User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Reference Desk/@comment-74.106.61.93-20130224211810/@comment-4920273-20130227030227

First off, River is part human and part time lord (A good Man goes to War). And the doctor didn't say that wasn't possible, a human time lord metacrisis wasn't possible. And Donna couldn't withstand the Time Lord mind because her brain wasn't adapted to the Time Lord knowledge and it short circuited her brain. However: River has had the Time lord brain since birth, since she was conceived within the time vortex. And even though her parents are human, she is half human, half timelord. If you put the DNA of a Blue jay into a chicken's egg, you'd get some kind of hybrid. Just because the parents are chickens doesn't mean the hybrid's a chicken. Weird metaphor, I know. But the point gets through. River is human and Time Lord. But I still don't think the original question was answered. Instead of disputing River's species, how many regenerations does the Doctor have now that River provided the Doctor her remaining 11 regerations?