From: mrmuon@next08csc.wam.umd.edu (Eli John Hawkins)
Subject: Re: Continuity Catalog, feel free to add to it!
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 01:17:52 GMT

In article <1992Sep12.170139.28801@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>  
ira2p@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Iain Robert Asplin) writes:
> 
> 
> I'm game.  Let's begin, shall we?
> 
> 1.  "The Daleks" vs. "Genesis of the Daleks"  
 	Also a problem of a neutron bomb vs. the more conventional styles
> 	of warfare seen in "Genesis."  Solution, we are on a different
> 	region of Skaro in each story, where the war took a different
> 	turn in each case (weapons-wise.  I think this HIGHLY likely,
> 	since I think it extremely unlikely in all science-fiction that
> 	an entire planet can be represented accurately by one area where
> 	the story takes place.)
I do agree that "Genisis" and "Daleks" do not take place in the same  
place. The rise and fall of the Dalek city doesn't disturb the ruins of  
the bunker which is excavated in "Destiny". However I think the Nuetron  
bomb referrence was actually referring to the missile that the Thals  
launched (I've always had the impression T Dicks meant it this way  
[retroactively]). As I recall most of what is said about the origin of the  
Daleks in "the Daleks" is speculation on the part of the Doctor.
> 6.   "the Power of the Daleks"
> 	Sub-problem: When the Doctor regenerates, his clothes change
> 	at the same time without a visit to the wardrobe....
> 	sub-solution: well...it's a family show.....
I posted an Idea about this a few months ago. I hope to get back to it  
within a couple months.
> 
> 7.   "The Underwater Menace"
> 	Problem:  people cite this as one of the three conflicting 
> 	versions of the destruction of Atlantis in Who history.
> 	Solution:  In the novel at least (which I think follows along
> 	very closely with the original), there is no mention made
> 	of waht originally caused Atlantis to sink.  This story takes
> 	place after it has already sunk, so it is compatible with
> 	either of the two subsequent destruction versions.
I have the novel of this but have not yet read it, however I'll suggest  
that this Atlantis is a different place than in "Time Monster" named  
because of its situation after the Greek island.
> 11.  "The Abominable Snowmen"
> 	problem: Story is set in 1921, yet Travers recognizes the word
> 	"robot" when the Doctor pronounces the captured Yeti to be one.
> 	The word was not invented until 1926 in a Czechoslovokian play.
> 	Solution: Good question, but I think we can forgive this minor
> 	slip.
A question of Time Lord translation techniques: we hear the modern term,  
Travers heard the equivalent contemporary term.
> 13.  "The Invasion"
> 	problem:  This is Earth's frst encounter with the Cybermen
> 	sometime in the mid-70s (circa 73 or 74), yet when Mondas turns
> 	up in "The Tenth Planet," no one recognizes  them.
> 	Solution:  UNIT hushes up this first invasion attempt, helped  
along
> 	by the hypnotic effects of the Cyber-signal.
"You humans have an amazing capacity for self deception" (or something  
like that)
> 15.  "The Ambassadors of Death"
> 	Problem:  The aliens on Mars and the Ice Warrior legacy appear
> 	to conflict.
> 	Solution:  Mars Probe 7 just didn't meet any ice Warriors
> 	(the radiation aliens were mentioned to have not been Martian
> 	natives) or perhaps the Warriors were all living underground
> 	by now since surface conditions are not very good.
Mars is a large planet, the probe didn't land where the Ice warriors live  
(the polar caps I would assume).
> 
> 
> 1.  "The Time Monster"
> 	Problem:  different version of the destruction of Atlantis from
> 	what is given in "The Daemons."
> 	solution:  either Azal was exaggerating or name-dropping to
> 	the Master, or this story constitutes temporal interference and
> 	thus Atlantis is destroyed by Kronos instead of the Daemons.
I don't recall this bit, but maybe the Daemons sunk the "Underwater  
Menace" Atlantis (see above remarks).
> 5.      "The Brain of Morbius"
> 	Problem: in the mind-bending contest, it looks as though the
> 	Doctor has had incarnations earlier than the Hartnell one.
> 	Solution: these could have been faces of Morbius, hallucinations  
..                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Morbius is the one who then busts a fuse.
> 9.	"The Invasion of Time"
> 	Problem:  Several Time Lord artefacts and the structure of Time
> 	Lord society and the interior of the TARDIS were changed for
> 	this story:
> 	The Great Key fromThe Deadly Assassin is here renamed the Rod of
> 	Rassilon and we get a new Great Key that every Time Lord
> 	President is supposed to search for. 
That was the great "Key of Rassilon" not the "Great Key"
>                                            The Great Key is entrustd
> 	to the Chancellor, creating another problem when the Doctor
> 	says in the same story that no President has ever known the
> 	whereabouts of the Great Key (after he's been in th Matrix and
> 	asked them all, he says he's done this), yet if it is in the
> 	care of the Chancellor, then surely at some time a Chancellor
> 	must have become President and he would know that the new 
> 	Chancellor has got the Key!  
Maybe Time Lord Law specifies that no chancelor shall become president  
(one TL shouldn't hold both of the two most powerfull positions), of  
course Borusa found a way around this.
>                                     (Goth would have known this for
> 	example in Deadly Assassin had his plan to become President
> 	succeeded.  It must have happened this way before since Chancellor
> 	is such a senior position.)
Goth wasn't nearly as educated as Borusa, he might not have known just how  
important the key was.
> 	Also suggestions are made in The Deadly Assassin that there are
> 	other Cities on Gallifrey than just the Capitol, yet in
> 	The Invasion of Time we are told everyone lives in the  
Citadel/Capitol,
> 	and that everyone lives indoors, which is at variance with things
> 	the Third Doctor told us about his visits to the old hermit behind
> 	his house when he was a boy, and would later tell us about theem
> 	again as being in the mountains of South Gallifrey in State of
> 	Decay.  
Maybe things have changed since the Doctor was young.
> 	The TARDIS got explained away in Logopolis thanks to the  
Architectural
> 	Configuration System, but even that doesn't excuse the sheer
> 	tackiness of the interior in the Invasion of Time.
> 	For all these reasons, Invasion of Time is near the bottom of
> 	 my "favorites" list.
I didn't think it was tacky, and "tIoT" was one of my favorites.
> 13.  	"Terminus"
> 	Problem:  Exploding spaceship creates the Universe, but in
> 	Castrovalva it is described as a hydrogen inrush.
> 	Solution: In Castrovalva the TARDIS was approaching the inrush
> 	from the direction opposite the explosion, and thus never saw
> 	the ship. 
Although the Hydrogen Inrush in "Castrovalva" was called event one, I'm  
pretty sure that they specifically said it was a galactic creation. 
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho