User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-43908-20150311013943/@comment-27280472-20160113031916

Here's a breakdown of information on Juliet Landau's character(s), hopefully helpful.

• In Renaissance, she goes by Trey for simplicity because there are two of her.
• She says she's spent several lifetimes rebuilding Gallifrey, which is a vague metaphorical statement that does not prove she's spent several regenerations.
• It turns out that she's been deliberately lying and manipulating everyone, making her information worthless.
• The name "Trey" was supposedly chosen as a reference to her being the third Romana, but that's non-narrative information.
• It is increasingly implied as the story progresses that Ward will soon regenerate into another Landau, culminating in an apparent regeneration cliffhanger.
• All of this becomes meaningless in the next chapter, Ascension, where another writer says that "Trey" was a matrix projection, still deliberately manipulating Romana.
• When Gallifrey VI was still the release with Juliet Landau, and therefore nothing was determined beyond the fact that Romana had a future incarnation of that appearance, James Goss made comments in Vortex that referred to Landau as separate from Paul Cornell's incarnation.
• In the framing narrative for Luna Romana, the real Landau incarnation talks about gearing up for Gallifrey's latest darkest hour. However, she's not specific as to whether this means the War or something else entirely.
• Paul Cornell's Romana is described as similar to Juliet Landau's appearance, and they are both written as more ruthless than Ward's Romana.
• Big Finish unambiguously treats the real Landau incarnation as the successor to Ward, but even Intervention Earth didn't make it absolutely explicit.
• The situation is nothing like that of the Shalka Ninth Doctor, because neither of these "Romana III's" is in anything NOTVALID.
• Someone mentioned the regeneration scene in Destiny of the Daleks as evidence that the Romana II designation isn't necessarily correct, however The Lying Old Witch in the Wardrobe says that that scene was the TARDIS rather than Romana.

Personally, I think that with continuing Big Finish releases the position that Landau is anything but a third incarnation can only become more untenable and that a combined Romana page is the best option. The Shadows of Avalon et al. and Luna Romana et al. are written to feature the third Romana, so except in the case of an outright contradiction (according to one account her eyes were blue vs green) and in the Behind the Scenes section should the difference be mentioned.