scarfman | The Swords of Eternity 1/1; the Doctor, the Brigadier, Picard, Duncan Macleod, Connor Macleod; G (Reply)

Title: The Swords of Eternity 1/1
Author: scarfman
Characters/Pairing: the Doctor, the Brigadier, Picard, Duncan Macleod, Connor Macleod
Rating: G
Setting (spoilers through): all franchises c. 1992
Disclaimer: This work is derivative of property of Paramount, the BBC, and whoever owns the Highlander franchise. No profit shall be made and no market of the owner(s) is infringed upon.
Summary: The Doctor says his final goodbye to a twentieth-century friend - or does he? This three-way crossover is sort of a cheat: I've drawn five scenes, and not troubled to string them together with a plot...
This comic-strip format story is approximately ten years old. Incompatibily with later screen continuity may apply, and the graphics date from the period when I was still learning how to draw for, and how to work with, a scanner.
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In memory of Nicholas Courtney.

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A few words of explanation may be in order, since initial comments on the story in 1999 requested clarifications:

Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart of UNIT from Doctor Who is an Immortal. In the twenty-fourth century he is a Starfleet admiral. Either he attained the rank without ever having served off Earth, or Immortals have learned since Flint's time how not to lose their immortality when leaving Earth, or he served off Earth in full comprehension of the consequence; or possibly (as suggested to me by Highlander fan Rob Morris) Flint pulled a fast one on McCoy in the first place. I don't know.

The adversaries in this story are self-appointed successors to the Four Horsemen as portrayed on Highlander: The Series.

Picard and the Doctor are not Immortals. They were just helping out. As you can see if you look, they didn't share in the Quickening.

I knew when I wrote this why it is that Flint claimed in Requiem for Methuselah to have been Merlin and yet the Doctor was told in Battlefield that a future incarnation of him will be Merlin, but I never wrote it down and I've forgotten. Perhaps it has something to do with that Geoffrey of Monmouth's Merlin was a conflation of legends of two different men who lived a century apart. Yeah, that's the ticket.

(If there's anything in Highlander about the true identity of Merlin to further confuse matters, I'm ignorant of it and would welcome enlightenment.)

Thanks for reading.