Doctor Who_ Enlightenment - Barbara Clegg [0]
But the Doctor soon discovers that this is no ordinary yacht – and no ordinary race.
Captain Striker is competing for an unusual prize –
‘Enlightenment’.
The crew will be lucky to reach port safely –
but with such a prize would they be lucky to win?
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DOCTOR WHO
ENLIGHTENMENT
Based on the BBC television serial by Barbara Clegg by arrangement with the British Broadcasting Corporation BARBARA CLEGG
Number 85
in the
Doctor Who Library
A TARGET BOOK
published by
The Paperback Division of
W. H. Allen & Co. PLC
A Target Book
Published in 1984
by the Paperback Division of W.H. Allen & Co. PLC
A Howard & WyndhamCompany
44 Hill Street, London W1X 8LB
Novelisation copyright © Barbara Clegg 1984
Original script copyright © Barbara Clegg 1983
‘Doctor Who’ series copyright © British Broadcasting Corporation 1983, 1984
The BBC producer of Enlightenment was John Nathan-Turner, the director was Fionna Cumming Printed and bound in Great Britain by Hunt Barnard Printing Ltd, Aylesbury, Bucks ISBN 0 426 19537 X
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For Adam, Rufus and Jemima,
my most constructive critics
CONTENTS
1 Winner Takes All
2 The Race
3 Here She Blows!
4 Marker Buoy
5 One Down!
6 The Officers
7 Man Overboard!
8 The Buccaneer
9 The Grid Room
10 Spy!
11 Focus Point
12 The Prize
1
Winner Takes All
‘Check!’
There was satisfaction in Turlough’s voice as he moved his queen into position. He had his opponent on the run now, and very soon the white king would be cornered and completely surrounded. Shadows seemed to darken over the chessboard, and Turlough only just managed to control his irritation. Why did all the power in the TARDIS have to go on the blink just when he was winning?
‘Check!’ he repeated crossly.
But Tegan’s mind was not on the game. She was holding a torch for the Doctor as he fiddled with something deep in the interior of the console. All that could be seen of him were two long legs and a pair of wriggling feet. He emerged with a smear of dust on his cheek and a look of interest in his eye.
‘It isn’t a leak,’ he said. The discovery seemed to intrigue more than alarm him. ‘Our power’s being tapped somehow.’
‘Tapped!’ Tegan was horrified. She had always considered the power of the TARDIS to be impregnable.
The Doctor had told them that nothing could get at it. And here he was, taking the whole thing quite calmly, while the lights in the control room grew dimmer and dimmer and their energy slowly ebbed away.
‘Come on!’ Turlough sounded more exasperated still.
All he could think about was the game, and slowly and reluctantly Tegan joined him.
‘Your move,’ he prompted.
The Doctor was tinkering with the controls on top of the console, only part of his attention on their conversation, when the last word of it suddenly echoed