Exile on Earth: Difference between revisions

Following [[the Doctor's trial (The War Games)|a trial]] by the [[Time Lord]]s, the [[Third Doctor]] spent a length of time as an '''exile on Earth '''for as long as the Time Lords deemed proper.  

Following the defeat of [[the War Lord]]'s allies, a triad of [[Time Lord]]s [[the Doctor's trial (The War Games)|tried]] the [[Second Doctor]] for violations of their [[non-interference policy]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') The Doctor was initially sentenced to [[death]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'') but the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] stepped in and appealed for a stay of execution. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'') In exchange for the Doctor's aid in various matters that the Time Lords needed resolved without officially violating their policy, the Time Lord tribunal said that they would sentence the Doctor with two punishments: [[exile]] on Earth during the late [[20th century]] and an involuntary [[regeneration]] into a new, less-recognisable incarnation, much to the Doctor's frustration. At the same time, [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] would be rendered immobile. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'')

The appearance of the Time Lord who warned the Doctor of the Master's return prefigured a period of time in which the Time Lords allowed the Doctor occasional reprieves from exile. When it suited their purposes, the Time Lords would send the Doctor on controlled flights away from Earth on specific missions when they had grave outcomes the Time Lords had seen. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Peladon (TV story)|The Curse of Peladon]]'', ''[[The Mutants (TV story)|The Mutants]]'', etc.) The Time Lords allowed the Doctor full use of his TARDIS to stop the Master's efforts to acquire a doomsday weapon on an Earth colony in the future. ([[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]'') Later, they allowed him to travel to [[Peladon]], although the Doctor initially believed that he had repaired the ship himself, only to conclude after he and Jo Grant had saved Peladon during a vital peace conference that their presence at such a crucial time in the planet's history was too significant to be a coincidence. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Peladon (TV story)|The Curse of Peladon]]'') The Time Lords also sent him on a direct mission to convey a message to [[Ky]], a [[Solonian]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mutants (TV story)|The Mutants]]'') On at least two occasions, the Doctor managed to pilot the TARDIS on his own, but this was when he was dealing with the temporal ruptures created by the [[Sild]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Harvest of Time (novel)|Harvest of Time]]'') and when he was tracking the Master's TARDIS to avert his new control of [[Kronos]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'') suggesting that he was only able to travel due to the temporal ruptures caused by the current threat rather than being able to freely pilot the ship himself. Once both events were over, the Doctor was rendered trapped once again.

The Doctor's exile, as recorded by [[Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart]], lasted for five straight years in the [[1970s]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Transit (novel)|Transit]]'') In an effort to defeat the renegade Time Lord [[Omega]], the Time Lords took the unprecedented step of not only recruiting the Doctor's third incarnation to stop Omega's attack, but also his [[First Doctor|first]] and [[Second Doctor|second]] as well. As a reward for the successful defeat of Omega, the Time Lords finally rescinded the Doctor's exile on Earth, granting him his lost memories as well as a brand new dematerialisation circuit to restore his TARDIS to working order. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'')

In [[Parallel universe (Sympathy for the Devil)|another universe]], [[The Doctor (Sympathy for the Devil)|the Doctor]] — regenerated into a different incarnation — arrived on Earth in [[Hong Kong]] in [[1997]] rather than on Earth in the 1970s, <!-- "Sympathy for the Devil" says that the Doctor was destined for the 70s --> witnessing a timeline where Earth had been forced to exist without him for almost thirty years. During this time, many things changed - without the Doctor, UNIT floundered and [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (Sympathy for the Devil)|Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] was forced to make decisions which had consequences for Earth - Surrey was saturation bombed, plastic had been purged from the Earth, and there was a hole in the middle of London after a group of soldiers volunteered to go back in time to destroy the Silurians. Although the TARDIS was only able to travel in space as the Time Lords had placed an inhibitor in the ship and removed the Doctor's knowledge of how to bypass it, by taking the TARDIS to a location where a nuclear bomb was about to be detonated, the Doctor was able to give the ship a powerful "kick" that disabled the inhibitor and allowed him to travel freely once more. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sympathy for the Devil (audio story)|Sympathy for the Devil]]'')

In [[Parallel universe (Exile)|one universe]], the exile was self-imposed as an attempt to evade the [[Time Lord (Exile)|Time Lords]] after summoning them to deal with the War Lords. After arriving at [[London]] in [[2000]], [[Previous Doctor (Exile)|the Doctor]] committed suicide so that he could better hide, regenerating into [[the Doctor (Exile)|a female incarnation]] and working at [[Sainsbury's]] using [[Susan Foreman|Susan]]'s old forged identity papers. The Doctor lived like an ordinary human for some time before she was found by the Time Lords and punished for running away, with this sentence seeing her apparently tricked into dematerializing her TARDIS when it was programmed to disperse across the universe. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Exile (audio story)|Exile]]'')