--- In whoconcord@..., "Harald" <hyderax@g...> wrote:
> Its nice to see sites that are putting effort where their mouth is.
The databases you've set up here have the potential to be invaluable.
Its a pity that the group's "higher purpose" didn't really pan out,
but I do have a few observations:
Thanks Harald. I still have my fingers crossed for some of the higher
purpose of which you speak, but the Database idea is, at least, a
viable one.
> Firstly, by making these databases open, you're giving a lot away
for free. I printed out your planets database and it already runs to
over 50 pages. Yahoo lets you export tables, so anybody could take
this and turn it into a book that makes money with little or no
effort. Your other site has a copyright notice, so I wondered why you
hadn't taken that approach here?
Good points. My original plan was for this to be a working group and
at least in part to use its content to publish something. I still hope
to, but I don't want a copyright notice to discourage input in
something that should be as open sourced as possible. The idea was for
contributors to get credited if anything gets printed, and for the the
database to have some links with the Whoniverse site and maybe Wikipedia.
> Secondly, this is a lot of work to post without having a mirror
site. I presume you have a backup of your work, but there is nothing
to signpost members to if Yahoo closed your groups tomorrow. What are
your plans for protecting what you have done and ensuring it's
available beyond Yahoo?
Again, some pragmatic points. Once the databases are fit for purpose
(ie. publishable), there's no reason why their content can't be moved
over as individual entries to either Whoniverse and/or Wikipedia if
they want to use them. The USP of how I would use them is to edit and
print the concordance as .PDFs or printed volumes.
> Thirdly, you say you want the first volume of the concordance to be
about Time Lords/Gallifrey, but the planets database stands head and
shoulders above the rest in terms of being close to completion. It may
be best to pick a winner rather than to try to do everything.
Yeah, with 20/20 hindsight the one I most want to do is one of the
toughest to complete. Planets and Locations is something that will
always expand, and updates wouldn't feel like a rip-off (there will
*always* be new planets and locations).
> Fourthly, who is participating vs. who is just looking?
Shrugs. Despite initial enthusiasm nobody's said anymore. I don't know
what's happening in the Whoniverse forum because I only use Yahoo groups.
> The task database doesn't match up to the work that's being posted
so far, and given the changes you have made it might be better for
people to volunteer to produce A-Z lists.
Always happy for volunteers ;-)))
> Finally, I have comments about the questions you have asked (ie.
feedback on the planets database and ideas for other databases).
The important stuff...
> Planets & Locations: A fantastic piece of work so far. I tried to
come up with a few planet names from the TV series and you already had
them. This could easily evolve into an essential guide.
It looks that way (and only three sleepless nights' work so far).
> Other databases: Your TARDIS, TARDIS component and Gear databases
might work better with a starting point on this forum, porting them
over into the roleplaying one when the entries are finished. That will
make what you have here look more complete and more comprehensive, and
won't make what's over there look quite so unfinished. Against better
judgement (ie. its good to finish one thing before jumping into
another), here are my suggestions for new databases:
>
> The Doctor's Pockets: Post 88 had a list of everything in the
Doctor's pockets ever.
Er...ok.
> Books: There are a lot of fictional books in Doctor Who, and a
comprehensive list of them would be fun.
Cthulhu booklists were a childhood obsession, so I'm sold on this one.
> Inspirations: Discontinuity Guides list influences on original
stories. Imagine a cross-referenced, compiled list of such sources. An
ultimate reference guide for writers (I want to redo Frankenstein...
bugger, Brain of Morbius did it!) and for series researchers.
Hmm. Nice idea but not continuity, so I wouldn't be as personally
keen. However, the Discontinuity Guides on whoniverse.org would be a
good starting point if anyone wanted to do that.
> A Glossary of Technobabble and/or Hot Topics: Like an FAQ, but
focused on key words like Block Transfer, Memes, Morphic Resonance, etc.
That's two then. Ok.
> Characters: This will be the big one, and the hardest to complete, I
suspect. But a database of characters was the backbone to the original
L'Officier databank. You could approach it in manageable chunks:
Companions, Villains, Famous people the Doctor has met*, UNIT Members,
Gallifreyans, Innocent bystanders etc. etc.
>
> (* My personal favourite)
I'll put up the "manageable chunks" for sure (except, for now, for
Innocent Bystanders). My dedication to anal composition would be
stretched to the limit if I tried to do a complete characters
database. Again, the UNIT stuff might be well-sourced using whoniverse.
AD
Salutations,
Its nice to see sites that are putting effort where their mouth is.
The databases you've set up here have the potential to be invaluable.
Its a pity that the group's "higher purpose" didn't really pan out,
but I do have a few observations:
Firstly, by making these databases open, you're giving a lot away for
free. I printed out your planets database and it already runs to over
50 pages. Yahoo lets you export tables, so anybody could take this and
turn it into a book that makes money with little or no effort. Your
other site has a copyright notice, so I wondered why you hadn't taken
that approach here?
Secondly, this is a lot of work to post without having a mirror site.
I presume you have a backup of your work, but there is nothing to
signpost members to if Yahoo closed your groups tomorrow. What are
your plans for protecting what you have done and ensuring it's
available beyond Yahoo?
Thirdly, you say you want the first volume of the concordance to be
about Time Lords/Gallifrey, but the planets database stands head and
shoulders above the rest in terms of being close to completion. It may
be best to pick a winner rather than to try to do everything.
Fourthly, who is participating vs. who is just looking? The task
database doesn't match up to the work that's being posted so far, and
given the changes you have made it might be better for people to
volunteer to produce A-Z lists.
Finally, I have comments about the questions you have asked (ie.
feedback on the planets database and ideas for other databases).
Planets & Locations: A fantastic piece of work so far. I tried to come
up with a few planet names from the TV series and you already had
them. This could easily evolve into an essential guide.
Other databases: Your TARDIS, TARDIS component and Gear databases
might work better with a starting point on this forum, porting them
over into the roleplaying one when the entries are finished. That will
make what you have here look more complete and more comprehensive, and
won't make what's over there look quite so unfinished. Against better
judgement (ie. its good to finish one thing before jumping into
another), here are my suggestions for new databases:
The Doctor's Pockets: Post 88 had a list of everything in the Doctor's
pockets ever. Its one of those silly things that some fans will
relish. Its silly but the original poster had clearly done something
which shouldn't be lost.
Books: There are a lot of fictional books in Doctor Who, and a
comprehensive list of them would be fun; enough to fill a TARDIS
library...
Inspirations: Discontinuity Guides list influences on original
stories. Imagine a cross-referenced, compiled list of such sources. An
ultimate reference guide for writers (I want to redo Frankenstein...
bugger, Brain of Morbius did it!) and for series researchers.
A Glossary of Technobabble and/or Hot Topics: Like an FAQ, but focused
on key words like Block Transfer, Memes, Morphic Resonance, etc.
Regeneration, Sleep
Characters: This will be the big one, and the hardest to complete, I
suspect. But a database of characters was the backbone to the original
L'Officier databank. You could approach it in manageable chunks:
Companions, Villains, Famous people the Doctor has met*, UNIT Members,
Gallifreyans, Innocent bystanders etc. etc.
(* My personal favourite)
Harald <hyderax@...>
You know the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in
common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts, they alter the
facts to fit their views, which can be uncomfortable if you happen to
be one of the facts that needs altering.
--- In whoconcord@..., "Samuel" <fastidiousrex@y...>
wrote:
>
> --- In whoconcord@..., "Alexander Dante"
> <alexanderdante@g...> wrote:
> >
>
> There's also Planet 14 (which isn't Marinus, cuz Lawrence Miles says
Marinus is in the Voor Marinii System).
Agreed. It is the Sixth Doctor who equates Planet 14 to both Marinus
*and* Mondas. My take on that conundrum is this:
Worldshaper devices store planetary templates for use in terraforming
projects (perhaps they are the method used for the chronoforming of
the clone Gallifreys in the BBC books). At some point prior to the
story, the device had been used to turn Planet 14 into a clone of
Marinus.
According to Frobisher in that story, Worldshaper machines were
banned when Yxia's planetary system fell apart.
On this basis, the use of a Worldshaper machine might have untold
consequences, throwing Planet 14 out of its orbit. This triggers a
call-out by the worldshaper engineers, who project the planet's final
resting place as being a twin orbit with Planet 3 (Earth).
They activate the worldshaper device and it begins to terraform the
planet into a clone of Earth before it settles into orbit. Because
the planet is occupied, its inhabitants also evolve.
The evolution of the Voord into Cybermen is evidence that the
Worldshaper Devices chronoform rather than terraform. Perhaps in some
projected future the Cybermen evolve on Earth rather than Mondas
(oops, isn't that what Rise of the Cybermen suggests. Ooh, and the
Cybermen mini-series). As the most appropriate template for the
Voord, this is what we see them transformed into.
Planet 14 then becomes Mondas.
> and an inhabited twin to Saturn that was destroyed millions of
years ago (Doctor Who 1974 Annual - I forget the name of the planet).
Of course. Old Father Saturn. I have that annual, so I will check it
out. Heck, it could even be connected to the Worldshaper device!
> > SPECULATIVE SPOILER
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > ...well-suited to going to war with each other at the end of
Series 2.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> Well, there's Anathema. If it's a Faction Paradox colony on the
> surface of an asteroid (aka Time Lord bomb) travelling towards Earth
> c.1800-1996 then it probably started its journey in the Kuiper Belt,
> ald would have looked normal because of the Sycorax activity. There
> would almost certainly have been some interaction between The Remote
> and the Sycorax, which could explain their similarities!
That's actually pretty freaky, but appears to fit nicely. The Sycorax
would probably have acquired their Haemopsychic Matrix from the
Anathema colony before its demise only a decade before The Christmas
Invasion.
AD
--- In whoconcord@..., "Alexander Dante"
<alexanderdante@g...> wrote:
>
> First up, welcome to the dozen or so new members who've joined since
> we've set up the databases. To emphasise the shift in direction for
> the group (and also to stimulate a little debate), here are a few
> thoughts I've had as a result of researching the planets database.
About time :))))
> I was intrigued to discover that RTD took the name Sycorax from the
> moon of Uranus discovered in 1997 (as well as it being the name of
> Caliban's mother from the Tempest).
As Craig H said elsewhere, it was Benjamin Cook who pointed out the
Uranus link. Russell just named the Sycorax after Caliban's mum.
Doesn't affect the theory though.
> Sycorax, the 17th Moon of Uranus, is a ball of rock and ice some 190
> km in diameter. It is believed to be a "captured Kuiper Belt object".
>
> Kuiper Belt objects are small planetoids beyond the orbit of Neptune
> (between 30 and 50 AU from the Sun).
>
> The presence of the Sycorax using rock-based vessels in the solar
> system suggests to me that they may come from the outer solar system,
> possibly from within the Kuiper Belt.
>
> Further, the reference to the Sycorax ability to summon a fleet (and
> there's nothing to suggest they have FTL capacity) suggests that
> similar ships might exist nearby.
>
> Imagine the repercussions of the Sycorax living so close (in galactic
> terms) to Earth.
>
> Then there's Mondas.
>
> I struggle to understand how the planet could ever travel beyond the
> Kuiper Belt before returning to Earth, especially when there are a
> host of occupied trans-neptunian worlds from Triton (home of the Waro)
> to Xena and Gabrielle, to Vulcan, Desperus ("the prison planet of the
> solar system"), Voga/Neo-phobus (from Revenge of the Cybermen) and
> Yuggoth (a Darkling colony).
>
> So there's plenty for the Cybermen to mine and interact with at the
> outer reaches of the solar system, and good reason for them and the
> Sycorax to be arch enemies...
There's also Planet 14 (which isn't Marinus, cuz Lawrence Miles says
Marinus is in the Voor Marinii System) and an inhabited twin to Saturn
that was destroyed millions of years ago (Doctor Who 1974 Annual - I
forget the name of the planet).
> SPECULATIVE SPOILER
> .
> .
> .
> .
> .
> .
> .
> .
> ...well-suited to going to war with each other at the end of Series 2.
>
> Thoughts?
Well, there's Anathema. If it's a Faction Paradox colony on the
surface of an asteroid (aka Time Lord bomb) travelling towards Earth
c.1800-1996 then it probably started its journey in the Kuiper Belt,
ald would have looked normal because of the Sycorax activity. There
would almost certainly have been some interaction between The Remote
and the Sycorax, which could explain their similarities!
Sam
First up, welcome to the dozen or so new members who've joined since
we've set up the databases. To emphasise the shift in direction for
the group (and also to stimulate a little debate), here are a few
thoughts I've had as a result of researching the planets database.
I was intrigued to discover that RTD took the name Sycorax from the
moon of Uranus discovered in 1997 (as well as it being the name of
Caliban's mother from the Tempest).
Sycorax, the 17th Moon of Uranus, is a ball of rock and ice some 190
km in diameter. It is believed to be a "captured Kuiper Belt object".
Kuiper Belt objects are small planetoids beyond the orbit of Neptune
(between 30 and 50 AU from the Sun).
The presence of the Sycorax using rock-based vessels in the solar
system suggests to me that they may come from the outer solar system,
possibly from within the Kuiper Belt.
Further, the reference to the Sycorax ability to summon a fleet (and
there's nothing to suggest they have FTL capacity) suggests that
similar ships might exist nearby.
Imagine the repercussions of the Sycorax living so close (in galactic
terms) to Earth.
Then there's Mondas.
I struggle to understand how the planet could ever travel beyond the
Kuiper Belt before returning to Earth, especially when there are a
host of occupied trans-neptunian worlds from Triton (home of the Waro)
to Xena and Gabrielle, to Vulcan, Desperus ("the prison planet of the
solar system"), Voga/Neo-phobus (from Revenge of the Cybermen) and
Yuggoth (a Darkling colony).
So there's plenty for the Cybermen to mine and interact with at the
outer reaches of the solar system, and good reason for them and the
Sycorax to be arch enemies...
SPECULATIVE SPOILER
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.
.
.
.
.
...well-suited to going to war with each other at the end of Series 2.
Thoughts?
AD
Well, I've just now posted a new database: Planets and locations.
This database currently lists over 550 planets and their sources, cross-
referencing them with location, inhabitants, environmental features and
notable facts. I think that makes it the biggest planet listing of any
DW resource (I anyone knows of others, plase point them out or post a
link).
As we've got members but not many comments, can I take this opportunity
to open up the floor.
What do members thing of the 7 existing databases, and what other
databases should we be setting up?
Thoughts?
AD
Grand schemes get scaled down. Especially when real life intervenes.
We've not been terribly active as a group, although its good to see
the whoniverse database keeps expanding. I thought I'd provide an
update on our activity.
First up, I've deleted he group whoconcord2, because we never got
anyone interested in graphics, and I think the group needs to gather
some momentum before that is happening.
Secondly, I have now set up a number of databases, both here and on
a sister group.
On this site, we have the following databases:
Gallifreyan Concordance (370 entries to date)
Elements, Isotopes, Waves and Particles (98 entries to date)
Drugs, Diseases and Medical Conditions (14 entries to date)
Organisations and Institutions (113 entries to date)
Places of Note (19 entries to date)
These are skeletons with little more than a few definitions, a long
list of entires to be completed, and sources.
I will look to add People and Planets as we move on.
On our sister site, http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/who-rpgd20/,
there are some other databases currently geared towards role-playing
(as well as being adaptable to concordance-style entries). I've no
plans to export these across yet, so if you're interested in them
you may want to link up with that group. The databases there are as
follows:
Monsters and Villains (266 entries)
Feats, Talents and Special Qualities (17 entries)
Gear (196 entries to date)
TARDIS Components (64 entries to date)
TARDISes & Timeships (43 entries to date)
At the moment I'm more interested in capturing what needs to be
recorded rather than completing the entries. At the very least i
hope we can come up with an accurate update of the L'Officier
Universal Databank as a starter for ten.
Oh, and Happy New Year.
AD
--- In whoconcord@..., "Alexander Dante"
<alexanderdante@g...> wrote:
> I'm quite disappointed at our progress, so here's something to throw
> into the pot. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional_element
>
> This lists a couple of Doctor Who related minerals, elements,
isotopes,
> etc., but is pretty sparse. How about I put together a database here
> for people to fill in, then we can refine it ourselves, use it to
> update the general wiki element above, and the Doctor Who Wiki
Project
> can similarly benefit.
>
> Comments/thoughts?
>
> AD
The database is now live and I've posted a load of entries from the
original series (A-L) with more to follow.
I'm quite disappointed at our progress, so here's something to throw
into the pot. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional_element
This lists a couple of Doctor Who related minerals, elements, isotopes,
etc., but is pretty sparse. How about I put together a database here
for people to fill in, then we can refine it ourselves, use it to
update the general wiki element above, and the Doctor Who Wiki Project
can similarly benefit.
Comments/thoughts?
AD
> To be honest, I haven't actually written any proper guidelines for
the
> discontinuity guides. Both me and Paul started writing them
independently
> based on the original book. The nearest I've got to guidelines is
this page:
> http://www.whoniverse.org/discontinuity/guide.php, which explains
> more-or-less what is included, but aimed at people unfamiliar with
the format
> rather than those writing guides. The level of detail probably
varies a fair
> bit across the guides as well. I've become better at doing them,
but then I
> often catch myself writing stuff into another section of the site
and
> forgetting to put it into the discont guide, and me and Paul seem
to be good
> at spotting different things to each other.
I'd certainly agree with that - it's enormously beneficial having two
different perspectives on the same source. And I'm crap at writing
the Roots sections!
>
> As for what isn't covered:
>
> SHORT STORIES
> Half of Short Trips: Companions (though that's top of my to-do list
and
> should be done in the next couple of weeks at the latest), all
Short Trips
> collections after A Christmas Treasury. The charity anthologies,
and spin-off
> anthologies like the Benny ones (the exception being that there are
guides to
> all five Decalogs).
>
> NEW ADVENTURES
> St Anthony's Fire through to Sanctuary (though I think this is what
Paul
> Clarke is currently working on)
Yep. I'm also currently working on the Faction Paradox and BF Benny
Summerfield novels as I read them.
Cheers,
Paul.
This doesn't seem to have sent properly, so I'm resending it.
On Thursday 29 September 2005 11:36, Alexander Dante wrote:
> --- In newapocrypha@..., Stephen Gray <Bouncelot@f...>
>
> wrote:
> > Yeah, well I think I've got something in the region of 200
>
> discontinuity guides up, plus the rest of the site. So I guess it's
> understandable that I don't know everything that's up there. And there
> are plenty discont guides that I didn't write (though I did read
> through and do some editing on all those before putting them up). It's
> getting scarily big now.
>
> > Steve
>
> Just a thought, Steve, but could you put a link to or post your
> guidelines for the discontinuity guides here and over on whoconcord? Be
> useful to have a list of what you haven't covered yet as well ;-)
>
> AD
To be honest, I haven't actually written any proper guidelines for the
discontinuity guides. Both me and Paul started writing them independently
based on the original book. The nearest I've got to guidelines is this page:
http://www.whoniverse.org/discontinuity/guide.php, which explains
more-or-less what is included, but aimed at people unfamiliar with the format
rather than those writing guides. The level of detail probably varies a fair
bit across the guides as well. I've become better at doing them, but then I
often catch myself writing stuff into another section of the site and
forgetting to put it into the discont guide, and me and Paul seem to be good
at spotting different things to each other.
As for what isn't covered:
SHORT STORIES
Half of Short Trips: Companions (though that's top of my to-do list and
should be done in the next couple of weeks at the latest), all Short Trips
collections after A Christmas Treasury. The charity anthologies, and spin-off
anthologies like the Benny ones (the exception being that there are guides to
all five Decalogs).
NEW ADVENTURES
St Anthony's Fire through to Sanctuary (though I think this is what Paul
Clarke is currently working on)
Sky Pirates! through to Death and Diplomacy
Godengine
Return of the Living Dad through to The Room with No Doors
EDAs
Alien Bodies through to The Fall of Yquatine (starting on these in order is
the next on my to-do list after finishing ST: Companions)
The Banquo Legacy
The Turing Test
PDAs
The Murder Game
The Ultimate Treasure
Business Unusual
The Roundheads
Eye of Heaven
The Witch Hunters
Catastrophea
Mission: Impractical
Zeta Major
Dreams of Empire
Last Man Running
Matrix
The Infinity Doctors
Salvation
The Wages of Sin
Deep Blue
Millennium Shock
Storm Harvest
The Final Sanction
Divided Loyalties
Tomb of Valdemar
Verdigris
everything after Match of the Day (though Paul's said he's working on those
too)
NEW SERIES
The Empty Child (but that will be done by November at the latest - which is
when I buy the new series boxed set)
There are guides to Who Killed Kennedy, Campaign, The Masters of Luxor, the
Missing Season books, the two original Companions novels, the K9 Picture
books, all of the Telos Who novellas, all the MAs, and all the New Series
novels.
Anything else you might care to name doesn't have a guide.
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We're the first Yahoo Group to be listed on Wholink (see below), so
I'm a bit concerned we're not moving along as well as we might. This
is, in part, down to me (I am working on contract at the moment and
my hours to commit have been halved).
I was kind of going to dump a lot of what I had been doing onto the
group when I was comfortable with it, but that may take me a while
yet.
Given how both the wikipedia project and whoniverse.org are growing
at a ridiculously hefty rate, is this forum better served to identify
the gaps or areas of focus which there is least information?
Some miniprojects or infodumps would be quite helpful, so I am going
to ensure that everyone can download stuff into the files section -
lists, facts, etc., as it is requested.
AD
---------------------------
Hi:
Grateful if you could signpost the Concordance Project Yahoo group in
Wholink, at
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/whoconcord/
regards
AD
Done. I am sorry for the delay on this, but your group is now listed
in WhoLINK.
You may be interested to know that this is a precedent. The WhoLINK
mirror at Who's Doctor Who has not listed individual Yahoo groups
before, to my knowledge. But it's a change that's needed, in my
opinion. I recently did a search on Yahoo for Doctor Who groups, and
there are over 1,000! I think it's now become unrealistic to expect
someone to sift through all that on their own, so if other Yahoo
groups want to be listed, I will list them too. Still deciding on
whether I want to go out of my way to announce that, though... :)
Once again, thank you for your interest in WhoLINK and Who's Doctor
Who.
Regards,
Louise Lobinske
Maintainer, Who's Doctor Who - www.whosdw.com
WhoLINK @ Who's Doctor Who - www.whosdw.com/wholink.html
Chap called Mark Anthony Quested over at the who_rpg Yahoo group
posted the following as a file, which exhaustively lists the (on TV
only) contents of the Doctor's pockets.
AD
THE DOCTOR'S GADGETS
The Doctor is famous for his voluminous pockets, which seem almost
as dimensionally transcendental as the TARDIS! The amount of objects
he pulls from it (beginning, as we shall see, in the Tom Baker
years) is nothing short of astounding, and the items he carries in
them are often as bewildering and bizarre as they are useful!
One of the most beloved items ever to emerge from the Doctor's
pockets, beginning with its introduction in Fury from the Deep, is
the sonic screwdriver, a long metal rod with a number of uses. In
its early years, it featured a light on the end, and the Doctor
primarily used it to remove and replace screws (useful for opening
bolted objects). As time went on, the sonic screwdriver's exterior
changed, and its functions expanded, although it was still primarily
useful for opening locked doors. In fact, the sonic screwdriver was
so useful that Romana even built her very own, slimmer and (though
the Doctor hated to admit it) more well-constructed than the
Doctor's own. The sonic screwdriver remained a frequently-used
device until The Visitation, when it was destroyed by the
Terileptils. Eventually, the seventh Doctor rebuilt the sonic
screwdriver, and it survived through his regeneration to be used by
the eighth Doctor. A new version of the Sonic Screwdriver is used
by the ninth Doctor as well.
Another object that frequently emerges from the Doctor's pockets is
his yo-yo. This seems to serve no other purpose besides taking
gravity readings, although sometimes the Doctor simply enjoys
playing with it.
Considering his sweet tooth, it is unsurprising that the Doctor
(particularly the fourth) frequently carries around bags of candy.
His favourite are jelly babies, and the Doctor likes to use these as
a disarming technique. When confronted by suspicious authority
figures, scared civilians or evildoing megalomaniacs, the Doctor
likes to thrust a bag at them and cry, "Hello! Would you like a
jelly baby?" If this fails, the Doctor will usually pluck one from
the bag and demonstrate the eating of it. Sometimes this works;
other times it results in the bag being dashed from his hand.
The one item that the Doctor is never to be found without is his
TARDIS key. This changes shape several times over the years, from an
ordinary key to a more oddly-shaped pendant, but one assumes it is
always somewhere on his person even when it is not explicitly shown
in an episode.
A: a penlight, a replacement for a faulty TARDIS filament, a pipe, a
notebook with codes for the TARDIS, matches, and a handkerchief
B: a pair of normal spectacles and a pair of glasses with magnifying
lenses
C: a penlight
D: a box of matches, a pair of spectacles, and possibly something to
take notes with
F: a small flashlight, a kind of woodworking chisel or pocket knife
G: a pair of spectacles, a pocket flashlight, a magnifying glass,
something like a bit of chalk with which to mark on the aqueduct
walls, and possibly a notebook. He uses the monocle hanging on a
black ribbon around his neck.
J: a handkerchief, a pen; his monocle
K: a handkerchief, a pair of spectacles
L: a pair of spectacles, a handkerchief
M: a pair of spectacles
N: a bottle of breathing tablets, a piece of chocolate wrapped in
white paper, a handkerchief; his monocle. The Doctor uses his ring
to open the TARDIS doors and control the Zarbi.
Q: his monocle
R: a handkerchief, a TARDIS magnet (basically a homing device), a
small flashlight; his monocle
T: a handkerchief, a small screwdriver
W: a gold coin
X: a pencil, notepad and pocket watch; his monocle
Z: a handkerchief, a pocket watch; his monocle
BB: an "Out of Order" sign, a handkerchief, some money to pay the
cab fare, a pair of spectacles, a pocket watch, and something which
he uses to neutralize a War Machine; his monocle
DD: a handkerchief, a pair of spectacles, and possibly a pen and
notepad
EE: an ornamental dagger from the Crusades, the key to a Dalek
spacecraft, a magnifying glass, the first Doctor's spectacles, a
pocket knife, a magnet
FF: a small telescope, a magnifying glass and possibly a fake
moustache (he surely couldn't have picked one up in 1746), but no
handkerchief - he has to borrow one from Ben and Jamie!
GG: a recorder, a handkerchief, and probably a pen and a piece of
paper (on which he writes the note to Zaroff)
HH: a recorder (to disrupt the Cybermen's sonic control of the base
personnel)
JJ: a lock pick, a recorder, a handkerchief, and possibly chalk and
something to short out the Colony's brainwashing wires
KK: a magnifying glass, a pair of tweezers, an envelope, a
handkerchief, a rubber ball, a screwdriver, and something with which
to open the Chameleon Tours kiosk and a cupboard in the medical
centre (reportedly, but unlikely to be, the sonic screwdriver)
LL: a recorder, possibly a wire
MM: a device which measures electrical current, a magnifying glass,
a felt-tip pen, a book which may be the Doctor's 500-Year Diary, a
handkerchief, and apparently a mineralogist's hammer
NN: a recorder, a screwdriver
OO: a handkerchief (for Victoria to "cry" on)
PP: the Doctor has to mime playing his recorder; Jamie made him
leave it in the TARDIS
QQ: a meter for measuring electrical current, a pair of tweezers, a
recorder, and possibly a small microphone (though he may have picked
it up from Travers' lab)
RR: a stethoscope, a handkerchief, the sonic screwdriver (to open
the emergency release valve remote control on a beach pipeline) and
possibly a plastic bag, a pencil and an electronic device that
produces a sonic laser sound wave
SS: a paper bag full of lemon sherbets, a pocket telescope
TT: a handkerchief, something like smelling salts, a brown bag of
what could be jelly babies, an expandable telescope, a radiation
detector on a chain, some kind of writing implement (like chalk, but
softer - perhaps a crayon?), and the sonic screwdriver (to burn
through the wall of the atomic shelter)
UU: a handkerchief, a mirror
VV: a deck of playing cards, a tube with a magnifying lens, a
telescope, a white ball, a U-shaped magnet, a handkerchief, and a
coin for flipping
WW: a pocket watch, a handkerchief, something like a pocket knife, a
chain, and a plastic screw-top bottle
XX: a handkerchief
YY: two magnets, a screwdriver, a handkerchief, a cardboard box full
of drawing pins, a stethoscope, a piece of chalk, a tuning fork (the
Doctor thinks he might have more than one), at least two matches
(the Doctor also thinks he has more of these), a bag of marbles, and
the sonic screwdriver (to remove an inspection panel, repair the
remote control console and unscrew the detonator unit on a bomb)
ZZ: a tuning fork (which is "useless" at picking locks), a bottle of
smelling salts, masking tape, a pair of scissors, a spool of thin
wire, a patterned handkerchief, a white handkerchief, six paper
squares which form a Time Lord message box, the sonic screwdriver
(to partially remove and then reinsert a screw in Lucke's pistol, to
modify Smythe's equipment to set up a time zone barrier around the
chβteau, and to provide a power source to reverse the magnetic
field
of a wall panel), and apparently a deck of playing cards
AAA: possibly something like a match (he uses it to light an
explosive device), and he is wearing a wristwatch which homes in on
the TARDIS
BBB: from his grease-monkey outfit, something which he attaches to
the underside of Bessie, and possibly a wrench (although it looks as
though he picked it up from a toolbox); from his spelunking outfit,
a container with a top and a tongue depressor, for taking a blood
sample; a vial of red liquid for Bessie. The sonic screwdriver is
nowhere to be found.
CCC: a pair of black gloves, a loupe, a pen
DDD: a wand-like device to open the garage door, a black notepad, a
pair of black gloves, a white handkerchief, and possibly a yellow-
handled screwdriver
EEE: a listening device with earphones, a wallet containing a photo
of Professor Philips (but, alas, no money), a small tool like a
screwdriver
HHH: a Swiss army knife, a capped glass vial, a pair of black
gloves, a coin for doing magic tricks, an earphone-like device for
listening through walls, a copy of the key to the Master's TARDIS, a
white handkerchief and the sonic screwdriver (to detect the alarm
beam in the Master's TARDIS)
JJJ: a radio control unit for Bessie, an iron trowel (which he may
actually have picked up from the dig site), a pen that can write on
plastic
MMM: a loupe, spare parts to build a device with a spinning mirror,
and possibly several other spare parts (including a red pencil-like
device, something that could be a second spinning mirror part, and a
plastic component with a thick red tube on the top)
LLL: a wad of money, a magnifying glass, a pair of black leather
gloves, a white handkerchief, and the sonic screwdriver (to detect
and detonate landmines, and to unlock the Sea Devils' cell door)
NNN: a pair of black leather gloves, a pair of handcuffs, a pocket
telescope, the sonic screwdriver (to break the circuit of doors in
storage areas 3 and 4 of the sky base and to attempt to undo Jo's
bonds), and possibly something which he seems to use to scratch the
lead door of Sondergaard's laboratory
RRR: a device which sounds like a Geiger counter (but looks like a
thicker version of the sonic screwdriver), a pencil, magician's
purple silk flowers, and it is implied that he's carrying the sonic
screwdriver. The second Doctor carries at least one coin (for
tossing), a keychain full of keys, a screwdriver and a yellow bag of
jelly babies.
PPP: a green handkerchief (for Jo to wipe her brow upon), a leather-
bound notepad with pen, a flexible wire-like steel file with a loop
at one end which magically vanishes between cuts, a bronze coin (for
testing heights) and the sonic screwdriver (for exploding marsh gas)
QQQ: a device to track homing beacon signals, a small tool to adjust
electronic devices, a flexible steel file wrapped around his shoe,
possibly a leather-bound notepad with pen, and the sonic screwdriver
(to open their cell on the cargo ship - "No, you can put that away,"
says Jo. "Bolts." - but he converts it into an extremely powerful
electromagnet. He attempts to use it to escape their cell on Earth,
as well, but it only sets off an alarm.)
SSS: a white "fancy hanky", a piece of paper, the sonic screwdriver
(which fails to open the Dalek cell door - "It's hopeless," says the
Doctor - although it is successful at jamming the lock of the
refrigeration room door), apparently a pair of black gloves, and
possibly a green handkerchief (which Jo uses to mop the Doctor's
brow) and any number of things in a pile on the floor after the
Doctor and Codal have emptied out their pockets
TTT: a metal scraping tool, the sonic screwdriver (to open the
elevator to the top floor of Global Chemicals and to emit a sound
that attracts and/or distracts maggots)
UUU: a penlight
WWW: something on a metal chain (possibly a pocket watch), a set of
what seem to be skeleton keys, a yellow handkerchief, and apparently
a pair of black leather gloves
XXX: a 5-piastre coin, pliers, a screwdriver, the sonic screwdriver
(to determine the safe route across the hopscotch board and to
combat the mental control being exerted on Bellal)
YYY: a small silver flashlight, a chain with what appears to be a
small magnifying glass on the end, a coin (for doing magic tricks),
a screwdriver and the sonic screwdriver (to open and close the
control panel outside the refinery, twice)
ZZZ: the sonic screwdriver (for psychic Professor Clegg to examine)
4A: a turning point for the Doctor's voluminous pockets. Here he
carries (in his brand-new coat!) a loupe, a handful of silver
marbles (ball-bearings?), a stuffed white dove, three small lucite
cubes, yellow underwater goggles, a blue yo-yo, a folded piece of
paper, a book with a red-and-beige cover, a scroll which the Doctor
calls "the freedom of Skaro", a pilot's license for the Mars-Venus
rocket run, a galactic passport, a booklet marking him as an
honorary member of the Alpha-Centaurian table tennis club, a deck of
attached playing cards, a telescope, a white bag of jelly babies,
the sonic screwdriver (or something very much like it; to explode
mines and, when converted to a miniature sonic lance, to cut out the
lock to the bunker) and what appear to be a pile of red notebooks, a
paper tube, a metal flute, a long black cylinder which may be the
aforementioned telescope, an extremely heavy business card, and a
furry brown thing.
4C: a silver flashlight, a blue yo-yo (for taking "just a simple
gravity reading"), a collapsible metal pointer with a (wooden?)
handle, a red cricket ball, a white bag of jelly babies, the sonic
screwdriver (for repairing the beacon's oxygen valve servo mechanism
and unbolting a table) and possibly a scalpel-type instrument
4B: a white rag, a piece of the synestic locking mechanism from
Nerva's rocket, and the sonic screwdriver (to repair the transmat
beam, disable a force field generator and the Sontaran robot, and
open Styre's ship), but no 500-Year Diary. The Doctor gives
contradictory advice: both "Never throw anything away, Harry"
and "It's a mistake to clutter one's pockets, Harry."
4E: magnifying glass, yellow yo-yo, handcuffs, a (wooden?) whistle,
a white bag of what are probably jelly babies, a yellow crystal, an
etheric beam locator ("also useful for detecting ion-charged
emissions"), the sonic screwdriver (to disable the Kaled
communications system, but not to escape from Davros' office - "Even
the sonic screwdriver won't open this door," says the Doctor), and
other assorted objects which seem to be a penlight, a card with a
diagram on it, (interplanetary?) business cards, and something like
a black marker cap
4D: a red-handled screwdriver with an angled tip (which may be the
same as the pointer the Doctor used in 4C), a white bag of jelly
babies, an apple core, a yellow yo-yo and the sonic screwdriver (for
unlocking Kellman's door)
4F: the sonic screwdriver (to heat a fire sensor) and something
jingling, like keys or coins
4H: an empty tin of Farrah's Original Harrogate toffee, a spoon, the
sonic screwdriver (to unlock Sorenson's door)
4G: a French picklock (a gift from Marie Antoinette, who lost her
head, poor thing), something like a grey handkerchief, a portable
device with an extendable antenna that functions as a radio
telescope (and may or may not be the same device which the Doctor
uses to test the electrically-charged doorbells in the Pyramid of
Mars), a black notebook with a pen tucked inside, what appears to be
a small metal ball on a chain (the Doctor makes reference to
a "parallax coil" but this is probably a component of Sutekh's time
corridor; according to the script, it's the TARDIS key, but as the
Doctor seems to hurl it into the time corridor, this is an unlikely
possibility), the sonic screwdriver (to deactivate the generator
loop) and possibly something small like a coin
4J: a bleeping device that seems to measure ambient radiation
levels, a magnifying glass, a knife, the Doctor's UNIT pass, a robot
detector which lights up in the presence of androids, the sonic
screwdriver (which succeeds in destroying artificial ivy when set to
theta-omega, and in undoing bolts in a floor panel, but which fails
to open a Kraal cell door), and possibly a bottle of ginger beer
(which he may have brought from the TARDIS, but it spends an awful
lot of time in his pocket) and a handful of coins (which are
probably the newly-minted ones he found in the pub)
4K: a blue yo-yo (for practicing double loops), a collapsible
umbrella, a pair of red-handled shears, three firecrackers (a Little
Demon, a Mighty Atom and a Thunderclap), and possibly a small bottle
of smelling salts (Sarah either gets it from his coat or Solon's
laboratory). The sonic screwdriver, for once, is in the TARDIS.
4L: a yellow yo-yo, a pink toothbrush
4M: a red plastic football rattle, a white handkerchief, a yellow yo-
yo
4N: a blue pen, a magician's stick. Sarah produces an astro
rectifier, a multi-quantiscope, a Ganymede driver and the sonic
screwdriver (to repair the TARDIS thermo-couplings) from his coat,
and it sounds as though he has a mergin nut and a Zeus plug in it
too.
4Q: a light blue hanky with a knot in it ("I wonder what that was
for?"), a white bag of jelly babies (Leela gets blackcurrant), a
gold clockwork egg timer, a pocket mirror, a coin (for throwing at
electrified walls) and the sonic screwdriver (to zap a multisided
glossy black ball for no apparent reason). At one point he stuffs
his pockets with items from a Tesh chamber, which may or may not
account for the aforementioned multisided glossy black ball.
4R: a small flashlight, a long black tube (maybe a snorkel?) and a
white bag of jelly babies
4S: a gold pocket watch, a white writing implement which may be a
pencil, something long and slender which he uses to push a key out
of a keyhole, a red object that resembles part of a winch, a yellow
yo-yo, a spectral mixer (as seen in 4H; the winch-thing comes from
the same black leather bag in the TARDIS), a toy Batmobile, a
bizarre object which is either a plush rock or a beige stuffed mouse
toy, a white bag of jelly babies, and presumably some Victorian
money (unless Litefoot ended up buying the muffins). He also has a
small capped vial containing some kind of alcohol (brandy?)
concealed within his walking stick.
4V: a device that reads residual electrical fields, a handful of
clattering things (maybe coins?), a white yo-yo, and some white
papers which could be playing cards
4T: a duck whistle, a leash for K-9, and a long string with hooks at
either end
4X: a white bag of jelly babies and the sonic screwdriver (which
fails to open a door in the Priory, causing it to be hurled
unceremoniously onto a pile of crates)
4W: an expandable telescope, a white bag of what the Doctor claims
to be jelly babies (but which appear to actually be liquorice
allsorts), a white bag of what the Doctor claims to be humbugs (but
which appear to actually be jelly babies), a white bag of jelly
babies (about which the Doctor makes no claims), a small pair of
dark-tinted welding goggles, a black flashlight, two pairs of
handcuffs, a screwdriver-like device, a plug (which looks like the
cork from a wine bottle) and the sonic screwdriver (to open the
Collector's vault)
4Y: a radiation detector, a pair of small tools (one may be a
regular screwdriver; the other looks like the sonic screwdriver,
which he uses to reverse the fumigation pumps), and probably two
apples (the Doctor tosses two things at an energy field; the first
is definitely an apple, as Leela starts to eat it, so presumably the
second is, as well)
4Z: at least two white bags of jelly babies, a large white cloth and
the sonic screwdriver (to do the "tricky bit" in disabling the
quantum force field around Gallifrey, although it fails to open a
door in Borusa's office - "Even the sonic screwdriver won't get me
out of this one," says the Doctor directly to camera)
5A: a dog whistle, a gold pocket watch, a small tool which seems to
be used for welding, a loupe, the sonic screwdriver (for picking the
lock of the state strong room and the multilevered interlocks
protecting the crown jewels), and possibly a white bag which appears
to contain jelly babies
5B: the Tracer, a large thick coin bearing the heads of the two
kings of Aldebaran III, lots of liquorice allsorts, a bent hairpin,
the sonic screwdriver (which fails to open certain doors), and at
least two white bags of jelly babies, one of which Romana pilfered
from the Doctor's coat. (Romana also magically produces a telescope
which she may have retrieved from his pockets.)
5C: a dog whistle, a piece of chalk, a judge's wig, a sheaf of bound
documents, an item which appears to be a heavy white cylinder with
an orange cap, the sonic screwdriver (to free Romana from her
manacles) and possibly a loupe
5D: a dog whistle
5E: a pocket knife, a hammer, a set of small wire cutters, and a
mysterious object which looks vaguely like a walkie-talkie but
behaves more like a screwdriver, and which seems to have a
retractable part. (The Doctor appears to wind it around a box over a
door, then twist it and break something off. What this accomplishes
is unclear, but it seems to unlock said door.) He also has other
objects bulging his pockets or jutting out of them, and at one point
he even slips a metal cup, full of some beverage, into them!
5F: "just" a dog whistle...and also the sonic screwdriver (to undo a
computer panel)
5J: radiation pills and two beepers for reminders, the book Origins
of the Universe by Oolon Caluphid, a red-leather-bound notebook and
pen, a brown bag of jelly babies, a dog whistle and the sonic
screwdriver (to remotely detonate a Dalek explosive)
5H: a Polaroid camera, a permanent felt-tip marker, a collapsible
telescope, the sonic screwdriver (to open the Count's cell door),
presumably some French money, and perhaps a hammer, a chisel, a
flashlight and a pocket mirror. His green felt hat seems to be
jutting out, as well.
5G: a teaspoon (the silver kind, not the measuring kind), a
horseshoe magnet, a stethoscope, at least two rock-climbing pitons
and a piton hammer, a Tibetan book entitled Everest in Easy Stages,
the book Teach Yourself Tibetan, at least five to seven matches (and
apparently something to strike them against)
5K: at least one jelly baby, a dog whistle, (apparently) a toothpick
and the sonic screwdriver (to open a locked drawer, to fuse the
locking mechanism on the door to the CET room, to undo a panel on
the Empress power unit and to repair the CET)
5L: a white bag of jelly babies ("Pass them round! One each!") which
he later gives to the Anethans, a red handkerchief (also useful for
enraging Nimons), a red "first prize" ribbon for K-9, metallic green
star-shaped stickers, a dog whistle, a spoon (which the Doctor and
Romana seem to think will help them divine information about the
Nimons' travel capsule), and the sonic screwdriver (to unlock doors
on the Skonnon spacecraft and to repair the controls of the Nimons'
travel capsule; he also tries to swap his for Romana's copy, but she
will have none of it)
5M: a medal of honour for Romana, the sonic screwdriver (to assist
in constructing a helmet with which he battles Skagra mentally)
5N: a pen and presumably a notebook on which to take notes, possibly
a piece of chalk, and the sonic screwdriver (for making a back
entrance into the Argolins' tachyon recreation generator)
5Q: a pair of magnetic tweezers
5R: something which may be the TARDIS key and the sonic screwdriver
(to open the Star liner door)
5P: a collapsible telescope
5S: a long silver tool like a screwdriver
5T: a device which seems to be able to detect the TARDIS and time
displacement, the sonic screwdriver (which fails to open the cell
door - good thing Nyssa comes through with the ion bonder!)
5V: a measuring tool, a wrench
5Z: a pair of half-moon spectacles, a notebook, a pen, a piece of
chalk and the sonic screwdriver (to unscrew the hinges on the zero
room doors)
5W: a leather-bound notebook, a mechanical pencil, a metal rod that
emits a buzzing sound to jam listening devices, a cricket ball, a
magnifying glass, a piece of string, his Panama hat and the sonic
screwdriver (to reverse the magnetic field of the Urbankans'
monopticons and to open the door to their quarters, although it
fails to open other doors in the spacecraft).
5Y: spectacles, and possibly something that looks like a pen and a
bronze coin for sleight-of-hand tricks, which is probably the one
Adric was playing with earlier
5X: a piece of brown twine with a loop at one end, what appears to
be a bit of thin white rope, something like a roll of dental floss,
a safety pin, a gold coin, the sonic screwdriver (to "pick the lock"
on the Terileptils' energy barrier) and at least two other things
which he snatches up from a pile he has dumped out on the floor.
6A: a folded white card (the Doctor studies it - perhaps it was
given to him by Charles?), a handkerchief (from the pocket of his
harlequin costume)
6C: a ballpoint pen, a coin (for tossing; the Doctor subtly alters
its result), apparently a bit of lint which the Doctor flicks away,
and presumably some British money (unless the Doctor picked up a
discarded newspaper rather than purchasing one)
6E: the entire contents of the Doctor's pockets are apparently his
Panama hat, what appear to be two small wafers (one green, one gold)
with a design on one side, a red cricket ball, a length of rope
bound up with a rubber band, and something like a paperclip (but,
alas, no Dutch coinage). Later, however, he seems to produce a
screwdriver-like tool from them.
6H: a coin for tossing (which he does until he gets the result he
wants!)
6K: an orange chamois. The first Doctor has at least five coins in
his pocket. The second Doctor carries a slingshot, a crumpled white
bag which may contain candies, a Galactic Glitter in a capped white
tube, a green wire (to short out a force field) and possibly an
apple.
6M: a pocket flashlight which very much resembles a small flute, and
a bronze thing the size of a coin which vaguely resembles a belt
buckle
6N: a pair of half-moon spectacles, a silver tool that resembles a
screwdriver, and a red cricket ball
6P: his Panama hat
6Q: at least nine oddly-shaped alien coins (red, green, bronze and
gold, with red, bronze or gold markings), a pocket knife, a pair of
half-moon spectacles and possibly a tool with a black wedge-shaped
handle
6R: a glass vial
6S: his old coat seems to have contained a grimy handkerchief, and
Peri also pulls a pocket mirror out of it
6T: a sonic lance, a flashlight
6V: a thin red U-shaped magnet, a ball of string
6X: a device which detects time-travel technology, a white
handkerchief, at least two coins (one to pay the bathhouse - unless
someone gave it to him - and another for flipping), a black ball
containing unspooling wire, a red handkerchief with white dots, and
a small tool which may be a screwdriver
6W: a large plastic fold-out stack of business cards (Archimedes,
Brunel, Christopher Columbus, Dante, da Vinci and Dastari are the
first few), three thick grey squares, a ball of white twine, a
pocket mirror, a blue yo-yo, a banana (which Peri eats, despite the
ambient stench), a yellow handkerchief, a black plastic fold-out kit
with acupuncture needles, and a silver ball (or pocket watch?) on a
chain. The second Doctor carries some kind of TARDIS oilcan and a
Stattenheim remote control.
6Y: a pocket watch
6Z: the pocket watch on the Doctor's neon-green fob gets used, and
then broken by Peri.
7A: a silver flashlight, a pocket watch, something like an oilcan, a
black cat half-face mask, a plush brown teddy bear with a red bow
and ribbon, and a white bag of hard stick candies
7C (Terror of the Vervoids): magician's multicoloured silk flowers,
a pocket watch (which he winds), a notepad and pen, and a boxlike
device which can open locked drawers
7C (The Ultimate Foe): something like a socket wrench
7D: a small black abacus. The Doctor takes a Swiss army knife from
the pocket of his new trousers, and it sounds as though he has keys
or coins in it, as well.
7E: a gold pocket watch, a pen (which seems to be on a chain), a red
paisley handkerchief
7G: a battered paperback copy of The Doctor's Dilemma by Bernard
Shaw
7H: a drawstring purse containing at least six pre-decimal English
coins, a red paisley handkerchief, a black abacus, a notebook, an
embossed calling card (which he produces from thin air), an old
black collapsible camera, and probably a screwdriver-like tool. In a
deleted scene, the Doctor also carries a coin from 1991.
7L: a pocket watch, a pen-like tool used for clamping wires, a pair
of spoons, a party razzer, two party favors that pop and blow
coloured streamers into the air, and a magically-appearing coin (one
supposes it came from his pockets, and not from Dimension X).
7K: a gold pocket watch with an alarm for reminders, a pair of
spectacles, a notebook, a black plastic thing that resembles an
abacus, a red paisley handkerchief, a handful of marbles, a pencil.
7J: a pair of alien-looking spoons, a paisley handkerchief, a match
(and presumably something to strike it upon). In the Dark Circus,
the Doctor makes more things magically appear: two eggs, a piece of
rope, a candle, and a piece of metal from a gladiator's sword. He
also makes use of what appears to be a deep covered metal dish and a
straitjacket, although there is evidence to suggest that matter can
be created or altered by thought alone in the Dark Circus, so these
probably did not originate from his pockets.
7N: a device with an extendable antenna that detects and tracks
radio transmissions, a metallic device with a bulbous conical end, a
piece of polished wood, a slingshot, a pair of alien-looking spoons,
a purplish sphere, two UNIT passes belonging to Liz Shaw and the
third (presumably) Doctor, a black leather drawstring purse
containing a variety of alien coinage (including a mobile beetle-
like coin, a flat square coin, and a futuristic £5 piece), and a
spherical device which seems to help Bessie rev up when attached to
her steering wheel.
7Q: a device with an extendable antenna, a radiation detector, and
the fang of a cave bear.
7M: a stiff horsehair brush, a paisley handkerchief.
7P: a spoon, a pocket watch which does calculations and takes bio
readings.
TV movie: The seventh Doctor is carrying enough possessions to fill
a small paper bag, including a gold yo-yo and a gold pocket watch,
along with the usual suspects (the TARDIS key and a newly-rebuilt
sonic screwdriver, to seal the gold casket containing the Master's
remains and to repair the damaged TARDIS console). The eighth Doctor
manages to produce a brown bag of jelly babies from his new coat.
2005 series:
Rose: The Ninth Doctor has an explosive device in one of his jacket
pockets, which he uses to blow up a Nestene transmitter. He keeps
his TARDIS key in a jacket pocket. He uses a new version of the
Sonic Screwdriver several times.
The End of the World: The Doctor uses an ID wallet with psychic
paper inside it, to bluff his way into an exclusive meeting. He
also uses his Sonic Screwdriver. The Doctor takes a special mobile
phone battery out of his pocket and puts it into Rose's phone,
enabling Rose to call her mother back in the 21st century; the
battery enables a mobile phone to make a call through the aeons of
space and time. The Doctor has a wristwatch on his left wrist.
When Rose asks the Doctor to buy her some chips, he confesses that
he has no present day money about his person. The Doctor has his
TARDIS key in one of his pockets.
The Unquiet Dead: The Doctor has his TARDIS key in one of his
pockets and probably his Sonic Screwdriver, although he does not use
it. He also has some pre-1869 coins, which he uses to buy a
newspaper from a street vendor.
Aliens of London: The Doctor gives Rose a spare TARDIS key, which
glows when the TARDIS comes into land. The Doctor has his Sonic
Screwdriver and TARDIS key in his pockets.
World War Three: The Doctor has his Sonic Screwdriver and his TARDIS
key in his pockets.
Dalek: The Doctor has his TARDIS key in one of his pocket and
probably his Sonic Screwdriver, although he does not use it.
The Long Game: The Doctor has his Sonic Screwdriver, ID wallet with
psychic paper inside and his TARDIS key in his pockets.
Father's Day: The Doctor has his Sonic Screwdriver and his TARDIS
key in his pockets.
The Empty Child: The Doctor has his Sonic Screwdriver, ID wallet
with psychic paper inside, a banana, a small notepad (A6 size), a
pencil, a pair of futuristic looking binoculars and his TARDIS key
in his pockets.
The Doctor Dances: The Doctor has his Sonic Screwdriver, ID wallet
with psychic paper inside, a banana, a pair of futuristic looking
binoculars and his TARDIS key in his pockets.
Boom Town: The Doctor has his Sonic Screwdriver and his TARDIS key
in his pockets. The Doctor takes the female Slitheen out to dinner,
suggesting he has money about his person or some other method of
paying.
Bad Wolf: The Doctor has his Sonic Screwdriver and his TARDIS key in
his pockets.
The Parting of the Ways: The Doctor has his Sonic Screwdriver and
his TARDIS key in his pockets.
I've had someone pestering me to put up a "monsters" section of the Whoniverse
site, so I did a mock-up of what could go on such a page using what I could
remember off-hand about Dalek continuity. As I'm a little sketchy on the Big
Finish and comic stuff, what follows is a collection of info from TV and
novels, and could easily form the basis around which to structure articles
about the Daleks (well, apart from the initial bits which aren't really
continuity information). Any thoughts?
The Daleks
'Exterminate'
Picture of a Dalek goes here, with link to a photogallery page underneath.
Who are they?
The Daleks are little green blobs in bonded polycarbide armour, perceived by
the general public to be the Doctor's greatest foe, and their "pepperpot"
design has become a cultural icon. Created by mad scientist Davros on the
planet Skaro, the Daleks have attempted to conquer the universe and
exterminate all other creatures numerous times. The Doctor has stopped their
plans on numerous occassions.
Popular Myths:
'The Daleks Can't Climb Stairs' - In the 1966 story The Chase, Daleks are seen
upstairs when they arrived in a time machine which was clearly downstairs. By
1985's Revelation of the Daleks, effects technology was sufficiently advanced
to show a hovering Dalek, and they were seen to climb stairs in 1988's
Remembrance of the Daleks.
'They were designed like pepperpots' - Dalek Designer Raymond Cusick actually
based his design around a man seated on a chair, only using a pepperpot to
demonstrate how it would move.
'They were named after a set of encyclopedias' - At the time, writer Terry
Nation told the press that he named them after an encyclopedia labelled
DAL-LEK, but in fact he simply made up the name.
'Terry Nation was the Creator of the Daleks' - Although writer Terry Nation
owns most of the rights to the Daleks, and his estate insists that he is
credited as their creator, in fact all he did was write a script (which I'm
told was heavily edited) and think up the name. Their distinctive design was
entirely the creation of Raymond Cusick, who never received a penny of the
royalties collected for Dalek appearances.
Dalek Timeline
Genesis of the Daleks
The Daleks
Lucifer Rising
Godengine
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
Legacy of the Daleks
Frontier in Space
Planet of the Daleks
Death to the Daleks
Day of the Daleks
The Chase
The Daleks' Masterplan
Destiny of the Daleks
Ressurection of the Daleks
Revelation of the Daleks
Remembrance of the Daleks
War of the Daleks
Power of the Daleks
The Dalek Factor
Evil of the Daleks
Dalek
Bad Wolf
The Parting of the Ways
Dalek Biology
The Daleks are the mutated remains of a race known as the Kaleds. A Kaled
scientist called Davros predicted this final form whilst the bulk of the
Kaled people were still humanoid. He altered the Kaleds, removing emotions
such as love and pity, and cementing hate, making them see all other
lifeforms as inferior. The resultant mutations are tentacled creatures,
dependant on the travel machines designed by Davros. However, these travel
machines - made of Dalekanium and Bonded Polycarbide armour are very
powerful. Equiped with energy weapons which can exterminate almost anything
living with a single shot, and plunger-like arms which can be adapted to a
variety of uses, the Daleks are powerful fighting machines - their only weak
point being the eyepiece. Daleks are inseperable from their casing, although
they are not cyborgs. Despite appearances, Daleks can climb stairs by use of
rocket packs.
There have, however, been more than one species of Dalek. After Davros was
resurrected, he twice tried to create another race of Daleks in his image.
These Daleks varied considerably from the original Daleks - having, for
example, prosthetic arms attached. However, the casing/travel machine closely
resembled the classic design, apart from a difference in colour. The Daleks
in the era of the Last Time War had a different appearance from earlier
Daleks, both inside and outside. Their casings were gold-coloured, and had
advanced personal force-fields. The Daleks themselves had turned from a
greenish colour to blue, and had rather less pronounced tentacles. The
Emperor Dalek who survived the Time War had also created a new race of
Daleks, forced by circumstance to use human cells as the basis for a new
Dalek race.
Dalek Culture and Psychology
Daleks exist for one primary purpose: to exterminate all lesser lifeforms.
They see everything that isn't a Dalek to be inferior, although they will
often keep other species to use as slave labour. This has occasionally been
represented as the religious
rite-of-exterminating-everything-that-isn't-a-Dalek. Daleks are soldiers
first, other things later. Although they do have scientists and technicians,
everything is slaved to the quest to dominate the universe.
The Daleks (or at least those from before the Last Great Time War) have a
hierachical command structure. At the top of the pyramid is the Dalek Prime,
later known as the Emperor Dalek. The Emperor was the last survivor of the
original batch of Daleks created by Davros, and ruled supreme. All the other
ranks of Daleks have casings colour-coded to indicate their rank. Below the
Emperor are the Gold Daleks, the generals of the Dalek race. Below the Gold
Daleks are the Black Daleks - essentially field commanders, capable of
considerable levels of independant thought. Below them are the red Daleks,
able to think for themselves to a certain extent, the blue Daleks who serve
as technicians and scientists, and the grey Daleks - the footsoldiers of the
Dalek army.
The Daleks created by Davros after his resurrection had white casings, instead
of any of the colours usesd by the other Daleks. They installed him as the
Emperor Dalek, and portrayed the Dalek Prime's Daleks as Renegade Daleks - a
naming convention which at least some of the Renegade Daleks adhered to.
Little is known about the specifics of Imperial Dalek culture. However, it is
likely that whilst the Renegades considered only the descendants of the
original Daleks to be true Daleks, the Imperial Daleks took any creation of
Davros to be a true Dalek.
During the era of the Last Time War, the Daleks altered their design and their
technology. Every War-era Dalek had gold casing, even the footsoldiers. It is
likely that the Dalek Emperor realised that a greater level of independant
thought was necessary to defeat the Time Lords, and the Daleks of this era
were geniuses, despite being lost without orders to follow.
The Daleks created by the Emperor after he survived the Time War went mad, the
Emperor went mad - believing that it was God, indestructible, immortal, and
perhaps even all-powerful. The Daleks he created from human tissue also went
mad, maintaining Dalek ideology, but knowing that they are half-human. They
worshipped the Emperor as God, and developed the concept of blasphemy for the
first time in Dalek history.
Dalek Technology
The key item of Dalek technology is the casing, evolved from the Mark 7 Travel
Machines built by Davros. The casings are made out of Bonded Polycarbide
Armour (aka Dalekanium). The eyestalk of the casing clearly bestows superior
vision to the Dalek creature, and the plunger-shaped attachment functions as
a flexible and adaptable limb. Dalek Guns are extremely powerful, a single
shot being enough to kill almost any sentient being, although many species
have developed armour capable of resisting Dalek guns. The technology of the
casings has changed over the years. The first Daleks to emerge from the
bunker in which the first Daleks were entombed created a city on the surface
of Skaro, and ran on static electricity which was fed through the floor of
the city, and were incapacitated if they were removed from the floor. Those
occupying Earth during the 22nd Century had dishes on their backs, and
received power from those. Later models of Dalek casing had their own
internal power supply. Numerous models of Daleks have some degree of hover
technology.
There have been numerous variations on Dalek armour, including marine Daleks -
streamlined for solely underwater operations, being torpedo-shaped with their
eyes at the front and have their gunstick and a grappling arm parallel to
their bodies. Spider Daleks are like normal Daleks, but their lower body can
be split up into eight legs, allowing them greater maneouverability in
certain environments. Spiders have much weaker armour at the joints than
conventional Daleks. Strider Daleks are, effectively, extremely large Spider
Daleks - being ten times larger than a standard Dalek. Special Weapons Daleks
have replaced all their appendages with a single massive gun, capable of
blowing several Daleks into pieces with a single shot.
By the era of the Last Great Time War, Dalek technology had moved on even
further - Daleks now had force-fields. Whereas previous versions of Daleks
could be destroyed by well-placed Bastic Bullets or the like, these Daleks
stopped such bullets from even getting close to the casing. Their propulsion
systems not only added hover ability, but enabled independant space travel.
These Daleks could use the DNA [or maybe Biodata] of a time traveller to
regenerate their bodies and their casings just by virtue of the traveller
touching the casing.
Dalek travel technology varied over time. However, Dalek spaceships were
consistently designed in a saucer shape, and hoverbouts allowed individual
Daleks to travel without using up their own power source. The Daleks also
developed time travel capabilities. Time Corridors allowed limited transport
between one era and another. However, the Daleks also developed a couple of
time machines that resembled the TARDISES of the Time Lords - though they
were not used extensively. It is not known how advanced their time travel
technology had become by the time they vanished to fight the Last Great Time
War, but it must have been approaching the level used by the Time Lords
themselves.
The Daleks were also experts in biological warfare, and used (or attempted to
use) biological weapons on numerous occasions.
Dalek History
The Planet Skaro produced two sentient races, the Kaleds (sometimes known as
the Dals) and the Thals who engaged in a thousand-year war. Some of the
weapons used in the war caused mutations in both races, the mutants being
cast out into the wilderness of Skaro. A gifted, but insane, Kaled scientist
called Davros predicted the course these mutations would ultimately take on
the Kaleds, and created mutants resembling this end result, devising a travel
machine in which they could continue to live. However, he began removing some
of the kinder emotions from them, emphasising hate and a disdain for the
unlike.
Davros and his creations, the Daleks, were directly responsible for the
destruction of the majority of both the Daleks and the Thals, despite the
fact that the Time Lords had sent the Fourth Doctor to interfere in the
creation of the Daleks. However, the Doctor did manage to entomb the Daleks
for a thousand years, and destroy their gestation chamber, meaning that they
had to start again with the task of creating new Daleks. Although the Daleks
exterminated their creator, the Doctor's warnings about the future of the
Daleks prompted him to install devices which would later prove to have saved
his life.
When the Daleks eventually emerged from their entombment, the first group of
Daleks either built or took over a city on the planet's surface. These Daleks
confined themselves to this city, drawing their power from physical contact
with its floors. These Daleks were rendered inactive by the first Doctor in
his first encounter with the species, and a group of Thals, who had mutated
into blond, blue-eyed humanoids, took over the city. The Thals obviously
learnt from the Dalek technology, as they left Skaro when the rest of the
Daleks emerged from hiding.
However, the Daleks had left behind a large number of Dalek artefacts on
Earth. One of these contained a Dalek factory, which could turn out an army
of Daleks if it was only connected to a power source. The machinations of the
Master and a local power struggle almost reactivated this artefact. However,
the intervention of the Eighth Doctor and his grandaughter Susan, who the
first Doctor had left on Earth after the invasion, defeated this Dalek force.
The Daleks developed space travel and became conquerors. By the mid-22nd
Century, Earth Time, they attacked several planets known to the newly
expanding race called humanity. In time this mysterious "Black Fleet" would
attack humanity's native solar system, beginning in 2157. The Dalek
occupation of Earth would last for ten years. The Daleks also invaded Mars,
Earth's neighbouring planet. Mars had once been ruled by a race called the
Ice Warriors, until the humans had invaded the planet. A small group of Ice
Warriors hiding on Mars contacted the Daleks, offering them a deal - return
Mars to the Ice Warriors, and they would give the Daleks an ancient device
known as the Ssor-arr duss Ssethissi, which translates as "Godengine". The
Godengine would - amongst other things - allow the Daleks to pilot a planet
through space, as long as its magnetic core was extracted. The Daleks would
spend the rest of their occupation of Earth trying to remove its core, even
though they lost contact with those Ice Warriors.
The Dalek occupation of Mars was defeated when the humans engineered a virus
that could eat through the wires in the Dalek casings. Their plan to extract
Earth's core was defeated by the first Doctor, and Earth was liberated by the
arrival of a colonial warship named Dauntless on the same day. Humanity
proceeded to win their war against the Daleks, who retreated from that sector
of space, at least for the time being. Meanwhile, they continued a war
against the Thals. It was probably during this era that they first discovered
the Ogrons, an ape-like species with little brains, but much muscle, and
began using them as slaves.
In 2540, the Daleks again interfered in Earth's sphere of influence, allying
with the Time Lord known as the Master, they and their Ogron slaves attempted
to disrupt a peace conference between the Earth Empire and the Draconian
Empire. The intervention of the Third Doctor revealed their interference and
provoked a war between the Daleks and an alliance of these two Empires.
Immediately following this, the Doctor traced the Daleks to a planet called
Spiridon, where they had hidden an army of Daleks and had been experimenting
with technology that might make them invisible. The Doctor allied with a
party of Thals who had been dispatched to investigate the Dalek presence and
destroyed both the Dalek army and the experiments.
Humanity and their Draconian allies again beat the Daleks, though there was a
second Dalek war later in the century. It was probably during this second
Dalek war that the Daleks released a space plague that could only be cured
with the rare element Parrinium. The Daleks discovered that a supply of
Parrinium was available on the planet Exxilon, and attempted to secure the
supply. Their attempts to do this were defeated by the Third Doctor, who
helped some human Marine Space Corps to secure a supply to fight the plague.
At some point after losing this second Dalek war, the Daleks began to discover
the secrets of time travel. Their first use of the technology was an attempt
to reverse their defeats at the hands of humanity. They travelled back in
time to invade Earth in the mid-21st Century, a hundred years before their
original invasion. Their arrival triggered a temporal paradox which meant
that Earth was devastated by a 20th Century war caused by humans who had used
stolen Dalek time travel technology to try to prevent the war from happening.
This alternate timeline was erased by the actions of the Third Doctor, who
had been exiled to Earth at the time and place that triggered this global
war.
The Daleks' grasp of time travel technology had advanced considerably by the
human year 4000, when they developed time machines almost on a level with the
Time Lords' own TARDISes. Their first use of this technology was to send a
crew to chase and exterminate the first Doctor, in revenge for the damage he
had done to their cause. The Doctor, however, defeated the Daleks sent after
him.
Their next and, indeed, final use of these powerful timeships came as part of
a complicated plot launched in the year 4000AD, when they attempted to
destroy the Galactic Federation - a political entity consisting of numerous
species which had stepped into the chaos caused by the rapid collapse of the
Earth Empire approximately a thousand years earlier. Their planned weapon,
the Time Destructor, was sabotaged and turned against them by the first
Doctor. The plot caused a major war between the Daleks and the Federation,
and the Federation won.
At some point after this, the Daleks took notice of something that they had
discovered during their occupation of Earth in the 22nd Century. Records
existed that said that their creator Davros had used a Gallifreyan device
called the Hand of Omega, found on Earth in 1963, to destroy Skaro's sun. The
Dalek Prime decided to enact a series of complicated plots in order to ensure
that Skaro was not destroyed, but the Daleks' previous experience of time
travel had shown that changing recorded history could not be done. Therefore,
he decided to ensure that Davros would be revived and fooled into destroying
a planet he believed to be Skaro, rather than destroying Skaro itself.
The details of this plot are not clearly laid out, but Davros was revived on a
planet which the Thals believed to be called Antalin, and which the Dalek
Prime later claimed was a constructed world. However, the world on which
Davros was revived had radiation levels similar to that which Skaro
possessed, whilst the "Skaro" the Dalek Prime managed to preserve had no
radiation at all. Some have theorised that the Dalek Prime actually moved the
Daleks to a new Skaro, managing to alter Thal records about the position of
their homeworld in the process. Another factor in this deception was the
approach of a race known as the Collectors, who even the Daleks were
reluctant to face.
When the Daleks revived Davros, they convinced him that they had been at war
with a robotic race known as the Movellans for centuries, and that both sides
had been locked in a stalemate situation by their battle computers. The Dalek
Prime would later claim that the Movellans were created by the Daleks -
possibly for the purpose of fooling Davros. The Daleks said that they wanted
Davros to break the impasse. However, the intervention of the Fourth Doctor
led to Davros becoming a prisoner of the humans.
90 years later, the Daleks attempted to rescue Davros, claiming that they need
him to find an antidote to an anti-Dalek virus created by the Movellans.
Their plan also involved giving him access to time travel technology,
secretly hoping that he would find the Hand of Omega in Earth's past, and use
it to destroy the planet he believed to be Skaro. They also had a plan to
invade Gallifrey using duplicates of the fifth Doctor. However, the Doctor's
intervention again defeated them.
At some point after this, Davros set himself up as "The Great Healer" on a
human-controlled planet called Nekros. He intended to breed a new species of
Dalek from the corpses of humans sent to a place called Tranquil Repose. He
also made money by selling their remains as meat to other planets. However,
his reign at Tranquil Repose was interrupted by an investigation from members
of the Order of Oberon, the arrival of the Sixth Doctor, and his being handed
over to the Daleks.
After this, Davros did succeed in building his own army of Daleks, recasting
himself as the Emperor Dalek, his "Imperial" Daleks fought a war with the
"Renegade" Daleks, and appeared to win. It was after that that he finally
traced the Hand of Omega to Earth in the year 1963. He personally travelled
back in time to that era to retrieve the Hand, though he would remain on his
spacecraft whilst in that timezone. A small force of Renegade Daleks
attempted to retrieve the Hand themselves, but the intervention of the
Seventh Doctor ensured that all of the Renegades were destroyed. The Doctor
also goaded Davros into using the Hand on Skaro's sun (or at least the sun
around which the planet he believed was Skaro orbited), causing it to go
supernova, destroying Davros's ship, along with all of his faction of Daleks
who were in Skaro's Star System.
This was not the end for Davros, though. He somehow survived in an escape pod.
When a party of space scavengers recovered it, they were intercepted by
"Renegade" Daleks. Davros, along with the Eighth Doctor - who just happened
to be onboard, and a party of Thal troops, who had also intercepted the ship,
were taken to the planet Skaro (or at least the planet the Dalek Prime called
Skaro). The Dalek Prime planned to try Davros and, by doing so, ensure that
any Daleks who supported him were found and eliminated. Civil war broke out,
and the Dalek Prime's troops were victorious, with Davros being put into a
disintegrator.
During this incident, the Dalek Prime hid a Dalek factory onboard the Doctor's
TARDIS. Whilst leaving "Skaro", the Doctor discovered this factory, and
jettisoned it into the Vortex. It arrived on a planet called Vulcan, where
early human colonists discovered it, and were tricked into activating it.
However,the intervention of the second Doctor shut down the factory and
destroyed all the Daleks.
At some point after this, the Daleks attempted to use their knowledge of time
travel to identify "the human factor" from 19th Century humans, knowing that
the humans had beaten them far too many times in the past, and to implant
"the Dalek factor" into humanity, thus making them less able to beat the
Daleks. The intervention of the Second Doctor meant that three Daleks were
implanted with the human factor, and started a Dalek civil war.
When the civil war had finished, the Daleks again became the biggest threat in
the universe. But then they just vanished from history, travelling into the
vortex in order to fight the last great Time War against the Time Lords. The
war ended when the Doctor managed to destroy the Dalek fleet, but he also
destroyed the Time Lords' home planet. He thought that there were no other
survivors. However, at least two Daleks did survive.
One of these Daleks, an ordinary soldier, fell through time to the 1960s.
Crashlanding on Earth, its power was drained, and it was a prisoner of
various human institutions until the year 2012, when it encountered the ninth
Doctor and Rose Tyler. When Rose touched its casing, her time-traveller
biodata allowed it to regenerate itself, and it attempted to exterminate
everybody in the compound, However Rose had corrupted the Dalek, and it
eventually committed suicide.
The other Dalek to survive was the Emperor Dalek. It arrived in the far future
of humanity, and manipulated humanity behind the scenes, keeping their
technology backward and harvesting the scum of humanity (the prisoners, the
refugees, the dispossessed, the reality TV contestants ;), nurturing selected
cells to breed a new race of Daleks. The Emperor believed himself to be God,
and the new Daleks shared his delusion, becoming his worshippers. Eventually,
he launched an attack on Earth, but was stopped when the ninth Doctor's
companion Rose Tyler became all-powerful and wiped him and his Daleks out of
existence.
--- In whoconcord@..., "Samuel" <fastidiousrex@y...>
wrote:
> --- In whoconcord@..., "Alexander Dante"
> <alexanderdante@g...> wrote:
> > In some cases I think a fan publication or piece of fanfiction
might
> > be justified as a source, and be worthy of being included as part
of
> > an entry, or as the basis for a fuller entry than might otherwise
be
> > possible.
> >
> > Examples:
> >
> > The audiovisual plays - these have direct influence on future
> > stories, particularly the BF audios, some of which are re-
purposed
> > AVs.
> >
> > The TSVNZ novelisations - novelisations which cover those TV
stories
> > novelized by TARGET.
> >
> > Some fanzine stories/articles have been repurposed for novels
(eg.
> > stuff from Cosmic Masque, Queen Bat, Seventh Door's
> > Oddyssey "novels", etc.), and their inclusion as background may
be
> > essential to better understand some entries. Often a single
character
> > may be mentioned in an official publication but their backstory
may
> > be entirely fanfic-based. Alternately a theme or meme originally
> > explored in a fanzine might be further developed in official
media
> > (eg. Johnny Chess, Ulysses and Penelope, the use of Lovecraft
> > monsters, Owl imagery in the Paul Cornell books etcetera,
etcetera).
> >
> > A recent micro-example (ported over from another forum):
> >
> > Apocrypha#2 introduced a character called Pengallia, the Silver
> > Queen, in 1993.
> >
> > Pengallia was the first female President of Gallifrey, and was
> > removed from history after attempting to take total contral of
the
> > Gallifreyan Empire. Pengallia first got a name check in The
Infinity
> > Doctors by Lance Parkin.
> >
> > Pengallia's creator further developed her character in an as-yet
> > unfinished fanfic, where Romana is her reincarnation (aka the
Doctor
> > and the Other). Pengallia's backstory later appears in the second
> > series of Gallifrey audios where she is referred to as
Imperiatrix
> > Pandora.
> >
> > This background adds context for two separate entries, and allows
us
> > to note that the Pengallia in TID and Pandora are one-and-the
same
> > character.
> >
> > This and other fanfic also generates or illustrates some theories
> > about many of the facts presented in more official media. It also
> > adds depth where even the most well-informed fan can learn
something
> > new.
>
> Good fanfic is always worth mentioning - the "I, Who" books covered
a
> couple of fanfics if I remember (the one where Grant Markham left
the
> sixth Doctor, iirc).
>
> The Pengallia story is a good one (checkout the story so far at
> http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2411404/1/ ), but it isn't the whole
> background to Pandora. I'm sure there was an ancient Time Lady
called
> Pandora[...somethingorother] referenced in a PDA (by Dave Stone, I
> think, who also created a character called Pandora Delbane in The
> Mary-Sue Extrusion) on which she may also have been based.
Pandorastrumnelliahanfloriana - I have a note of the name, but not
where she appeared.
AD
--- In whoconcord@..., "Alexander Dante"
<alexanderdante@g...> wrote:
> In some cases I think a fan publication or piece of fanfiction might
> be justified as a source, and be worthy of being included as part of
> an entry, or as the basis for a fuller entry than might otherwise be
> possible.
>
> Examples:
>
> The audiovisual plays - these have direct influence on future
> stories, particularly the BF audios, some of which are re-purposed
> AVs.
>
> The TSVNZ novelisations - novelisations which cover those TV stories
> novelized by TARGET.
>
> Some fanzine stories/articles have been repurposed for novels (eg.
> stuff from Cosmic Masque, Queen Bat, Seventh Door's
> Oddyssey "novels", etc.), and their inclusion as background may be
> essential to better understand some entries. Often a single character
> may be mentioned in an official publication but their backstory may
> be entirely fanfic-based. Alternately a theme or meme originally
> explored in a fanzine might be further developed in official media
> (eg. Johnny Chess, Ulysses and Penelope, the use of Lovecraft
> monsters, Owl imagery in the Paul Cornell books etcetera, etcetera).
>
> A recent micro-example (ported over from another forum):
>
> Apocrypha#2 introduced a character called Pengallia, the Silver
> Queen, in 1993.
>
> Pengallia was the first female President of Gallifrey, and was
> removed from history after attempting to take total contral of the
> Gallifreyan Empire. Pengallia first got a name check in The Infinity
> Doctors by Lance Parkin.
>
> Pengallia's creator further developed her character in an as-yet
> unfinished fanfic, where Romana is her reincarnation (aka the Doctor
> and the Other). Pengallia's backstory later appears in the second
> series of Gallifrey audios where she is referred to as Imperiatrix
> Pandora.
>
> This background adds context for two separate entries, and allows us
> to note that the Pengallia in TID and Pandora are one-and-the same
> character.
>
> This and other fanfic also generates or illustrates some theories
> about many of the facts presented in more official media. It also
> adds depth where even the most well-informed fan can learn something
> new.
Good fanfic is always worth mentioning - the "I, Who" books covered a
couple of fanfics if I remember (the one where Grant Markham left the
sixth Doctor, iirc).
The Pengallia story is a good one (checkout the story so far at
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2411404/1/ ), but it isn't the whole
background to Pandora. I'm sure there was an ancient Time Lady called
Pandora[...somethingorother] referenced in a PDA (by Dave Stone, I
think, who also created a character called Pandora Delbane in The
Mary-Sue Extrusion) on which she may also have been based.
Sam
In some cases I think a fan publication or piece of fanfiction might
be justified as a source, and be worthy of being included as part of
an entry, or as the basis for a fuller entry than might otherwise be
possible.
Examples:
The audiovisual plays - these have direct influence on future
stories, particularly the BF audios, some of which are re-purposed
AVs.
The TSVNZ novelisations - novelisations which cover those TV stories
novelized by TARGET.
Some fanzine stories/articles have been repurposed for novels (eg.
stuff from Cosmic Masque, Queen Bat, Seventh Door's
Oddyssey "novels", etc.), and their inclusion as background may be
essential to better understand some entries. Often a single character
may be mentioned in an official publication but their backstory may
be entirely fanfic-based. Alternately a theme or meme originally
explored in a fanzine might be further developed in official media
(eg. Johnny Chess, Ulysses and Penelope, the use of Lovecraft
monsters, Owl imagery in the Paul Cornell books etcetera, etcetera).
A recent micro-example (ported over from another forum):
Apocrypha#2 introduced a character called Pengallia, the Silver
Queen, in 1993.
Pengallia was the first female President of Gallifrey, and was
removed from history after attempting to take total contral of the
Gallifreyan Empire. Pengallia first got a name check in The Infinity
Doctors by Lance Parkin.
Pengallia's creator further developed her character in an as-yet
unfinished fanfic, where Romana is her reincarnation (aka the Doctor
and the Other). Pengallia's backstory later appears in the second
series of Gallifrey audios where she is referred to as Imperiatrix
Pandora.
This background adds context for two separate entries, and allows us
to note that the Pengallia in TID and Pandora are one-and-the same
character.
This and other fanfic also generates or illustrates some theories
about many of the facts presented in more official media. It also
adds depth where even the most well-informed fan can learn something
new.
AD
You will see a new source list was uploaded last week. I'm starting to
fill the chart with as much info as possible, so if anyone has a list
of what fits under one of those blank headings, please post it here and
then I can update.
AD
On Sunday 17 July 2005 23:41, Terence Chua wrote:
> On Sunday, July 17, 2005, at 04:35PM, Stephen Gray <Bouncelot@...>
wrote:
> >Fair enough. I had a brief exchange either via e-mail or via Outpost
> > Gallifrey with whoever was mostly responsible for the UNIT entry, where
> > he said that he'd found my UNIT Files quite helpful, but didn't use a lot
> > of it because it was from non-televised media, so I'd got the impression
> > that the Wiki project was very heavily balanced in that direction.
> >
> >Steve
>
> Odd, that, since I'm the one mostly responsible for the UNIT entry. :) I
> honestly don't remember telling you that (I do recall telling you your UNIT
> files were useful and that I added a link to them, though), but that could
> have been early in the project, when one of my ideas was to keep
> off-television sources to a minimum to avoid confusing or misleading the
> general reader. I still think that's a good idea for Wikipedia, but still
> include bits and pieces where I think it's notable or useful.
Ah, that's probably what I remember, then. Maybe JNT was right, and the memory
does cheat.
Steve
On Saturday 16 July 2005 20:53, Michael S. Lucart wrote:
> >We're aiming for the Gallifrey volume to go through first, so we ought to
> >start by going through some particularly Gallifrey-related stories. We can
> >probably make a start on cataloguing without having all the systems in
> > place. Pick one or two Gallifrey-related stories and I'll enable them on
> > your account at the database.
>
> Sounds good to me :-) Since we'd talked earlier about the Target
> novelizations, I'll pick the Target versions of Deadly Assassin and Three
> Doctors -- and I'd also like to request a third one, if I may. There are
> some nice Time Lord-continuity bits in the novelization of Colony in
> Space/Doomsday Weapon I'd like to do as well.
>
> I'll get started on the two for certain -- and wait for
> confirmation/permission on the third.
>
>
> And awayyyyyy we go!
Cool,
Incidentally, Naik Clarke asked if he could do the first 2 Key to Time
stories.
Steve
--- In whoconcord@..., "Michael S. Lucart"
<jafytown@c...> wrote:
> Now THAT is a nice overview! Covering important details ....... and
most important of all, presenting all possible sides to his
origins/backstory in such a way that they don't seem contridictive
(the "myths, legends, and half-truths" line was great).
>
> Nice job!
It was a week's work when I originally did it (co-written with Ade
Middleton, just to make sure credit is shared), so glad you like.
AD
Now THAT is a nice overview! Covering important details ....... and most important of all, presenting all possible sides to his origins/backstory in such a way that they don't seem contridictive (the "myths, legends, and half-truths" line was great).
Not an entry per se, but the following essay is what I wrote for the
OGL d20 Doctor Who game I am working on, summarizing the Doctor's
life to date. It might be a useful starting point or skeleton for
expansion:
Wherever the TARDIS has taken him the dim and distant past, alien
worlds, darkest contemporary Birmingham or the far-flung future the
format of the Doctor's adventures has remained constant. He arrives
mysteriously, accompanied by one or more human companions, discovers
that things are not as they should be, and intervenes to try and set
things right before returning from whence he came.
Where it all began
Quickly moving beyond Earth and its past, the Doctor and his
companions discover such creatures as the Daleks ruthless alien
killers, their twisted bodies trapped in metal shells swearing
vengeance upon the universe; the Cybermen emotionless cyborgs
devoted to only one goal survival, at any cost; and a whole host of
human and alien cultures one of which, we eventually learn, the
Doctor himself belongs.
Forced to reveal his true nature as a Time Lord of Gallifrey, the
Doctor is soon charged with protecting the Earth against an onslaught
of alien invasions working, against his better judgement, with the
paramilitary UNIT, defending a crucial nexus point in history until
his own people allow him to roam time and space once more.
With more than seven hundred years of adventuring in ten uniquely
different bodies, each an irascible eccentric defying his own
stagnant culture to interfere wherever injustice calls, the Doctor
has become a force of nature in whatever universe he inhabits.
His Mysterious Past
There are many and various myths, legends and half-truths about who
the Doctor is and where he comes from. Some have even been
perpetuated by the Doctor himself for reasons which remain shrouded
in mystery. Buried amongst these stories are the seeds of his true
origins.
Some say that there has always been a Doctor, the guardian of
justice, a force of nature whose role it is to bring balance to the
universe, meticulously meandering through time and its relative
dimensions, protecting the Web of Time itself from being unravelled
One tale tells of the mysterious Other, a contemporary of Rassilon
and Omega, the founding fathers of Time Lord culture. Often
described as the conscience of Rassilon, the Other was credited with
many great and mysterious deeds, including the foundation of the
Interventionist movement on his home world, Gallifrey. Ultimately he
fell out with Rassilon, and is believed to have cast himself into the
genetic looms of the House Lungbarrow, to one day be reincarnated as
one of his descendants known only as the Doctor. Since his demise,
his true name has never been spoken, and many legends simply refer to
him as "Rassilon's Cat";
Another story tells of a man known as Ulysses, the greatest explorer
of his age, who charted the length and breadth of the universe,
ultimately retiring to the planet Earth to marry a human woman who
bore them a son known as the Doctor.
Yet another tale tells of an earlier Doctor who lived seven or eight
lives before he disappeared into the mists of time
Whatever the legends, the Doctor is known to have been a member of
the House of Lungbarrow, one of the greatest and most ancient
households affiliated to the Prydonian Chapter, itself the greatest
and most successful political institution of Gallifrey, home planet
to the Time Lords.
As a time tot the young Doctor was firm friends with a boy, Koschei,
from the House of Oakdown. Each harbouring an unique destiny, their
encounter with a school bully sowed the seeds of their future
conflict as the Doctor and the Master, the champions of life and
death.
Like his academy contemporaries, the Doctor graduated as a Time Lord
and embraced the individualist movement, renouncing his name in
favour of his chosen vocation as an academic. The Doctor achieved
high-status among his people, and was actively pursued as a candidate
for the Presidency of the Time Lords.
Then something happened
The Flight From Gallifrey
One night the Doctor, burdened by one too many secrets, by the
political pressure of his peers, and by the weight of betrayal and
conspiracy at the highest levels of Gallifreyan society, stole an old
Type 40 TARDIS the Time ship of the Time Lords. Taking his
granddaughter under his protection, he took flight, taking care to
sever their links with their past and their people to become true
wanderers in the fourth dimension.
The First Doctor
The Doctor's televised adventures began at this point. The Doctor
and his granddaughter had spent a few short years travelling, mostly
in the past and future of the Doctor's beloved planet Earth, a world
he had observed for many years as a scholar, and whose culture and
potential had inspired him.
During a short stay in 1963 to effect repairs to TARDIS, the Doctor
and his granddaughter who had adopted the name Susan Foreman for
the duration of their stay had their true nature compromised by the
schoolteachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright. Kidnapping them to
protect himself, the Doctor had found his first companions, who in
return had a profound effect upon his future actions.
Previously observers, blending in with the cultures that they
visited, the Doctor and Susan soon found themselves forced to
intervene when the Doctor's damaged TARDIS brought them to the planet
Skaro, home of the Daleks. This ultimately triggered a chain of
cosmic events which saw the Dalek Empire threaten the security of the
universe itself.
Leaving Susan to build a new life on an Earth recovering from a
thwarted Dalek invasion, the Doctor took a new ward, the orphan
Vicki, to console him over his loss. Meanwhile, the Doctor's repeated
interventions made him the most feared enemy of the Daleks and
their primary target.
Urged on by their knowledge of the Doctor's ability to travel through
time, the Daleks themselves were soon established as a time active
power, pursuing their hated enemy through time and space, raising the
traveller's profile and threatening to expose him to his own people
once more. Ian and Barbara departed to leave the Doctor with Vicki
and a rescued space-pilot, Steven, who were present when the Doctor
at last came into contact with another of his kind a fellow
renegade and contemporary known as the Meddling Monk.
Stranding the Monk in Earth's medieval past, the Doctor was again
plunged into conflict with the Daleks and a new adversary, the future
Guardian of the Solar System. With Vicki gone and Steven soon to
follow, the Doctor returned to the Earth of the 1960s, where he
picked up new companions and a new role as an occasional scientific
advisor to the British authorities. First Dodo, and then Polly and
Ben, who were with the Doctor when he stumbled across a new nemesis
the Cybermen.
Old, tired, and no longer capable of running from his people and the
Daleks, the Doctor realised that the time for change was upon him.
Overcome with exhaustion, the Doctor underwent his first regeneration.
The Second Doctor
A reinvigorated Doctor continued where his predecessor left off, and
he and his friends were soon joined by the Highlander Jamie
McCrimmon, who became one of his closest and most trusted companions.
Resuming his conflict with the Daleks, the Doctor and Jamie soon saw
the departure of Ben and Polly and the arrival of Victoria
Waterfield, daughter of a renowned Victorian scientist. Stumbling
upon the presence of the Great Intelligence, an ancient evil from
before the dawn of time, the Doctor embraced his interventionist
nature in a succession of battles against Daleks, Cybermen and Yeti.
Making his first contact with Colonel Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-
Stewart later known as the Brigadier during a second conflict
with the Great Intelligence, the Doctor helped sow the seeds of the
United Nations Intelligence Task Force, a paramilitary force to whom
the nations of the world would turn whenever there was trouble, be it
from ghosts, aliens or mad scientists.
With Victoria's departure the Doctor and Jamie were soon joined by
Zoe Herriot, a 21st Century scientist who remained with the Doctor
until the net finally closed in upon him.
Stumbling upon a plot using his own people's technology, the Doctor
was forced to seek their help to defeat the War Lords and the
renegade known as the War Chief. Revealing his true nature as a Time
Lord, the Doctor summoned his own people and found himself stripped
of his companions and placed on trial for the crime of intervention.
Sentenced to undergo a forced regeneration, the Doctor managed to
escape, hiding from the Time Lords on contemporary Earth until,
charged with his recovery and the enforcement of his sentence, the
Celestial Intervention Agency discovered him, and put him on trial.
The Third Doctor
Forced into his second regeneration, the Doctor was stripped of the
codes allowing him to use TARDIS an exiled to Earth during the
1970s. Here he was charged with one last mission for the Time Lords,
to protect his adopted planet at a particularly vulnerable and
unstable time, and to deal with the dangers posed by another renegade
Time Lord and former friend of the Doctor's: the Master.
Becoming chief scientific adviser to Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and
the newly-formed UNIT, the Doctor was soon joined by a fellow
scientist, Dr Liz Shaw. Liz helped deal with the Master and a
succession of threats, including mankind's first modern encounters
with the Earth Reptiles, until she moved on to pastures new.
The Doctor continued to work with UNIT throughout the 1970s with a
new assistant Jo Grant until the Time Lords agreed to lift his
exile in exchange for his support in defeating the Time Lord Omega.
Free to travel through time and space once more, the Doctor soon
returned to his old ways, first with Jo, then the journalist Sarah-
Jane Smith, and even Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart himself.
Towards the end of his third incarnation, the Doctor was exposed to a
number of paradoxes resulting in conflicting versions of how he in
the company of Sarah-Jane came to regenerate. One version tells of
his exposure to radiation at the hands of Metebelis Spiders, while
another spoke of his demise on the planet Dust. Unknown to the
Doctor, this was his first encounter with the temporal manipulations
of a group known as Faction Paradox .
The Fourth Doctor
Uncomfortable in his role as UNIT's scientific adviser, the fourth
Doctor quickly developed itchy feet. The urge to go out and explore
once more led he and his companions Sarah-Jane and Harry Sullivan
to venture out into the depths of time and space, encountering the
Wirrn, the Sontarans and on the orders of the Time Lords the
Daleks. Returning Harry to Earth via further encounters with the
Cybermen and the Zygons, the Doctor and Sarah stayed together most
notably to defeat the Time Lord renegade and former President
Morbius until the Doctor received a summons to return to Gallifrey
where he was forced to assume its Presidency to thwart a conspiracy
led by the Master.
Turning his back on the politics of his home world at the first
opportunity, the Doctor soon found a new companion the savage
Leela who helped him deal with a number of adversaries, including
the time traveller Magnus Greel, before picking up a new travelling
companion the robot Dog K-9 who accompanied him and Leela until
the Doctor's next return to Gallifrey, this time to thwart invasions
by the Sontarans and the Vardans.
Leaving Leela and K-9 behind, the Doctor and K-9 Mark II were
conscripted by the Black Guardian one of the greater forces of the
universe masquerading as another higher elemental, the White
Guardian. Their mission was to seek out the components of the Key to
Time.
Provided with a Time Lord assistant, the Lady Romana herself a
future President of Gallifrey the Doctor succeeded in his task
before scattering the Key throughout time and space once more,
incurring the wrath of the Black Guardian.
Now fleeing from an even greater power than the Time Lords
themselves, the Doctor fitted a randomiser to TARDIS, ensuring that
he would never know where or when he would be travelling.
The Doctor's adventures with Romana in both her first and second
incarnations continued for a number of years until they found
themselves trapped in an E-Space continuum. Joined by the Alzarian
Adric, they discovered the last remnant of the Great Vampires,
against whom the Time Lords had waged war millions of years before.
Leaving Romana and K-9 behind in E-Space, the Doctor and Adric
returned to normal space, where they were quickly thrown into
conflict with the Master, who succeeded in forcing the Doctor's
ultimate sacrifice to save the universe itself.
Fortunately for the Doctor, the moment had been prepared for
The Fifth Doctor
Supported by three companions Adric, Tegan Jovanka and Nyssa of
Traken the fifth Doctor emerged younger yet more mature, plunged
into a succession of conflicts against a newly rejuvenated Master,
wearing the body of Nyssa's father.
Quickly finding his feet, the Doctor and his companions were soon
brought down to Earth by an encounter with the Cybermen, which
resulted in the sacrifice of Adric, whose death weighed heavily upon
the Doctor and upon his relationship with Tegan, who soon returned to
her old life while the Doctor and Nyssa continued on alone until an
encounter with Omega, whose theft of the Doctor's biodata saw them
reunited with Tegan.
Free from the Presidential responsibilities he had been avoiding, the
Doctor and his companions resumed their adventures for a time,
picking up a new companion, Turlough. With the randomiser no longer
active, the Black Guardian plotted his revenge, recruiting Turlough
as his agent charged with the task of undermining, and ultimately
assassinating, the Doctor. In a final confrontation with the Black
Guardian, the Doctor freed an enlightened Turlough from this
commitment.
Acquiring the robot Kamelion during an encounter with the Master, the
Doctor and his companions continued their wanderings until, during a
trip to the Eye of Orion he learned that his past selves were being
removed from time. Returning to Gallifrey once more, he was forced
to confront a deranged President Borusa in the Tomb of Rassilon
himself. Again called upon to assume the Gallifreyan Presidency, the
Doctor chose to let history repeat itself, taking flight with his
companions once more.
Tegan remained with the Doctor and Turlough until their next
encounter with the Daleks, leaving the Doctor with Turlough and on
occasion the robot Kamelion.
Returning to Earth in the 1980s an encounter with the Master resulted
in Kamelion's destruction and Turlough's return to his own people,
the Trion. The Doctor continued to travel with a new companion
Perpiguilliam Brown (Peri for short) and they were briefly joined
by the girl-Pharaoh Erimem .
Nearing the end of his fifth life, the Doctor and Peri found
themselves embroiled in the rise of Morbius and his challenge to the
Time Lords who had exiled him. Out of synch with Gallifreyan
history, the Doctor hoped merely to inform the Time Lords of Morbius'
activities to allow them to deal with him, only to find himself
appointed Supreme Commander of a military alliance, leading a year-
long intergalactic campaign against the renegade until his ultimate
defeat on the planet Karn.
The Doctor and Peri eventually became infected with spectrox
toxζmia. While the Doctor was able to save his companion, he only
managed to do so at the cost of his own life.
The Sixth Doctor
An unstable regeneration resulted in an unpredictable and gaudily-
dressed sixth Doctor who almost killed Peri before he came to his
senses. Planning a self-imposed exile, the Doctor soon stabilised
and was able to continue his adventures until corruption and
stagnation at the very heart of Time Lord society resulted in the
creation of the Valeyard an antithesis of the Doctor, created by
his enemies to bring him to Trial for the crimes of intervention and
genocide.
Unlike his previous Trial, the Doctor was made a public example, with
evidence of his past and future adventures broadcast to the
population to justify his execution and the transfer of his future
incarnations to a new arch enemy: the Valeyard.
Evidence from the Master exposed the false case brought against the
Doctor, using the Trial to destabilise Time Lord society and bring
about a political coup while the Doctor and the Valeyard battled each
other deep within the heart of the Matrix Databank.
Exonerated and free to resume his wanderings, the Doctor hooked up
with several companions Frobisher the Whifferdill, Grant Markham,
Doctor Evelyn Smythe and, finally, Melanie Bush. It was Mel who was
with the Doctor when the TARDIS was pulled off course by another Time
Lord the Rani and his next regeneration was triggered by
excessive turbulence.
The Seventh Doctor
Defeating the Rani, the seventh Doctor withdrew into his former
personalities, taking a more light-hearted approach to his adventures
in a style reminiscent of his second incarnation. This, however, was
soon replaced by a sense of foreboding as the Doctor realised he had
shirked too many of his responsibilities for too long, and that he
would have to confront his adversaries once and for all.
With Mel's departure the Doctor took a new companion under his wing
Dorothy McShane. Better known as Ace, she was more a student than a
companion, herself cursed with the mark of Fenric, an elder power and
ancient nemesis of the Doctor.
With the memories of `the Other' reactivated, and with Ace at his
side, the Doctor set out to deal with his legacies one by one the
Daleks, the Cybermen, the Gods of Ragnarok, Morgan Le Fey and
ultimately Fenric himself. Cleansing the mark upon Ace's soul the
Doctor turned to confront his oldest enemy, the Master, even as
perhaps his greatest challenge was about to appear
The New Adventures
The seventh Doctor's adventures continued for a number of years, with
the Doctor and Ace joined by new companions first a male nurse
called Hex , and later Professor Bernice Summerfield, Wolsey the Cat,
and the Adjudicators Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej .
After a brief sojourn on Gallifrey, where he put some family affairs
into order, the Doctor, with more than an inkling of his future,
spent some time traveling alone, preparing for his own demise.
The Eighth Doctor
But death and time rejected the Doctor's sacrifice. Regenerating for
an eighth time, the now half-human, Byronic Doctor, ably assisted by
surgeon Grace Holloway, encountered and defeated the Master for what
appeared to be the final time, before setting out alone to rediscover
his as-yet undisclosed human heritage.
More New Adventures
The eighth Doctor hooked up with a new companion, the Edwardian
adventuress, Charley Pollard, returning to his old ways in a string
of encounters with his old enemies including the Daleks, the
Cybermen, and the Nimon, until possession by an ancient power,
Zagreus, resulted in his confrontation with the mighty Rassilon.
Joined by a new alien companion, the Eutermesan C'rizz who had a
vestigial exoskeleton and a chameleon-like ability to blend in with
any background at will the Doctor and Charley set off to explore a
whole new universe, known only as the divergence .
The Continuing Adventures
At a later time the Doctor acquired a string of companions Sam
Jones, Fitz Kreiner, Anji Kapoor, and 'Trix' MacMillan. These
adventures have seen an emerging conflict with the mysterious Faction
Paradox, a future time war, the destruction of Gallifrey, and an
amnesiac Doctor stranded on Earth for a hundred years, forced to
rebuild his life without any knowledge of his past.
In the absence of the Master, the Doctor faced a new nemesis
Sabbath, a balding, overweight, 17th Century civil servant who
piloted a time ship crewed by vicious apes. Revealed as an agent of
the Council of Eight higher beings desperate to assume the mantle
of the Time Lords Sabbath ultimately sacrificed himself to prevent
universal catastrophe .
In a universe without the Time Lords, the veil of mystery surrounding
the Doctor's memories was eventually lifted as he became the agent of
his people's return, restoring agllifrey to its rightful place in the
universe following as eries of adventures with a new companion,
Rachel, and K9 Mark I, the only other know survivor of Gallifrey's
original destruction.
The Ninth Doctor
By the time of his ninth incarnation time has moved on for the
Doctor. He has returned to his original universe with his personal
continuity restored. He has again witnessed, and been a party to,
the destruction of the Time Lords in what has come to be known as the
Last Great Time War. In this incarnation the Doctor has returned to
his roots, embroiled in a string of adventures accompanied by his
latest human companions, Rose Tyler and Captain Jack Harkness. At
last accepting that he is the last of his kind, the Doctor uses
Rose's links with her family and friends as a means of rebuilding his
life, only to stumble across the return of his greatest enemies: the
Daleks, whose appearance forces him to bring his life to a premature
conclusion.
The Future
The Doctor's future remains shrouded in mystery. There have been
glimpses, but their accuracy and relevance following the many twists
and turns throughout the Doctor's life remain questionable. Some of
the possibilities include:
One possible future Doctor ginger haired and portly (and who
later takes the name Muldwych) assumes the mantle of Merlin,
advisor to King Arthur and Queen Mab;
After his `death' in a future time war, one future suggests that the
Doctor settled down and founded his own House
Another future Doctor becomes the last Time Lord, his half-human
heritage allowing him to rise and rule a human Empire at the very end
of time;
A future Doctor's corpse becomes the greatest weapon in a war
between the Time Lords and their greatest enemy;
Perhaps one of these futures is true, perhaps all. Perhaps the
Doctor is rewarded with a new cycle of lives, or plunges deep into
his own past to have adventures before he was even born. However,
until the Doctors' lives are complete, and his history written,
nothing can truly be set in stone.
>Incidentally, do we want to list the incarnations of the Doctor separately or >as one character? For the database I'd recommend separately just to stop the >entry taking up far too much space and thus forcing me to mess about with the >database structure. But that doesn't bind the concordance entries (I guess we >need to extract just the information that is relevant to the theme of each >volume).
The concordance entries (final print) I think could be done with a full listing for "The Doctor," then sub-pages for each previous incarnation. The biggest listing, I'd think, would be for "The Doctor," listing his childhood, school accomplishments, various important points in his life. Then, when it came to the "other Doctors" pages, it'd be just a simple matter of listing secondly-important points in his life for that specific incarnation (such as for the third Doctor, mentioning he met the eighth Doctor briefly in TED -- not a significant moment in the main-listing .... but for that incarnation, something of interest). The "other Doctors" pages would, therefore, be smaller than the "main" listing.
Of course we'd need a "current" Doctor, perhaps, for that listing .... but again, using only pertinent details for the overall listing -- and leaving more minutae-based information for his own incarnation-listing.
>We're aiming for the Gallifrey volume to go through first, so we ought to >start by going through some particularly Gallifrey-related stories. We can >probably make a start on cataloguing without having all the systems in place. >Pick one or two Gallifrey-related stories and I'll enable them on your account >at the database.
Sounds good to me :-) Since we'd talked earlier about the Target novelizations, I'll pick the Target versions of Deadly Assassin and Three Doctors -- and I'd also like to request a third one, if I may. There are some nice Time Lord-continuity bits in the novelization of Colony in Space/Doomsday Weapon I'd like to do as well.
I'll get started on the two for certain -- and wait for confirmation/permission on the third.
On Sunday, July 17, 2005, at 04:35PM, Stephen Gray <Bouncelot@...> wrote:
>Fair enough. I had a brief exchange either via e-mail or via Outpost Gallifrey
>with whoever was mostly responsible for the UNIT entry, where he said that
>he'd found my UNIT Files quite helpful, but didn't use a lot of it because it
>was from non-televised media, so I'd got the impression that the Wiki project
>was very heavily balanced in that direction.
>
>Steve
Odd, that, since I'm the one mostly responsible for the UNIT entry. :) I
honestly don't remember telling you that (I do recall telling you your UNIT
files were useful and that I added a link to them, though), but that could have
been early in the project, when one of my ideas was to keep off-television
sources to a minimum to avoid confusing or misleading the general reader. I
still think that's a good idea for Wikipedia, but still include bits and pieces
where I think it's notable or useful.
A project people might want to look at is the TARDIS Index File at
http://tardis.wikicites.com - that's another "all in" project which approaches
the subject as if it were "real".
----------
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"The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us will go to the stars."
On Friday 15 July 2005 17:13, Terence Chua wrote:
> But enough excuses. To address some things that have been raised in
> this thread in particular, at Wikipedia we're not limiting ourselves,
> per se, to the television series, although admittedly we slant heavily
> in that direction. Our intent is to talk about all the officially
> licensed material as well, including the comic strip, novels and the
> Big Finish audios. What we're trying to be careful to do is not to
> fall into the trap of arguing about canon and non-canon, so where we
> talk about the various lines, we try our best to say, "Okay, this bit
> of info is from the television series, this one is from the comic
> strips, this one is from the novels, etc." The phrase you'll see most
> often in the spin-off media articles is "the canonicity of this is
> unclear." This way, we cite our sources, and leave the reader to
> decide if they want to accept it or not.
Fair enough. I had a brief exchange either via e-mail or via Outpost Gallifrey
with whoever was mostly responsible for the UNIT entry, where he said that
he'd found my UNIT Files quite helpful, but didn't use a lot of it because it
was from non-televised media, so I'd got the impression that the Wiki project
was very heavily balanced in that direction.
Steve
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