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|image        = Chancellor (The Three Doctors).jpg
|image        = Chancellor (The Three Doctors).jpg
|species      = Time Lord
|species      = Time Lord
|aka          = [[Socra]]
|job          = Chancellor
|job          = Chancellor
|affiliation  = High Council
|affiliation = Court (The War Games)
|affiliation2 = Celestial Intervention Agency
|affiliation2 = High Council
|affiliation3 = Celestial Intervention Agency
|origin      = [[Gallifrey]]
|origin      = [[Gallifrey]]
|first        = The War Games (TV story)
|first        = The War Games (TV story)
|appearances  =[[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]''  
|appearances  ={{Il|[[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]''|[[COMIC]]: ''[[Return of the Daleks (TVC comic story)|Return of the Daleks]]''|[[COMIC]]: ''[[Double Trouble (comic story)|Double Trouble]]''|[[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)|The Legacy of Gallifrey]]''|[[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy (novel)|Legacy]]''|[[PROSE]]: ''[[Players (novel)|Players]]''}}
|actor        = Clyde Pollitt
|actor        = Clyde Pollitt
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'''An [[incarnation]] of [[Socra]]''' was a member of [[the Tribunal]] and [[Chancellor]] of the [[High Council]].
[[The Doctor's trial (The War Games)|The Doctor's trial]] was attended by the '''Third Time Lord''', who formed the [[court (The War Games)|court]] alongside the [[First Time Lord (The War Games)|First Time Lord]] and [[Second Time Lord (The War Games)|Second Time Lord]]; ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') in the same body, by several accounts, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)|The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'', ''[[The Three Doctors (novelisation)|The Three Doctors]]'') he was the [[President (The Three Doctors)|President]]'s '''Chancellor''' during the [[First Omega Crisis]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'') and beyond. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Return of the Daleks (TVC comic story)|Return of the Daleks]]'', et al.)
 
His main role in court was to argue against the defendant, ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') leading to one source only referring to him as "the accusing Time Lord". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the War Games (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the War Games]]'')
 
By one account, he was the final and only recorded incarnation of [[Socra]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)|The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'') By another, he was an incarnation of the [[Third Time Lord]], who later regenerated into [[Third Time Lord (Colony in Space)|a new body]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon]]'') Another indicated this Time Lord, the counsel for the prosecution, was an incarnation of [[Deliavatsud]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Sourcebook for Field Agents (novel)|A Sourcebook for Field Agents]]'')


== Biography ==
== Biography ==
=== As Third Time Lord ===
[[File:Time Lord 3 War Games.jpg|left|thumb|Socra as a member of the Tribunal. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'')]]
[[File:Time Lord 3 War Games.jpg|left|thumb|Socra as a member of the Tribunal. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'')]]
Alongside the councillors [[Goth]] and [[Adelphi]], Chancellor Socra ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)|The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'') was part of a council of three who [[the Doctor's trial (The War Games)|tried]] the [[Second Doctor]] on the [[Planet (The War Games)|battleground-planet]] of the [[War Lord]]s, eventually condemning him to a force [[regeneration]] and [[exile on Earth]]. He was also present for [[the War Lord]]'s trial, and he watched as the War Lord and his guards were [[temporal dissolution|dematerialised]]. He escorted [[Zoe Heriot]] and [[Jamie McCrimmon]] to say goodbye to the Doctor before they were returned to their home time periods with their memories of the travels erased. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'')
Alongside the councillors [[Goth]] and [[Adelphi]], Chancellor Socra ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)|The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'') was part of a council of three who [[the Doctor's trial (The War Games)|tried]] the [[Second Doctor]] on the [[Planet (The War Games)|battleground-planet]] of the [[War Lord]]s, eventually condemning him to a force [[regeneration]] and [[exile on Earth]]. He was also present for [[the War Lord]]'s trial, and he watched as the War Lord and his guards were [[temporal dissolution|dematerialised]]. He escorted [[Zoe Heriot]] and [[Jamie McCrimmon]] to say goodbye to the Doctor before they were returned to their home time periods with their memories of the travels erased. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'')


=== As Chancellor ===
Socra was asked by Rassilon to look out for the [[Third Doctor]] during his exile on Earth, and convinced President Pandad IV to send [[Adelphi|another member of the High Council]] to [[Earth]] to warn the Doctor that {{Delgado}} had escaped their grasp and was now out for revenge. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)|The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'')
Socra was asked by Rassilon to look out for the [[Third Doctor]] during his exile on Earth, and convinced President Pandad IV to send [[Adelphi|another member of the High Council]] to [[Earth]] to warn the Doctor that {{Delgado}} had escaped their grasp and was now out for revenge. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)|The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'')


At some point, Socra [[Regeneration|regenerated]] into [[Socra (Colony in Space)|a new body]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon]]'') After a report on the [[Doomsday Weapon]] went missing from the [[Time Lord]]s' files, he was part of a group that decided to send the [[Third Doctor]] to the planet [[Uxarieus]] to investigate. ([[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]'') This incarnation appears to be brief, however, as Socra had returned to using the body of the [[incarnation]] involved in the Doctor's tribunal by the time of the [[First Omega Crisis]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'') Indeed, [[Postar|Postar the Perfidious]] apparently thought this incarnation didn't even merit inclusion within the [[Scrolls of Gallifrey]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)|The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'')
A [[Senior Time Lord]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (novelisation)|The Three Doctors]]'') Socra was still [[Chancellor]] during the First Omega Crisis, when help from the first three incarnations of [[the Doctor]] was required. He objected to [[President]] [[Pandad IV]]'s plan to have the Doctor cross his own [[time stream]], citing the [[First Law of Time]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'') At the end of the crisis, he insisted with the President that the Doctor had earned his freedom. When Pandad IV demanded a more candid explanation, Socra was authorised by Rassilon to reveal the existence of the CIA to him, though Pandad chose not to make it public so as not to weaken the population's faith in the Presidency. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)|The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'')
 
=== Fate ===
As Chancellor [[Socra]], this incarnation died without regeneration when he was eaten alive by one of several of [[the Rani's mice]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)|The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'') in the same incident which triggered a regeneration in the [[Lord President (The Mark of the Rani)|Lord President]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani (TV story)|The Mark of the Rani]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)|The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'')


Socra was still [[Chancellor]] during the First Omega Crisis, when help from the first three incarnations of [[the Doctor]] was required. He objected to [[President]] [[Pandad IV]]'s plan to have the Doctor cross his own [[time stream]], citing the [[First Law of Time]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'') At the end of the crisis, he insisted with the President that the Doctor had earned his freedom. When Pandad IV demanded a more candid explanation, Socra was authorised by Rassilon to reveal the existence of the CIA to him, though Pandad chose not to make it public so as not to weaken the population's faith in the Presidency. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)|The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'')
By another account, the Third Time Lord [[Regeneration|regenerated]] into [[Third Time Lord (Colony in Space)|a new body]] earlier, during the [[Third Doctor]]'s [[exile on Earth]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon]]'') After a report on the [[Doomsday Weapon]] went missing from the [[Time Lord]]s' files, he was part of a group that decided to send the [[Third Doctor]] to the planet [[Uxarieus]] to investigate. ([[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]'')  


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Third Time Lord (The War Games)

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The Doctor's trial was attended by the Third Time Lord, who formed the court alongside the First Time Lord and Second Time Lord; (TV: The War Games) in the same body, by several accounts, (PROSE: The Legacy of Gallifrey, The Three Doctors) he was the President's Chancellor during the First Omega Crisis (TV: The Three Doctors) and beyond. (COMIC: Return of the Daleks, et al.)

His main role in court was to argue against the defendant, (TV: The War Games) leading to one source only referring to him as "the accusing Time Lord". (PROSE: Doctor Who and the War Games)

By one account, he was the final and only recorded incarnation of Socra. (PROSE: The Legacy of Gallifrey) By another, he was an incarnation of the Third Time Lord, who later regenerated into a new body. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon) Another indicated this Time Lord, the counsel for the prosecution, was an incarnation of Deliavatsud. (PROSE: A Sourcebook for Field Agents)

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

As Third Time Lord[[edit] | [edit source]]

Socra as a member of the Tribunal. (TV: The War Games)

Alongside the councillors Goth and Adelphi, Chancellor Socra (PROSE: The Legacy of Gallifrey) was part of a council of three who tried the Second Doctor on the battleground-planet of the War Lords, eventually condemning him to a force regeneration and exile on Earth. He was also present for the War Lord's trial, and he watched as the War Lord and his guards were dematerialised. He escorted Zoe Heriot and Jamie McCrimmon to say goodbye to the Doctor before they were returned to their home time periods with their memories of the travels erased. (TV: The War Games)

As Chancellor[[edit] | [edit source]]

Socra was asked by Rassilon to look out for the Third Doctor during his exile on Earth, and convinced President Pandad IV to send another member of the High Council to Earth to warn the Doctor that the Master had escaped their grasp and was now out for revenge. (PROSE: The Legacy of Gallifrey)

A Senior Time Lord, (PROSE: The Three Doctors) Socra was still Chancellor during the First Omega Crisis, when help from the first three incarnations of the Doctor was required. He objected to President Pandad IV's plan to have the Doctor cross his own time stream, citing the First Law of Time. (TV: The Three Doctors) At the end of the crisis, he insisted with the President that the Doctor had earned his freedom. When Pandad IV demanded a more candid explanation, Socra was authorised by Rassilon to reveal the existence of the CIA to him, though Pandad chose not to make it public so as not to weaken the population's faith in the Presidency. (PROSE: The Legacy of Gallifrey)

Fate[[edit] | [edit source]]

As Chancellor Socra, this incarnation died without regeneration when he was eaten alive by one of several of the Rani's mice, (PROSE: The Legacy of Gallifrey) in the same incident which triggered a regeneration in the Lord President. (TV: The Mark of the Rani, PROSE: The Legacy of Gallifrey)

By another account, the Third Time Lord regenerated into a new body earlier, during the Third Doctor's exile on Earth. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon) After a report on the Doomsday Weapon went missing from the Time Lords' files, he was part of a group that decided to send the Third Doctor to the planet Uxarieus to investigate. (TV: Colony in Space)