The Atlantis Power Struggle
The Doctor and Jo Grant become entangled in a power struggle for control over the lost city of Atlantis, involving the cosmic entity Kronos, the High Priest Hippias, and the Master. Kronos's cosmic hunger and the sentient crystal threaten temporal stability, while the Master manipulates events to his advantage. The Doctor must navigate a web of divine forces, human institutions, and rogue agents to prevent Atlantis's destruction and the unleashing of Kronos's full power.
Arc Timeline
Season 9
11 eventsRuth reacts with shock as the Brigadier arrives with an elderly man who is her assistant Stuart Hyde, frozen at twenty-five but now physically eighty years old. The Doctor immediately …
Benton attempts to retrieve the glowing crystal at the Doctor’s insistence but finds it immovable. The Doctor explains it exists outside normal space-time, having jumped through interstitial time from Atlantis. …
The Doctor attempts to assess the temporal coordinates after evading the Master’s forces but finds the TARDIS displaced. Instead of their intended destination, the console room contains the Master’s TARDIS …
The Master completes the final cosmic alignment, the temporal surge of Kronos beginning to materialize in the TARDIS scanner. The Doctor's attempts to communicate through the interface turn desperate as …
The Master completes his centuries-old obsession by summoning Kronos, the ancient temporal entity, through the crystal amplifier. As the white figure erupts from dimensional rift, the Doctor warns of universal …
Jo Grant stumbles through the Temple Catacombs and finds the mythic Minotaur guarding the Crystal of Kronos. The creature corners her with relentless purpose, embodying the raw power of Kronos …
The Doctor races to Jo’s aid as the Minotaur corners her in the Temple Catacombs. Wrestling control with a dramatic display of bullfighting technique—the veronica move—he diverts the beast and …
The Master activates the crystal, summoning Kronos—a ravenous force of cosmic destruction—that descends upon Atlantis Plaza in a cataclysmic display of power. The ancient deity reduces the plaza to ruins …
As Kronos rises in cataclysmic ruin above Atlantis Plaza the Doctor realizes the Master cannot control the deity and pleads futilely for the moment to be stopped. The renegade Time …
After the Doctor initiates a time ram that locks both TARDISes together, the Master jockeys for position with threats and bluffs. Jo urges the Doctor to push the control past …
In the shimmering liminal space where time fractures meet divine power, the Doctor and Jo stand before Kronos, the cosmic deity freed by their desperate gambit with the time ram. …
Season 10
2 eventsThe Doctor and Jo remain hidden in the saloon cabin as Daly and Andrews discuss travel arrangements and prejudices about Madrasi laborers, revealing the crew's xenophobic attitudes. After the couple …
Andrews and Claire leave Daly to his reading, unaware of the Doctor and Jo hiding nearby. The couple’s dismissive evening stroll continues in parallel with the stowaways’ whispered deductions about …
Season Bridges
Connections in this arc that cross season boundaries.
The Master's theft of the crystal and escape with Jo in Episode 26 leads to the Doctor pursuing him, but the Doctor ends up in a new setting (the ship) …
Jo Grant, who was escaping Atlantis with the Master in the TARDIS, is now traveling with the Fourth Doctor in a new adventure, stowing away on a ship. Her continued …
In Episode 26, the Doctor and Jo face a cosmic 'liminal space' between realities after a time ram, while in Episode 5, they encounter a 'stuck gramophone record' reality on …
The Doctor's intellectual determination to free Jo from the Master and Kronos's limbo is mirrored in his analytical approach to revealing the ship's temporal anomaly. He remains the same curious, …