By 1985, he was Head of Projects on Space Station Camera, where he used technological augmentation to make an Androgum, Chessene of the Franzine Grig, into a genius. With Chessene, a prototype time machine and an unaltered Androgum, Shockeye of the Quawncing Grig, Dastari abducted the Doctor from the space station. Having landed in the city of Seville on the planet Earth, he worked to find the secret of the Rassilon Imprimatur for the Sontaran Stike. He later supervised the partial genetic transformation of the Doctor into an Androgum.