From: bgrubb@dante.nmsu.edu (GRUBB)
Subject: The Valeyard's TRUE goals (Rewrite)
Organization: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 14:31:04 GMT

This a rewrite of a previous post for clarification.
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.  
{I checked my audio recording and a friends VRC recording of Ultimate Foe and 
it IS regeneration NOT incarnation. Also Doctor Who The Programme Guide (ISBN 
0-426-20342-0) pg 165 says "The Valeyard is exposed as the amalgamation of the 
Doctor's darker side, between his twelfth and final regeneration"}  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, 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 shown and said on screen.

Comment welcome
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