Doctor Who (TV Series)

The Keeper of Traken: Part One (1981)

Anthony Ainley: Tremas

Quotes 

• Tremas : Enough, Trakens! Enough! Applause is heady and I've already drunk more wine than a man of my responsibilities should.

• Tremas : So who are you?

  The Doctor : I wondered when you were going to ask. You know, I hate to say this sort of thing, but Traken hospitality isn't what it used to be.

  Adric : He's called The Doctor and I'm Adric.

• Tremas : If all the stars were silver, and the sky a giant purse in my fist, I couldn't be happier than I am tonight.

  Neman : Poetry apart, Consul Tremas. I'd rather be rich than Keeper nominate any night of the year.

  Tremas : I wasn't thinking of State duties, Proctor.

  Neman : Ha, Kassia of course. But she should be with you, surely.

  Tremas : She's gone to the grove to take leave of her precious Melkur.

  Nyssa : Aren't you jealous, Father?

  Neman : His happiness is like the stars, he says. Plenty to share with everyone, even with Melkur.

  [They chuckle] 

• Consul Seron : Well, Tremas, has science brought us any nearer discovering how the Foster died?

  Tremas : It's so fantastic, I hardly know whether to believe it myself.

  Consul Seron : Fantastic?

  Tremas : Hmmm.

• [last lines] 

  Consul Seron : Keeper of Traken, by unanimous consent, your consul summons you.

  Tremas : Keeper, we have strangers amoung us who claim they are known to you.

  Kassia : And dare to say they were summoned here to Traken at your request.

  The Keeper of Traken : Bring the strangers forward.

  The Doctor : Sorry to trouble you, Keeper, but we do seem to have a problem here. Please tell them who we are, will you?

  The Keeper of Traken : [seeing the Melkur]  Evil! The sanctum is invaded.

  The Doctor : Keeper, tell us.

  The Keeper of Traken : Consuls, we are invaded! Evil! Infinite evil!