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Time Lording through time and space, one victory at a time!

VICTORY XIII

This audio focuses on the topic: the Daleks seize the Doctor's TARDIS to coerce him into forming a peaceful alliance with the Wraxians, an improbable alien race. This is something of a political drama. We slowly learn about the Wraxians, their secret technologies (the Devovler), and the planned alliance between them and the Daleks. We follow the Doctor, who is very suspicious between the two races.

We eventually learn that the Dalek race is threatened, which is the reason they require the Doctor’s help, and that the Doctor knows why there have been loads of alterations in the timeline lately. This is when the story finally begins picking up speed, but even then, it mostly trudges long with very little excitement.

Paul McGann still sounds bored, while Nick Briggs has loads of fun with various Dalek voices. The guest cast is much less interesting in this audio compared to He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not (Victory XII).

The story delves slightly deeper into the wider repercussions of the Tenth Doctor’s messing around in the Dark Times: it has caused changes in the established timeline, creating new planets and races and changing established ones. We also learn that the Devolver is technology from the Dark Times, where the Doctor takes the Daleks.