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The answer to your question has its roots in the earlier Tom Baker
story "The Deadly Assassin."  In that story, the Master's
12th regeneration was just expiring.  By coming back to Gallifrey
and using the powers of the Eye of Harmony, he managed to get the
energy necessary to make a 13th regeneration possible.  In "The
Keeper of Traken," he took advanatage of this and stole Tremas's
body to effect a nearly perfect 13th regeneration. (It must have
its flaws, however, because in "The Five Doctors," he jumps at
the opprtunity to get an honest-to-goodness regeneration).

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      I still insist that The Master simply stole Tremas's body
      because he liked the idea of having the body of someone
      whose name was an anagram of his own.

In Keeper of Traken, the Master had absorbed enough energy from
the Source to allow him to seize Tremas' body and use it as his
own.  In a later story, The Master is asked about a new regeneration,
to which he replies, "Not exactly."
-- 
James C. Armstrong, Jnr.	{ihnp4,cbosgd,akgua}!abnji!nyssa

"But Doctor, we're on that island!"
"Oh my word!"			who said them, what story?

In article <178@ucdavis.UUCP> ccs026@ucdavis.UUCP (ccs026) writes:

>     I just saw "The Keeper of Traken" and am confused about what the
>Master did.  He says that he is on his 12th regeneration.  At the end
>of the episode he takes over the body of Nyssa'a father.  How was he
>able to do this?  The Doctor regenerates by using his own body and the
>Master regenerates by taking someone else's?  Or was this something
>different than regeneration?  Whatever he did, he couldn't have used
>the power of The Source because his efforts to control it had already
>been thwarted by the Doctor.

Time Lords have twelve regenerations (therefore thirteen "incarnations," as
their first "incarnation" is the result of their birth and not a result of
a regeneration). The Master had used up his twelve regenerations and was in
a severely degenerated state, but utilizing the lingering power of the Source,
he was able to commandeer the body of Tremas (sp?). Therefore effecting a
"thirteenth regeneration" and forestalling his own death by foul means. (Not
really so much a regeneration as a murder/hijacking.)


				  Barth Richards
				  Tellabs, Inc.
				  Lisle, IL

In article <178@ucdavis.UUCP> ccs026@ucdavis.UUCP (ccs026) writes:
>     I just saw "The Keeper of Traken" and am confused about what the
>Master did.  He says that he is on his 12th regeneration.  At the end
>of the episode he takes over the body of Nyssa'a father.  How was he
>able to do this?  The Doctor regenerates by using his own body and the
>Master regenerates by taking someone else's?  Or was this something
>different than regeneration?  Whatever he did, he couldn't have used
>the power of The Source because his efforts to control it had already
>been thwarted by the Doctor.

Actually, a couple of episodes later on (when the Doctor one again meets the
Master), he says that the Master still had some of the power of the source
left, apparantly enough to snatch the body in question, and (as I recall the
episode) to rejuvenate it to a age suitable to him. The Master had already
regenerated normally twelve times, which is the maximum amount of possible
regenerations, and had been trying to regenerate again for quite a few
episodes. I'm wondering whether the Master will be able to take this new
body through a dozen generations as well. Anybody know?


				a lesser Power of Darkness

In article <226@ulowell.UUCP> laneg@ulowell.UUCP (Dromio) writes:
>In article <178@ucdavis.UUCP> ccs026@ucdavis.UUCP (ccs026) writes:
>I'm wondering whether the Master will be able to take this new
>body through a dozen generations as well. Anybody know?

Let's just say that the Doctor will out survive the Master.
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