Plastic Millenium (comic story)

Summary
The Doctor and Mel join Alisha Hammerson, the Auton head of Hammerson Plastic PLC, at her Millennium Party. Their arrival is not unexpected and 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, reintroduces the Doctor to the Nestene Consciousness. A plastic meteor is the only weak link with the Nestene home world and even though the Doctor does not manage to destroy it with a liquid in a glass phial, Mel has a spare and uses it. The meteor is destroyed and contact with the Nestene is broken. The Autons, Alisha included, are rendered lifeless.

Characters

 * Seventh Doctor
 * Melanie Bush
 * Nestene Consciousness ("Swarm Leader")
 * Alisha Hammerson
 * Autons
 * England's top businessmen
 * reporters

Original print details

 * Publication with page count


 * 1) DWMS Winter 1994 (8) A tribute issue to writer Robert Holmes

Continuity

 * On the same night, the Sixth Doctor and a younger version of Mel saved the Earth from being taken over by Saraquazel, a being from the After-Universe, and his servant Ashley Chapel. (MA: Millennial Rites) Concurrently in San Francisco, an older version of the Seventh Doctor regenerated into his eighth incarnation. After an initial bout of amnesia, the newly regenerated Doctor stopped the Master from stealing his body and destroying the Earth, with the help of Dr. Grace Holloway. (DW: Doctor Who (1996))


 * This story occurs before ST: The Invertebrates of Doom