Aliens in disguise, always wrongfully
robots designed to heal the injuries of
receiving the worship and devotion of
living beings. Chula brand nanogenes are
gullible human figures until their true
widely preferred in most quarters to the
nature is revealed and they are destroyed.
much cheapter nanobots produced by
“nowhere,” which should rather be a clue
As Neitzsche would put it, “God is dead…
rival company DivaDroid International,
for anyone venturing to travel there.
again.”
which tend to have a mind of their own.
Hypnotise
From
, n.
the
Greek
meaning,
literally,
Varos
, n.
Omega
, n.
, v.
Utopia
A planet on which the ruler is willingly
Using a fob watch for the strange purpose
A messianic figure from Gallifrey who
subjected to pain or even death at the
of making a human being pliable rather
once died that his people might live but
disapproval of his subjects, where the
than making oneself a pliable human
who now wishes to live that his people
health of the state directly affects the
being.
might die.
health of the one governing. In other
Perception filter
Invade
, v.
words, a place in which revolution has , n.
been corralled by the ballot box. Strangely,
A popular Christmas time activity in which
A field generated around the TARDIS with
the serial murder of figureheads has
various
alternate
the result that most people ignore it. In
not resulted in an end to governmental
each year—reenact the deeds of Herod’s
the United States, a quite similar field
corruption, though efforts to change the
soldiers for the population of Earth.
generated around the rest of the world.
system on the part of some rulers have
alien
species—they
resulted in their swift dispatch at the
Quintet
Jelly Baby
, n.
, n.
A type of candy treat once preferred by the Doctor, who, as a result of overconsumption, was later restricted to
hands of voters.
A group of four people.
War, Time
, n.
Regenerate
, v.
A periodic cleansing of the canonical
To let someone else lead a life of peril while
palate, the temporal equivalent of pickled
you live on your royalties. As the poet
Key to Time
ginger during a dinner of sushi. Time wars
Stonelecce Striphroche once quipped—
are useful for extirpating all tangled and
A popular puzzle that can only be stored
- How to escape this workaday fate?
contradictory continuities of the past and
in pieces.
- Only one way—regenerate!
creating a blank slate upon which much
wearing a stalk of celery.
, n.
Logopolitans
, n.
Sycorax
the same might be created in the future.
, n.
Member
the universe’s evolution.
interstellar warriors who have mastered
A planet known throughout the universe
the high technology of metalsmithing.
for so conveniently beginning with “x” and
Mars
, n.
Fourth planet in the Sol system, widely
of
a
fearsome
species
of
Xeros
A conservative faction working to retard
Time Lords
, n.
, n.
thus providing some sense of completion to lists such as these.
remembered as the source of the alien
A species of walking tapestry from the
invasion in H. G. Wells’s War of the Worlds.
planet Gallifrey. They lay claim to having
Mars has, in fact, never been home to
invented time travel, seemingly unaware
the bulky, tentacled creatures described
of the fact that all living creatures travel
by Wells, though it is the origin of the
through time, though most in only one
Ice Warriors, Osirians, the Ambassadors,
direction. At present, there is only one
A small utopia within the TARDIS, with the
etc., which might well have earned it the
Time Lord known to exist, but at past
added, paradoxical advantage of actually
title of the Planet of Evil, had that not
and at future there are no doubt many
existing.
already been taken.
more. They practise the action of going to
Nanogenes
, n.
One of many trade names for microscopic
Yeti
, n.
A Hasidic Cyberman.
Zero room
, n.
a previous era, usually to cause an event
A huge thank you to Guy Lancaster
already recorded in history books and to
from
a future era (when the budget permits).
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