portegys@ihlpg.UUCP (Tom Portegys) (12/17/85)
Remember in "the brain of morbius" how the Doctor responds to the sisterhood's discovery of an elixer which grants eternal life? He comments that eternal life is equivalent to eternal stagnation, and implies that the production of the elixer is rather commonplace knowledge. This says to me that the purpose of regeneration in Time Lords is to prolong life, but not as a partial substitute for immortality. In other words, maybe Time Lords see the need for death as an instrument of renewal. Tom Portegys, AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, Ill. ihnp4!ihlpg!portegys