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[QUOTE]Originally posted by FawnDoo: [QB] Well, he only violated the one law - the noninterference directive. They should just be grateful Janeway wasn't born on Gallifrey. Oh and he stole a TARDIS, so that makes two laws, one of which is a bit moot since the TARDIS he nicked was going to the knackers yard anyway. Even so, capital punishment seems a little primitive for such an advanced race as the Timelords. As for the regeneration limit the impression I always got was that it was artificial - the Timelords offered the Master a new cycle of regenerations in "The Five Doctors" and at the time he wasn't even in a Gallifreyan body, so it can't be something inherent to the biology. I think the regeneration cycle is an ability bestowed on a Gallifreyan when he/she becomes a Timelord/lady. Rassilon was said to have been immortal - perhaps his regeneration cycle simply did not have an upper limit? (Borusa mentions something about "perpetual bodily regeneration" in "The Five Doctors" so maybe his regeneration cycle doesn't wait till death, it just keeps tweaking as he goes along). My own theory is this: I always took the regeneration ability to be based in some kind of nanotechnology, a bit like the Borg really. When your body "dies" they kick in and fix it up from the cellular level on up. Maybe the Timelord equivalent of nanoprobes can only do this 12 times before they hit their preprogrammed limit (that fits with Rassilon - as the founder of Timelord society and, presumably, regeneration, he might have a set of nanoprobes with no programmed limit) - it also fits with how the Master could be offered a new cycle, and why "Gallifreyan" does not necessarily mean "Timelord". Why a preprogrammed limit? Maybe Rassilon wanted the Timelords to be long lived beings, but only wanted himself to be immortal. Additional nerd fact - regeneration was originally called "renewal" when the Doctor went from Hartnell to Troughton. The Doctor's companion (Polly?) said something about him being "renewed" which the Doctor confirmed. FD [/QB][/QUOTE]
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