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17	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/omega_10.jpg]]
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19	The first part of the "Villains Trilogy": three standalone episodes that explore how the Doctor are his archenemies are not that different in the end. The other two parts are [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho048Davros "Davros"]] and [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho049Master "Master"]]. The trilogy also thematically paved the road for the next episode, "Zagreus", although that episode is not standalone and is instead part of the Eighth Doctor's StoryArc.
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23	A strange telepathic message prompts the Fifth Doctor to travel to the "Sector of Forgotten Souls", a place where, thousands of years ago, Omega's ship vanished whilst detonating a star. He's not the only one journeying towards it. "Jolly Chronolidays" prides itself on giving its tourists an experience of galactic history that is far better than mere time travel (at the very least, with better toilet facilities).
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25	Five befriends a nice young stewardess named Sentia, and runs into a [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks Hand of Omega]] re-enactment group, starring soap opera actor Daland as Omega and college student Tarpov as Vandekirian, Omega's treacherous associate. The trouble is that this sector of space tends to drive people ''batshit crazy'', so Tarpov soon starts to believe he actually ''is'' Vandekirian and promptly begins losing limbs in order to create the Hand Of Omega. Also, Omega's actual ship turns up.
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27	The Doctor resolves to save the day and, with the help of a nice old fellow Time Lord named Professor Ertikus, vworps aboard Omega's ship and tries to see what Omega wants. Omega (appearing as a bit of floaty light) hangs out with Five a bit, and they remenisce about Gallifreyan legends, about the bedtime story of Peylix (who stole bits of time, wanted to know everything in the whole universe, and got exiled and/or killed depending on the version), and about [[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E1ArcOfInfinity that time they traipsed about in Amsterdam]].
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29	Omega claims that, with nothing left in life, he just wants to get back to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E1TheThreeDoctors his old home in the antimatter universe]]. Five really tries his best to help him, but is (of course) betrayed by Omega as soon as he fixes the ship's circuits (connecting it to Professor Ertikus' TARDIS). Also, Omega claims that he's engaged to Sentia and that they're going to live happily ever after.
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31	The Doctor is right confused about this whole thing, especially once the [[TheReveal real Fifth Doctor vworps in]] three quarters into the story, sent there by the Time Lords because they got a distress call from "him". Five explains that when Omega made another copy of his body after Amsterdam, bits of the Doctor's memory came with it. And basically, Omega is completely insane now, making funny voices at himself, thinking he's both the Doctor and Omega, sending out distress calls to Gallifrey and ripping off people's hands.
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33	Omega, coping with extreme LossOfIdentity and really just wanting to go home and live happily ever after with Sentia, reveals the reason he became an exile from Gallifrey. During the big interstellar coup that he staged together with Rassilon, he made the choice to commit genocide in order to secure a planet. Vandekirian was never treacherous -- he only tried to save those people. And when Omega was exiled, Rassilon -- OpinionFlipflop -- praised his old friend in order to move up in Time Lord society, clearing Omega's name. Also, Omega eventually reveals that as a student, he was the one who inspired the bedtime story of Peylix... because he was Peylix, and the story was more mundane than any of Gallifrey's high and epic tales.
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35	Omega reveals his past genocide to Sentia, who doesn't even care. This seriously shocks Omega, who has been suffering intense guilt over the act and tears into Sentia for being okay with living her life with a mass murderer. But none of that matters in the end, because as Five reveals, Omega's genocide never happened... it was the Doctor who (accidentally) killed that race, and his memories have seeped into Omega's consciousness because of the clone body. No matter what Omega actually did during the dawn of Time Lord society, it wasn't ''that''.
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37	Unfortunately, this revelation doesn't help matters. Omega flies off in a rage, and finds that Sentia has succumbed to the instabilities that plague the sector of space. Considering herself Vandekirian, she sends Omega's ship back into the black hole to end everything with a bang as the [=TARDIS=] leaves. Immediately afterwards, someone from the Celestial Preservation Agency vworps in and kindly asks the Doctor not to tell anyone what happened. Not to preserve Omega's reputation -- Omega is a joke to Time Lord society at that point -- but to preserve the Doctor's reputation, who in the future will be seen as a hero. Five understands that he and Omega really are similar, and that legends just don't tend to reflect the truth. Daland, the sole surviving witness, is taken away by the Celestial Preservation Agency and offered a cushy job as a Doctor re-enactor.
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41	%%* AmateurSleuth: The Professor.
42	* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: The focus of the story is actually Omega, once again with a copy of the Doctor's body after "Arc Of Infinity".
43	* AppropriatedAppelation: Pelyx was the only student at the Academy to get an omega grade, the lowest grade theoretically possible. Rassilon later calls him "Omega" in mockery. Eventually he decides he'd rather be known as Omega that forgotten as Pelyx.
44	* AsideComment: The play performed at first has lots of these, being very similar to an old Shakespeare play.
45	* CallBack: Amsterdam is mentioned, as well as [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E6TheInvasionOfTime the Sontaran invasion of Gallifrey]].
46	* CallForward:
47	** The Doctor would later visit the TARDIS elephant graveyard in [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho056AxisOfInsanity Axis of Insanity]].
48	** The Time Lady from the Celestial Preservation Agency has a [[Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures Type 103 TARDIS]], or similar design.
49	* CaptainObvious: "Your stranglation of my patient is impeding his recovery."
50	* ContinuityNod: The Doctor is renowned for being the [[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors the ex-president]] of Gallifrey and having [[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E1TheThreeDoctors defeat the Omega myth]]. His [[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E1ArcOfInfinity Bio-Data]] gets a [[ForeShadowing mention]] as well.
51	* DerelictGraveyard: The Doctor alludes to one made of TARDIS pods.
52	%%* DistressedDude: Not the Doctor.
53	%%* EasyAmnesia
54	* EnergyBeing: The Scintillans, which caused the Doctor to accidentally murder their entire race because he couldn't see them.
55	* EvilSoundsDeep: Omega puts on a deep booming voice half the time, and sounds like Creator/PeterDavison when he thinks he's the Doctor.
56	%%* ExactWords
57	%%* FallenHero
58	* FanWank: Mentioned by someone InUniverse that it's nonsensical and people should just shut up.
59	* ForeShadowing: Released in between "Neverland" and "Zagreus", this episode showed us the sheer extent of Rassilon's political manipulation tricks.
60	** Also, one of the actors on the cruise casually plays Zagreus. Counts as TrollingCreator, since he was billed prominently as such in the credits, while the fans were waiting for ''a year and a half'' already at this point for the Zagreus cliffhanger to resolve itself. He has one line.
61	%%* HiddenInPlainSight
62	* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Omega learns he was actually considered a hero before he met the Doctor.
63	** Followed by a HistoricalVillainUpgrade
64	%%* JackTheRipoff: The other being that calls itself Omega.
65	%%* JokerImmunity: The Doctor says Omega doesn't die easily.
66	* KilledOffForReal: Ertikus was on his last regeneration when Omega snaps his neck.
67	* TheMerch: [[invoked]]There's an Omega gift shop.
68	%%* MindMeld
69	%%* NecessarilyEvil: Omega begins to view himself this way.
70	%%* NonIndicativeName: The Hand of Omega.
71	* OlderThanTheyLook: The Doctor says he's pushing 900.
72	* OutOfCharacterAlert: For the audience; the Fifth Doctor never traveled alone, and other Big Finish releases where he's alone have him mentioning where his companions are.
73	* ProperlyParanoid:
74	--> "You're paranoid."
75	--> "No no, paranoid is when [[SubvertedTrope they're NOT out to get you!]]"
76	%%* PurpleProse: The Greek Tragedy play performed at the first act.
77	%%* ShoutOut: [[Literature/MobyDick Captain Ahab]].
78	%%* StartOfDarkness
79	* TakeThat: "You've gone from a power crazy monster to talking like an American?"
80	%%* ThatsNoMoon: Well, there's an artificial one.
81	* TheReveal: The Doctor is really Omega, and he's responsible for the murders.
82	%%* RhymesOnADime
83	%%* RoboSpeak
84	%%* RobotMe
85	* SequelEpisode: This adventure takes place almost directly after [[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E1ArcOfInfinity "Arc of Infinity"]]. Retroactively, it is also a sequel to [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho208TheWatersOfAmsterdam "The Waters of Amsterdam"]], during the closing seconds of which The Doctor pops off to be involved in this story.
86	%%* SherlockScan
87	%%* SidetrackedByTheAnalogy
88	%%* SplitPersonality
89	%%* TalkativeLoon: The Doctor/Omega pulls this on the other fragment of Omega.
90	* UnreliableNarrator: Through most of the narrative, the audience is given bits and pieces of Omega's past, including aspects of how he got his moniker, his relationship with Rassilon and even why his ship ended up going into the anti-matter universe. However, in the last fourth we learn that Omega has been suffering from a very confused mind owing to inheriting the Doctor's psychic imprint alongside his body. This throws everything we have heard into doubt, as not even Omega himself is sure what happened anymore.
91	%%* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: How Rassilon justifies Omega's apparent genocide of the Scintillans.
92	* WeAreAsMayflies: A lady remarks on the Doctor's age of "pushing 900" as being ''young''.
93	* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Poor old Omega just wants to go home to his antimatter universe and be alone.

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