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From: barth@tellab1.UUCP (Barth Richards)
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Subject: Re: Regeneration
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Date: Fri, 14-Feb-86 17:13:22 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 14 17:13:22 1986
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In article <178@ucdavis.UUCP> ccs026@ucdavis.UUCP (ccs026) writes:

>     I just saw "The Keeper of Traken" and am confused about what the
>Master did.  He says that he is on his 12th regeneration.  At the end
>of the episode he takes over the body of Nyssa'a father.  How was he
>able to do this?  The Doctor regenerates by using his own body and the
>Master regenerates by taking someone else's?  Or was this something
>different than regeneration?  Whatever he did, he couldn't have used
>the power of The Source because his efforts to control it had already
>been thwarted by the Doctor.

Time Lords have twelve regenerations (therefore thirteen "incarnations," as
their first "incarnation" is the result of their birth and not a result of
a regeneration). The Master had used up his twelve regenerations and was in
a severely degenerated state, but utilizing the lingering power of the Source,
he was able to commandeer the body of Tremas (sp?). Therefore effecting a
"thirteenth regeneration" and forestalling his own death by foul means. (Not
really so much a regeneration as a murder/hijacking.)


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