The Time Lords are a fictional extraterrestrial race and civilization in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who , of which the series' main character, the Doctor, is a member. Time Lords are so called because they are able to travel in and manipulate time through technology to a far greater degree than any other civilization.
The Time Lords' home planet is Gallifrey. In the present series, Gallifrey has been destroyed and the Time Lords are functionally extinct, with only two known surviving members: the Doctor and his cloned daughter Jenny. A third, the Master, apparently died in the episode "Last of the Time Lords", although he will reappear in the upcoming 2009 Christmas specials. The fate of a fourth member of the race, Time Lady Romanadvoratrelundar (Romana) - a one-time companion of the Doctor - is unknown, as the series canon has not established her ultimate place in the universe, so she may still be alive. There were two other Time Lords who were only briefly shown in Journey's End. One of them was Donna Noble, but the Doctor removed her partial Time Lord nature because she could not control its power. The other was a clone of the Doctor himself, but without the regenerating power. He went to live with Rose Tyler in a parallel universe.
Overview
Although the Doctor was identified as an alien, his home planet and race were not identified at the start of the series. Only after six years, in The War Games , other aliens from his world appeared and were named as the Time Lords. The nature and history of the Time Lords were gradually revealed as the television series progressed. Each story to feature them and their home planet added additional layers of complexity and intrigue, stemming from the dissatisfaction of various scriptwriters wrestling with the question of why the Doctor is in exile in the first place. Among other things, Time Lords are increasingly revealed as being corrupted by their inaction and Time Lord society as stagnant. Over the course of the show's initial 26-year run, it was never made entirely clear what purpose or mission the Time Lords served, or what exactly they did with their mastery over time.
Nor, ultimately, was it ever explicitly made clear what had caused the Doctor to leave his people, although it is suggested in some stories that he was an involuntary exile and in others that he had simply grown tired of the restrictions of Time Lord society and left.
The Time Lords are normally considered one of the oldest and most technologically powerful races in the Doctor Who universe. The small number of beings that are more powerful than the Time Lords includes the (now extinct) Osirans and higher powers of the universe such as the Black and White Guardians and possibly the Eternals. Additionally, from the spin-off novels which are of uncertain canonicity, The People, had a non-aggression treaty with the Time Lords. In some spinoff media, the Time Lords are also allied with less developed 'Temporal Powers.' The power of the Time Lords appears limited by their policy of non-interference with the universe and sometimes by intense internecine division.
However, the view that they are, to a degree, custodians of time developed in the spin-off media. This is also suggested in the television series; in The War Games the Time Lords return time-displaced humans abducted by the War Lord to their proper time zones on Earth. The name of the Time Lords' central hall, the Panopticon, suggests that they are perpetual observers of all existence.
In "Father's Day" the Ninth Doctor remarks that prior to their destruction, the Time Lords would have prevented or repaired paradoxes such as that which attracted the Reapers to 1987 Earth. In "Rise of the Cybermen", the Tenth Doctor mentions that while the Time Lords were around, travel between alternative realities was easier, but with their demise, the paths between worlds were closed. In "The Satan Pit", the Tenth Doctor states that his people "practically invented black holes. Well, in fact they did."
Physical characteristics
Time Lords appear human, but differ from them in many respects. It is a common misconception that all Time Lords in the classic television series were portrayed by white adults. A black Time Lord appears as an extra in The Deadly Assassin and can clearly be seen in a photo on the back of the DVD box. In Planet of the Spiders some white actors used yellowface to appear Tibetan. A black Time Lord appears in the 2007 episode "The Sound of Drums" and others in the spin-off novel The Shadows of Avalon and the comic strip Blood Invocation , both by Paul Cornell. In addition, Time Lord founder Rassilon was portrayed in several audio plays by black actor Don Warrington. An 8-year-old Gallifreyan child (implied to be the renegade Time Lord known as the Master) was depicted in "The Sound of Drums" and appeared identical to a human child of the same age.
No explanation is given in the series as to why humans look like Time Lords, nor why the universe seems filled with predominantly humanoid species that resemble Time Lords. However after the Tenth Doctor takes offense when Lady Christina de Souza remarks on how human he looks for an alien, he counters by telling her she looks like a Time Lord. As the "oldest most mighty race" in the universe they pre-date any human civilization. The Virgin New Adventures novel Lucifer Rising by Andy Lane and Jim Mortimore suggests that the Time Lords were the first sentient life-form. As such, their evolutionary pattern created a morphic field that resonated across the universe, making the development of humanoids far more likely. The Big Finish Productions audio play Zagreus offers a more sinister explanation, that the xenophobic Rassilon seeded the universe with biogenic molecules so that (save for worlds where humanoids could never evolve) only intelligent species that approximated the Gallifreyan humanoid norm would develop. However, in the Cushing movie Dr. Who and the Daleks (though not necessarily thought to be canon), the Thal Alydon states that the 'humanoid' form (..."two hands, two eyes"...) has been proven to be ideal for survival, hence many species in the universe are humanoid. The canonicity of these accounts, as with all spin-off media, is unclear.
Time Lords are extremely long-lived, routinely counting their ages in terms of centuries. It is not known how long a Time Lord can live, although the Doctor claimed in The War Games that Time Lords could live "practically forever, barring accidents." In The Daleks' Master Plan the First Doctor is able to resist the effects of the Time Destructor better than his companions, who are visibly aged by it; one of them, Sara Kingdom, ages to dust before the Destructor device can be reversed, although the Fourth Doctor is briefly aged 500 years in The Leisure Hive , which leaves him an old man but still somewhat active. A similar situation occurred in "The Sound of Drums", where the Master uses specially made technology to age the Tenth Doctor by a century, leaving him in a frail and helpless state. A further application of this in "Last of the Time Lords" ages the Doctor another 900 years and turns him into a shrunken, wrinkled humanoid. It is unclear if this effect is the result of later regenerations not being as long lived or the artificial manner of aging, given the first incarnation of the Doctor was still quite active at 450 when he regenerated.
The Doctor is quoted as saying 'I don't age' in the episode ("School Reunion") when talking to his companion, Rose, although in this he may have been referring to the results of regeneration rather than immunity to the aging process. His statement is otherwise contradicted by the First Doctor's claims to be "wearing a bit thin" and encounters between different regenerations where the previous actors have necessarily aged noticeably ( The Two Doctors , "Time Crash").
The series has occasionally suggested that Time Lords have a different concept of aging than humans. In Pyramids of Mars , the Doctor considers an age of 750 years to be "middle-aged". In "The Stolen Earth", he refers to being a "kid" at 90 years old.
It is implied (in The Invasion of Time and The Deadly Assassin ) that the terms "Gallifreyan" and "Time Lord" may not be synonymous, and that Time Lords are simply that subset of Gallifreyans who have achieved the status of Time Lord via achievement in the Gallifreyan collegiate system; in the episode "The Sound of Drums" The Doctor talks of 'children of Gallifrey' which implies that children are Gallifreyan before they are Time Lords. Romana and the Doctor have also referred to "Time Tots", or infant Time Lords, and (in "Smith and Jones") the Doctor refers his compatriots and he playing "with Röntgen bricks in the nursery". In "The Sound of Drums", the Master is seen as a child, apparently at the age of 8.
Other physiological differences from humans include two hearts which normally beat at 170 beats a minute, an internal body temperature of 15 degrees Celsius and a "respiratory bypass system" that allows them to survive strangulation. Time Lords can also survive full exposure to the vacuum of space with no ill effects, though in such cases, even with their respiratory bypass boosting the length of time they can go without air, when in vacuum for an extended period a Time Lord must take a supply of air along, or else suffocate. A commonly held piece of fan continuity is that Time Lords only grow their second heart during their first
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