Doctor Who
Ok, ok. Let’s start off with a brief history of the good Doctor. He is, quite obviously, an alien time traveller from the planet Gallifrey (in the constellation of Kasterborous). His people style themselves as Time Lords, after the invention of time travel by one of Gallifrey’s grea-*test*-('") ever scientists – Lord Rassilon. Time Lords travel around in capsules known as Tardises. Tardis is an acronym for the term “Time and Relative Dimensions in Space”. A Tardis is dimensionally transcendental and can reconfigure its internal architecture at it’s operators will. It also has a cloaking device powered by a chameleon circuit, rendering it capable of changing its outer shell to blend in with its surroundings. It also exists in a State of Grace, meaning that weapons cannot be fired within its walls. Unfortunately, the Doctor’s Tardis is notoriously unreliable. It appears stuck in the form of a police box from the 1960’s and it is often difficult to navigate, often appearing in places that the Doctor does not expect. Originally the Tardis fleet, and all of Gallifrey, drew their power from the Eye of Harmony. This was a captured black hole that lay at the heart of the Capitol, the main administrative centre of the planet. The star was detonated by Omega using a remote stellar manipulator, which was know as ‘The Hand of Omega’. Omega, and his ship the Eurydice, were considered lost in the subsequent explosion until it was found by the Doctor that he had been blasted into a universe of anti-matter. Since the destruction of Gallifrey in the Time War of the Daleks, it appears that the Doctor has adapted his Tardis to draw power from the universe itself. Before it was destroyed by the Daleks, the ruling elite controlled the planet. These self-styled Time Lords were governed by a High Council, which in turn was led by an elected President. A Gallifreyan has two hearts, a symbiotic nucleus that allows him to telepathically bond with a Tardis, a respiratory by-pass system, and the ability to regenerate into a new form if the body becomes old or is subjected to massive trauma. It can do this twelve times, meaning that a Time Lord can have 13 lives in total. The Doctor has been portrayed by eleven different actors on television and once on the big screen.
Ok, ok. Let’s start off with a brief history of the good Doctor. He is, quite obviously, an alien time traveller from the planet Gallifrey (in the constellation of Kasterborous). His people style themselves as Time Lords, after the invention of time travel by one of Gallifrey’s grea-*test*-('") ever scientists – Lord Rassilon. Time Lords travel around in capsules known as Tardises. Tardis is an acronym for the term “Time and Relative Dimensions in Space”. A Tardis is dimensionally transcendental and can reconfigure its internal architecture at it’s operators will. It also has a cloaking device powered by a chameleon circuit, rendering it capable of changing its outer shell to blend in with its surroundings. It also exists in a State of Grace, meaning that weapons cannot be fired within its walls. Unfortunately, the Doctor’s Tardis is notoriously unreliable. It appears stuck in the form of a police box from the 1960’s and it is often difficult to navigate, often appearing in places that the Doctor does not expect. Originally the Tardis fleet, and all of Gallifrey, drew their power from the Eye of Harmony. This was a captured black hole that lay at the heart of the Capitol, the main administrative centre of the planet. The star was detonated by Omega using a remote stellar manipulator, which was know as ‘The Hand of Omega’. Omega, and his ship the Eurydice, were considered lost in the subsequent explosion until it was found by the Doctor that he had been blasted into a universe of anti-matter. Since the destruction of Gallifrey in the Time War of the Daleks, it appears that the Doctor has adapted his Tardis to draw power from the universe itself. Before it was destroyed by the Daleks, the ruling elite controlled the planet. These self-styled Time Lords were governed by a High Council, which in turn was led by an elected President. A Gallifreyan has two hearts, a symbiotic nucleus that allows him to telepathically bond with a Tardis, a respiratory by-pass system, and the ability to regenerate into a new form if the body becomes old or is subjected to massive trauma. It can do this twelve times, meaning that a Time Lord can have 13 lives in total. The Doctor has been portrayed by eleven different actors on television and once on the big screen.
