Doctor Who Diaries — Earthshock Epilogue

Adric’s final moments (Earthshock part 4)

It’s not often that the Doctor’s companions die for good, but in the case of Adric that was certainly the case. He would die fighting Cybermen and being unable to stop the freighter’s decent into the Earth. He did, however, manage to send the ship backwards in time to an era of Dinosaurs. The freighter’s crash was therefore always meant to happen, it was possibly the trigger for the extinction of the dinosaurs!

This epilogue looks at these final moments from Adric’s point of view.

Adric’s final memories

I never expected my life to end this way. Who would? I was born an Alzarian, a resident of E-Space. I stowed away on the TARDIS and joined the Doctor in his many adventures. We didn’t always see eye to eye, and there were times when all I could think about was going home, but really these were truly the best years of my life. As I mentioned before, I never expected it to end this way.

Here I was stuck on a freighter under the control of Cybermen in Earth’s 26th century. The Cybermen planned to use the freighter to crash into the Earth, destroying much of it in an antimatter explosion. The Doctor, Nyssa, and Tegan were…