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Subject: Re: Temporal Grace -- what does it protect?
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Date: Sun, 15-Jul-84 17:15:02 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 15 17:15:02 1984
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The temporal grace which the Doctor talked about in 'The Hand of
Fear' was based upon the fact that while they were in the Tardis
they no longer existed in normal three dimensional space. Thus 
certain things could not be done to the occupants (such as Eldrad's
mind reading trick.) However, in the Invasion of Time episode, the
Sontarins were able to use thier weapons in the tardis but the
Time Lord guards patrol staser would not function. Apparently,
the temporal grace can be circumvented by either very simple
means (such as a knife or poison) or by weapons of sufficiently
advanced technology (the Sontarins and The cybermen.)