Life Form: Humanoid/Oodkind
Episodes: The Impossible Planet, The Satan Pit, Planet of the Ood
The Ood were a telepathic humanoid species, who have slimy red tentacles on the lower portion of their faces. They have no vocal chords, and so speak to each other through telepathy. At the time of The Impossible Planet (43K2.1), every human had an Ood servant. They didn’t seem to mind this, as they said, if they didn’t serve, they would just die. There was a group, called Friends of the Ood, who believed the Ood should be free. In the story, the Ood became possessed by the Beast, and made them his ‘legion’, and took orders from him. Their eyes turned red, when the were possessed Their telepathic field raised to Basic 30, which meant that they were screaming in their heads, and then to Basic 100, which meant brain death! They started trying to kill the crew on Sanctuary Base 6. They were defeated when Danny Bartock, the expedition member in charge of them, broadcast a telepathic flare which reduced their field to Basic Zero. This created a "brainstorm" which caused them to collapse. When Krop Tor was sucked into the black hole, the Doctor was unable to save any of the Ood on the base, who had just been freed from the Beast. The Ood had a total of three brains. One forebrain in their heads, and a hindbrain, in which they originally hold in the hands. Their hindbrain allowed them to connect to a single large brain, which connected and coordinated all individual Ood. When in the servitude of humans, their hindbrain was removed and a translation sphere fitted in place, not only to enable speech, but also to limit their telepathic communications field at "Basic 5" which cut them off from the Ood Brain, making them willing to serve and incapable of surviving on their own. The colour of an Ood's eyes changed with the level of telepathic activity, normally glowing bright-red but turning to white when not connected to a hive mind. Humans, who only knew the Ood in their telepathy-disabled form, misinterpreted the presence of red eyes as a disease, known as "red-eye". When the Doctor and Donna arrived on the Ood-Sphere, they discovered that the disease was caused by the Ood Brain's subconscious reasserting itself over the Ood thanks to the efforts of a member of 'Friends of the Ood' who had infiltrated the company secretly. Ood Operations' head, Klineman Halpen was unwillingly transformed into an Ood as a culmination of him taking hair tonic deliberately contaminated by his own Ood servant. The Ood were set free and allowed to roam their homeworld in peace.
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