A Star is Born (audio story)

A Star is Born was a 2011 Big Finish Productions audio short story, read by William Russell.
== Summary ==
The Doctor and his companions answer a distress call from a vast spaceship carrying the remnants of a dying race...
== Characters ==
* First Doctor
* Susan Foreman
* Barbara Wright
* Ian Chesterton
* Egrabill
* Rode
* Greneva
== Worldbuilding ==
* Ships entering the exosphere are subject to gravitational pull.
* Communications arrays can be used to broadcast messages, such as requests for assistance.
* Egrabill is unable to discern Susan's gender.
* Kinneret is the homeworld of the Metraxi.
* The Metraxi became sterile and so used cloning to reproduce. However, this resulted in the loss of key genetic information, shorting their lifespans with each generation.
* The Metraxi are led by Rode, a Provost.
* The ship's propulsion generator failed and radiation is leaking from the fission reactor.
* The Doctor says he is "well versed in a number of propulsion system" and notes Ian is a "scientist of sorts".
* The Doctor and his companions don radiation suits to inspect the fission reactor.
* The Metraxi have their own Bible.
* The radiation mutates Greneva so that she can have children again. She becomes pregnant as a result and the Doctor suggest many Metraxi will have been similarly altered.
== Notes ==
to be added
== Continuity ==
* Ian recalls his own experience of radiation poisoning. (TV: The Daleks)
* The ship in need of repairs before gravity pulls it into a planet mimics TV: 42 where the ship was pulled towards a star.
== External links ==
Category:Short Trips: Volume 4 audio stories
Category:First Doctor audio stories