Bernice Summerfield

NA: Beyond the Sun

NA: Ship of Fools

CW: The Inheritance of Kalakernion

NA: Down

NA: Oblivion

NA: Beige Planet Mars

NA: Tears of the Oracle

NA: Return to the Fractured Planet

NA: Twilight of the Gods

NA: The Extinction Event

NA: The Infernal Nexus

NA: The Dark Between the Stars

NA: Suits

NA: Filthy Lucre

NA: Truant

> "*In addition to being sex on legs, yummy as all get-out and incredibly vivacious, I'm also highly intelligent.*"
> ― Bernice Summerfield, Sky Pirates!
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Bernice Summerfield was a noted archaeologist during the 26th century and close associate of the Doctor - a Time Lord encountered by the Resistance twice.

## History

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While Ace and the Doctor confronted the Garvond on Space Station Q4 in 2381, Benny befriended Professor James Rafferty and faced "the President", a renegade Time Lord, and his android assassin Amanda in Oxford, 1993. (DW: *The Dimension Riders*)

In Empire City on the planet Olleril, the three time travellers arrived during the Tragedy Day celebrations, and discovered that the society was being controlled by the cult of Luminus, led by a young boy named Crispin. (DW: *Tragedy Day*)

Next, they visited Peladon in 3985, fifty years after the Doctor's last visit in his third incarnation. Benny decided to take a break from the TARDIS, joining an archaeological expedition to Phaester Osiris with the Martian Rhukk. (DW: *Legacy*) Bernice spent three months in that time period. After Osiris, she visited for the first time the Braxiatel Collection, where she met Irving Braxiatel. She joined another expedition, this time to the ruins of the Pentillanian Theatre on Menaxus. There, she met up again with the Doctor and Ace. Benny figured out that all of the ruins had been planted by Braxiatel as part of an elaborate plan to protect the collection. (DW: *Theatre of War*)

During a dig on Apollox 4 to allow Tameka Vito and Emile Mars-Smith to complete their mandatory field trips, she was visited by Jason Kane, who showed her a mysterious artefact. She then wanted to leave the planet after Jason went missing. On her way back to Dellah, she got the ship to do a sweep of Ursu and the ship was shot down. She then went to see Dr Kitzinger to find out more about the artefact and the Blooms. She thought that it was ridiculous that the artefact would give power beyond the sun. Discovering that Miranda was on the planet, she tried to find more information about the whereabouts of Jason and why the Sunless were on the planet. Her friends Leon and Scott where taken by the Sunless in order to get the artefact from Benny. Taken to their homeworld, she found Jason in their prison cell. She tried to stop Miranda but was blackmailed by her. She realised that there was a mistranslation and the visionary wasn't the artefact but was instead Miranda, as the machine was to give the sun power beyond its natural life. (NA: *Beyond the Sun*)

Some time after leaving Shokesh, Bernice returned to Dellah. There, she was contacted by Irving Braxiatel about an archaelogical expedition to the planet Kalakernion - otherwise known as the "Death Planet". She was joined by Queex - a native of the Tornado Nebula and a Professor of the Heran University named Unth.

After arriving on Kalakernion, the Atlantica Ultima landed on Kalakernion - hoping to discover what made Kalakernion "the Death Planet". Bernice and Poseidon would join forces to, first, solve the mystery and then to stop a Cylox named Lya-Ma from escaping the planet (CW: *The Inheritance of Kalakernion*)

Some time afterwards, Bernice and two other students from Dellah - named Ash and Lucretia - travelled to the planet Tyler's Folly. While there, they stopped the machinations of a group of Neo-Nazis called the SSSSSSS and the last insane member of the People - !X (NA: *Down*)

While on Mars to give a speech at an archaeological convention, Benny encountered her ex husband Jason. She discovered that a fellow archaeologist was actually an infamous figure in Martian history and accidentally revealed this to an audience of Martian war veterans. Shortly after this, she stopped the machinations of the York twins - who basically owned the entire planet of Mars - and an insane AI called CATCH (NA: Beige Planet Mars)

Following the evacuation of Dellah during its occupation by the All-High Gods in 2595, Bernice learned she was dying of an incurable condition. (NA: *Tears of the Oracle*) She was, however, cured (NA: *Return to the Fractured Planet*) and played a major role in the destruction of the gods. (NA: *Twilight of the Gods*)

Irving Braxiatel took her to Palastrid in order for her to validate the authenticity of a Halstad Harp. Through her investigation, she helped to uncover the truth behind the destruction of Halstad by the Gulfrarg. She encountered Hulver who told her about life on Halstad (NA: *The Extinction Event*) She travelled to Station Control after being asked to find out what had happened to Rupert Alouicious Barnstable Gilhooly ship. There she found Jason Kane and brought him back to her universe. She also discovered that she was pregnant. (NA: *The Infernal Nexus*)

She went after the Doctor when he went gallivanting across the universe for a source of excitement. She was only a few hours after him. She eventually caught up with him on Kellor. She was captured with him, and argued with that his mid-life crisis would have to wait until he solved the apocalypse. When she went to the security services, she discovered that all the planet was the invaders. She discovered that there was only one of the original inhabitants left on the planet. She went to Kellor but wasn't allowed on the planet. Bernice convinced the invaders to organise the movement of the people into the safe zone. (NA: Truant)

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