Mentalis’s self-destruct programming as a technological threat, triggered accidentally by the Doctor and exploited by the Shadow to force annihilation on both sides.
Mentalis’s self-destruct programming as a technological threat, triggered accidentally by the Doctor and exploited by the Shadow to force annihilation on both sides.
Events in This Arc
The Doctor works frantically to dismantle Mentalis' casing, unaware he triggers the supercomputer's primary alert protocol. As emergency pulses surge through the Zeos computer core, Romana connects the Shadow to …
The Doctor and Romana enter the Zeos computer core to find Mentalis initiating a self-destruct sequence that will destroy the planet. K9 alerts them to the danger seconds too late …
Mentalis’s self-destructive programming is triggered the moment the Doctor moves to disable it, reducing its central control complex to a roiling mass of superheated plastic. All navigational signposts are gone, …