Starkey

Starkey was a rebellious fourteen-year-old orphan, who operated under the pseudonym "Stark Reality" and later became the master of K-9.

Biography
Starkey was an orphan and a troubled youngster who was also a notorious criminal called "Stark Reality". He also had followers who wanted to be his accomplices, like Jorjie. One night, he and Jorjie escaped Police robots and stumbled into Alistair Gryffen's house. There, he accidentally unplugged his Space-Time Manipulator and brought through three Jixen warriors and K9. A Jixen sprayed him with its enemy-fluid whilst K9 self-destructed, killing three Jixen. Starkey retrieved K9's regeneration circuit and he rebuilt himself. Darius Pike then informed the police robots and he was arrested and taken to a detention facility operated by The Department. There he was put into virtual reality detention though Jorjie was able to hack into his detention program and communicate with him. The surviving Jixen tried to kill him, but he escaped and K9 gave him his dog whistle, ready for adventure. (K9TV: Regeneration)

When Nehetka and Geb of the Anubians, a race who K9 liberated in his past, arrived on Earth. Gryffen was the first to fall under their hypnotic control, he then banished Darius from the house when he irritated the Anubians. Starkey and Jorjie were next and Darius tried to convince K9 something was wrong but he was too occupied with remembering his past. Darius used Mariah to knock Geb out, using the Ankh on his chest to take control of the Anubian spacecraft and with K9, defeated the Anubians when they attempted to take over the Department and freed Starkey and the others. (K9TV: Curse of Anubis)

Gryffen took Starkey in soon after. During his time at the Gryffen household, Starkey tried to find out who his parents were. Following a chance encounter with an Oroborus, Gryffen discovered that Starkey was the son of two geneticists who had experimented on him as a baby, granting him an alien immune system, and that they themselves had dissapeared some time afterward. (K9TV: Oroborus)

Behind the scenes

 * Intentionally or not, Starkey's hairstyle resembles that of K-9's former master the Fourth Doctor.