83-520: (Redirected from Time Lady ) Time lady may refer to: Time Lady, a way to refer to female members of the Time Lord species on the science fiction television programme Doctor Who The Time Lady, a character in the Diana Wynne Jones novel A Tale of Time City Time lady, a female voice heard on a speaking clock that people could dial to find out
166-645: A Time Lord can regenerate twelve times (thirteen incarnations in all). There were exceptions to this rule, however: when the Master reached the end of his regenerative cycle, he took possession of the body of another person to continue living. In " The Five Doctors ", the Master was offered a new cycle of regenerations by the High Council to save the Doctor from the Death Zone, which may indicate that there are methods to circumvent
249-658: A Time Lord. This story element was notably featured in Series 3 ; the Doctor uses it to hide himself from the Family of Blood and becomes a schoolteacher in Edwardian England. His nemesis the Master used it to disguise himself as a human to escape the Time War. The story element is later revisited in the Series 12 episode " Fugitive of the Judoon " when a mysterious, unknown incarnation of
332-446: A crack in time to grant him a full new regeneration cycle. The revelation in 2020's The Timeless Children that The Doctor is, in fact, not Gallifreyan and instead had their DNA used to give Gallifreyans the ability to regenerate, calls into doubt whether or not the Doctor does in fact have a limit to their regenerations, or if they merely believed they did due to all other Time Lords being limited. The Time Lord homeworld, Gallifrey ,
415-656: A different concept of ageing from humans. In " The Stolen Earth ", the Tenth Doctor refers to when who he thought was his original incarnation was a "kid" at 90 years old. However, within a specific incarnation, a Time Lord is able to age, albeit much more slowly than a human. The War Doctor and Eleventh Doctor , over the course of the Last Great Time War and the Battle of Trenzalore , respectively, are seen to age within their respective incarnations to what would appear to
498-581: A female. The Doctor also regenerated as a woman in " Twice Upon A Time ", as the Thirteenth Doctor . Whether or not Time Lords can recognise each other across regenerations is not made entirely clear: In " The Impossible Astronaut ", a future version of the Eleventh Doctor is shot, causing him to begin his regeneration cycle. He is shot again before the regeneration completes, causing him to die instantly. However, in " The Wedding of River Song ", it
581-456: A fictional ancient race of extraterrestrial people in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who . Time Lords are so named for their command of time travel technology and their non-linear perception of time. Originally, they were described as a powerful and wise race from the planet Gallifrey , from which the Doctor was a renegade; details beyond this were very limited for
664-399: A hand. Also seen in " Journey's End ", is the apparent ability to siphon off regeneration energy in order to cancel the effect of changing appearance; which requires them to have a "bio-matching receptacle" (in this case the Doctor's severed hand), which is usually impractical. However, this "non-regeneration" was revealed as "counting" towards the Doctor's twelve possible regenerations during
747-491: A human to be old age; both conflicts are suggested within the series to last hundreds if not thousands of Earth years. In The Two Doctors , the Second Doctor states that the "Rassilon Imprimatur" allows Time Lords to safely travel through time, becoming symbionts with their TARDISes, and that the reason other species are incapable of developing time travel is that they lack the imprimatur. However, he implies later that he
830-598: A new personality. Regenerations can be traumatic. In Castrovalva , the Fifth Doctor requires the use of a Zero Room, a chamber shielded from the outside universe that provides an area of calm for him to recuperate. The Time Lord's personality also sometimes goes through a period of instability following a regeneration, such as in The Christmas Invasion . It was first stated in The Deadly Assassin that
913-533: A race called Time Lords, and in Spearhead from Space (1970), the Doctor's earlier description of himself as a human is retconned when the Third Doctor explicitly states that he is not human. In The Time Warrior (1973–1974), the name of the Doctor's home planet, Gallifrey , was revealed on screen for the first time. The Time Lords are considered one of the oldest and most technologically powerful races in
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#1732852392416996-510: A trial is a "very rare" event for the Time Lords. Exceptions to this policy are made only in extreme circumstances when they feel they have to, such as where the Doctor calls them for help in the serial. At the start of the 2005 television series, Gallifrey was thought to have been destroyed and the Time Lords functionally extinct as a result of a mutually destructive Time War with the Dalek race;
1079-665: A warrior greater than either", which is "half-Dalek, half-Time Lord", while in " Hell Bent " (2015), the General, while describing the prophecy of the Hybrid, mentions the Time Lords as one of two warrior races along with the Daleks . In " Before the Flood " (2015), the Fisher King describes the Time Lords as "cowardly, vain curators, who suddenly remembered they had teeth, and became the most warlike race in
1162-567: A wide range of events and individuals, so long as they do not cross back into their own timeline. Over subsequent episodes their history, their development of time manipulation, and their internal politics were touched upon, with Time Lord society portrayed as a stagnated ceremony-bound oligarchy and their past having descended into myth and legend . The Doctor became at times an ally, being appointed their president during his fourth , fifth , and twelfth incarnations and assisting them on many other occasions. In an audio commentary recorded for
1245-458: Is a form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people. These people may or may not be distinguished by one or several characteristics, such as nobility , fame , wealth , education , or corporate , religious , political , or military control. Throughout history, power structures considered to be oligarchies have often been viewed as coercive, relying on public obedience or oppression to exist. Aristotle pioneered
1328-491: Is able to interface with his spaceship in ways that only a 'time-sensitive' is supposed to be able to. In " Utopia ", the Tenth Doctor states that he finds it difficult to look at Captain Jack Harkness because Jack's existence has become fixed in time and space. In the Series 4 episode " Journey's End ", the Tenth Doctor was shown to use his telepathic abilities to wipe Donna Noble's mind of certain memories, specifically
1411-491: Is an Earth-like planet in the fictional constellation of Kasterborous. It is located in a binary star system 250 million light years from Earth. The points in time when Gallifrey appears are never definitively stated. As the planet is often reached by means of time travel, its relative present could conceivably exist almost anywhere in the Earth's past or future, as well as anywhere in the conceivable universe. From space, Gallifrey
1494-400: Is revealed this was a shape shifting android the Doctor used to fake his death, making this questionable. It's a bit dodgy, this process, you never know what you're gonna end up with. In cases of non-fatal injury, Time Lords who have recently regenerated can use left over cellular energy to heal and even regrow severed limbs, as seen in " The Christmas Invasion " where the Tenth Doctor regrows
1577-536: Is seen as a yellow-orange planet and was close enough to central space lanes for spacecraft to require clearance from Gallifreyan Space Traffic Control as they pass through its system. The planet was protected from physical attack by an impenetrable barrier called the quantum force field, and from teleportation incursions by the transduction barrier—which could be reinforced to repel most levels of this type of technological attack. The Doctor's granddaughter Susan first describes her home world (not named as "Gallifrey" at
1660-542: Is seen using this method to query a cat about the goings-on of the flat in " The Lodger ". In " A Good Man Goes to War " and " Closing Time " he is apparently able to even understand babies, as well as horses in " A Town Called Mercy ". In " The Girl in the Fireplace ", the Tenth Doctor reads the mind of Madame de Pompadour —and in the process, to his surprise, she is able to read his mind as well. In " The End of Time ",
1743-403: Is somehow innately able to sense which events in time are 'fixed' and which are in 'flux'. The Eleventh Doctor slightly amends what was said earlier in " The Doctor's Wife ", saying that he could only sense if there were other Time Lords in this universe. In the original series episode Warriors' Gate , Romana is called a 'time-sensitive' by a marauding slaver and, though she seems to deny this,
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#17328523924161826-453: Is speculated by Donna Noble in " The Doctor's Daughter " (2008) to be a surviving Time Lord, though the Doctor initially rejects the suggestion. Two other Time Lord-like beings appeared in " Journey's End " (2008): Donna, briefly empowered with the mind and knowledge of a Time Lord, and a half-human clone of the Tenth Doctor. Donna's memories related to the Doctor, as well as her Time Lord knowledge, are buried in order to save her life, while
1909-468: Is still conscious and able to return to return to the TARDIS and Pandorica respectively. In Death of the Doctor , the Eleventh Doctor responds to a question from Clyde Langer by saying he can regenerate "507" times. Early news reports, before the episode was broadcast, suggested he would say there is no limit to the number of regenerations. Writer Russell T Davies stated in an interview with SFX that
1992-508: The 2005 series , the Ninth Doctor claims that he can sense the movement of the Earth through space as well as being able to perceive the past and all possible futures. He is also able to concentrate and time his motions well enough to step safely through the blades of a rapidly spinning fan, and later claims that if any Time Lords still existed, he would be able to sense them. As the Tenth Doctor he repeats this assertion, adding also that he
2075-639: The Ayalas and Manny Pangilinan , corporate figures allied with Duterte, including Dennis Uy of Udenna Corporation , benefitted during his administration. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the subsequent privatization of state-owned assets, a class of Russian oligarchs emerged. These oligarchs gained control of significant portions of the economy, especially in the energy, metals, and natural resources sectors. Many of these individuals maintained close ties with government officials, particularly
2158-474: The Doctor Who universe. In The Time Warrior , the Time Lords are characterised by Sontaran military intelligence, quoted by Commander Linx , as "a race of great technical achievement, but lacking the morale to withstand a determined assault". In " The Witch's Familiar " (2015), Davros mentions a prophecy on the Doctor's world that spoke of a hybrid made up of "two great warrior races forced together to create
2241-719: The Krillitane Mr Finch in " School Reunion " (2006). In " Father's Day " (2005), the Ninth Doctor remarks that before Time Lords were "all gone", they would have prevented or repaired paradoxes such as that which attracted the Reapers to 1987 Earth. In " Rise of the Cybermen " (2006), the Tenth Doctor mentions, "When the Time Lords kept their eye on everything, you could pop between realities , home in time for tea. Then they died, and took it all with them. Walls of reality closed,
2324-605: The Ninth Doctor describes his planet as "just rocks and dust" in " The End of the World " (2005), and mentions in " Dalek " (2005) that the Time Lords "burnt" with the Daleks at the end of the "Last Great Time War", and the Tenth Doctor tells the Master in " The Sound of Drums " (2007) that the Time Lords are "dead" and "all [they've] got is each other". The Doctor describes himself as the last of his kind and says his planet burned on numerous other occasions, as do other individuals, such as
2407-507: The Series 5 episode " The Big Bang " the Doctor telepathically left a message in Amy Pond 's head before sealing her into the Pandorica so that she would know what was happening when she woke up. Time Lords also have the ability to regenerate their bodies when their current body is mortally wounded. This process results in their body undergoing a transformation, gaining a new physical form and
2490-564: The president , leading some to characterize modern Russia as an oligarchy intertwined with the state. The Islamic Republic of Iran , established after the 1979 Iranian Revolution , is sometimes described as a clerical oligarchy. Its ruling system, known as Velayat-e-Faqih (Governance of the Jurist), places power in the hands of a small group of high-ranking Shia clerics, led by the Supreme Leader . This group holds significant influence over
2573-445: The 2009 DVD release of The War Games (1969), producer Derrick Sherwin mentioned how in a discussion with the serial's co-writer Terrance Dicks the previous day, Dicks was "absolutely certain" that Sherwin created the Time Lords for the serial, although Sherwin could not remember himself. Later in the commentary, Dicks recalled Sherwin telling him in the discussions with Dicks and Dicks' fellow co-writer Malcolm Hulke that because
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2656-701: The 2010 Citizens United v. FEC Supreme Court decision, which removed limits on donations to political campaigns. In 2014, a study by political scientists Martin Gilens of Princeton University and Benjamin Page of Northwestern University argued that the United States' political system does not primarily reflect the preferences of its average citizens. Their analysis of policy outcomes between 1981 and 2002 suggested that wealthy individuals and business groups held substantial influence over political decisions, often sidelining
2739-519: The Doctor had always been established as being on the run from his own people, that if he has to appeal to them, the Doctor would be in trouble. In a 2016 interview with The Essential Doctor Who magazine, Dicks mentioned how when Sherwin and he were discussing The War Games one day, Sherwin said, "He belongs to this mysterious race called the Time Lords, doesn't he?" with "everything" ultimately coming from that discussion. In The War Games DVD commentary, Sherwin mentioned that he recalled hearing about
2822-749: The Doctor " (2013), it is shown that the Eighth Doctor regenerates into the War Doctor to fight in the Time War. Many years later, as shown during " The Day of the Doctor " (2013) and also described by the Partisan in "The End of Time", the War Doctor originally planned to use a Time Lord weapon known as the Moment to destroy the Time Lords and Daleks. However, after being shown the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors during "The Day of
2905-537: The Doctor " concerned this supposed destruction and their eventual survival. They developed a culture of custodianship and time-related technologies based on this perception which includes strictly controlled space /time travel machines (known as " TARDISes ") and monitoring devices to travel through time and to prevent time from being subverted or abused—although actual action was described as rare in practice due to their traditional policy of strict non-interference and neutrality. They can act to manipulate timelines of
2988-548: The Doctor (played by Jo Martin ), is revealed to have been hiding on Earth as a tour guide named “Ruth Clayton” using a Chameleon Arch. Time Lords can communicate by telepathy , and can link their minds to share information and enhance their powers. In Castrovalva , the Doctor activates the TARDIS' Zero Room mentally. Additionally, both the Doctor and the Master demonstrate significant hypnotic abilities which may be supplemented by their telepathic abilities. These powers were elaborated upon from 2005. The Eleventh Doctor
3071-425: The Doctor engages in astral projection , but warns that if he is disturbed while doing so, his mind could become severed from his body and he could die. In " Last of the Time Lords ", the Doctor telepathically interfaces with a network tapped into the human population who collectively chant his name. The focus of psychic energy granted the Doctor the ability to de-age himself, float through the air, deflect shots from
3154-508: The Doctor forever. This again implies that regeneration is not inevitable and can indeed be refused. Upon encountering the remains of fellow Time Lord the Corsair in " The Doctor's Wife ", the Doctor refers to the Corsair as both male and female, hinting that Time Lords can switch genders upon their regenerations; this is confirmed in " Dark Water ", in which the Master , previously seen in various male incarnations for over forty years, returned as
3237-504: The Doctor is able to shake off an electrocution attempt which is fatal to a number of humans, and appears unaffected by the energy whip wielded by the Sycorax in " The Christmas Invasion ". In " Smith and Jones " the Tenth Doctor says that the radiation given off by X-rays pose no real threat to Time Lords, and proceeds to absorb an amount that would be lethal to a human, which he subsequently expels through his foot. "The End of Time" shows
3320-420: The Doctor remarks upon her ability, she comments that he should have stayed in university. However, despite showing several appearances, Romana regenerated only once on that occasion. In " Utopia ", the Master, just before regeneration, claimed that he would become "young and strong", implying that he could choose the form of his new body. The human-Time Lord hybrid River Song in " Let's Kill Hitler " claimed she
3403-477: The Doctor spends centuries believing he burnt Gallifrey until the Eleventh Doctor's time; this is because the time streams are out of sync after the War Doctor meets his future selves and the altered events are only known to the Doctor once they occur in the Eleventh Doctor's experience and become part of his memory. Indeed, earlier on in the episode, both the Tenth and the Eleventh Doctors mistakenly believe that
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3486-426: The Doctor there to begin with for questioning—and exile him in "Hell Bent" before running off again. Time Lords and human beings look alike, however they differ in many respects. Physiological differences from humans include two hearts which normally beat at 170 beats per minute, and a "respiratory bypass system" that allows them to survive strangulation. The Twelfth Doctor was able to survive direct exposure to
3569-450: The Doctor", he works together with them to change the assumed outcome of the Time War : thirteen incarnations of the Doctor team up together to freeze Gallifrey in time and place it outside of their universe (protecting it and the remaining Time Lords), while the Daleks destroy themselves in their own crossfire once Gallifrey is gone. The War Doctor does not retain the memory of these events and
3652-476: The Doctor's, Madame Vastra , reminds the Doctor that the Time Lord race developed due to their billions of years' exposure to the time vortex. The Doctor then recalls that Rory and Amy had spent their wedding night in the TARDIS; therefore it is theorised by Vastra that River's conception mirrored that of the Time Lords' genesis and therefore she herself developed Time Lord genetic characteristics. In " The Night of
3735-568: The Master uses the same technique, allowing the Tenth Doctor to hear the drumming sound the Master constantly hears. The Doctor later displays his telepathic communion powers in " Fear Her " and in " The Shakespeare Code ", where by using his mind melding technique he is partially able to relieve a man of his mental illness as he traces back through his memories. In " Planet of the Ood ", the Tenth Doctor seems able to temporarily confer some degree of telepathy on his companion Donna Noble, so that she can hear
3818-578: The Master's laser screwdriver, and telekinetically disarm the Master. In addition, Time Lords may be clairvoyant , or have additional time-related senses. In The Time Monster , and Invasion of the Dinosaurs , the Third Doctor is able to resist fields of slow time, being able to move through them even though others are paralysed . In City of Death , both the Fourth Doctor and Romana notice distortions and jumps in time that no one else does. In
3901-529: The Tenth Doctor as being capable of surviving (for a short period) a massive burst of radiation that would have killed anything else instantly. However, the radiation burst caused enough damage to start a regeneration. Time Lords are extremely long-lived, routinely counting their ages in terms of centuries; the Second Doctor claimed in The War Games that Time Lords could live "practically forever, barring accidents". The series has suggested that Time Lords have
3984-453: The Tenth Doctor explains to Wilfred Mott that a Time Lord can die before they have a chance to regenerate, in which case they die outright. In The Deadly Assassin at least one of the murders was carried out with a 'staser', possibly a weapon designed to both kill and prevent regeneration (stasers are also stated to have little effect on non-living tissue). In the Series 4 episode " Turn Left ",
4067-423: The Tenth Doctor's body is shown on a stretcher following the parallel events of " The Runaway Bride ". A UNIT officer states that the Doctor's death must have been too quick to allow for regeneration. In Destiny of the Daleks , Romana showed the ability to rapidly change form several times in a row during her first regeneration, and apparently had the ability to change into whatever appearance she desired. When
4150-411: The Time Lords are attempting to return to the universe and will come back if he speaks his true name. Due to "half the universe" surrounding Trenzalore, a siege begins that lasts centuries as the Doctor knows that if the Time Lords return, the Time War will begin anew. With the Doctor on the verge of death, Clara Oswald pleads with the Time Lords through the crack to intervene and save the Doctor. Through
4233-516: The Time Lords at the beginning of the series, but as no one else remembered this, it "might have come out of [his] dreams". Elaborating on this genesis in a 2014 interview in Doctor Who Magazine , Sherwin said of The War Games , "It was a case of what shall we do, how can we end this? Let's go back to the beginning and say [the Doctor] was a Time Lord, a renegade Time Lord, a pain in the arse for
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#17328523924164316-409: The Time Lords have the ability to grant more regenerations: at the behest of Clara Oswald they granted the Doctor himself a new cycle when he was at the point of death from old age, having used up his entire cycle. Regeneration, regardless of how many regenerations the individual Time Lord has already undergone, is a conditional and non-inevitable phenomenon. This is stated in " The End of Time " when
4399-465: The Time War. During the episode "The Doctor's Wife" it is revealed that several Time Lords and their TARDISes had been trapped and destroyed by an entity called House who lived in a separate bubble universe. In " A Good Man Goes to War " (2011), it is revealed that the daughter of Amy Pond and Rory Williams , Melody Pond (who later goes by her transliterated name " River Song "), has been born with Time Lord-like genetic traits. An old acquaintance of
4482-649: The United States as oligarchies. During the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos from 1965 to 1986, several monopolies arose in the Philippines, primarily linked to the Marcos family and their close associates. Analysts have described this period, and even subsequent decades, as an era of oligarchy in the Philippines. President Rodrigo Duterte , elected in 2016, promised to dismantle the oligarchy during his presidency. However, corporate oligarchy persisted throughout his tenure. While Duterte criticized prominent tycoons such as
4565-442: The War Doctor killed all of the Time Lords on the last day of the Time War. After being informed that the plan to save Gallifrey was successful, the Eleventh Doctor sets out to find Gallifrey and restore the Time Lords. In " The Time of the Doctor ", the Doctor visits the planet Trenzalore where he discovers a question being broadcast through all of time and space through a crack in the universe: "Doctor Who?" The Doctor realizes that
4648-478: The ability to stay conscious for moments after events that would outright kill other lifeforms instantly, giving them the opportunity to regenerate. This is seen in Logopolis (fall from a great height), and The Caves of Androzani (fatal disease). In both " The Stolen Earth " and " The Big Bang ", the Doctor is shot by a Dalek's energy weapon, which has almost always been shown to instantly kill any other lifeform, yet
4731-405: The clone lives out his existence in a parallel universe with Rose Tyler . " The End of Time " (2009–10) shows the High Council of Time Lords, led by Lord President Rassilon , attempting to escape the Time War by materialising Gallifrey in the place of Earth at Christmas. However, the Tenth Doctor destroys the device which allows their passage into the present, sending them back into the events of
4814-411: The country's legislative, military, and economic affairs, and critics argue that this system concentrates power in a religious elite, marginalizing other voices within society. Since Ukraine's independence in 1991, a powerful class of business elites, known as Ukrainian oligarchs , has played a significant role in the country's politics and economy. These oligarchs gained control of state assets during
4897-463: The crack, the Time Lords grant the Doctor a new regeneration cycle, saving his life before sealing the crack again. In " Hell Bent " (2015), it is revealed that Gallifrey returned to the universe around the time of its end. After escaping his confession dial in " Heaven Sent " (2015), still furious over the death of Clara Oswald in " Face the Raven " (2015), the Doctor manages to depose Rassilon—who had put
4980-505: The current time, down to the second, before the Internet and other options for finding out the time existed. UK : Jane Cain Pat Simmons (voice actor) Sara Mendes da Costa U.S. : Jane Barbe Joanne Daniels Pat Fleet Mary Moore (voice actor) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
5063-525: The events of " The Time of the Doctor ". In "The End of Time", the Tenth Doctor was able to postpone his regeneration long enough so that he could travel in time and space to see his past companions for one last time before he regenerated. The Fifth Doctor had also shown a similar ability in The Caves of Androzani , fighting off the effects of an impending regeneration so he can return to Androzani Minor to save his companion Peri. Time Lords appear to have
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#17328523924165146-423: The first decade of the series. They later became integral to many episodes and stories as their role in the universe developed. For the first eight years after the series resumed in 2005, the Time Lords were said to have been destroyed during the Last Great Time War at some point in the show's continuity between the television movie in 1996 and the show's revival. In 2013, the 50th anniversary special " The Day of
5229-400: The following criteria: George Bernard Shaw coined the concept of an intellectual oligarchy in his play Major Barbara (1907). In the play, Shaw criticizes the control of society by intellectual elites and expresses a desire for the empowerment of the common people: I now want to give the common man weapons against the intellectual man. I love the common people. I want to arm them against
5312-507: The galaxy". In the very distant past, the Time Lords fought a genocidal war against the Great Vampires, which led to such a catastrophic loss of life that the Time Lords renounced violence. In The War Games , the Second Doctor mentions that the Time Lords' "great powers" are hardly ever used due to their policy of non-intervention into the affairs of other planets, and that they instead observe and gather knowledge. Because of this, holding
5395-450: The lawyer, the doctor, the priest, the literary man, the professor, the artist, and the politician, who, once in authority, is the most dangerous, disastrous, and tyrannical of all the fools, rascals, and impostors. I want a democratic power strong enough to force the intellectual oligarchy to use its genius for the general good or else perish. Jeffrey A. Winters and Benjamin I. Page have described Colombia, Indonesia, Russia, Singapore and
5478-481: The line was not intended to be taken seriously and is instead a commentary. He said that the "thirteen lives" rule was too deeply entrenched in the viewer consciousness for his throwaway line to affect it. It is revealed in " The Time of the Doctor " that this was in fact false and that due to his various regenerations, the Eleventh Doctor was in fact his last incarnation. However, the Time Lords intervened through
5561-447: The list of top (political party) donors. Economist Simon Johnson argued that the rise of an American financial oligarchy became particularly prominent following the 2008 financial crisis. This financial elite has been described as wielding significant power over both the economy and political decisions. Former President Jimmy Carter in 2015 characterized the United States as an "oligarchy with unlimited political bribery" following
5644-534: The majority of Americans. While the United States maintains democratic features such as regular elections, freedom of speech, and widespread suffrage, the study noted that policy decisions are disproportionately influenced by economic elites. However, the study received criticism from other scholars, who argued that the influence of average citizens should not be discounted and that the conclusions about oligarchic tendencies were overstated. Gilens and Page defended their research, reiterating that while they do not label
5727-411: The memories of her travels in the TARDIS and to 'implant' a defence mechanism which is activated in " The End of Time ". The War Games showed that other Time Lords are also able to erase people's memories, as in that story, Jamie and Zoe 's travels with the Doctor were erased from their memory, and the council of Time Lords also put a memory block on the Doctor so he could not pilot the TARDIS. In
5810-439: The other Time Lords who stole his TARDIS and buggered off around the universe. So if he's going to be called to book let's bring in the Time Lords." Early on in the series, the Doctor was identified as a human being; however, his home planet, which from the start of the series is explicitly established as not being Earth , was not named. In The War Games (1969), the Doctor's people appeared, who from then on are known as
5893-414: The rapid privatization that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union. By 2021, Ukraine passed a law aimed at curbing oligarchic influence on politics and the economy. Several commentators and scholars have suggested that the United States demonstrates characteristics of an oligarchy, particularly in relation to the concentration of wealth and political influence among a small elite, as exemplified by
5976-650: The scanners being programmed to "detox" humans and therefore being unaware of what elements the Doctor requires. A Time Lord is able to conceal their Time Lord nature, and become a human, by using the Chameleon Arch – a device that stores their "essence" and memories in an innocuous device such as a fob watch , and replaces them with false counterparts until the object is later re-opened. The process allows them to disguise themselves as humans physiologically and psychologically, meaning they only have one heart and are stripped of non-human powers, and of any memory of having been
6059-473: The telepathic song of the Ood. When she is unable to bear the song, the Doctor removes the ability. In " The Lodger ", the Eleventh Doctor (pressed for time and needing to convey a great deal of information to someone) smashed his forehead into another person's forehead, causing a massive instantaneous transfer of information. The Doctor also contacts the Time Lords by going into a trance and creating an assembling box in The War Games . In The Two Doctors ,
6142-646: The time) as having bright, silver-leafed trees and a burnt orange sky at night in the serial The Sensorites (1964). This casts an amber tint on anything outside the city, as seen in The Invasion of Time . However, Gallifrey's sky appears blue and Earth-like in " The Five Doctors " (1983) within the isolated Death Zone. Oligarchy List of forms of government Oligarchy (from Ancient Greek ὀλιγαρχία ( oligarkhía ) 'rule by few'; from ὀλίγος ( olígos ) 'few' and ἄρχω ( árkhō ) 'to rule, command')
6225-466: The title Time lady . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Time_lady&oldid=861256203 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Time Lord The Time Lords are
6308-503: The twelve regeneration limit. The Master says in " The Sound of Drums " that the Time Lords "resurrected" him to fight in the Time War . It was revealed in The Brain of Morbius that the Time Lords also use the Elixir of Life in extreme cases, where regeneration is not possible. It is confirmed in " The Time of the Doctor " that a Time Lord can normally regenerate only twelve times but that
6391-472: The use of the term as meaning rule by the rich, contrasting it with aristocracy , arguing that oligarchy was the perverted form of aristocracy. The consolidation of power by a dominant religious or ethnic minority can be considered a form of oligarchy. Examples include South Africa during apartheid , Liberia under Americo-Liberians , the Sultanate of Zanzibar , and Rhodesia . In these cases, oligarchic rule
6474-495: The vacuum of space in " Oxygen ". Time Lords also seem to have an increased resilience to higher frequencies of sound, as seen in " The Christmas Invasion " and " Partners in Crime ". If severely injured, Time Lords can go into a healing coma which lowers their body temperature to below freezing which the Doctor did in Planet of the Daleks . In the serial Destiny of the Daleks , Romana
6557-551: The worlds were sealed. Everything became that bit less kind." In " The Satan Pit " (2006), the Tenth Doctor states that his people "practically invented black holes. Well, in fact, they did." Both the Beast (in "The Satan Pit") and the Doctor (in "The Sound of Drums" and " The Doctor's Wife ", 2011) believe the Doctor ended the War by killing all of the Time Lords and many of the Daleks. The Tenth Doctor's artificially created "daughter" Jenny
6640-429: Was "focusing on a dress size", but subsequently weighed herself, seeming unsure of how her new body had truly developed. The Doctor said on several occasions he wished he was "ginger", which he has seemed unable to control in previous regenerations. In " Last of the Time Lords ", when the Master is fatally wounded, he chooses not to regenerate, essentially committing suicide rather than regenerate and be kept prisoner by
6723-519: Was able to voluntarily stop both of her hearts beating, to fool the Daleks into believing that she was dead. The Doctor also shows a greater tolerance to cold compared to humans in The Seeds of Doom and " Planet of the Ood " and even Romana in The Ribos Operation , and in " 42 ", the Tenth Doctor states he is able to survive at absolute zero for a short period of time. In " World War Three ",
6806-642: Was lying about at least some of this information to mislead the Sontarans . At the beginning of The Trial of a Time Lord , the Sixth Doctor suggests that a number of elder Time Lords were able to use their combined mental energy to summon his TARDIS against his will. In the episode " Cold Blood ", the Eleventh Doctor experiences excruciating pain when the Silurian attempts to decontaminate him of surface bacteria. The Doctor states this would kill him, most likely due to
6889-412: Was often tied to the legacy of colonialism. In the early 20th century, Robert Michels expanded on this idea in his Iron Law of Oligarchy He argued that even democracies, like all large organizations, tend to become oligarchic due to the necessity of dividing labor, which ultimately results in a ruling class focused on maintaining its power. Business groups may be considered oligarchies if they meet
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