Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hou2a.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!ihnp4!houxm!hou2a!pjk From: pjk@hou2a.UUCP (P.KEMP) Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho Subject: Re: Where does the name TARDIS come from? Message-ID: <576@hou2a.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 11:40:55 EDT Article-I.D.: hou2a.576 Posted: Mon Aug 12 11:40:55 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Aug-85 06:13:38 EDT References: <3209@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>, <798@abnji.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 40 First, thank you Richard (ihlpg!jcjeff) for coming to my defense, and James (abnji!nyssa) for trying to explain an obvious error in script continuity (I bet it can be tough following The Doctor through time and space for 22 years :-)]. I suppose The Doctor could have been a time capsule (*) designer, but sometimes in the show it seems like he doesn't understand all the workings of the TARDIS. I guess he could have worked on earlier/later models, or only on certain parts of the capsules and therefore be unsure of certain things (like many designers today). It could also be that his memory could be slipping, with all the regenerations and the Time Lords fooling around with it in "The War Games"/"Spearhead From Space". It's now come to the point that The Doctor himself uses the term "The Master's TARDIS" ugh! James, how about talking to J N-T about this? Maybe you can get them to change this like they changed the "Doctor Who" credit line at the end of the episodes. (*) - I really hate to start another discussion (maybe not!), but is this the correct generic (short) term for the TARDIS. It's the one I have adopted using myself. I know the capsules travel through space also, and that it is an "old type 40" and a "Mark I", but I think `time capsule' is a good, short name. -- Paul Kemp ihnp4!hou2a!pjk