Mind Control

Mind Control is the fourteenth story in the Lilith!Verse and the series A Different Story. It is a rewrite of the TV story The Sensorites and features Lilith III, the First Doctor, Susan Foreman, Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton.

Summary
The First Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan, along with Lilith, arrive in the TARDIS on board a spaceship. Their initial concern is for the ship's human crew, who are suffering from telepathic interference from the Sensorites, but eventually it's the travelers who are in danger.

Plot
The lights on the TARDIS flicker and Lilith appears for the first time in the Doctor's timeline. The TARDIS travellers find they have landed on a drifting spaceship, and its crew is dead. The corpses are warm, even though their self-winding watches (which are powered by the movement of the wrist) say they have been dead for at least twenty four hours. As the travellers go to leave, one of the crew members, Captain Maitland, regains consciousness. Ian Chesterton helps revive him with a device he later calls a heart resuscitator. They use this device on the other crew member, Carol Richmond. The two tell the travellers they are on an exploration mission from 28th century Earth and are orbiting Sense Sphere. Its inhabitants, the Sensorites, refuse to let them leave orbit; they are able to control the brains of any human around them. They say the Sensorites put them to sleep but never kill them; indeed, the Sensorites feed them regularly.

As Ian starts to question Maitland on the future of Earth, the Doctor decides they should leave lest Ian learn too much. It is then they discover that the lock is missing. The TARDIS is permanently locked.

The Sensorites send the Earth ship on a collision course with the Sense Sphere by taking over the minds of the pilots. The Doctor diverts this; the TARDIS crew and Lilith seem to be immune to the Sensorites' power. Carol says they have found different people are affected in different ways. She speaks of another crew member named John, who was affected more. When Maitland is asked about John, he says he'd rather not talk about it.

Later that day, Barbara and Susan are making food for the rest of the crew and ask Carol where they can find some water. Eventually, the rest of the crew realize Barbara and Susan are stuck inside with John. Maitland begins to use a cutting device to get them out. As the cutting goes on, Maitland hears a noise. It is an approaching Sensorite ship. The crew ready themselves at the controls as the ships roam into sight. Eventually the ship is surrounded and Ian and Lilith are astounded to see a Sensorite at the window.

Characters

 * Lilithanadir III
 * The First Doctor
 * Susan Foreman
 * Barbara Wright
 * Ian Chesterton
 * Captain Maitland
 * Carol Richmond
 * John
 * The Sensorites