From: bgrubb@dante.nmsu.edu (GRUBB)
Subject: Re: The Valeyard and The Keeper WAs: The Valeyard's true goals
Organization: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 05:11:55 GMT

yadallee@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Dave Shariff Yadallee) writes:
>Whoa!!                                
>One moment!!                                                    
>The Valeyard and the Keeper wre/are one ?  I have nothing to prove that.
>Theory: The Valeyard did a Master. 
>Any disagreements?
Not at all. In fact that was the whole point of my first post; EVERYTHING
that the Valeyard said and did was to allow him to do this.
Here is the third rewrite of my first post{and THIS one covers all valid points
ESPECIALLY the incarnation/regeneration issue.}

When the Master said 'between your 12th and last regeneration' when describing 
the Valeyard it was NOT a mistake by the writers or by the Master.  
{This IS a correct statement because there are TWO versions of Ultimate Foe
with slightly different editing and sound tracks.  I know this because a 
friend and I have recordings (him VCR, me audio) of the FIRST American 
Telecast.  In this version the Master says in part 1 "The Valeyard is an
amalgamation of the darker sides of your nature, somewhere between your 
twelfth and final regeneration."  My friend's first recording was missing some
of the starting parts (The PBS station was doing pledges) so he made a latter
recording of Ultimate Foe keeping the first in case he messed up.  In
compairing the two versions my friend discovered that the 1992 version had 
the Master saying "The Valeyard is an amalgamation of the darker sides of your 
nature, somewhere between your twelfth and final INCARNATION."
Since the book version of Ulimate Foe and the Doctor Who Programme Guide 1989  
printing conferm the first version and NOT the second {The guide says "The  
Valeyard is exposed as the amalgamation of the Doctor's darker side, between  
his twelfth and final regeneration"(Page 165)} it and not the second version  
that everybody is citing is Canon. [Shows that we all were both right though.   
What a mess.  Wonder whose brain dead idea it was to edit the sound track?]}

We know from 'Twin Dilemma' that Time Lords DO have a THIRTEENTH regeneration, 
but it is normally fatal.  This 13th regeneration is also implied when the 
Master steals the Keeper of Traken's body (Instead of being fatal the 13th 
regeneration results in a new form.)  As the Valeyard is the Doctor's 14th 
incarnation the Master knows that the Valeyard will fail in getting more 
regenerations from his past self and, foolishly,  believes that the Valeyard 
will not have the opotunity to hijack a body like the Master did.
Now to the Valeyard's REAL goals.  The Master and the Valeyard BOTH conferm 
that the Valeyard is the Doctor's last NORMAL incarnation (His 14th).  As the 
the Doctor's 14th incarnation the Valeyard already KNOWS how the trial and 
events around it will end.  Everything, the trial of his sixth incarnation, 
the request for the remaining regenerations, the Valeyard's ranting about
wanting to be free of the Doctor, and the threat to the Time Lords 
in the trial are part of a huge smokescrean for his REAL goal: to duplicate 
the Master's non-fatal 13th regeneration trick.  But still being the Doctor he 
still, in his own way, wants to best the Master.  He not only wants the ONE  
extra incarnation that a body would give him, but also to obtain extra 
regenerations and for everyone, INCLUDING the Master, to believe that the 
Valeyard is dead.
His hijacking of the Keeper of the Matrix body serves all these goals. The 
Valeyard most likely had access of the number of regnerations each member of 
the trial had left and choose the Keeper of the Matrix as the best to 'grab' 
in the comfusion of escaping the courtroom.  As a result the Valeyard not only 
pulls off the non-fatal 13th regeneration trick but get some extra 
regenerations in the bargin.  As Keeper of the Matrix he can more easily edit 
the Matrix and plug any holes in his 'death' and the Master, believing the 
Valeyard dead, will bother the previous incarnations of the Valeyard/Doctor.
As to the apperence of the Time Lord after this non-fatal 13th regeneration, 
in Keeper of Traken the Master transforms the body he grabs from a white 
haired fully bearded man to a blacked haired man that is very like his last 
incarnation. So WHY could the Doctor's possesion of the Keeper of the Matrix 
NOT have the same result? If this is a result of pulling off the non-leathal 
13th regeneration then the Valeyard's threat can also be seen as a
misdirection so no one will take a close look at the Keeper of the Matrix 
until the Valeyard has time to put his new body through another regeneration 
and change his appearence. 

As far as the way it appears on screen remember that the Keeper of Traken 
(Consul Tremas) and the Master 15th incarnation are played by the same man,  
and there was one more episode of the season to tie this incarnation with 
Consul Tremas through the credits.  With the Ultimate Foe this non-leathal 
13th regeneration must be shown in few seconds on screen (As it is the last 
show of the season)  and the credits are only for James Bree as 'Keeper of the 
Matrix' and not Michael Jayston.  So we get Michael Jayston dressed as the the 
Keeper of the Matrix to inply the non-fatal 13th regeneration al la 'Keeper of 
Traken' for dramatic effect. 

It is a nice theory and fits most of what has been origninally shown and said 
on screen.

Comments welcome

The Doctor Who Programme Guide is (C) 1989 and ISBN 0-426-20342-9
My Ultimate Foe cover is gone so I don't know what its ISBM number is.
(A yard sale is NOT the best place for getting books.)