From: ira2p@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Iain Robert Asplin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
Subject: Re: Continuity Catalog, feel free to add to it!
Date: 13 Sep 92 03:16:21 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia

In article <f4wn6-f@lynx.unm.edu> xoanon@carina.unm.edu (timothy k istian soholt) writes:
>ira2p@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Iain Robert Asplin) writes:
>
>I'm rather fond of trying to explain continuity errors, so I think
>I'll add my own two cents worth to a couple of these.
>
>
>>2.    Some people say "The Edge of Destruction" conflicts with either
>
>On a related note, there's "Slipback" versus "Terminus." Both have
>the Universe being created by an exploding ship's drive -- but it's
>a different ship in each case. Solution: The reason the matter in
>the young Universe did not just spread evenly throughout space was
>that there were two separate, simultaneous (or nearly so) explos-
>ions, one of the drive unit of _Terminus_, and one of the _Vipod

I didn't include Slipback since it wasn't a television show, thus
unofficial.

>Mor_.
>Stories that give dates create horrendous problems. I tend to con-
>veniently ignore dates that don't mesh -- like the UNIT timeline
>that's blown out of the water by "Mawdryn Undead." And I have a 
>serious aversion to any "The Doctor manipulated the timeline, so
>that story didn't happen" theories. No offense meant, I just don't
>like them.

What do you do with "Day of the Daleks" then?
Like it or not, there has been intervention in the Dalek timestream,
both by the Doctor and perhaps by the Daleks themselves.

>God help me, I actually like the FASA explanation of this one. In
>their "Cybermen" sourcebook for the old DOCTOR WHO role-playing
>game, they explain that there are a couple of odd phenomena related
>to the Cybermen and time travel. One of these is that everyone on
>Earth a certain time after "The Invasion" had their memories al-
>tered by some unknown force; no one who went through the invasion
>except The Doctor, Jamie, Zoe, and any Cybermen who survived remem-
>bers it ever happening. (This sounds a wee bit silly by itself, I
>realize, but tied in with all the other oddities it points toward
>some bizarre plot.)

It's also wrong by itself, since UNIT personnel remembered the invasion
too, Benton in The Daemons, and both Benton and the Brigadier in
The Three Doctors, and The Brigadier in The Five Doctors.

>Or, an alternative solution: The Daemons probably have some sort of
>telepathic translator device or technique. Azal is speaking with 
>the Doctor, whom he now knows to be a space traveler when he men-
>tions Atlantis. Azal knows of a planet in the area which his people
>sterilized, and he tells the Doctor, "Remember [planet's Daemon
>name]." The Doctor knows this planet by the name humans gave it
>when they went out into space and discovered the remains of an an-
>cient civilization -- Atlantis. It is this name which the Daemons'
>name for the world is translated to. (Okay, it's a bit more convo-
>luted than your explanation, but, like I said, I don't like "this
>never happened" explanations.)
>

Good one.  Could be another planet, would in fact seem to make more sense
since the Daemons seem to operate more on a planetary scale than a
cntinental one.  
Just one small point though, Azal said it to the Master and him alone,
the Doctor didn't hear it.  
Also, I would think the Time Lord telepathy translator would be active
here too, but that doesn't really matter.