TEXT: DOCTOR WHO THE ARK IN SPACE BY ROBERT HOLMES PART ONE 5:30pm - 5:55pm [SCENE_BREAK] SARAH: Run, Doctor! Run! NOAH: Stay, Vira, stay... Abandon the Ark, Vira! Take the transport ship. Leave now. If you stay, you are doomed. VIRA: That would be desertion! NOAH: Then, you must die - all of you! When the Wirrn emerge, you will be hunted down and destroyed, as you destroyed us! SARAH: (To NOAH.)We've never destroyed... (To the DOCTOR.) What does he mean? NOAH: Long ago... Long ago, humans came to the old lands. For a thousand years, the Wirrn fought them, but you humans destroyed the breeding colonies. The Wirrn were driven from Andromeda. VIRA: Andromeda? So our star pioneers succeeded? NOAH: Since then, we have drifted through space, searching for a new habitat. The Ark is ours! It must be ours! DOCTOR: But the Wirrn live in space. You don't need the Ark! NOAH (OOV.): You know nothing! NOAH: We live in space, but our breeding colonies are terrestrial. DOCTOR: But you could leave the Ark and go on. There's plenty of room in the Galaxy for us all. NOAH: In the old lands, senseless herbivores, cattle, were the hosts for our hatchlings. Now we shall use the humans in the Cryogenic Chamber. We shall be informed with all human knowledge. In one generation, the Wirrn will become an advanced, technological species. We shall have power! VIRA: That proposition is genetically impossible! NOAH: I already have all Dune's knowledge! High-energy physics, quantum mechanics... Every ramate in the next hatching of Wirrn will possess the sum of your race's learning. NOAH (OOV.): That is why you must die! DOCTOR: Time to leave. NOAH: Leave the Ark, Vira, or die
SUMMARY:
The Doctor tries to protect the humans still in cryogenic suspension from the Wirrn, who are determined to use Earth as their new breeding ground.