Blissful Ignorance

## Source

**Blissful Ignorance** is the first episode of *Doctor Who: Divergence*.

## Crew

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## Plot

Vigilant of a dangerous threat lurking in the multiverse, the Warden of time explores in Gallifrey of dimension 893, an alternate universe where the Gallifreyans remain the ancient and powerful races but the First Doctor, nicknamed Theta Sigma, never left Gallifrey that would’ve promoted him to meddle the affairs of the other species and planets.

Dismayed by the High Council’s closeminded decision to segregate Gallifrey from everyone else, the Doctor desires to make a change. When his brother, Braxiatel affirms that he’ll inquire Co-Ordinator Socra and Goth about enlisting the Doctor in the citadel, the Doctor, unlike himself in other universes, willingly obliges to be patient and is loyal to the council. He is fortunately accepted and becomes a Matrix observer, a job in which he would review the history of Gallifrey and the worlds of the universe. He is assigned to work under coordinator Ushas, whom he initially knew from Decca, a rebellious organization seeking to change the universe for the "better".

After many years, the Doctor developed experience regarding the Matrix's teachings. One day, Ushas illicitly escaped Gallifrey in a type-87 time capsule and caused a disturbance in the timeline noticed by the Doctor by destroying the planet Tetrap homeworld. Due to the Doctor and Ushas' shared history with Decca, the coordinators suspect him and force the pair to interact in order to exonerate him. Ushas asserts that the organization changed the Doctor and justifies the planet's destruction to alleviate a mysterious shockwave of energy that is eating the universe. She requests the Doctor to join her, only to get likely sentenced to forced regeneration, reconditioning, or erasure. Her position is open and the Doctor accepts Socra's offer to fill in and decides himself to be Theta Sigma.

The Warden observes that Ushas referred to the main danger of timelines converging would go unnoticed. One day, when examining the Matrix's observations, Sigma notices the dangerous irregularity that would ultimately destroy Gallifrey in a matter of days. He informs the Council and proposes to evacuate Gallifrey to make time for further investigation, but the Council stubbornly declines. Ushas, Drax, and Mortimus of Decca abruptly ambush the meeting and confront the Council, intending to save Gallifrey, they murdered all of the Council. Sigma is unimpressed by how Decca disregarded the principles of democracy, so they detained him with Brax.

Sigma decides to change his name to the Doctor again. A civil war breaks out in Gallifrey between loyalists and rebels. After many days, Gallifrey's final day comes. The Doctor has doubted his loyalty to Gallifrey and his Council. The brothers escape their cells and try to escape Gallifrey with a time capsule, but a furious Mortimus appears, reveals that nothing beyond Gallifrey is left, and shoots Brax unconscious. The Doctor escapes Brax with a time capsule just before his universe ends.

The Warden approaches him and explains that the shockwave was created in the "many dimensions" of the multiverse. He powers up the capsule to gather people across the universes in order to create a singular fixed point, which could save the Doctor's family. As they head to dimension 111, the Warden tells the Doctor that what happens there is what "you really do not want to know".