From: ira2p@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Iain Robert Asplin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
Subject: Re: Continuity Catalog, feel free to add to it!
Date: 14 Sep 92 01:43:48 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia

In article <15415@umd5.umd.edu> jblum@hamlet.umd.edu (Hi ho -- Kermit the Frog here...) writes:
>In article <1992Sep12.170139.28801@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> ira2p@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Iain Robert Asplin) writes:
>>2.    Some people say "The Edge of Destruction" conflicts with either
>>	"Terminus" or "Castrovalva" in their versions of the Big Bang.
>>	TThere really is no conflict, since in Edge they were not at
>>	the creation point of the Universe, but rather of a single
>>	galaxy.
>
>Additional conflict -- "Slipback" also deals with a ship travelling back
>in time and *causing* the Big Bang.  As "Slipback" was written by Eric
>Saward, who script-edited "Terminus", this is pretty inexcusable.

	Extremely inexcusable,I agree, but as I think I said before, 
I don't consider Slipback official and thus didn't mention it.

>
>>4.    "Mission to the Unknown" and "the Daleks' Masterplan"
>>	Problem:  Stories are dated by dialog in the stories themselves
>>	as the year 4000 AD.  conflicts with "Remembrance of the 
>>	Daleks" where the Doctor destroys Skaro one thousand years after
>>	1963 AD, and possibly with "The Evil of the Daleks."
>>	I am not sure if Evil was officially dated in the story,
>
>no, it was not...

	OK.  Wasn't sure on Evil.

>
>For that matter, was the future-time point in Remembrance dated either?
>I don't remember the exact figure "1000 years" being mentioned at all.

	Yes, the thousand years date was mentioned.  I can quote one
	example off the top of my head (I think there were others on
	top of this too:)
	The Doctor to the Supreme Renegade Dalek:
	You're trapped, a trillion miles, and a thousand years from 
	a disintegrated home.
	(Now that one can easily be written off as "taunting" or
	exaggeration, but as I said before I think it was said
	elsewhere in the story too.  I'll check up on this if
	anyone's interested.)

>
>>8.   "The Moonbase"
>>	Problem: The Cybermen were supposedly all destroyed when Mondas
>>	was destroyed.
>>	Solution: some of them got away!
>
>Or more explicitly -- maybe the Cybermen in The Moonbase, Tomb, and other
>later stories were from a Cyber-colony established by Mondas, which then
>went on and evolved differently (hence the different look).  These Cybermen
>weren't powered from Mondas, and hence didn't die.

	Easily.  
	I just didn't want to rehash that Cyber-time-line we were arguing
over last month.

>
>>16.  "The Daemons"
>>	Problem: Azal hints it was the Daemons who destroyed Atlantis
>>	as one of their failures.
>>	Solution:  It was only a hint, and perhaps the Master, the 
>>	Doctor, and Kronos' later visit to Atlantis qualifies as
>>	intervention that changed this history.
>
>Another possibility -- that the Daemons are simply physical manifestations
>of the Chronovores -- i.e. that the Chronovores are simply the projections
>into the Time Vortex of the Daemons' consciousness.
>
>How's that?
>
	This one I would not agree with. Daemons are very long-lived but
not immortal, and Chronovores are such.  The Daemons also seem much more
scientific and logical than the Chronovore we saw was.