Katarina, handmaiden to the high priestess and prophetess Cassandra, came from the palace of Priam in Troy. When Vicki decided to stay in the city, she asked Katarina to carry an injured Steven back to the TARDIS.
Katarina is completely bewildered by the technological world in which she finds herself. She is, however, a woman of great faith. She believes the Doctor to be a god, perhaps Zeus, and the TARDIS to be his temple. Their journey, she rationalizes, is from Earth through the Underworld to the Place of Perfection. And in times of trouble, she offers up prayers to her god, who she calls Great One.
Although such sophisticated things as the TARDIS and spaceships seem like magic to her, and she is not even familiar with such simple concepts as keys, Katarina is not stupid. Even if she does not understand how something works, she can learn its function. While Katarina is inquisitive, she also learns simply by watching what more knowledgeable people say and do. Katarina is a very innocent and trusting girl, wanting to believe that everyone has the best of intentions, but she well understands the concepts of good and evil. And although her forays into the unfamiliar technological world are sometimes frightening, she feels safe with the Doctor.
Katarina has hazel or brown eyes, and keeps her dark hair long. She wears a Trojan handmaiden's dress.
Her death had been foretold to her, and Katarina was ready to accept it and to journey to the Place of Perfection. Her time arrived when she was held hostage by a criminal onboard a spaceship where she and Steven were travelling with the Doctor. Unless she could do something, her kidnapper would force the ship to turn around and fall into the clutches of the Daleks. Unwilling to sacrifice her friends, Katarina chose to activate the airlock - one of the few technological things she knew how to operate - and send herself and her captor into the vacuum of outer space. The Doctor promised to remember her as one of the Daughters of the Gods.
