TEXT: PAUL ERICKSON & LESLEY SCOTT 05:15pm-05:40pm [SCENE_BREAK] 1: INT. ARK. CONTROL DECK DODO: Doctor, Steven, look! DOCTOR: What is it, my dear, what have you found? (They join DODO who is gazing up at the statue.) DODO: The statue! They've finished the statue! (The completed stones structure looms over them. But where the plan showed a human head there is now the head of a MONOID.) DODO: What's happened? The head, it wasn't meant to be like that. STEVEN: No. It was meant to be a human being and now it's a Monoid. Wonder why? (They move towards the control desk. Leaves are scattered all over the floor as foliage has started to grow on the control deck.) DOCTOR: Well I'm not sure, dear boy. However, the statue is finished. That means, er, seven hundred years must've passed since we... last stood here. Hmm? DODO: Is that why the place looks so grotty? STEVEN: Must be. DODO: But we've only been gone a few seconds! DOCTOR: Yes, I know my dear, it's pretty hard for you to understand. STEVEN: Yes, well the Guardians said it would take seven hundred years for this spaceship to reach the Planet Refusis II. If that navigation chart's anything to go by I'd say that they're almost there. (The DOCTOR studies the controls.) DOCTOR: Yes, I think you're right. STEVEN: Then where are the guardians? Well at least the descendants of those we knew before, surely they should be here, guiding the ship? DOCTOR: I don't think that will be necessary, dear boy, it appears they've introduced some form of automatic guiding device. STEVEN: Yes but you'd think one of them would be standing by to make sure nothing goes wrong. DOCTOR: Yes, well now, let's have a look at the scanner and see if that may
SUMMARY:
The Doctor and his companions Steven Taylor and Dodo Chaplet arrive some ten million years into the future, on board a generation starshipwhich is carrying the last of humanity away from an Earth that is about to fall into the Sun. However, the cold that Dodo has could prove devastating to these future humans and their servants, the Monoids.