How Many of You have Watched Timelash? · 7:32pm Aug 15th, 2016
Oh I know it wasn't the best Doctor Who story, in fact, it was one of the worst, but it did have a surprisingly good element in it: The Borad.
The Borad is surprisingly quiet and composed even for Classic Doctor Who villain standards, and if you watch the whole spectrum of Classic Who, you realize that this is saying something (except during the Tom Baker era, in which everybody hams it up). However, like most Classic Who villains, he never comes across as flat and emotionless; in fact, he's vain, arrogant, passionate, misanthropic, envious, sadistic, and above all else, menacing.
When the Borad was a microbiologist (or at least, that's what I can assume he was) named Megelen, he was conducting two major experiments: Cloning and tissue fusion. The latter were performed on the local cattle, Plesiosaur-like cave-dwelling creatures called Morloxes, and his experiments on them were Mengele-like ("Megelen" is when you change the place of the "n" in "Mengele"). The Doctor found this barbaric, and exposed him in to Karfelon and Bandril authorities. However, Megelen still had places to conduct hidden tissue fusion experiments on the Morloxes with what was apparently an enzyme he developed, Mustakozene-80. The scent of it aroused Morloxes, and one charged at him and accidentally fused parts of its body with him, killing the Morlox and turning Megelen into a half-Karfelon half-Morlox organism. It seemed that the additional brain cells made him more intelligent than he already was (or at least, that's what he said; it seems possible from what was seen that the heightened intellect was temporary, and after a sudden burst of intelligence, his level of thinking became more well-rounded, but still smart; the story is kind of murky about this). Because of his heightened intellect, he was able to make himself the new dictator of Karfel behind the shadows, called the Borad, and ruled Karfel with an iron fist, constantly finding new ways to punish the Karfelons as a whole because he felt that all Karfelons should be punished for rejecting his experiments and for not being as ugly as his own face (which he disguised behind a more dignified face via communication screens; also why he banned mirrors).
To punish dissent, which he faced often, he created the Timelash, a temporal-spatio corridor that cast any rebels to Twelfth-century Scotland. When the Doctor showed up, the Borad intentionally cut off resources to the Bandrils to get the Bandrils to declare war on Karfel, and then the Borad would take away all of the weapons of the Karfelons so that they wouldn't be able to defend themselves, leaving them vulnerable to Bandril bombardment and having most of their kind wiped out. Then the Borad and the Morloxes would be the dominant life-forms on that planet, and the Borad would convert a compatible humanoid, Peri, into a half-Morlox like himself, and through her, would make a brood of hybrids (though perhaps his mutation was progressing and he was becoming more and more Morlox, making this plan unnecessary; again, the story is rather murky about this). The Doctor, however, interfered and tossed him into his own Timelash, causing the Borad to be stranded on Earth in twelfth-century Scotland. The Doctor mused that the Borad might have been taken for the Loch Ness Monster. But weren't there Zygons on that planet? And the Doctor himself admitted that the Borad was definitely correct about gaining longevity, so he was going to be there for about a thousand years, wouldn't somebody have picked him up at some point? And the Borad cloned himself, so what about other Megelen clones? This led to some story ideas...
So here's the question: If the Borad and Davros were working on a project together, how would they interact? What positions would they have in said project? Why would they work together?