Classic Who - Season 20, Story 127 - Enlightment

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Quotes
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Tegan: Electronics. On an Edwardian racing yacht.
The 5th Doctor: Look at the screen. We're not on a yacht, we're on a ship. A spaceship.

"You are a Time Lord, a lord of time. Are there lords in such a small domain?" ~ Captain Striker

"There's no need to whisper, Doctor. You and your companions are free to come and go as you wish. You are our guests, not our prisoners." ~ Captain Striker

"Superior beings do not punish inferiors. We use them... kindly." Captain Striker

"They exist outside of time. They're eternal. They exist in eternity. It's, uh... It's not really what you'd call living. Their minds are empty, used up. They need ideas from us. They're desperate for them." ~ The Fifth Doctor

"You know how impulsive the young are. No, I don't suppose you do." ~ The Fifth Doctor

"These creatures have vast powers, that's why none of them must win. To achieve further power would be a disaster." ~ The Fifth Doctor

"Have you ever seen a man flogged to death? Or keelhauled? Very painful. You Ephemerals have such inventive ways of inflicting pain." ~ Capt. Wrack

Turlough: What have you done?
Capt. Wrack: Improved my chance of winning.

"Masters of sail, and if they're not, they're Eternals, like your friend Marriner. To them it's just a game to pass the time." ~ The Fifth Doctor

Turlough: You can't stop all of them.
The 5th Doctor: We can but try.

"You are life itself. Without you, I'm nothing. Don't you understand? I am empty. You give me being. I look into your mind and see life, energy, excitement. I want them. I want you. Your thought shall be MY thoughts, your feelings MY feelings. Love! What is love? I want existence." ~ Marriner

Captain Wrack: Spying, Doctor?
The 5th Doctor: Well, I'd hardly call it spying. We were welcomed as guests given the freedom of the ship.
Captain Wrack: And you think freedom extends to a door marked "Danger?"

"Enlightenment. When I have it, I shall no longer depend on Ephemeral minds. Everything conceived in time, from the beginning to the end, will be clear to me. I shall create and destroy as I wish. I'll never be bored again. Enlightenment brings whatever one desires. I desire to be amused. I have a new toy to show you. Come. See how I entertain my guests." ~ Captain Wrack

The 5th Doctor: The point of focus. Without it, the power she channels is useless.
Marriner: What power?
The 5th Doctor: The power of darkness.

"Fascinating. For an Ephemeral to outwit an Eternal. I would have thought it an impossibility." ~ Marriner

Tegan: Will the Tardis still function? The console blew up.
The 5th Doctor: Oh, probably did it the world of good. Come on, no time to waste.

"These creatures have no knowledge of good or evil. Enlightenment will give them power. They will invade time itself. Chaos will come again, and the universe will dissolve." ~ Black Guardian

"You're missing the point. Enlightenment was not the diamond. Enlightenment was the choice." ~ The Fifth Doctor

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Trivia
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This is the only Doctor Who production to date to have been written and directed by women: Barbara Clegg and Fiona Cumming respectively.

The Black Guardian Trilogy began in the serial Mawdryn Undead and continued in the previous serial, Terminus. It concludes here.

The original title for this story was The Enlighteners. Portions of Barbara Clegg's story were reworked by Eric Saward to fit into the Trilogy, including substituting the two Guardians for her "Enlighteners". Since there were no longer any Enlighteners as such, the story was renamed Enlightenment.

Every story during Season 20 had the Doctor face an enemy from each of his past incarnations. In this trilogy, the enemy was the Black Guardian, who last faced the fourth incarnation at the conclusion of the Key to Time saga in The Armageddon Factor (1979).

The Doctor replaces his stalk of celery with one from Captain Wrack's ship. Rather curiously, both stalks come from buffets which are essentially figments of other people's imagination (Castrovalva and the Shadow both being 'unreal'). This may explain why the celery never goes off and why it doesn't revive Peri in The Caves of Androzani, although the Doctor explains the latter point by saying that it is a feeble restorative for humans, rather than a powerful one as it is for Gallifreyans.

Eternals are mentioned by the Tenth Doctor in regards to the Void in Army of Ghosts.

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