Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site oliven.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!oliveb!oliven!barb From: barb@oliven.UUCP (Barbara Jernigan) Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho Subject: Re: Where does the name TARDIS come from? Message-ID: <393@oliven.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 17:08:57 EDT Article-I.D.: oliven.393 Posted: Wed Aug 21 17:08:57 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 14:35:48 EDT References: <3209@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> <798@abnji.UUCP> Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino, Ca Lines: 33 > A possible explaination: > > Susan is credited with coming up for the name of TARDIS from Time and > Relative Dimensions in Space. Yet other people recognize the name, > both on Gallifrey and other planets. > > Remember that the Doctor had some high role in Gallifrey society > before he left. Could it not have been Time Capsule design? If so, > couldn't his granddaughter have come up with a name, which because > he later kept using it became standard? > And do recall, the Master (Pertwe episodes -- those being freshest in my inexact memory) calls his TARDIS a TARDIS. I suggest that the writers weren't (aren't) as up on Whoism as you folks -- the Writer's Guide (if it exists) probably says The Doctor's ship is a TARDIS, ergo every Time Lord's ship is a TARDIS. Alas, when you're dealing with many, many writers, consistency suffers -- especially for details such as that. After all, before this line of thoughtfulness, *I* thought they all were TARDISes, too. ___________________ ______________\ ___________ | ______ / . / / o .ooo. ./ /. . o@ooo0 Barb .ooooo. .ooooo. .oooo oo..oo oo...ooo ooo..ooo \ .oo oo oooooo oooooo ooo ooo "Have a jelly baby." Surprised response: "They're good!"