Museum Peace (short story)

Museum Peace was the tenth short story in the Short Trips anthology Short Trips: Dalek Empire. It was written by James Swallow. It featured the Eighth Doctor and Kalendorf.

Summary
The Doctor arrives in a Velyshaan museum dedicated to the Dalek War. He meets Kalendorf there, an old soldier. They reminisce about the war. The Doctor needed to meet Kalendorf so he could help him make a decision that would destroy the Daleks, albeit at the cost of everything the Doctor holds dear, namely Gallifrey and Time Lords.

A nearby Dalek in a display cabinet is not as dead as it seems and has charged enough power for one shot of its energy weapon. It sees the Doctor and Kalendorf and has to make the decision of which to kill. The Dalek chooses and fires. A nearby school child runs in front of the Doctor and Kalendorf and takes the shot. Kalendorf responds by destroying the Dalek. He turns around to see that the child is dead and the Doctor is nowhere to be seen. Kalendorf concludes that the Doctor had made his decision.

Characters

 * Eighth Doctor
 * Kalendorf
 * Jasta Mirin
 * Dalek

Continuity

 * The Doctor talks about the last time that he met Kalendorf on Zaleria whilst in his seventh incarnation. Kalendorf does not recognise the Doctor as he has regenerated in the interim. (AUDIO: Return of the Daleks)
 * The Doctor recalls his first meeting with the Daleks on their homeworld of Skaro. (TV: The Daleks)
 * The Doctor refers to his opportunity to avert the creation of the Daleks. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks) Kalendorf thinks the Doctor is a fool for not following through when he had the chance, a sentiment the Doctor himself had previously voiced on several occcasions. (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks, PROSE: Lucifer Rising, AUDIO: To the Death)
 * The Doctor states that the decision he is struggling to make could rid the universe of the Daleks, but would come at the cost of "everything [he knew]". (TV: Dalek, The Night of the Doctor)
 * Kalendorf mentions that the Knights of Velyshaa are trying to develop time travel. (AUDIO: The Sirens of Time)
 * The Doctor previously knew that he was going to regenerate in PROSE: The End.
 * The Doctor wears a frock coat. (TV: Night of the Doctor)