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From: laneg@ulowell.UUCP (Dromio)
Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho
Subject: Re: Regeneration
Message-ID: <226@ulowell.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Feb-86 16:16:37 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 26 16:16:37 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.

Actually, a couple of episodes later on (when the Doctor one again meets the
Master), he says that the Master still had some of the power of the source
left, apparantly enough to snatch the body in question, and (as I recall the
episode) to rejuvenate it to a age suitable to him. The Master had already
regenerated normally twelve times, which is the maximum amount of possible
regenerations, and had been trying to regenerate again for quite a few
episodes. I'm wondering whether the Master will be able to take this new
body through a dozen generations as well. Anybody know?


				a lesser Power of Darkness