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From: wnl@rocksanne.UUCP (William LeFebvre)
Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho
Subject: Re: controlling the TARDIS
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Date: Thu, 2-Aug-84 10:18:24 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  2 10:18:24 1984
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	However, has anyone noticed that the only times the Doctor
	CANNOT control the TARDIS is when he is trying to return
	his assistants to where ever they came from?

It's obvious why the Doctor can't control the TARDIS when trying to return
his companions -- he doesn't want to return them!  I'm not saying that he
consciously misadjusts the co-ordinates ... perhaps there is some
subconscious desire to keep his companion on board, and the TARDIS (being
the clever machine that it is) picks up on it.  (I thought it was a
reasonable explanation).

Actually, some of the instances when the TARDIS ends up in the wrong place
are caused by the other Time Lords.  As an example, in the beginning of The
Brain of Morbius, the Doctor was very upset that the Time Lords had
interfered with the navigation of the TARDIS.  They had placed him on that
planet to take care of some of their unfinished business.  This also happend
at the beginning of The Genesis of the Daleks when the Time Lords interfered
with the Transmat beam that was taking the Doctor, Sarah, and Harry from
future Earth to a space station.

		Bill LeFebvre
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		"Never trust a man with dirty fingernails."