Terminus

After Turlough sabotages the TARDIS, the Doctor and his companions find themselves on a ship headed to Terminus, a leper colony at the center of the universe. Terminus is a fairly grim story overall, since most of the characters in it are either dying or struggling to survive inside a Kafkaesque nightmare. Structurally, it’s interesting because our main characters are mostly separated from each other throughout the story. Nyssa gets infected with Lazars disease and winds up in quarantine for a lot of the story. The Doctor spends most of his time running around with some raiders who’ve mistakenly boarded the same ship, thinking that there was some precious cargo they could steal. And Tegan and Turlough end up navigating their way through a series of service tunnels and hatchways. At the end of the story, Nyssa decides to stay behind on Terminus to help find a proper cure to Lazars disease, ending her time as one of the Doctor’s companions.

Rating: Well, it never worked before%