From: ph9991_manfr@rivers.acc.uwrf.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
Subject: Re: The Valeyard's TRUE goals
Date: 7 Jan 93 16:27:11 -0600
Organization: University of Wisconsin - River Falls

In article <1993Jan7.055508.845@nmsu.edu>, bgrubb@dante.nmsu.edu (GRUBB) writes:
> 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.  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.
> 
> It is a nice theory and fits most of what has been shown and said on screen.
> Comment welcome

It's a nice attempt at a theory, but it doesn't fit at all with what's been
shown and said on screen.

The basic fault is your premise.  You say the Master said "between 12th
and final regeneration."  This is incorrect.  He really said "somewhere
between your twelfth and final *incarnation*."

Additionally, I don't see why you think the Valeyard stole the Keeper's
body at the end of "Foe."  He still looks like he did before.  If he had
stolen the body of the Keeper, he should look like the Keeper, as the
Master looked like Tremas at the end of "Keeper of Traken."  (lots of
Keepers about in this aren't there?)  
All the Valeyard did at the end of "Foe" was to knock out or kill the real
Keeper, hide the body, and nick his clothes as a simple disguise.

Steven.K.Manfred