Commander Strax, the Sontaran in question, was condemned to work as a battlefield nurse ( a punishment implied to have been meted out by the Doctor himself ) to restore the honour of his clone stock.

Strax expressed irritation at the task at the Battle of Zaruthstra in the 41st century after helping to heal an injured human boy, claiming this was " the greatest punishment a Sontaran can endure: to help the weak and sick.

The Sontaran homeworld was destroyed in the future during the events of the 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.

This new name was first mentioned on-screen in The Sontaran Stratagem, in which it was indicated in a line of dialogue that the United Nations still supports UNIT with funding.

Hound Tor was used extensively in location filming for the 1975 Doctor Who story The Sontaran Experiment.

* The original outline for the serial was humorously submitted to the production office in the form of a " Field report from Sontaran Field Marshal Hol Mes, to Terran Cedicks ".

* The Time Warrior was also released as part of the Bred for War DVD boxset along stories The Sontaran Experiment, The Invasion of Time and The Two Doctors.

The Sontaran Experiment is the third serial of the 12th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was originally broadcast in two weekly parts on 22 February and 1 March 1975.

* This serial, along with The Time Warrior was referred to in The Sarah Jane Adventures serial The Last Sontaran.

* This story was the first two-part serial since The Sontaran Experiment ( 1975 ); each Peter Davison season would include at least one two-parter.

Ross Jenkins in The Sontaran Stratagem describes a Sontaran as resembling " a talking baked potato " but The Doctor sticks up for the Sontarans by saying that, to them, he looks like a pink weasel.

Aside from a ritualistic chant in " The Sontaran Strategem "/" The Poison Sky ", they are never seen to engage in any activity that would be considered recreation, though a few offhand comments by Commander Skorr in " The Poison Sky " suggest they do consider hunting a sport ( according to their creator Robert Holmes, Sontarans do have a highly developed artistic culture, but have put it on hold for the duration of the war, while the opening chapter of the novelisation of The Time Warrior, based on Holmes ' incomplete draft, refers to Linx listening to the Sontaran anthem while his spaceship is in flight ).

While the Sontaran wear protective helmets in battle, to fight without their helmets, or to be " open-skinned ," is an honor for the Sontaran.

In the episode The Poison Sky, it is revealed that the Sontaran Empire have been at war with the Rutan Host for more than 50, 000 years, and which, at a time around 2008, they are losing.

The newly married Martha Smith-Jones and Mickey Smith are seen being chased by a Sontaran sniper in the last Tenth Doctor serial The End of Time, for unknown reasons.

In " The End of Time ", a lone Sontaran soldier briefly appears chasing after Mickey Smith and his wife, Martha Jones ; the reasons for this are not expanded upon.

A lone Sontaran Nurse appears in a supporting role for the episode " A Good Man Goes to War ".

The Sontaran Empire has ostracised him for his failures and the failures of the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet, and he is forced to work as a mercenary for the alien Bane and later colludes with their renegade Mrs Wormwood to unleash the ancient entity Horath.

They have been at war with the Sontaran Empire for more than 50, 000 years, and this war dominates both cultures to the exclusion of all else.

As Dicks explains in an interview in the documentary Built for War, included on the DVD release of the serial The Sontaran Experiment in 2006, he served as unofficial editor of the Target Books line.

Varl sets up a homing beacon for the Sontaran ship, while Chessene absorbs the knowledge of the old woman's mind, discovering that they are in Andalucia, just outside the city of Seville.

The Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet in the new series consists of a Command Ship and a number of capsules that can be moved into position when Battle Status is enjoined.

All the Sontarans depicted in the television series have monosyllabic names, many beginning with an initial ' st ' sound ( e. g. Styre ( The Sontaran Experiment ), Stor ( The Invasion of Time ), Stike ( The Two Doctors ), Staal ( The Sontaran Stratagem ), and Strax ( A Good Man Goes To War ); exceptions are Linx ( The Time Warrior ), Varl ( The Two Doctors ) Skorr ( The Sontaran Stratagem ) and Kaagh ( The Sarah Jane Adventures )).

Subdivisions of the Sontaran military structure mentioned in the series include the Sontaran G3 Military Assessment Survey and the Grand Strategic Council, the Ninth Sontaran Battle Group, the Fifth Army Space Fleet of the Sontaran Army Space Corps, and the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet.

The Sontarans make their return in the revived series in the episodes " The Sontaran Strategem " and " The Poison Sky ", with Christopher Ryan playing the Sontaran leader, General Staal of the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet and also being the story arc's primary antagonist.

A Sontaran named Commander Kaagh the Slayer, of the 10th Sontaran Fleet, made his appearance in the second series of the spin-off show in episodes 1 and 2, The Last Sontaran.

In 2008, as part of Character options first series 4 2008 wave of action figures, they released some Sontaran action figures.

* In one of the few times in the series that the Doctor directly kills anyone, he uses the de-mat gun to disintegrate the Sontaran warriors.

A Sontaran from the television series Doctor Who ( from The Time Warrior ).

The Rutans only appeared on television in the serial Horror of Fang Rock, in which a single Rutan is encountered, though they are mentioned in some serials featuring Sontarans ( The Time Warrior, The Sontaran Experiment, The Two Doctors, The Poison Sky and The Last Sontaran and Enemy of the Bane episodes of Doctor Who spin off The Sarah Jane Adventures ).

Commander Linx, an original Sontaran.

In The Sontaran Experiment, the Fourth Doctor comments that " Sontarans never do anything without a military reason.

Even something as simple as a squash ball aimed at that point ( The Sontaran Stratagem ) or contact by the heel of a shoe (" The Last Sontaran ") is capable of incapacitating them temporarily.

However, the war is still raging at least 20, 000 years later, in the serial The Sontaran Experiment.

A Sontaran appeared in A Good Man Goes to War, but as an ally of the Eleventh Doctor.

There was only one way to accomplish this: by design, by drawing diagrams and sketches in which he probed the remotest corner of his mind for creative ideas to carry his concept.

Bicycle gear-sets he had once used as the basis of the design for the Camden Cycly Company plant hung on a rope in one corner, and over his desk, next to several old and dusty hats, was a clean pair of roller skates which he occasionally used up and down in front of his house.

Like many others, he had to work hard, long hours in a struggling family business which, though it was allied to art of a kind -- the design and production of engraved seals -- bore no relation to the painting of pictures.

With greater investments in plant facilities, with automation growing, you can't switch around, either in volume or in product design, as much as was formerly possible -- or at least not as economically.

At the end of its letter was the information that applicants for this position `` must also be prepared to teach costume design and advertising art ''.

It was shown that by proper anode design the net energy loss of the arc to the anode could be reduced to approximately 15% of the total arc energy.

Michelangelo was the most distinguished of several noted architects who helped design it.

); its design was planned by the government of the day ; and it places individual letters in syllable clusters with equal dimensions, in the same way as Chinese characters, to allow for mixed-script writing ( one syllable always takes up one type-space no matter how many letters get stacked into building that one sound-block ).

The site of the colony's capital was surveyed and laid out by Colonel William Light, the first Surveyor-General of South Australia, through the design made by the architect George Strickland Kingston.

William Baker Ashton was appointed Governor of the temporary goal in 1839, and in 1840 George Strickland Kingston was commissioned to design Adelaide's new Gaol.

Throughout ancient and medieval history, most architectural design and construction was carried out by artisans, such as stone masons and carpenters, rising to the role of master builder.

It was first described in 1837 as the successor to Babbage's Difference Engine, a design for a mechanical computer.

During this project he realized that a much more general design, the Analytical Engine, was possible.

It was a controversial design at the time for the bold forms of the undulating stone facade and wrought iron decoration of the balconies and windows, designed largely by Josep Maria Jujol, who also created some of the plaster ceilings.

The design by Gaudi was not followed in some aspects.

It replaces the " sheaves of wheat " design, and was minted until 2008.

The mechanical and logic design was worked out by Dr. Atanasoff over the next year.

The design, development and construction of the center was conducted by Kurt H. Debus, a member of Dr. Wernher von Braun's original V-2 rocket engineering team.

Although he was in charge of the project for the papal villa, the Villa Pamphili, now Villa Doria Pamphili, outside the Porta San Pancrazio in Rome, he may have had professional guidance on the design of the casino from the architect / engineer Girolamo Rainaldi and help with supervising its construction from his assistant Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi.

But the design of the idealized free library was the subject of prolonged and heated debate.

Commodore's design choice to remain with the 68000 architecture ensured that code was backward-compatible across the Amiga line.

Thus, the Turun Sanomat Building first heralded Aalto's move towards modernism, and this was then carried forward both in the Paimio Sanatorium and in the on-going design for the library.

It was Maire Gullichsen who acted as the main client, and she worked closely not only with Alvar but also Aino Aalto on the design, inspiring them to be more daring in their work.

The original design was to include a private art gallery, but this was never built.