THIS WILL BE A REVIEW OF THE ‘DESTINATION: SKARO’ ADAPTATION, AS PUBLISHED IN THE 2025 ANNUAL, AND MY REVIEWS OF THE TWO OTHER STORIES FEATURED IN ‘FLEETING FACES’ WILL BE ON THE ‘UNDER’ AND ‘INTO CONTROL’ PAGES. 

Steve Cole’s adaptation of the 2023 Children in Need minisode Destination: Skaro doesn’t do much to expand on its source material and reads as a straight adaptation.  

But I suppose that works here, as everything that happened in the minisode is all that is really needed to tell the story. 

However, the two additions to the story are definitely welcome here. A short scene in the TARDIS is added at the start, and the reveal that the voice on the intercom belongs to Nyder is a fun little detail. 

This is basically just a rather short story that won’t take much time to read, but if you didn’t like the minisode, I don’t think you’ll enjoy this straight adaptation either.