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== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* The [[1997 (releases)|1997]] release date of this game followed the release of the 1996 TV movie ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'' starring [[Paul McGann]], set in [[1999]]. | * The [[1997 (releases)|1997]] release date of this game followed the release of the 1996 TV movie ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'' starring [[Paul McGann]], set in [[1999]]. | ||
*The Master makes reference to the seven "complete" incarnations of the Doctor as opposed to the "seven past incarnations" or just "the seven incarnations". This makes it ambiguous as to when this takes place. Given that the Master is portrayed by Anthony Ainley, this would imply that the Seventh Doctor is nearing the end of his incarnation, as stated in | * The Master makes reference to the seven "complete" incarnations of the Doctor as opposed to the "seven past incarnations" or just "the seven incarnations". This makes it ambiguous as to when this takes place. Given that the Master is portrayed by Anthony Ainley, this would imply that the Seventh Doctor is nearing the end of his incarnation, as stated in [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''. Although the game packaging uses the logo for the 1996 TV movie, the [[Eighth Doctor]] is neither seen nor mentioned anywhere in the game. While the [[City of Thoughts]] database entry on the Seventh Doctor falls short of mentioning his regeneration, it does state that his "spirit of curiosity and adventure will carry him into his next incarnation". Although this game was released a year after the TV movie, development began before the TV movie aired and anything was known about a new incarnation of the Doctor. | ||
*[[Gary Russell]], credited in the game not only as a writer for the aforementioned City of Thoughts but also for "subject matter expertise", had close links to the TV Movie’s production from having written [[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|its | *[[Gary Russell]], credited in the game not only as a writer for the aforementioned City of Thoughts but also for "subject matter expertise", had close links to the TV Movie’s production from having written [[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|its novelisation]] in February 1996. (''[[Doctor Who: Regeneration]]'') Russell later confirmed that he "deliberately had the Master taken away by the Daleks at the end of DotD to lead into the TVM (thus also explaining why there was no McGann)."<ref>https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.drwho/c/SKPqdYfXk3s/m/vBNXDqW4cWgJ</ref> | ||
* Russell noted that this controversially does not take into-account the [[The Master (First Frontier)|''First Frontier'' Master]]. Russell also wrote [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|The Novel of the Film]]'', which name dropped the [[Tzun]] from ''First Frontier'', and [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dust Breeding (audio story)|Dust Breeding]]'', where the Tremas Master was reverted from his [[Traken]] body to his [[Decayed Master|Decayed Thirteenth incarnation]]. All three stories contradict each other. | * Russell noted that this controversially does not take into-account the [[The Master (First Frontier)|''First Frontier'' Master]]. Russell also wrote [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|The Novel of the Film]]'', which name dropped the [[Tzun]] from ''First Frontier'', and [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dust Breeding (audio story)|Dust Breeding]]'', where the Tremas Master was reverted from his [[Traken]] body to his [[Decayed Master|Decayed Thirteenth incarnation]]. All three stories contradict each other. | ||
* [[Ian Levine]] began an unlicensed fan project to expand ''Destiny of the Doctors'' into an actual episode of ''Doctor Who'' featuring [[Sylvester McCoy]] as the Seventh Doctor, with himself appearing as a [[Time Lord]]. | * [[Ian Levine]] began an unlicensed fan project to expand ''Destiny of the Doctors'' into an actual episode of ''Doctor Who'' featuring [[Sylvester McCoy]] as the Seventh Doctor, with himself appearing as a [[Time Lord]]. | ||
