Cold Vengeance (audio story)

Cold Vengeance was the third and final story in the The Tenth Doctor Adventures: Volume Two, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Matt Fitton and featured David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and Billie Piper as Rose Tyler.

Publisher's summary
The TARDIS arrives on Coldstar, a vast freezer satellite, packed with supplies to feed a colony world.

But there are cracks in the ice, and something scuttles under the floors. Soon, Rose and the Doctor encounter robots, space pirates and... refuse collectors.

As Coldstar's tunnels begin to melt, an even greater threat stirs within. An old enemy of the Doctor puts a plan into action - a plan for retribution.

Nobody's vengeance is colder than an Ice Warrior's.

Plot
The TARDIS materializes in what seems to be an ice cave and the Doctor and Rose emerge, immediately feeling the cold. Rose remarks that she can't complain as they can't go skiing without a bit of ice. When asked where the snow is, the Doctor explains that he asked the TARDIS to land on the nearest place with optimum temperatures for downhill slaloms. Rose thinks that the TARDIS has landed inside of an ice hotel similar to the one that Anne-Marie went on for her honeymoon, then wonders if they're in Sweden, a theory that is shot down by the Doctor pointing out that the gravity is wrong.

The Doctor finds a sign that says "Coldstar - Frozen Food Storage", leaving Rose wondering if they're in a frozen food shop. Exploring even further, they find rows of frozen peas, then decide to continue exploring in hopes of finding choc-ices. The Doctor notices some cracks in the ice and then Rose steps in a puddle of water, making the Doctor realize that the frozen food storage has been thawing for a while.

Elsewhere, Ice Lord Hasskor watches as his warriors awake from their slumber. When his second-in-command, Slaan, asks him what his command is, Hasskor replies by saying "We have slept long enough. It is time to exact our vengeance!"

A transport vessel docks at Coldstar as Lorna and Bert are busy collecting the recycling from the blue, green and brown bins. Bert asks Lorna if she wants a tea break, but Lorna decides to continue working on her own.

The Doctor and Rose are walking down a service corridor, while the Doctor points out the porthole, which they both look out of to find themselves looking into deep space. The Doctor realizes that what he and Rose have found in the food storage area could feed millions of people on the planet that Coldstar is orbiting. They then hear a noise coming from inside the hull. The Doctor uses his Sonic Screwdriver to try and open the plating that the noise is coming from, but it seems to aggravate whatever is making the noise. They both begin to follow the source of the noise back towards the ice.

Cast

 * The Doctor - David Tennant
 * Rose Tyler - Billie Piper
 * Lorna - Keziah Joseph
 * Brona Volta - Maureen Beattie
 * Callum Volta - Sean Biggerstaff
 * Management/Bert - Anthony Stuart-Hicks
 * Lord Hasskor/Commander Slaan - Nicholas Briggs

The Doctor

 * The Doctor mentions Rudyard Kipling.
 * The Doctor calls Rose a social justice warrior.

Wars

 * Humans and Ice Warriors fought many wars over countless systems.

Ice Warriors

 * Ice Warrior refugees who fought the War with the humans were given homes on Enyo as part of the Treaty.
 * Bert calls Hasskor a "greenie".
 * Rose describes the Ice Warrior as "totally turtley."

Astronomical objects

 * There are over 2000 Coldstars.
 * Ice Warriors have lived on Bellona for 10 years.
 * Coldstar scooped ice 20 years ago from Bellona, also designated K-Z-Alpha-9, unaware of the Ice Warriors within.

Technology

 * Hasskor and Slaan's armour, or biosuit, is sleeker than standard armour. It's designed to keep the occupant alive, and is equipped with a self-destruct bomb.
 * Isomorphic is equated with low level psionic waves.
 * Memory wafers.
 * The wreckers are equipped with ion propelled blowtorches.
 * Ice Warrior refugees who fought the War with the humans were given homes on Enyo as part of the Treaty.

Continuity

 * Rose would later encounter another Ice Warrior with the Doctor. (COMIC: Untitled)
 * Later, in the same incarnation, the Doctor with Donna would meet an Ice Warrior. (PROSE: Cold)
 * The Doctor would later encounter Ice Warriors in his eleventh incarnation (TV: Cold War) and his twelfth incarnation (TV: Empress of Mars).
 * He previously encountered them in his second incarnation (TV: The Ice Warriors, The Seeds of Death), his third incarnation (TV: The Curse of Peladon, AUDIO: The Prisoner of Peladon, TV: The Monster of Peladon), his fifth incarnation (AUDIO: Red Dawn, The Bride of Peladon, The Judgement of Isskar), his sixth incarnation, (AUDIO: Mission to Magnus), his seventh incarnation (PROSE: Legacy, AUDIO: Frozen Time) and his eighth incarnation (AUDIO: Deimos / The Resurrection of Mars, PROSE: The Dying Days)
 * The Doctor has seen the Ice Warriors' seeding process before when they tried to terraform the Earth. (TV: The Seeds of Death)
 * The Doctor remarks that an Ice Warrior who was a member of the Galactic Federation saved his life once. (TV: The Curse of Peladon)
 * The Doctor tells Vorna about how there used to be laws of time and how the responsibility of them was extensively down to him now. (TV: The Waters of Mars)
 * "Greenie" is a term that the Doctor heard before. (PROSE: Transit)