What if the Rani is a product of a bigeneration from the Doctor in the early days when Tecteun was still experimenting on them? (But forgot due to a mind wipe.)This would still explain why they were friends as children, and if the Doctor is from the same universe as the Pantheon comes, and has godlike powers, then so does the Rani. This would also explain why they were able to bigeneration, which is not a thing that normal Gallifreyan Timelords do.

I always liked Dr. Pulaski, though I was sad when Dr. Crusher left. I just thought it would take a while for her to fit in. I especially liked her in “Elementary, Dear Data” and “The Measure of a Man “.

How have I never heard of this? I follow Peter David, Bill Mumy, Jewel Staite, Mark Hamill, and George Takei, all of whom were in this. I guess because it was for kids it went beneath my radar. I plan to find it and binge it.

Yes! I want the Division Years as a spinoff series, with Karvanista, Lee, Gat, and Capt Jack. (This explains his missing two years he mentioned in “The Empty Child.”)

As for why 15 is ing the Fugitive Doctor’s past, I just chalked it up to the Toymaker turning his past into a jigsaw puzzle. Of course, with the season finale being called “The Reality War”, I figured alternate realities of the Doctor would show up, and maybe they are bleeding into his.

Two things: While Mrs. Flood has talked to both Ruby and Belinda, she has strictly avoided the Doctor, perhaps because he would immediately know her?

2) “The length and intrigue of his life would make him possible to resist” Don’t you mean ‘Impossible’ to resist?

I loved Peter David’s New Frontiers novels! He grabbed up all the interesting minor recurring Enterprise crew and put them on the Excalibur. It wasn’t just Lefler, he had Dr Selar, Cedric Shelby, and others I can’t recall now. He was such a good writer he had his own spin-off series of novels, which were included in the multi-series arcs and The Captain’s Table stories.

Don’t forget that in “Empire of Death”, the Doctor used actual scenes from “Pyramids of Mars” in the Memory TARDIS to catch Ruby up to speed. My theory is Mrs Flood is the Mistress of the Land of Fiction from “The Mind Robber.”

The woke thing is just an integration of people of all types. As long as it feels intrusive, that means there is more to be done to make them feel commonplace. RTD may have focused on them a bit more merely because they have been absent for so long, but those marginalized appreciate it even if it makes the mainstream a little uncomfortable.

While we know they will never let the Doctor actually die, having a limit to their regenerations creates more tension by having something actually used up. With both the audience and the Doctor knowing about the unlimited regenerations it does lower the consequences somewhat even though we will lose a beloved personality.