Exile on Earth: Difference between revisions

The appearance of the [[Time Lord messenger]] 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 foreseen grave outcomes if the Doctor didn't get involved. ([[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.