Three members of the Forest of Cheem were present on Platform One to witness the final destruction of the planet Earth around the year 5 Billion. Their ancestors had come from the Earth, as they were descendants of tree forms from the Amazon Rain Forest. The trio were led by Jabe, who was female. She was accompanied by the male Lute and Coffa. As gifts for the assembled VIPs, Jabe offered cuttings from her grandfather. On scanning the Doctor, Jabe discovered that he was a Time Lord - a race thought no longer to exist. This fascinated her, and so she decided to accompany him in his investigations when acts of sabotage began to cripple the Platform. Jabe used one of her lianas (a long woody vine) to capture one of the small robotic spiders which were conducting the sabotage, though she explained to the Doctor that it was customary not to expose these.
Jabe went with the Doctor to the engine room to help reset the engines after the station's forcefield had been turned off. The Doctor urged her to leave due to the great heat in the chamber, but she refused to go - which cost her her life as she burned up. Lute and Coffa managed to survive.
Played by: Yasmin Bannerman (Jabe), Alan Ruscoe (Lute) and Paul Kasey (Coffa). Appearances: The End of the World (2005).
- Bannerman later appeared as police detective Kathy Swanson in the Torchwood episode They Keep Killing Suzie. On audio she has been playing one of the Seventh Doctor's book-range companions, the aptly named Roz Forrester.
- For Alan Ruscoe, see the entry "F is for... Flood" below.
- And Paul Kasey has been, for many years, the principle alien performer for Doctor Who, though he has been used in the programme less of late, moving on to roles in the new Star Wars films, for instance.
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