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From: mauney@ncsu.UUCP (Jon Mauney)
Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho
Subject: Re: Doctor's powers
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Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 10:03:51 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  5 10:03:51 1986
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> From: rbh9613@wucec2.UUCP
> 	I noticed in Four to Doomsday that the Dr.(#5) could
> not understand the Australian aborigine and that Tegan had
> to translate for him.  But in the Masque of Madragora, the
> Dr.(#4) explained to Sarah Jane that the reason she could understand
> the French(?) she was hearing, was because of a gift he shared
> with her.(this of course was how he knew she was in a trance)

In "The Web Planet" the Doctor cannot understand the Zarbi,
and in "The Leisure Hive" the Doctor cannot understand the Foamasi.
Obviously the gift is not like the "universal translator" used
in Star Trek (which operates on the Babelfish principle).
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_Doctor_                           Jon Mauney,    mcnc!ncsu!mauney
\__Mu__/                           North Carolina State University