Stories Audio Drama Big Finish Main Range The Creed of the Kromon 1 image Overview Characters How to Listen Reviews 10 Statistics Quotes Overview Released Tuesday, January 20, 2004 Written by Philip Martin Cover Art by Steve Johnson Publisher Big Finish Productions Directed by Gary Russell Runtime 129 minutes Story Type New Companion Introduction Time Travel Unclear Tropes (Potential Spoilers!) Lost the TARDIS Story Arc (Potential Spoilers!) Divergent Universe Location (Potential Spoilers!) Divergent Universe, Eutermes, Interzone Synopsis The Interzone is a fearsome nether-world protecting a zone ruled by the Kromon. Theirs is an arid land of dust and dying trees. Across the landscape are spheres that look like giant anthills. The Doctor believes that within one of these structures lie the clues that will lead him to his lost TARDIS. The spheres are ruled by the insect-like Kromon who covet the TARDIS. When Charley is captured she is forced to metamorphose into a hybrid-insect Queen, and so to save her, the Doctor must barter his knowledge of space-travel technology, all the while knowing that he risks opening up all the realms of space to a rapacious race whose creed is not to create, only to plunder. Listen Listened Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Edit date completed Custom Date Release Date Archive (no date) Save Characters Eighth Doctor Paul McGann Charlotte Pollard India Fisher Kromon C'rizz Conrad Westmaas First Appearance Kro'ka First Appearance Show All Characters (5) How to listen to The Creed of the Kromon: Big Finish Audio The Creed of the Kromon Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Date (Newest First) Date (Oldest First) Likes (High-Low) Likes (Low-High) Rating (High-Low) Rating (Low-High) Word count (High-Low) Word count (Low-High) Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 10 reviews 18 May 2025 · 6 words Review by Celestial 1 "Tonight's episode: Philip Martin's barely-disguised fetish." Celestial View profile Like Liked 1 10 March 2025 · 85 words Review by JustAsPlanned Spoilers 2 This review contains spoilers! Abject slop. It's been months since I've heard it and it isn't any less rooted in my mind as being abjectly terrible. A terrible way to introduce a new companion, a terrible followup to the masterpiece that is Scherzo, a terrible, fetishistic plot, and a wholly unnecessary return of The Guy Who Wrote Peri Getting Tortured In An Unnecessarily Weird Way Twice. Seriously, why bring Phillip Martin back? How does one make a story about big bug accountants gross and icky in a bad way? JustAsPlanned View profile Like Liked 2 10 February 2025 · 30 words Review by ash.hnt 2 no where near as bad as people have said it is, but it’s within true doctor who fashion that a weak, weird story, should came straight after a veritable masterpiece ash.hnt View profile Like Liked 2 9 February 2025 · 12 words Review by mistwhisper117 2 The beginning with Kro’ka was interesting. Everything afterward was disappointing or unpleasant. mistwhisper117 View profile Like Liked 2 7 February 2025 · 376 words Review by RandomJoke Spoilers 2 This review contains spoilers! Well it’s been quite a while since I listen to this, that said I still remember it well enough and well I don’t hate it, neither do I like it. I think in many ways at best it’s a bit unremarkable, at worst it’s a letdown in its Series, as well as in the MR after such a stellar Run (Omega - Scherzo) and then this! Following such a good Run will always be hard and well Kromon does not live up to it. If it wasn’t for its Writer and for being the Introduction Story of C’rizz, it would have be forgotten, I’d reckon. After doing some Work with Six, Martin returns to pen his first Big Finish Play and his first Adventure with a new Doctor. It’s not good. Not to say I am too thrilled about Martins work from what I heard and seen, but this one falls into the Trap of his previous Work but without the Substance. It’s offputting but lacks a Commentary that made Varos such a good Story. Gone is an interesting, unique World, replaced for a Society that on Paper could be interesting but offers mostly nothing. Of course following up Scherzo would have been hard anyway and if this Story delivers in being enjoyable I would have been very satisfied. Sadly it simply isn’t, if we don’t have some gross Imagery we kinda have a very Standard and very boring Who Adventures. That said, not all of it is bad, C’rizz is introduced fairly well here, and you get the Gist of his Character. Some of its Cliffhangers are intriguing, but really what does it offer? Of course, it’s fine if a Writer decides to go with a style, has a pattern, it can work very well, sadly Martin’s later Work (from the very little I know) doesn’t reach the Highs of his first one. Despite all I wouldn’t say it’s truly “bad”, it isn’t “good” either and not really “middling” either, I am unsure how I would rate this Story. There are Things which work, but they get overshadowed by some of its worst Parts, a mess of a Story really, and I am not necessarily sure if I make sense, but I tried my best . RandomJoke View profile Like Liked 2 Show All Reviews (10) Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating326 members 2.11 / 5 Member Statistics Listened 551 Favourited 9 Reviewed 10 Saved 8 Skipped 5 Quotes Add Quote Submit a Quote