Plastic Millenium (comic story)

Summary
The Doctor and Mel arrive to join Alisha Hammerson (Head of Hammerson Plastic PLC) at her Millennium Party. Their arrival is not unexpected but the Doctor is not surprised. He has been waiting to discover Alisha’s plans. Alisha having begun to replicate the businessmen in attendance at the party, she reintroduces the Doctor to the Nestene Intelligence. A meteor is the only weak link with the Nestene home world and even though the Doctor’s attempt to destroy it with a glass phial he has prepared is thwarted, a spare he had given to Mel isn’t. The meteor is destroyed and contact with the Nestene is broken and the Autons lifeless.

Characters
Alisha Hammerson, a sophisticated auton controlled by the Nestene consciousness, who appeared at the close of the twentieth century and set up a new plastics factory that within six months dominated the plastics market. Gathering together leading figures (notably in the plastics industry) at the turn of the millennium she planned to replace them with Auton replicas, in order that the Earth could be dominated and absorbed. When the Nestene link was broken by a chemical the Doctor had manufactured, a chemical that was thrown by Melanie, she was destroyed. A biography was published, charting her success called simply Alisha, a book critics found littered with excessive semi-colons, a fact that first drew the Doctor's attention to the Nestene plans.

Hammerson Plastics PLC  company set up by director Alisha Hammerson at the end of the twentieth century. It's short lived dominance of the plastics industry was attributed to new principles of efficiency and automation. HP was in fact a company fronted by Alisha on behalf of the Nestene in their quest for domination of the Earth.

Original Print Details (Publication with page count)

 * 1) DWMS Summer 1994  (8)

Reprints

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Continuity
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