Destiny Destiny was , according to Vengorr , " the belief that the life ' s path is preordained " . ( AUDIO : " Living Legend " ) Peri Brown thought that destiny was " just a fancy name for blind chance " , while Yrcanos said that , if that were true , life would be meaningless . ( TV : " Mindwarp " ) As a time - travel ler , the Doctor had a very different perspective on destiny . ( AUDIO : " Davros " ) The Second Doctor told his companions Polly Wright and Ben Jackson that the TARDIS ' seemingly random journeys were controlled by destiny , and that " if we just obey destiny blindly , all will be well " , ( PROSE : " Only a Matter of Time " ) though he would later find out the truth . ( TV : " The Doctor ' s Wife " ) The Eleventh Doctor didn ' t believe in it , specifically that " there ' s no such thing as foretelling , trust a time traveller . " ( TV : " The Doctor , the Widow and the Wardrobe " ) Princess Astra of Atrios came to believe that it was her destiny to be changed into the sixth segment of the Key to Time . ( TV : " The Armageddon Factor " ) Destiny was something that was not to be messed with . Amy Pond asked her younger self , " You ' re asking me to defy destiny , causality , the nexus of time itself , for a boy ? " The Eleventh Doctor thought it impossible to " defeat pre - destiny " , which he did manage to do . ( TV : " The Girl Who Waited " ) While something may have been erased from destiny , its possibility was still imprinted on the structure of the universe . ( PROSE : " Falls the Shadow " ) When Donna Noble parked her car right next to where the Tenth Doctor would park his TARDIS , she said , " This is like destiny ! " ( TV : " Partners in Crime " ) The Meta - Crisis Tenth Doctor later confirmed this : " Destiny " , or rather Dalek Caan ' s manipulation of time , led the Doctor to meet Donna twice , and her grandfather , so that Donna could become the Doctor - Donna and the Meta - Crisis Doctor could be created . This became instrumental in the defeat of Davros ' plan to destroy all universe s through the reality bomb . ( TV : " Journey ' s End " ) After the Eleventh Doctor lost Clara Oswald again in Victorian London on Christmas 1892 , he began searching for another version of her , hoping that , if he just wandered around enough , he ' d find her eventually , " like destiny , sort of " . A young Clara Oswald , who the Doctor did not recognise , called destiny " rubbish " . ( WC : " " ) References . The Dalek Emperor stated that it was the Dalek s ' destiny to rule the Solar system . ( COMIC : " Invasion of the Daleks " ) The Sixth Doctor said that " an advanced culture manipulating the destinies of a less developed civilisation " " must " be stopped ; the Valeyard called these words arrogant in a Zenobia court . ( TV : " Mindwarp " ) Earlier in his time , Davros asked the Fourth Doctor if he thought he could change the course of destiny , to which the Doctor replied " let ' s just say I might tamper with it . " ( TV : " Destiny of the Daleks " ) The Black Guardian claimed to control the Fifth Doctor ' s destiny . ( TV : " Enlightenment " ) When one began to reach their goals , such as De Flores coming close to forming the Fourth Reich , they felt that their destiny was approaching . In travelling to 1988 Lady Peinforte said that " destiny beckons . " ( TV : " Silver Nemesis " )