The Doctor’s repeated technological improvisations—especially with gravity beams and subterranean geology—used to counter the Tractators, turning Frontios’ hazard-filled tunnels into an active battleground of innovation against predation.
The Doctor’s repeated technological improvisations—especially with gravity beams and subterranean geology—used to counter the Tractators, turning Frontios’ hazard-filled tunnels into an active battleground of innovation against predation.
Events in This Arc
Trapped in the cavern’s grip, the Doctor improvises a desperate gambit. Spotting a massive globe with smaller globes clinging to it, he seizes it as cover just as the Tractators’ …
The Doctor seizes a phosphor lamp from their supplies and hurls it into the path of the Tractators' crushing gravity beam. The sudden release of its oppressive force frees Tegan …
The Doctor and Tegan stand in a narrow tunnel beneath Frontios, their phosphor lamps casting flickering shadows against the rock walls. The air hums with tension as the distant vibration …