Irving Braxiatel
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Irving Braxiatel or Cardinal Braxiatel is a fictional character from the Virgin New Adventures
—spin-off novels based on the BBC
science fiction
television series Doctor Who
. He subsequently became a regular character in novels and audio dramas in the Bernice Summerfield
universe. In the Big Finish Productions
audio dramas he is voiced by Miles Richardson
.
, first appeared in the novel Theatre of War by Justin Richards
, although the Fourth Doctor
's companion
Romana
mentions the Braxiatel Collection in passing in the 1979 television serial City of Death
. In terms of the Doctor's timeline, their first portrayed meeting was in the Virgin Missing Adventures
First Doctor
novel The Empire of Glass
by Andy Lane
, although they already knew each other. Braxiatel met the Seventh Doctor
in Theatre of War and was also at the wedding of Bernice "Benny" Summerfield
and Jason Kane in Happy Endings
by Paul Cornell
.
The Braxiatel Collection — renowned for being one of the greatest art galleries in the galaxy — was founded by Irving Braxiatel and located on an asteroid which Braxiatel was rumoured to have won by playing cards. It had extensive archaeological libraries which could be used by Braxiatel's permission. Braxiatel's collection of books contained every book banned by the Catholic church; he most likely acquired these from the Library of St. John the Beheaded in England
, which he founded (as mentioned at the end of The Empire of Glass). The Library of St. John was featured in the New Adventure All-Consuming Fire
by Andy Lane and the Missing Adventure Millennial Rites
by Craig Hinton
.
In The Empire of Glass, Braxiatel became involved with galactic politics. He organised the Armageddon Convention, which he tried to get the Doctor to chair, but by mistake his agents brought a physically similar man. The Convention was not particularly successful, although we know that it did outlaw the use of cyberbombs (Revenge of the Cybermen
). Braxiatel decided to go back to collecting.
At some point, Braxiatel became the head of the Department of Theatrology at St. Oscar's University on Dellah. After Benny obtained a post at the archaeology department in 2593, the pair of them became entangled in many adventures. After the destruction of the planet Dellah, Braxiatel invited Benny to join him at the Braxiatel Collection.
The Bernice Summerfield novel Tears of the Oracle
by Justin Richards
suggests that Braxiatel is the Doctor's brother and the fact he had left Gallifrey and gone out into the universe was one of the factors that motivated the Doctor to leave. Certainly in the short story "Be Forgot" the Doctor leaves Braxiatel a Christmas present of a pair of socks, signed 'Thete', indicating that their relationship goes back to the days on Gallifrey when the Doctor was called Theta Sigma. In the audio play 100
, the Sixth Doctor
comments that "Brax" was always the sensible one. How this fits with novels such as Lungbarrow
, which establishes that the Time Lords are sterile and do not have conventional families, but are created by genetic looms, is unclear. Braxiatel is certainly not one of the Doctor's 45 cousins that appear in that book. It is possible that he is another son of the Doctor's Gallifreyian father and human mother mentioned in the telemovie, although the Eighth Doctor
's half-human status is itself a muddy issue.
Zagreus
and in the spin-off series Gallifrey
. In these stories, which are set prior to the Bernice Summerfield stories in Braxiatel's timeline, he is a member of the High Council of Time Lords and a confidante of President Romana
.
In Gallifrey: The Inquiry
, it was revealed that the disastrous test of a timeonic fusion device which destroyed the planet Minyos prompted Braxiatel to begin collecting and preserving historical artifacts in case such widespread destruction ever happened. He also admitted that he had transgressed the Laws of Time by being in contact with his future regenerations.
In Gallifrey: Pandora
, Braxiatel became Chancellor, but mere hours later had to use his mind to contain the past and present forms of an ancient Gallifreyan evil known as Pandora. As Pandora would be able to escape if he ever connected to the Matrix
or telepathically communicated with another Time Lord mind, Braxiatel exiled himself from Gallifrey.
In Gallifrey: Warfare
Romana destroyed the future form of Pandora (as well as its intelligence), at the cost of also destroying the Matrix. When Romana was removed from office in Gallifrey: Mindbomb
, Braxiatel returned briefly to Gallifrey and assumed the post of Lord President, since there was no longer anywhere for the Pandora entity to escape to.
However, the ambitious Inquisitor Darkel goaded Braxiatel into losing control of Pandora, believing that it would destroy itself and Braxiatel's mind in the process. Braxiatel then revealed that only a remnant of the entity had ever been in his mind; the bulk of it had sought refuge in Darkel and Braxiatel had merely been the key that kept it restrained. So freed, Pandora consumed both Darkel and itself. Braxiatel returned to his exile, retaining the last fragments of Pandora within him.
However, Braxiatel was not done: hearing rumors of an impending threat against Gallifrey and deciding that in its weakened state the planet was doomed, he hatched a scheme to preserve the Time Lord biodata archive, containing the genetic patterns of all Time Lords, past and present, in the hopes of reconstructing Gallifrey after its inevitable fall. By the end of Gallifrey: Panacea
, Gallifrey is on the brink of economic and social collapse as well as in danger of being overrun by a virus created by the terrorist organization Free Time. He had taken Romana, Leela, K9 II and the Time Lord's biodata bank out of time, in order to restore Gallifrey in the future. There, they find themselves unable to reenter normal space and time, but they can explore Gallifreys in alternate universes. In Gallifrey: Disassembled
, he gets into an altercation with an alternate version of the Doctor. He's thrown into the time lines, seemingly lost forever. But in fact, he returns home, where he immediately meets Bernice Summerfield for the first time. This story also continues the implication that he is related to the Doctor, and further implies that he encouraged the Doctor to leave Gallifrey in the first place because the Time Lords wanted to kill him.
A conspiracy started to develop around Braxiatel, first occurring in the audio The Mirror Effect
. While all the characters were shown dark, twisted mirror images of themselves, Braxiatel was unaffected and when Jason Kane wondered if the real Braxiatel was the mirror version, Jason was brainwashed into being unable to be suspicious of Braxiatel. Further incidents showed the Time Lord to be secretly more dangerous and manipulative than he was letting on — in the book A Life In Pieces
, he was shown using a brainwashed Jason for his own ends as well as having murder done in his name and causing a civil war in the Domus system. The other characters remained unaware of any of this.
Braxiatel was finally caught out when, following the Collection's occupation by the Fifth Axis and their Dalek
masters, he decided to ensure the Collection would survive by finding an army to defend it. He turned to the colony of Cantus, which had been taken over long ago by the Cybermen
, and had a member of the Collection, Ronan McGinley, turned into a Cyber-Controller subordinate to Braxiatel's will. Using a mysterious Gallifreyan crystal
, Ronan was able to make all the Cybermen follow Braxiatel's orders. In the audio adventure, The Crystal of Cantus
it was revealed that the crystal was slowly killing Ronan, so Braxiatel arranged for Jason to arrive on Cantus to become the new Controller. Thanks to Benny, this plan backfired and Jason remembered everything that Braxiatel had done to him. Braxiatel then left the Collection. Before he left, the last words Ronan McGinley spoke were, "The thing in your head... it's still there...", hinting that Pandora is still active.
Braxiatel turned up again in The Tub Full of Cats
, in which he returned to the Collection to negotiate an agreement that would prevent war between the Draconians
and the Mim. Later, in the audio The End of the World
(not to be confused with the Doctor Who episode of the same name), Jason Kane confronted him for the things he had done to him, Benny, and their friends. It was during this confrontation, that partly due to Brax's own manipulations, but partly also by accident, Jason was killed. Benny soon learns of Brax's role in Jason's death, and in The Wake
she flees from him.
Braxiatel soon reveals that Benny plays a critical role in his plans, and lures her into a trap. She is freed from this trap in Resurrecting the Past
, which directly follows the animated short Dead and Buried
. This version of Braxiatel finally meets his maker in Escaping the Future
.
Braxiatel is voiced by actor Miles Richardson, whose interpretation of the role, has influenced the changing nature of the character.
, the Doctor stated that his homeworld had been destroyed and that he was the last of the Time Lords, which raises the question of whether Braxiatel is still alive.) However, the events of Gallifrey: Panacea suggests that Braxiatel, with Romana and other Time Lords, may have escaped the Time Wars by being trapped in an undisclosed location outside time and space with the entire Time Lord biodata archive—foreseeing a possible future resurrection of the Time Lords. In the Tenth Doctor
television story Smith and Jones
, the Doctor mentions that he once had a brother, although he gives no details which could identify this brother as Braxiatel. However, the script editor for this episode, Simon Winstone
, also edited the novel Tears of the Oracle in which the brotherly connection was first made.
Virgin New Adventures
The Virgin New Adventures were a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who...
—spin-off novels based on the BBC
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science fiction
Science fiction
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television series Doctor Who
Doctor Who
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. He subsequently became a regular character in novels and audio dramas in the Bernice Summerfield
Bernice Summerfield
Bernice Surprise Summerfield is a fictional character created by author Paul Cornell as a new companion of the Seventh Doctor in Virgin Publishing's range of original full-length Doctor Who novels, the New Adventures...
universe. In the Big Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays based, primarily, on cult British science fiction properties...
audio dramas he is voiced by Miles Richardson
Miles Richardson
Miles Richardson is a British actor.He was born on 15 July 1963 in Battersea, London to parents Ian Richardson and Maroussia Frank , both founder members of the Royal Shakespeare Company...
.
The New and Missing Adventures
Braxiatel, a Time LordTime Lord
The Time Lords are an ancient extraterrestrial race and civilization of humanoids in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, of which the series' eponymous protagonist, the Doctor, is a member...
, first appeared in the novel Theatre of War by Justin Richards
Justin Richards
Justin Richards is a British writer. He has written science fiction and fantasy novels, including series set in Victorian or early-20th-century London, and also adventure stories set in the present day...
, although the Fourth Doctor
Fourth Doctor
The Fourth Doctor is the fourth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC British television science-fiction series Doctor Who....
's companion
Companion (Doctor Who)
In the long-running BBC television science fiction programme Doctor Who and related works, the term "companion" refers to a character who travels with, and shares the adventures of the Doctor. In most Doctor Who stories, the primary companion acts as both deuteragonist and audience surrogate...
Romana
Romana
Romana, short for Romanadvoratrelundar, is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
mentions the Braxiatel Collection in passing in the 1979 television serial City of Death
City of Death
-Pre-production:Writer David Fisher had contributed two scripts to Doctor Whos sixteenth season – The Stones of Blood and The Androids of Tara – and was asked by producer Graham Williams for further story ideas...
. In terms of the Doctor's timeline, their first portrayed meeting was in the Virgin Missing Adventures
Virgin Missing Adventures
The Virgin Missing Adventures were a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who, which had been cancelled in 1989, featuring stories set between televised episodes of the programme. The novels were published from 1994 to 1997, and...
First Doctor
First Doctor
The First Doctor is the initial incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by the actor William Hartnell from 1963 to 1966. Hartnell reprised the role in the tenth anniversary story The Three Doctors in 1973 - albeit in a...
novel The Empire of Glass
The Empire of Glass
The Empire of Glass is a Virgin Missing Adventures original novel written by Andy Lane based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
by Andy Lane
Andy Lane
Andrew Lane , who also writes as Andy Lane, is a British author and journalist. He has written a number of spin-off novels in the Virgin New Adventures range and audio dramas for Big Finish based on the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who , as well as assorted non fiction books based...
, although they already knew each other. Braxiatel met the Seventh Doctor
Seventh Doctor
The Seventh Doctor is the seventh incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by the actor Sylvester McCoy....
in Theatre of War and was also at the wedding of Bernice "Benny" Summerfield
Bernice Summerfield
Bernice Surprise Summerfield is a fictional character created by author Paul Cornell as a new companion of the Seventh Doctor in Virgin Publishing's range of original full-length Doctor Who novels, the New Adventures...
and Jason Kane in Happy Endings
Happy Endings (Doctor Who)
Happy Endings is an original novel written by Paul Cornell and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is the fiftieth book in the Virgin New Adventures series...
by Paul Cornell
Paul Cornell
Paul Cornell is a British writer best known for his work in television drama as well as Doctor Who fiction, and as the creator of one of the Doctor's spin-off companions, Bernice Summerfield....
.
The Braxiatel Collection — renowned for being one of the greatest art galleries in the galaxy — was founded by Irving Braxiatel and located on an asteroid which Braxiatel was rumoured to have won by playing cards. It had extensive archaeological libraries which could be used by Braxiatel's permission. Braxiatel's collection of books contained every book banned by the Catholic church; he most likely acquired these from the Library of St. John the Beheaded in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, which he founded (as mentioned at the end of The Empire of Glass). The Library of St. John was featured in the New Adventure All-Consuming Fire
All-Consuming Fire
All-Consuming Fire is an original novel written by Andy Lane and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The novel is a crossover with Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective Sherlock Holmes featuring the characters of both Holmes and Doctor Watson, and also...
by Andy Lane and the Missing Adventure Millennial Rites
Millennial Rites
Millennial Rites is an original novel written by Craig Hinton and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
by Craig Hinton
Craig Hinton
Craig Paul Alexander Hinton was a British writer best known for his work on various spin-offs from the BBC Television series Doctor Who....
.
In The Empire of Glass, Braxiatel became involved with galactic politics. He organised the Armageddon Convention, which he tried to get the Doctor to chair, but by mistake his agents brought a physically similar man. The Convention was not particularly successful, although we know that it did outlaw the use of cyberbombs (Revenge of the Cybermen
Revenge of the Cybermen
Revenge of the Cybermen is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 19 April to 10 May 1975.-Synopsis:...
). Braxiatel decided to go back to collecting.
At some point, Braxiatel became the head of the Department of Theatrology at St. Oscar's University on Dellah. After Benny obtained a post at the archaeology department in 2593, the pair of them became entangled in many adventures. After the destruction of the planet Dellah, Braxiatel invited Benny to join him at the Braxiatel Collection.
The Bernice Summerfield novel Tears of the Oracle
Tears of the Oracle
Tears of the Oracle is an original novel by Justin Richards featuring the fictional archaeologist Bernice Summerfield. The New Adventures were a spin-off from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.-Synopsis:...
by Justin Richards
Justin Richards
Justin Richards is a British writer. He has written science fiction and fantasy novels, including series set in Victorian or early-20th-century London, and also adventure stories set in the present day...
suggests that Braxiatel is the Doctor's brother and the fact he had left Gallifrey and gone out into the universe was one of the factors that motivated the Doctor to leave. Certainly in the short story "Be Forgot" the Doctor leaves Braxiatel a Christmas present of a pair of socks, signed 'Thete', indicating that their relationship goes back to the days on Gallifrey when the Doctor was called Theta Sigma. In the audio play 100
100
Year 100 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Traianus and Frontinus...
, the Sixth Doctor
Sixth Doctor
The Sixth Doctor is the sixth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Colin Baker...
comments that "Brax" was always the sensible one. How this fits with novels such as Lungbarrow
Lungbarrow
Lungbarrow is an original novel written by Marc Platt and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
, which establishes that the Time Lords are sterile and do not have conventional families, but are created by genetic looms, is unclear. Braxiatel is certainly not one of the Doctor's 45 cousins that appear in that book. It is possible that he is another son of the Doctor's Gallifreyian father and human mother mentioned in the telemovie, although the Eighth Doctor
Eighth Doctor
The Eighth Doctor is the eighth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Paul McGann...
's half-human status is itself a muddy issue.
Gallifrey
Braxiatel also appears, as Cardinal Braxiatel, in the Doctor Who audio dramaRadio drama
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Zagreus
Zagreus (Doctor Who audio)
Zagreus is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. This audio drama was presented on three compact discs, and was made by Big Finish as their primary release to celebrate forty years of Doctor Who.-Plot:Following directly...
and in the spin-off series Gallifrey
Gallifrey (audio series)
Gallifrey is the umbrella title of a line of audio plays set in the Doctor Who universe, produced by Big Finish Productions, featuring Louise Jameson as Leela, Lalla Ward as President Romana, and John Leeson as two K-9 units, Mark I and Mark II...
. In these stories, which are set prior to the Bernice Summerfield stories in Braxiatel's timeline, he is a member of the High Council of Time Lords and a confidante of President Romana
Romana
Romana, short for Romanadvoratrelundar, is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
.
In Gallifrey: The Inquiry
Gallifrey: The Inquiry
Gallifrey: The Inquiry is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The series is set on the Doctor's home planet of Gallifrey.- Plot :...
, it was revealed that the disastrous test of a timeonic fusion device which destroyed the planet Minyos prompted Braxiatel to begin collecting and preserving historical artifacts in case such widespread destruction ever happened. He also admitted that he had transgressed the Laws of Time by being in contact with his future regenerations.
In Gallifrey: Pandora
Gallifrey: Pandora
Gallifrey: Pandora is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The series is set on the Doctor's home planet of Gallifrey.- Plot :...
, Braxiatel became Chancellor, but mere hours later had to use his mind to contain the past and present forms of an ancient Gallifreyan evil known as Pandora. As Pandora would be able to escape if he ever connected to the Matrix
Matrix (Doctor Who)
The Matrix, in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, is a massive computer system on the planet Gallifrey that acts as the repository of the combined knowledge of the Time Lords....
or telepathically communicated with another Time Lord mind, Braxiatel exiled himself from Gallifrey.
In Gallifrey: Warfare
Gallifrey: Warfare
Gallifrey: Warfare is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The series is set on the Doctor's home planet of Gallifrey.- Plot :...
Romana destroyed the future form of Pandora (as well as its intelligence), at the cost of also destroying the Matrix. When Romana was removed from office in Gallifrey: Mindbomb
Gallifrey: Mindbomb
Gallifrey: Mindbomb is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The series is set on the Doctor's home planet of Gallifrey.- Plot :...
, Braxiatel returned briefly to Gallifrey and assumed the post of Lord President, since there was no longer anywhere for the Pandora entity to escape to.
However, the ambitious Inquisitor Darkel goaded Braxiatel into losing control of Pandora, believing that it would destroy itself and Braxiatel's mind in the process. Braxiatel then revealed that only a remnant of the entity had ever been in his mind; the bulk of it had sought refuge in Darkel and Braxiatel had merely been the key that kept it restrained. So freed, Pandora consumed both Darkel and itself. Braxiatel returned to his exile, retaining the last fragments of Pandora within him.
However, Braxiatel was not done: hearing rumors of an impending threat against Gallifrey and deciding that in its weakened state the planet was doomed, he hatched a scheme to preserve the Time Lord biodata archive, containing the genetic patterns of all Time Lords, past and present, in the hopes of reconstructing Gallifrey after its inevitable fall. By the end of Gallifrey: Panacea
Gallifrey: Panacea
Gallifrey: Panacea is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The series is set on the Doctor's home planet of Gallifrey.- Plot :...
, Gallifrey is on the brink of economic and social collapse as well as in danger of being overrun by a virus created by the terrorist organization Free Time. He had taken Romana, Leela, K9 II and the Time Lord's biodata bank out of time, in order to restore Gallifrey in the future. There, they find themselves unable to reenter normal space and time, but they can explore Gallifreys in alternate universes. In Gallifrey: Disassembled
Gallifrey: Disassembled
Gallifrey: Disassembled is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
, he gets into an altercation with an alternate version of the Doctor. He's thrown into the time lines, seemingly lost forever. But in fact, he returns home, where he immediately meets Bernice Summerfield for the first time. This story also continues the implication that he is related to the Doctor, and further implies that he encouraged the Doctor to leave Gallifrey in the first place because the Time Lords wanted to kill him.
Bernice Summerfield audios
Big Finish's series of Bernice Summerfield books and audios have brought Bernice to the Braxiatel Collection, with Braxiatel himself becoming a key part of the regular cast. He is aloof and mysterious but is still considered one of Benny's closest friends.A conspiracy started to develop around Braxiatel, first occurring in the audio The Mirror Effect
The Mirror Effect
The Mirror Effect is a Big Finish Productions audio drama featuring Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.- Plot :...
. While all the characters were shown dark, twisted mirror images of themselves, Braxiatel was unaffected and when Jason Kane wondered if the real Braxiatel was the mirror version, Jason was brainwashed into being unable to be suspicious of Braxiatel. Further incidents showed the Time Lord to be secretly more dangerous and manipulative than he was letting on — in the book A Life In Pieces
A Life In Pieces
A Life in Pieces is a Big Finish original novella collection, featuring Bernice Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.-Stories:-External links:*...
, he was shown using a brainwashed Jason for his own ends as well as having murder done in his name and causing a civil war in the Domus system. The other characters remained unaware of any of this.
Braxiatel was finally caught out when, following the Collection's occupation by the Fifth Axis and their Dalek
Dalek
The Daleks are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Within the series, Daleks are cyborgs from the planet Skaro, created by the scientist Davros during the final years of a thousand-year war against the Thals...
masters, he decided to ensure the Collection would survive by finding an army to defend it. He turned to the colony of Cantus, which had been taken over long ago by the Cybermen
Cyberman
The Cybermen are a fictional race of cyborgs who are amongst the most persistent enemies of the Doctor in the British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. Cybermen were originally a wholly organic species of humanoids originating on Earth's twin planet Mondas that began to implant more...
, and had a member of the Collection, Ronan McGinley, turned into a Cyber-Controller subordinate to Braxiatel's will. Using a mysterious Gallifreyan crystal
The Five Doctors
The Five Doctors is a special feature-length episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, produced in celebration of the programme's twentieth anniversary. It had its world premiere in the United States, on the Chicago PBS station WTTW and various other PBS member stations...
, Ronan was able to make all the Cybermen follow Braxiatel's orders. In the audio adventure, The Crystal of Cantus
The Crystal of Cantus
The Crystal of Cantus is a Big Finish Productions audio drama featuring Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.- Plot :...
it was revealed that the crystal was slowly killing Ronan, so Braxiatel arranged for Jason to arrive on Cantus to become the new Controller. Thanks to Benny, this plan backfired and Jason remembered everything that Braxiatel had done to him. Braxiatel then left the Collection. Before he left, the last words Ronan McGinley spoke were, "The thing in your head... it's still there...", hinting that Pandora is still active.
Braxiatel turned up again in The Tub Full of Cats
The Tub Full of Cats
The Tub Full of Cats is a Big Finish Productions audio drama featuring Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.- Plot :...
, in which he returned to the Collection to negotiate an agreement that would prevent war between the Draconians
Draconian (Doctor Who)
The Draconians are a fictional extraterrestrial race from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Their only television appearance to date was in the 1973 serial Frontier in Space. Unlike many "monster" races in Doctor Who, the Draconians were articulate and portrayed as having a...
and the Mim. Later, in the audio The End of the World
The End of the World (Bernice Summerfield)
The End of the World is a Big Finish Productions audio drama featuring Stephen Fewell as Jason Kane, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.- Plot :...
(not to be confused with the Doctor Who episode of the same name), Jason Kane confronted him for the things he had done to him, Benny, and their friends. It was during this confrontation, that partly due to Brax's own manipulations, but partly also by accident, Jason was killed. Benny soon learns of Brax's role in Jason's death, and in The Wake
The Wake (Bernice Summerfield)
The Wake is a Big Finish Productions audio drama featuring Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.- Plot :...
she flees from him.
Braxiatel soon reveals that Benny plays a critical role in his plans, and lures her into a trap. She is freed from this trap in Resurrecting the Past
Resurrecting the Past
Resurrecting the Past is a Big Finish Productions audio drama featuring Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.- Plot :...
, which directly follows the animated short Dead and Buried
Dead and Buried (Bernice Summerfield)
Dead and Buried is an animated webcast based on the Doctor Who spin-off series Bernice Summerfield. It was released free to watch on the official Big Finish YouTube channel on 31 August 2010...
. This version of Braxiatel finally meets his maker in Escaping the Future
Escaping the Future
Escaping the Future is a Big Finish Productions audio drama featuring Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.- Plot :...
.
Braxiatel is voiced by actor Miles Richardson, whose interpretation of the role, has influenced the changing nature of the character.
Canonicity
The canonicity of the character with respect to the television series (in which the Braxiatel Collection is mentioned, but the character never appeared) and to other Doctor Who spin-offs is open to interpretation. There has been no indication of whether or how the character might relate to events depicted in the 2005 television series revival. (In The End of the WorldThe End of the World (Doctor Who)
"The End of the World" is the second episode of Series One of the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who. Written by show runner Russell T Davies and directed by Euros Lyn, the episode was first broadcast on 2 April 2005....
, the Doctor stated that his homeworld had been destroyed and that he was the last of the Time Lords, which raises the question of whether Braxiatel is still alive.) However, the events of Gallifrey: Panacea suggests that Braxiatel, with Romana and other Time Lords, may have escaped the Time Wars by being trapped in an undisclosed location outside time and space with the entire Time Lord biodata archive—foreseeing a possible future resurrection of the Time Lords. In the Tenth Doctor
Tenth Doctor
The Tenth Doctor is the tenth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He is played by David Tennant, who appears in three series, as well as eight specials...
television story Smith and Jones
Smith and Jones (Doctor Who)
"Smith and Jones" is the first episode of the third series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 31 March 2007. It sees the debut of Freema Agyeman as new companion Martha Jones...
, the Doctor mentions that he once had a brother, although he gives no details which could identify this brother as Braxiatel. However, the script editor for this episode, Simon Winstone
Simon Winstone
Simon Winstone is a British author and editor, known for his work on Doctor Who and on the BBC soap opera EastEnders.Winstone worked for Virgin Books, overseeing their Missing Adventures Doctor Who series and briefly being in charge of the New Adventures after the series had ceased being a Doctor...
, also edited the novel Tears of the Oracle in which the brotherly connection was first made.
External links
- The Empire of Glass Ebook on the BBC Doctor Who website