Nightmare of Eden

The Empress, an interstellar cruise liner, comes out of warp off course and collides with another ship orbiting the planet Azure. The two ships are unstably merged together. The Doctor and Romana, responding to the distress signal, attempt to separate the two ships. Their plans are soon complicated when it's discovered that someone aboard the Empress is trying to smuggle a deadly drug known as Vraxoin. Nightmare of Eden is a painfully average serial. None of the characters are all that interesting, with the exception of Professor Tryst played by Lewis Fiander. Fiander goes pretty big with his performance and it adds some much needed energy to the proceedings. The Mandrels are a well designed monster that don't come across as all that menacing. And, finally, the most interesting ideas in Nightmare of Eden seem to have been lifted from the far superior story Carnival of Monsters.

Rating: Of course we should interfere%