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From: percus@acf4.UUCP (Allon G. Percus)
Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho
Subject: Re: Regeneration
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Date: Wed, 12-Feb-86 18:59:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 12 18:59:00 1986
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The answer to your question has its roots in the earlier Tom Baker
story "The Deadly Assassin."  In that story, the Master's
12th regeneration was just expiring.  By coming back to Gallifrey
and using the powers of the Eye of Harmony, he managed to get the
energy necessary to make a 13th regeneration possible.  In "The
Keeper of Traken," he took advanatage of this and stole Tremas's
body to effect a nearly perfect 13th regeneration. (It must have
its flaws, however, because in "The Five Doctors," he jumps at
the opprtunity to get an honest-to-goodness regeneration).

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      I still insist that The Master simply stole Tremas's body
      because he liked the idea of having the body of someone
      whose name was an anagram of his own.