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From: daver@sci.UUCP (Dave Rickel)
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Subject: Re: How do you kill a Time Lord?
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Well, first you cut off his head, and then you drive a stake (oops--two stakes)
through his hearts.

Actually, it would seem that any sufficiently quick death would do it--you
would need to halt the vitals before the regeneration sequence was begun.  I've
only seen a couple of regenerations, so i'm not all that clear on the point.
My impression of Tom Baker's regeneration into Peter Davison was that he had
broken his back during the fall--not fatal, but extremely inconvenient.  Peter
Davison triggered the reincarnation before he actually died of the xx (Spectrox
Toximeia?  whatever).  Anyway, this theory allows more melodrama--the doctor
can be killed (not just forced to regenerate) by a knife, bullet, poison gas,
etc.  Of course, even if the above is wrong, he can always be eaten, vaporised
by a plasma jet, disintegrated, or what have you.


david rickel