The story launched a TARDIS team that had never existed on television — that of the Fifth Doctor, Peri and Erimem — and in so doing massively widened the gap between Planet of Fire, Peri's introduction, and The Caves of Androzani, the Fifth Doctor's swan song. The team would continue on for numerous stories which covered several years of Peri's life.
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| - The story launched a TARDIS team that had never existed on television — that of the Fifth Doctor, Peri and Erimem — and in so doing massively widened the gap between Planet of Fire, Peri's introduction, and The Caves of Androzani, the Fifth Doctor's swan song. The team would continue on for numerous stories which covered several years of Peri's life.
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| - Antranak and the cat named after him
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| - Thebes and Giza, Egypt, circa 1400 BC
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| - The Audio Scripts: Volume Two
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| - The story launched a TARDIS team that had never existed on television — that of the Fifth Doctor, Peri and Erimem — and in so doing massively widened the gap between Planet of Fire, Peri's introduction, and The Caves of Androzani, the Fifth Doctor's swan song. The team would continue on for numerous stories which covered several years of Peri's life. Many of the character traits established for Erimem in this story would go on to be running themes explored throughout her run. The story was thus a bit unusual for a companion introduction in that it featured character beats that were typical of that companion, rather than things that were mentioned in her introduction and then mostly forgotten. It's not really possible to understand her actions in later stories like The Church and the Crown, The Council of Nicaea, Son of the Dragon, and her eventual departure in The Bride of Peladon without getting a good grasp on her motivations in this tale. Scorpion was Iain McLaughlin's initial effort in the DWU, most of whose work in the DWU went on to feature Erimem. He gave the audio a novel-sized prequel called The Coming of the Queen — meaning that Scorpion is merely Erimem's first story, not her origin story.
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