Goth


 * For other uses of Goth see Goth (disambiguation).

Gothaparduskerialldrapolatkh (or Goth for short) was a Time Lord politician and occasional agent of the Celestial Intervention Agency, who, as Lord Chancellor, was made into a pawn of the Master. He had a brother named Rath. (NA: Blood Harvest)

Biography
On behalf of the of CIA, Goth masqueraded as a fictional character Lemuel Gulliver in the Land of Fiction, in order to monitor the Second Doctor. Shortly afterwards, on Gallifrey, Goth, with two other Time Lords, would preside over the trial of the Doctor, which would decide the latter's exile on Earth. (DWA: Future Imperfect) Goth was only a Councillor at the time. (DWM: The Legacy of Gallifrey)

At some point, Goth became Chancellor and persuaded the CIA to send the Doctor to Peladon. (NA: Legacy)

He travelled to the planet Tersurus and found the dying Master there. Aware by now that the Lord President intended to name Cardinal Borusa as his successor rather than Goth, the Chancellor entered into an uneasy alliance with the Master, who promised him the presidency in exchange for helping to kill the Fourth Doctor.

Goth subsequently assassinated the President (while setting up the Doctor as an unwitting decoy assassin) before he could announce Borusa as the new President, resulting in what should be been a largely unopposed election for the President's office. However, the Doctor announced his own candidacy to buy himself time to investigate.

Inside the Matrix, he fought the Doctor, initially using his knowledge of the Matrix's workings to his advantage. However, the Doctor soon gained the upper hand and the infuriated Master tried to overload the Matrix by sending a massive energy spike through Goth's brain.

This failed to kill the Doctor, who escaped from the Matrix in time, but fatally damaged Goth's brain and destroyed his regeneration cycle. The Doctor found Goth and the seemingly dead (but actually self-sedated) Master afterwards. The dying Chancellor told the Doctor how he and the Master had come to be allies, and why he wanted to kill the previous President.

Goth died shortly afterwards, and it was decided by Borusa, ironically the man who would have taken the Presidency from him, to cover up the actual truth of his death and to tell the population that he had sacrificed his life to kill the Master. (DW: The Deadly Assassin)

Behind the scenes

 * Actor Bernard Horsfall had played both Lemuel Gulliver in The Mind Robber and an un-named Time Lord who presided over the Second Doctor's trial in The War Games. Marc Platt decided to explain this as Goth in all instances in Future Imperfect.
 * Goth's full name was given in ST: War Crimes.