The Doctor’s fractured partnership with Mel and Ace as existential stakes force moral compromises and painful separations.

The Doctor’s temporal unease about Proamon’s fate clashes with Glitz’s profit-driven agenda as they converge on a risky plan. Glitz proposes using the star charts in the Ice Garden to …

The team regroups in Ace’s empty quarters, the mission’s fragile cohesion straining under the first real test. Mel and the Doctor confront Glitz’s evasiveness about Ace’s whereabouts, their urgency sharpened …

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