Renegade Time Lord The term renegade Time Lord was an epithet applied by Time Lord s against their fellows . At various points , the Doctor was called and thought of himself as a renegade — but he also applied that label to others . Of the various reasons to call someone a renegade , none was more important than the simple act of physically departing Gallifrey , probably in a stolen — or at least misappropriated — TARDIS , and certainly without the sanction of any Time Lord authority . In this sense , the Seventh Doctor clearly thought of both himself and the Master as " renegades " . ( PROSE : " Doctor Who - The Novel of the Film " ) There was , in this definition of the word , no connotation of any particular morality , since the Doctor and the Master had generally opposing value systems . To be labelled a renegade , it was enough to be a Time Lord not resident on Gallifrey . Indeed , the hard choices involved in actually leaving Gallifrey were , according to the Fifth Doctor , a key distinction between a renegade and a mere " political rebel " still resident on Gallifrey . He felt that Ruath could have been a rebel , but not a renegade . ( PROSE : " Goth Opera " ) However , since Gallifrey had laws against interfering in the natural course of events , and leaving Gallifrey on un - sanctioned voyages typically led to interference , at least some segments of the Time Lord policy thought of renegades as definitionally criminal . For instance , when the Doctor was once accused of being a " dangerous renegade " , Flavia instantly snapped to the Doctor ' s defence and pointed out that he wasn ' t a criminal . This immediately suggested that the word was commonly used to indicate criminality . ( PROSE : " The Eight Doctors " ) Though the Doctor didn ' t himself feel that interference " itself " was illegal , ( TV : " The War Games " ) he did freely admit to interfering . Indeed , the Eighth Doctor felt that one definition of a renegade was a Time Lord who regularly picked up people on one world and transported them to another . ( PROSE : " Legacy of the Daleks " ) This implied that interference was part and parcel of being a renegade . On another occasion the Eighth Doctor was pressed as to why he was a renegade . He simply said , " There are times when a little intervention is necessary . " ( PROSE : " Interference - Book Two " ) The legality of interference was debatable and the subject of several appearances in court for the Doctor . Out of his three known Time Lord trials , only one ended in conviction for interference . ( TV : " The War Games " ) The Sixth Doctor ' s trial ended in dismissal , ( PROSE : " The Ultimate Foe " ) while the Fifth Doctor escaped for unknown legal reasons , but not before being accused of playing too much cricket and essentially not interfering " enough " . ( COMIC : " The Stockbridge Horror " ) Even the Doctor ' s one conviction was hardly carried out with conviction . The Celestial Intervention Agency were only too happy to use the convicted Second Doctor to carry out their plans . ( PROSE : " World Game " ) Even the Third Doctor ' s so - called " exile on Earth " involved semi - regular contact with Gallifrey . ( TV : " Terror of the Autons " , " The Mutants " , " The Three Doctors " ) Thus , violation of the non - interference policy , while a frequent characteristic of the renegade , was simply not prosecuted consistently enough to be the determinative reason someone was labelled a renegade . On still other occasions , other kinds of criminality engendered the use of the term . For instance , the First Doctor condemned Borusa as a renegade because his former teacher had broken any number of laws in his foolhardy search for immortality . ( TV : " The Five Doctors " ) Renegade Time Lords could choose to undergo the Elective Semantectomy to remove their name from history and replace it with an epithet ( like " the Hussar " ) . This was primarily performed as a way to protect the reputation of one ' s house and bloodline . ( PROSE : " Weapons Grade Snake Oil " ) During the War , the ruling Houses promised pardons , political power , and new regeneration cycle s to renegades in an attempt to bring them back to the Homeworld . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) Some were reintegrated into society ; Holsred ' s biology tutor and Allopta ' s combat teacher were barely - reformed renegades . ( PROSE : " The Taking of Planet 5 " ) Others were betrayed , overpowered , lobotomised by military psychosurgeon s and fitted with neural link s to babel s for the Lethean Campaign . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) In the case of two renegades , the other Time Lords were known to intervene to extend their lives . In the case of the Master , as well as resurrecting him to fight in the Last Great Time War , ( TV : " The Sound of Drums " ) the Time Lords granted the Master a new regeneration cycle . ( TV : " Utopia " , " The Doctor Falls " ) Though this particular intervention was to their advantage , the Time Lords later cured the " condition " the Master had developed from his botched resurrection and exiled the Master from Gallifrey rather than killing him when it was of no advantage to them . ( TV : " The End of Time " , " The Doctor Falls " ) In the case of the Doctor , the Time Lords intervened to save his life at Clara Oswald ' s request by granting the Doctor a new regeneration cycle when he was at the end of his life , altering the future and breaking their own non - interference policy . ( TV : " The Time of the Doctor " ) Known renegades . < dpl > category = Renegade Time Lords columns = 4 allowcachedresults = true format = , \ n * , , \ n \ n < / dpl >