TEXT: THE TRIAL OF A TIME LORD PART ONE (THE MYSTERIOUS PLANET) Run time: 24:57 [SCENE_BREAK] Space Station [SCENE_BREAK] Trial room [SCENE_BREAK] Valeyard: At last, Doctor. The Doctor: Am I late for something? Valeyard: I was beginning to fear you had lost yourself. Sit down. The Doctor: Well, even I would find it hard to lose myself in a corridor. Especially, when propelled by the mental energy of so many distinguished Time Lords. Valeyard: Oh, I don't know. You seem to have a great talent for straying from the straight and narrow. The Doctor: Would it be too much to ask what all this is about? Inquisitor: The accused will remain silent until invited to speak. The Doctor: The accused? Do you mean me? Inquisitor: I call upon the Valeyard to open the case. Valeyard: By order of the High Council, this is an impartial enquiry into the behaviour of the accused person, known as the Doctor, who is charged that he, on diverse occasions has been guilty of conduct unbecoming a Time Lord. The Doctor: Not guilty! Valeyard: He is also charged with, on diverse occasions, transgressing the First Law. It is my unpleasant task, Madam Inquisitor, to prove to the enquiry that the Doctor is an incorrigible meddler in the affairs of other peoples and planets. Inquisitor: Yes. I see, Valeyard, that it is on record that the Doctor has faced trial already for offences of this nature. Valeyard: That is so, my lady, and I shall contend that the High Council showed too great a leniency on that occasion. Inquisitor: Very well. Doctor, you've heard the charges. Do you wish to say anything before the enquiry proceeds? The Doctor: Only that this whole thing is a farce. I am Lord President of Gallifrey. You can't put me on trial. Inquisitor: Doctor, since you willfully neglected the responsibility of your great office, you were deposed. The Doctor: Oh. Is that legal? In
SUMMARY:
The Doctor is taken to a Time Lord space Station and put on trial for his life. The Valeyard uses past examples of the Doctors activities taken from 'The Matrix', the repository of all Gallifreyan knowledge to show how the Doctor has interfered with other worlds. In this installment of the Trial story Arc, The Doctor's visit to the planet Ravalox is told and how he interfered with the indigenous population of that world when he saved it from a devastating explosion.