see1@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (ellen keyne seebacher) (03/30/85)
Time for a new subject. The cancellation/indefinite hold bit isn't any fun. So, I quote (with permission) from an e-mail discussion: >> From: sphinx!see1 (ellen keyne seebacher) >> Subject: Re: V10#97--Who's companions >> >> David Campbell, no??? >> >> ...interesting question: Terrance Dicks has Susan bearing three >> children by him. Gallifreyan/human interfertility is even harder >> to swallow than Vulcan/human, but I do have a theory or two aside >> from T.D.'s general ignorance and Susan's (unlikely) human parent- >> age. Wouldn't the ultimate interference by a Time Lord be genetic >> manipulation? so that alien species could interbreed? >> >> the possibilities are staggering. From James C Armstrong's reply: >Doctor Who, being a show meant for all ages, doesn't discuss potential sexual >activities. (For all we know, Time Lords lay eggs!) A logical conclusion >however would be some form of convergent evolution between worlds. A humanoid >shape must require 46 chromosomes composed of DNA, regardless of where it >comes up in the universe. Reproductive techniques must also logically >follow. We have seen that lesser species that evolved on different continents >have been able to inter breed, why not intelligent life between worlds? > >Also, as for Time Lord interference in time, a Time Lord exists within >time, and must therefore affect the course of time. I submit that inter- >ference only occurs when a *known* future is changed. Otherwise, Time Lord >actions are just a part of "history." (Look at "Pyramids of Mars" again: >When the Doctor takes Sarah back to UNIT HQ in the future, she sees that the >Doctor's future actions (in her past) are required for her future to be.) >When one's knowledge of the future is blind, then the changes cannot be >changes, but shapings. > >On the same lines, in "Mark of the Rani" I must object to the Doctor des- >cribing a scientist as "changing history" while putting in the disclaimer >that he can't do that. It is obvious that George ***(name forgotten) shaped >Peri's future. > >James C Armstrong, Jnr. ihnp4!abnji!nyssa If anyone wants to get a net discussion going, please do. Feel free to pontificate (or flame) about Time Lord reproduction, the theory of time interference or the physiology of Susan Foreman Campbell's children.... -- ellen keyne seebacher ...ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!see1 univ of chicago comp center (x9.xes@UChicago.Mailnet) "I do have a motto. I'm going to live until I die, and never get the two confused."
jeff@mit-eddie.UUCP (Jeff Mattson) (04/02/85)
Acording to the Doctor Who Technical Manual (I'm not sure of the name, I read a little of it quickly in a bookstore), Susan left with the Doctor when he first left Gallifrey in disgust and is also a Gallifreyan. I'd like to see a story in which Susan goes back to Gallifrey, graduates from the Time Lords Academy, and becomes a Time Lady. (At least I THINK that's how you become a Time Lady. Any one out there know any better?) ---------------------------------------- Don't dream it; BE IT! ---------------------------------------- Jeff Mattson Jeff@MIT-Eddie 24 Westland Ave. #10 Boston, MA 02115
mgh@hou5h.UUCP (Marcus Hand) (04/04/85)
Nooooo.... you don't become a Time Lady, you become another Time Lord (Romana was a Time Lord, remember.) -- Marcus Hand (hou5h!mgh)
percus@acf4.UUCP (Allon G. Percus) (04/05/85)
> Nooooo.... you don't become a Time Lady, you become another Time Lord > (Romana was a Time Lord, remember.) Funny you should say this... in the novelisations, they called her a Time Lady, and I myself always thought it incorrect to call her a Time Lord, the way they did on the show, but... A. G. Percus (ARPA) percus@acf4 (NYU) percus.acf4 (UUCP) ...!ihnp4!cmcl2!acf4!percus