This is part of a series of reviews of Doctor Who in chronological timeline order.

Previous Story: The Emerald Tiger

And after the excellent The Emerald Tiger we're back to our regularly scheduled programming. This story managed to hook me at the start with the Doctor being put on trial and betrayed by Turlough. Turlough is probably the only companion where you can do a betrayal story that actually makes you question whether it's for real. Of course, it wasn't and he was just doing it as a scheme to help him and the Doctor escape. I knew it wouldn't be a real betrayal but I felt like it was something they could have expanded for longer.

After that, this story devolves into generic Doctor Who running-about-a-space-station action and I find it very difficult to care. The peace treaty stuff is essentially what we've already seen with the Draconians only with a different alien this time. None of the cast or characters particularly stand out. All the performances here are just ok. I'd rather this was an actually bad story because as it is it's all just... ok. It's very difficult to write a compelling review about something average.

Next Story: The Butcher of Brisbane