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  Sontaran
The Sontarans are a fictional race of aliens from the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
The Sontarans are humanoids from a high-gravity world, with a squat build and distinctive dome-shaped heads.
The war between the Sontarans and the Rutans has continued for at least five thousand years, with both sides remaining fairly evenly matched and neither side interested in negotiating for peace.
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 Sontaran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Sontarans also appeared in a skit for the BBC children's programme Jim'll Fix It titled, "A Fix with Sontarans", along with Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor and Janet Fielding as Tegan Jovanka.
The Sontaran homeworld was destroyed in Seventh Doctor strip Pureblood (DWM #193-196) but the Sontaran race pool survived, allowing for further cloning; the strip introduced the concept of "pureblood" Sontarans not born of cloning.
The Sontarans also feature in the Kroton solo strip Unnatural Born Killers (DWM #277) and the Tenth Doctor's comic strip debut The Betrothal of Sontar (DWM #365-#368), by John Tomlinson and Nick Abadzis, where a Sontaran mining rig on the ice planet Serac comes under attack by a mysterious force.
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 Shakedown
Sontarans invade the planet Jekkar, and an unfortunate smuggler named Kurt, who left it a bit too late to flee from the authorities, ends up in jail with a wandering scholar named Smith.
Meanwhile, the Sontarans are forced to retreat from Jekkar thanks to the natives’ guerilla tactics, and although Commander Steg faces possible disgrace for his failure to hold the planet, Admiral Sarg does not punish him, knowing that the Doctor was responsible.
The Sontarans blast away the cargo hold with a warning shot and seize control of the station, but they soon determine that the Rutan is no longer aboard and set off to track down all of the ships which left the station before their arrival and after the arrival of the Megacity liner.
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 Doctor Who: SONTARANS
Sontarans always wear armor (10) which is added to resistance.
In order to feed millions of clones, sontaran warriors have a cybernetic interface which allows them to gain energy from their ships instead of eating.
Sontaran officers can be expected to have command, tactics and strategy skills.
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 SONTARAN
The Sontarans were also vulnerable to coronic acid, and had a weak spot at the back of the neck called the probic vent.
Sontarans replicated by cloning and were able to multiply at a rate of a million every four minutes.
At the Sontaran military academy hatchings of a million cadets per muster parade were clad in space armour and armed with a variety of weapons including pistols, rifles, grenades and energy wands capable of hypnotising an opponent.
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 BBC - h2g2 - Doctor Who Enemies: The Sontarans
Sontarans are a ruthless race of warriors believed to be from the planet Sontar, a planet with a gravity greater than that of Earth.
The Sontarans live for war and see the death of an individual warrior as being for the greater glory of the Sontaran Empire.
Although this is a Sontaran story, the beings themselves don't actually appear for the first four of this six-part story, arriving as a shock twist after their allies the Vardans have been defeated.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/filmnetwork/A874497   (1467 words)

  
 Sontarans
Sontarans were militaristic aliens who looked like short, stubby humanoid trolls.
For centuries, the Sontarans were at war with the Rutans, a conflict that few could remember the origin of.
Finally, Sontaran Group Marshal Stike allied himself with the androgum Chessene and the scientist Dastari to obtain the secret of the Rassilon Imprimature, but was defeated by the combined efforts of the Second and Sixth Doctors, as well as Chessene’s betrayal (6W).
wheelinspace.com /sontarans.htm   (645 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Doctor Who - The Sontaran Experiment/The Genesis of the Daleks at Epinions.com
Sontaran experiment is unusual in being only a two-episode story.
Indeed, far from being twisty-turny, the plot to Sontaran Experiment is so ephemeral as, at times, to be hardly present at all.
Styre, the Sontaran, is in possession of a big metallic probe, similar to the probot from Empire Strikes Back, but made on an infinitely smaller budget.
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 The Sontaran Experiment
Sontarans never turn down a chance to kill somebody." Harry and Sarah protest but the Doctor tells them the Sontaran is pretty unwieldy for all his strength and not used to Earth's gravity.
With the Doctor down, the Sontaran comes at him with the machete but Vural interferes and is hit down in his place, killed.
Sontarans feed on energy but by altering things a bit -- and removing this, the energy fed on the Sontaran.
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The use of the Sontarans is a good idea, since it provides a link with the last Jon Pertwee season and thus shows to the viewer that even though the Doctor has recently changed appearance, the adventures and adversaries remain the same.
Styre, a Sontaran, played very well by Kevin Lindsay, is performing torturing experiments on the few remaining humans in order to find out the weaknesses of the human species and exploit this knowledge in their battles against humans and in their attempt to conquer the Galaxy.
Whereas Cybermen and Daleks are organised in armies or groups, the Sontaran seems to prefer wandering around as a solitary creature (bear in mind that I haven't seen yet The Two Doctors).
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 Discontinuity Guide - Lords of the Storm
Sontarans evolved on a high-gravity world orbiting a G0 star (which has a dense atmosphere).
Sontaran ships include the Valt-class destroyer (has 30 crew, 6 fighters, 100 ground troops), the Linx-class cruiser (particularly valuable), Strag-class frigates (courier ships) and the double-disced War Wheels.
The Sontarans and Rutan are well characterised, and the comparisons between Hindu, Sontaran, and Trion cultures add depth to the story.
www.whoniverse.org /discontinuity/MA17.php   (1329 words)

  
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The Sontaran Leader, General Trox, will gloat to the characters that their crash on this miserable world was fortuitous; their scanners reveal the presence of enough nearby plutonium to power their ship's atomic engines for the trip home.
This gives the characters a dead Sontaran guard, a blaster rifle, a code-key which opens all locks (as clones, the Sontarans trust each other implicitly, so security is generally not an issue), and a chance to escape.
Sontarans are a clone race; at "birth", they are all alike.
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 Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment - DVD review
Nowadays, we are of course accustomed to stories running to an equivalent short length in the form of single 45-minute episodes in the new series, but the original show naturally ran at a much more leisurely pace, and four-parters were generally considered to be a standard in which to tell a good, solid story.
The Sontaran Experiment is odder than most, standing alone as the only two-parter to be produced in the glorious golden age of the 1970's, and it seems to act almost as a short 'interlude', sandwiched as it is between two bona fide classics,
A group of stranded astronauts find themselves at the mercy of Styre the Sontaran and his ridiculous grappling robot drone, which captures human subjects for Styre to conduct his torturous experiments upon, in admirable forward-thinking preparation for a planned invasion fleet.
sci-fi-online.50megs.com /2006_Reviews/dvd/06-10-09_WhoSontaran.htm   (1186 words)

  
 03-THE SONTARAN EXPERIMENT
The robot drags Sarah and one of the other colonists to its master, a Sontaran named Styre, whom Sarah mistakes for Linx, a Sontaran she met in the 13th century on her first adventure with the Doctor.
Sontarans are a clone race, so they all look alike.
He puts Sarah in a forcefield and forces her mind to play tricks on her, so she imagines she's being attacked by a snake, the rocks surrounding her and the very ground she's sitting on, which seems to swallow her up.
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 Discontinuity Guide - Mindgame
When the Sontaran recognizes the human as female, he quotes Linx's description from 'The Time Warrior' - this is presumably intentional, but hugely annoying.
He announces that once the Sontarans have destroyed the Rutan, they will conquer the rest of the Galaxy, since any non-Sontaran race is inferior.
The Sontaran and Draconian masks are very faithful to the original, which unfortunately was not the case in Shakedown.
www.whoniverse.org /discontinuity/MIND.php   (509 words)

  
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There are different types of Sontaran, having slightly different skin because they each come from a different part of the planet.
The Jingo, Gunar and Brol are different skin-coloured Sontarans, but as the Sontarans are a cloned species, they are not mixed together often, and each play a different role of importance in the great war with the Rutans.
The Sontarans also have a G3 Military Assessment survey wich is their military scientific department.
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 The Sontaran Experiment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Sontaran Experiment is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was originally broadcast in two weekly parts on February 22 and March 1, 1975.
The sphere's door opens, and to Sarah's horror, out steps the horrendous alien, whom she believes to be Linx, the Sontaran warrior she met in the 13th century.
The Sontarans are firmly established in this serial as a clone race, evidenced by Sarah thinking that Styre is Linx from The Time Warrior.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Sontaran_Experiment   (2280 words)

  
 R2 project: Announcements   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
BBC DVD is proud to announce the DVD release of the classic Doctor Who adventure The Sontaran Experiment starring fan favourite Tom Baker as the fourth doctor, with Elisabeth Sladen and Ian Marter as his companions Sarah Jane and Harry.
The Sontaran Experiment is the first in a new range of classic Doctor Who releases from BBC DVD that will contain a limited number of extras, but be available to buy at a lower price point, to complement the traditionally extras laden releases.
The alien turns out to be a Sontaran, Field-Major Styre (Kevin Lindsay), who is compiling a report on human physical and mental capabilities as a prelude to an invasion of Earth.
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 Thought Scraps
Still, since I've never seen the story the Sontarans appeared in, the cliffhanger means very little to me. And their appearance shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, considering the story is called The Sontaran Experiment.
Unfortunately, the human crew of the crashed spaceship are not nearly as convincing as the Sontaran.
The Doctor confronts the Sontaran, challenges him to a fight (he tells them that the spaceship crew are only members of a subhuman slave race and that he is the real thing - actually plausible considering how scruffy the crew look) and thoroughly beats him up.
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The Sontarans are luring the Rutans into a trap as part of their ever-ongoing war.
It was established that this was the form of governance for Sontarans in The Sontaran Experiment.
You'd think that, over the millennia, the Sontarans would have developed some sort of protection for this vulnerable area - a Sontaran equivalent of the box in sports games that covers the testicles - since it seems to be so much of a disadvantage, as this book just keeps on proving.
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 The Time Warrior   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Every other Sontaran is compared to Linx, and to a slightly lesser degree, every other Sontaran story is compared to The Time Warrior.
Although there was no way of knowing this when the story was first written or aired, I believe that without this strong introduction, the Sontarans may never have been seen again, and Sarah Jane may not have lasted as long or been held in as much esteem as she still is today.
The idea of the probic vent (the small hole at the base of the Sontaran's head) being a weakness was a stroke of genius.
www.76totterslane.com /timewarrior.html   (2078 words)

  
 Doctor Who LogBook - Video Spinoffs
The Sontaran commander, Steg, is on a mission to find a Rutan spy who escaped from the Sontarans and stowed away aboard a ship from the space station which was also the Tiger Moth's last port of call.
Review: A Sontaran, a Draconian, and a female human pilot are kidnapped from their respective sectors of the galaxy and are subjected to the mental and psychological manipulations of another alien creature who is attempting to determine which race's territory to invade next.
The Sontaran is transported back into the heart of the battle he once craved, where he finds that his newfound ability to think freely isn't an asset.
www.thelogbook.com /tardis/whospin1.html   (2946 words)

  
 Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment, Part Two - TV.com
Unfortunately a Sontaran officer is conducting tests on a group of human colonists to determine their ability to withstand a full-scale invasion...
It's clear that Kevin Lindsay has some eye make-up on to (vaguely) blend in with the Sontaran mask's coloring but his eyes are nowhere close to the eyeholes in the mask.
At one point in the fight Styre's Sontaran mask is knocked sideways at almost a 90 degrees angle.
www.tv.com /doctor-who/the-sontaran-experiment-part-two/episode/441701/summary.html?tag=reviews;episode;9   (372 words)

  
 The Sontaran Experiment
It is hoped that the Standard Edition releases will contribute a further four releases per year on top of the existing six release slots.
It was the first Doctor Who story to be shot entirely on location using video cameras alone - there are no film sequences at all, save for the standard opening and closing titles.
However, Richard Molesworth and Steve Broster approached Steve Roberts with an idea for a featurette about the history of the Sontarans, which was duly presented to 2entertain commissioning editor Dan Hall and was rewarded with the required funding.
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 THE SONTARAN EXPERIMENT
The killer was a Sontaran who was conducting experiments on humans to see the viability of an invasion.
The Sontaran was not used to the Earth gravity, quickly tired, and returned to his ship to re-energise.
Harry had been told by the Doctor how to sabotage the Sontaran energy unit, and instead of re-energising the energy fed off the Sontaran.
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 The Sontaran Experiment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
One of the astronauts, Roth, tells Sarah of an alien who is conducting horrific experiments on him and his crewmates, but then he and Sarah are captured by the alien's robot, and taken to its master.
Sarah recognises the alien as a Sontaran, a race of cloned warriors.
The Sontaran, Field-Major Styre, is compiling a report on the physical and mental capabilities of humans, prior to an invasion of the galaxy.
www.clivebanks.co.uk /Sontaranexperiment.htm   (270 words)

  
 The Sontaran Experiment (4B)
On Earth the Doctor discovers that Styre, a Sontaran field major, is conducting cruel experiments on Human captives people from one of Earth's colonies, stranded on Earth since their ship was vaporized after answering a fake mayday signal.
Styre is there in order to discover the strength of Human resistance to a planned invasion of the Galaxy.
Novelized as "Doctor Who and the Sontaran Experiment" by Ian Marter (0 426 20049 7) first published by W H Allen (now Virgin Publishing Ltd) in 1978 with cover by Roy Knipe.
wheelinspace.com /the_sontaran_experiment.htm   (296 words)

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