Newton Pallister

Newton Pallister was Vicki's widowed father. (AUDIO: The Crash of the UK-201)

Biography
On Earth, Newton was a Lieutenant Commander of Merchant Space Marines. (PROSE: The Eleventh Tiger) He and his wife had a daughter whom he named Vicki. They lived in Liddell Towers on the South Circular Road in New London. (PROSE: Byzantium!)

Newton's wife died of a genetic heart defect. Barely a month later, (AUDIO: The Crash of the UK-201) he was offered a place on the Astra Nine project and accepted. (PROSE: The Rescue) While Newton primarily wanted to get away from Earth after his wife's death, (TV: The Rescue) Vicki agreed to leave Earth due to the greenhouse effect. (PROSE: The Rescue) Before leaving Earth, Newton underwent basic paramedic training for the job he intended to take up upon his arrival on Astra. (PROSE: The Eleventh Tiger)

They departed for the colony planet Astra in 2493 on the UK-201. (TV: The Rescue) On the eighth day of their trip in hyperspace, (AUDIO: The Crash of the UK-201) the ship was sabotaged by Bennett and crash-landed on the planet Dido. Both Newton and his daughter survived. After the crash, the locals invited all survivors to a feast. Leaving a still convalescing Vicki behind, Newton attended the feast, where he, all other survivors and most of Didoans were murdered by Bennett. (TV: The Rescue)

Alternative timelines
In a timeline where Vicki prevented the crash of UK-201, Newton successfully reached Astra with Vicki and started working in an observatory. He was killed when a meteor shower hit the building.

In a further modified timeline, where Vicki warned Newton to get out of the building, he survived the destruction of the observatory but blamed Vicki for being too late to save his colleagues. As a result, Newton and Vicki did not speak to each other for eight years. (AUDIO: The Crash of the UK-201)