they excrete a black ooze, which calcifies into a regenerative cocoon.
*BodyHorror: Due to a malfunctioning personal morphing generator, [[spoiler: Phillip Garret]] variably fuses his original Cythosi face with its human guise.
*CigarChomper: Qu'ilp the dolphin - through his blowhole.
*CollectorOfTheStrange: Ten-year-old Troy has an exotic shell collection. The Doctor is reminded of his own boyhood.
*ContinuityNod:
**The ''Hyperion Dawn''s hull is made of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks polycarbide]].
** To check into the Coralee Hilton, the Doctor pays by credit card - a [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield walking, multi-legged, mechanical beetle]].
** A few [[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E2TheCurseOfPeladon Alpha Centaurian]] holidaymakers.
** The Doctor's [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E3PyramidsOfMars respiratory bypass system]] saves him from drowning.
** Bryce mentions one of his books, ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E4TheTwoDoctors Androgum]] Cookery for Novices: How to Master the [[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVILegion Boomerang Spoon]]''.
*DarkAndTroubledPast: As a young man, Edwin Bryce was a war correspondent - who once saw some Dalek action…
*DefiantToTheEnd: Despite overwhelmment by the Krill, the Cythosi fight fiercely.
*DisproportionateRetribution: For human Functionaries, eye contact with Cythosi masters is punishable by death.
*GadgeteerGenius: The Doctor builds a massive sandcastle of the City of the Exxilons - with a silica-powered beacon. He looks forward to spending his holiday working on a way to add powered doors.
-->'''Ace:''' Professor, you are in a class of your own.
*AFatherToHisMen: Cythosi Commander Bisoncrawl.
*FunPersonified: The Doctor arrives on the beach with a whopping great kite. He later bedecks his hotel room with an electric train set.
-->'''Ace:''' You’ve made yourself at home.
-->'''The Doctor:''' A few creature comforts.
*GuyOfTheWeek: To submarine tour bus captain Rajiid Woozeer, Ace gets quite close, and mournfully ponders his probable incompatibility with TARDIS life.
*HairTriggerTemper:
** Cythosi General Mottrack enjoys [[DangerousInterrogative fatal interrogations]].
** The Krill are constantly, murderously furious.
*HiddenDepths: Cythosi Commander Bisoncrawl, on a long cargo haul, developed a taste for painting - he particularly enjoys the work of JMW Turner.
*HumanoidAliens:
** Four-armed Dreekans closely resemble humans. Often found on ocean worlds, they tend to be good swimmers.
** The seven feet tall Cythosi have rhinoceros-like skin and protuberant brows.
*ImprovisedWeapon: When the [[spoiler: several Krill through a dolphin tunnel to the Coralee Hilton swimming pool]], Ace, from various combinations of booze and robot oil, makes several bombs.
*IdentityAmnesia: On twenty years’ cover of a personal morphing generator, Cythosi agent Skuarte succumbs to the identity of [[spoiler: chief engineer Phillip Garret]]. He alternates between the two, and eventually believes himself to be the Dreeka’Dwra, an animalistic vengeful god.
*TheInfiltration: [[spoiler: Cythosi agent Skuarte, for twenty years, has posed in the human guise of Phillip Garret]]. In order for the Cythosi to claim them for their war effort, he rouses several Krill by detonating a nuclear submarine.
*LongGame: Via undercover agent Skuarte, in the human guise of [[spoiler: chief colony engineer Phillip Garret]], the Cythosi arranged [[spoiler: the founding of Coralee’s colony]]. With the Krill, they aim to best their enemies the Zithra.
*MiniMecha: On dry land, dolphin settlers, equipped with telepathic translators, get about in multi-legged exoskeletons.
*MythologyGag: Ace wonders what else a four-armed Dreekan man “[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar got four of]]” - an unused gag written for the TV Movie, and eventually used in ‘’The Christmas Invasion.”
*NamingYourColonyWorld: Colony Co-ordinator Brenda Mulholland is running out of names to give Coralee’s islands.
*NighInvulnerable: The Krill.
*NuclearNasty: The Krill feed on radiation.
*OminousFloatingSpaceship: The huge, pockmarked Cythosi ship, hangs broodingly in orbit.
*RunningGag: Like his brolly, the Doctor’s spade has a question mark-shaped handle.
*SceneryPorn: Some beautiful descriptions of the [[BinarySuns doubly sunlit]] white sand beach; nearby jungle, and ring-bedecked night sky.
*SealedEvilInACan: The Doctor [[spoiler: sets the deserted Cythosi shuttlecraft to fly into Coralee’s ring belt, and self-destruct. Both the Krill eggs and their destructor device, sent by transmat, end up floating amidst the rings]].
*SettlingTheFrontier: As well as humans, many dolphins, unable to cope with Earth pollution, settled on Coralee.
*SheCleansUpNicely: For colony square, the Doctor dons a white linen suit. For the hotel restaurant, Ace splashes out on seashell-bedecked sea-green dress.
*SlaveLiberation: On the Cythosi ship, human Functionaries, led by Bavril, violently revolt.
*SoleSurvivor: On contact with the cable-laying ship Hyperion Dawn, planetary engineer
Holly Reif is the only survivor.
*TheSwarm: The Krill attack in large numbers, and are utterly relentless.
*TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: The Krill, bred for interstellar war, rendered Coralee a desert.
*UnfazedEveryman: By the colony’s exotic array of interstellar tourists, the Doctor is merrily unfazed.
*WeNeedADistraction: In order to borrow Professor Mackenzie’s entry pass, the Doctor, with a clockwork mouse, incites a nearby cat to minor commotion.
*YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Following the trauma of their [[Recap/PastDoctorAdventuresMatrix last adventure]], the Doctor guiltily reflects to Ace on his dangerous lifestyle.
-->'''Ace:''' You’ve taken me to my past and my future, you’ve shown me planets I couldn’t have begun to dream about. I’ve met monsters and criminals, I’ve [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield held Excalibur]]… I’ve travelled in time! Yes, there are dangers, but for God’s sake, people die crossing the road. Life’s too short to live like that. I stay on my own terms, Professor. If ever I’ve got a problem with it, I’ll let you know.
'''Warning - spoilers may be unmarked.'''
Written by Robert Perry and Mike Tucker; published 1999, and featuring the Seventh Doctor and Ace.
On the small ocean planet of Coralee, the Doctor and Ace arrive for a seaside holiday. While Ace has a swim, the Doctor sees ten-year-old Troy to have found a strange, claw-shaped seashell. Meanwhile, colony Co-ordinator Brenda Mulholland has lost contact with cable-laying ship the ''Hyperion Dawn''.
That evening, in the Coralee Hilton’s bar, travelling author Edwin Bryce mentions local legends of monsters.
Next day, while Ace joins Bryce on a submarine cruise, the Doctor, posing as an [[=InterOceanic=]] inspector, joins Professor Alex Mackenzie on an underwater visit to the ruins of an undersea temple. Here lies a device keyed to the biorhythms of the Krill: a horde of genetically engineered, insatiably murderous beasts - some of whom Ace and friends narrowly escape.
In search of the anti-Krill weapon, Cythosi General Mottrack lands a shuttlecraft on the colony. However, the only thing that can stop the Krill has been stolen - and a hurricane is about to hit the island…
!!Tropes:
*AbusivePrecursors: The ancient masters of Coralee bred the Krill, insatiably murderous, virtually indestructable humanoid predators.
*ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: On the hotel bar's terrace, the Doctor and Ace sip wine, watch the stars, and fondly reminisce.
*ActionPolitician: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] with Colony Coordinator Brenda Mulholland, who, as the storm hits, continues to direct safety measures.
*AlienAutopsy:
** On a Cythosi corpse recovered from undersea temple, the Doctor conducts a post-mortem.
** He also has a poke around inside a [[NighInvulnerable currently]] dismembered Krill.
*AlienLandmass: At ninety-eight percent water, Coralee’s only dry land is a broken line of equatorial islands. At less than half the size of Earth, its ocean horizon reveals the planetary curve.
*AllPlanetsAreEarthlike: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] and [[JustifiedTrope justified]]: the colony’s architecture has a seemingly deliberate Mediterranean aesthetic; the place rather reminds Ace of the Greek islands.
*AlienSky: Coralee has [[BinarySuns two]] glaringly bright suns. At night, the planet’s rings shine splendidly.
*AttackItsWeakpoint: By severing a tangle of nerves, the Doctor manages to permanently kill one Krill. Their only other apparent weakness is a cylindrical weapon keyed to their biorhythms.
*AwesomeAussie: Greg Mallory helps submarine captain Rajiid Woozeer divert several Krill by luring out a train-sized Ramara eel.
*BeachEpisode: At least to start with - on the white Coralee sands, the TARDIS lands beneath a palm tree; Ace goes for a swim, and the Doctor builds a sandcastle in the shape of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E3DeathToTheDaleks the City of the Exxillons]]. With a working flashing beacon.
*BiggerOnTheInside: Yes, Ace, the Doctor’s gladstone bag is also dimensionally transcendental.
*BigFun: Rotund, jovial Edwin Bryce.
*BizarreAlienBiology: A Krill’s self-repairing organs can adopt each others’ functions. On terminal damage, they excrete a black ooze, which calcifies into a regenerative cocoon.
*BodyHorror: Due to a malfunctioning personal morphing generator, [[spoiler: Phillip Garret]] variably fuses his original Cythosi face with its human guise.
*CigarChomper: Qu'ilp the dolphin - through his blowhole.
*CollectorOfTheStrange: Ten-year-old Troy has an exotic shell collection. The Doctor is reminded of his own boyhood.
*ContinuityNod:
**The ''Hyperion Dawn''s hull is made of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks polycarbide]].
** To check into the Coralee Hilton, the Doctor pays by credit card - a [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield walking, multi-legged, mechanical beetle]].
** A few [[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E2TheCurseOfPeladon Alpha Centaurian]] holidaymakers.
** The Doctor's [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E3PyramidsOfMars respiratory bypass system]] saves him from drowning.
** Bryce mentions one of his books, ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E4TheTwoDoctors Androgum]] Cookery for Novices: How to Master the [[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVILegion Boomerang Spoon]]''.
*DarkAndTroubledPast: As a young man, Edwin Bryce was a war correspondent - who once saw some Dalek action…
*DefiantToTheEnd: Despite overwhelmment by the Krill, the Cythosi fight fiercely.
*DisproportionateRetribution: For human Functionaries, eye contact with Cythosi masters is punishable by death.
*GadgeteerGenius: The Doctor builds a massive sandcastle of the City of the Exxilons - with a silica-powered beacon. He looks forward to spending his holiday working on a way to add powered doors.
-->'''Ace:''' Professor, you are in a class of your own.
*AFatherToHisMen: Cythosi Commander Bisoncrawl.
*FunPersonified: The Doctor arrives on the beach with a whopping great kite. He later bedecks his hotel room with an electric train set.
-->'''Ace:''' You’ve made yourself at home.
-->'''The Doctor:''' A few creature comforts.
*GuyOfTheWeek: To submarine tour bus captain Rajiid Woozeer, Ace gets quite close, and mournfully ponders his probable incompatibility with TARDIS life.
*HairTriggerTemper:
** Cythosi General Mottrack enjoys [[DangerousInterrogative fatal interrogations]].
** The Krill are constantly, murderously furious.
*HiddenDepths: Cythosi Commander Bisoncrawl, on a long cargo haul, developed a taste for painting - he particularly enjoys the work of JMW Turner.
*HumanoidAliens:
** Four-armed Dreekans closely resemble humans. Often found on ocean worlds, they tend to be good swimmers.
** The seven feet tall Cythosi have rhinoceros-like skin and protuberant brows.
*ImprovisedWeapon: When the [[spoiler: several Krill through a dolphin tunnel to the Coralee Hilton swimming pool]], Ace, from various combinations of booze and robot oil, makes several bombs.
*IdentityAmnesia: On twenty years’ cover of a personal morphing generator, Cythosi agent Skuarte succumbs to the identity of [[spoiler: chief engineer Phillip Garret]]. He alternates between the two, and eventually believes himself to be the Dreeka’Dwra, an animalistic vengeful god.
*TheInfiltration: [[spoiler: Cythosi agent Skuarte, for twenty years, has posed in the human guise of Phillip Garret]]. In order for the Cythosi to claim them for their war effort, he rouses several Krill by detonating a nuclear submarine.
*LongGame: Via undercover agent Skuarte, in the human guise of [[spoiler: chief colony engineer Phillip Garret]], the Cythosi arranged [[spoiler: the founding of Coralee’s colony]]. With the Krill, they aim to best their enemies the Zithra.
*MiniMecha: On dry land, dolphin settlers, equipped with telepathic translators, get about in multi-legged exoskeletons.
*MythologyGag: Ace wonders what else a four-armed Dreekan man “[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar got four of]]” - an unused gag written for the TV Movie, and eventually used in ‘’The Christmas Invasion.”
*NamingYourColonyWorld: Colony Co-ordinator Brenda Mulholland is running out of names to give Coralee’s islands.
*NighInvulnerable: The Krill.
*NuclearNasty: The Krill feed on radiation.
*OminousFloatingSpaceship: The huge, pockmarked Cythosi ship, hangs broodingly in orbit.
*RunningGag: Like his brolly, the Doctor’s spade has a question mark-shaped handle.
*SceneryPorn: Some beautiful descriptions of the [[BinarySuns doubly sunlit]] white sand beach; nearby jungle, and ring-bedecked night sky.
*SealedEvilInACan: The Doctor [[spoiler: sets the deserted Cythosi shuttlecraft to fly into Coralee’s ring belt, and self-destruct. Both the Krill eggs and their destructor device, sent by transmat, end up floating amidst the rings]].
*SettlingTheFrontier: As well as humans, many dolphins, unable to cope with Earth pollution, settled on Coralee.
*SheCleansUpNicely: For colony square, the Doctor dons a white linen suit. For the hotel restaurant, Ace splashes out on seashell-bedecked sea-green dress.
*SlaveLiberation: On the Cythosi ship, human Functionaries, led by Bavril, violently revolt.
*SoleSurvivor: On contact with the cable-laying ship Hyperion Dawn, planetary engineer
Holly Reif is the only survivor.
*TheSwarm: The Krill attack in large numbers, and are utterly relentless.
*TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: The Krill, bred for interstellar war, rendered Coralee a desert.
*UnfazedEveryman: By the colony’s exotic array of interstellar tourists, the Doctor is merrily unfazed.
*WeNeedADistraction: In order to borrow Professor Mackenzie’s entry pass, the Doctor, with a clockwork mouse, incites a nearby cat to minor commotion.
*YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Following the trauma of their [[Recap/PastDoctorAdventuresMatrix last adventure]], the Doctor guiltily reflects to Ace on his dangerous lifestyle.
-->'''Ace:''' You’ve taken me to my past and my future, you’ve shown me planets I couldn’t have begun to dream about. I’ve met monsters and criminals, I’ve [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield held Excalibur]]… I’ve travelled in time! Yes, there are dangers, but for God’s sake, people die crossing the road. Life’s too short to live like that. I stay on my own terms, Professor. If ever I’ve got a problem with it, I’ll let you know.
