Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Bellotron Incident (audio story)



 was the sixteenth Bernice Summerfield audio story produced by Big Finish Productions. It was the first performed appearance of the Rutans since 1994's Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans. This story also featured Bev Tarrant played by Louise Falkner who had previously played the character in the Doctor Who audio stories The Genocide Machine and Dust Breeding. This was the first case of an audio created original character crossing from Big Finish's Doctor Who range into their Bernice Summerfield range. Every audio story of this season of Bernice Summerfield would feature a "monster" or species from Doctor Who's original 1963-1989 run.

Publisher's summary
Two aggressive alien races.

A war that has raged for centuries.

A planet that orbits through no man’s land.

The Rutan/Sontaran conflict has started to endanger the Terran trade routes, but when the Captain of the battle cruiser Rites of Passage finds an energy signature of artificial origin on the primitive planet of Bellotron he is duty bound to call in the assistance of a qualified academic.

Confronted by savage predators, fiendish traps and the unexpected involvement of an opportunist thief, an unwilling Benny finds herself caught up in a conflict where neither side plays by the rules -- and no-one is quite what they seem...

Plot
to be added

Cast

 * Bernice Summerfield - Lisa Bowerman
 * Bev Tarrant - Louise Falkner
 * Irving Braxiatel - Miles Richardson
 * Joseph - Steven Wickham
 * Commander Ryan - Karl Hansen
 * Captain Quilby - Peter John

Conflicts

 * Braxiatel mentions the Sontaran-Rutan conflict.

Culture

 * Benny states that the sun sigil is similar to other on Earth, Argolis, and Blinni-Gaar.

Individuals

 * Both Bev and Bernice get copied by a Rutan.

Planets

 * Bellotron's orbit takes it through Sontaran space.

Species

 * Captain Quilby suggest that the Zzinbriizi might be responsible for the alien activity on Bellotron.

Continuity

 * Bev Tarrant first appeared in AUDIO: The Genocide Machine, and then in Dust Breeding, both of which were also written by Mike Tucker.
 * Benny last encountered Rutans in PROSE: Shakedown.