A Star Is Born

Short Trips #4.1

Released: 10 August 2011

Listened: 4/26/20

Placed here pretty arbitrarily. The TARDIS lands on a failing generation ship inhabited by sea-lion-like aliens, who are also dying of radiation poisoning. It takes the Doctor some time to determine that the problem is sabotage, not a mechanical fault. There’s some dodgy science here, of both radiation and genetics, and the TARDIS saves everybody by making a controlled short hop, which wasn’t really possible in this era. On the whole, I’m not impressed with this story.