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Signet ring overview
A signet ring was a ring with the mark of an emblem or symbol on one end.

The Doctor kept a signet ring, which he frequently wore in his first incarnation. (TV: An Unearthly Child, et al)

Erimem wore a signet ring with the symbol of Sekhmet. (AUDIO: The Bride of Peladon)

The Master had a green signet ring with Gallifreyan writing which was used by the Disciples of Saxon to revive him after his death. (TV: The End of Time)

Lord Barset
Lord Barset was a hereditary title on Earth. It was given to at least two human explorers involved in Antarctic expeditions in the 20th and 21st century; they were respectively a grandfather and his grandson.

The grandfather
Lord Barset unearthed a city of intelligent "lizard men" with superior technology beneath the Antarctic ice. He wrote about this in his diary. All but one of the expedition died in the encounter, the expedition's ship, the Rochester, having been lost. This crewmember was discovered holding Lord Barset's diary; he was seemingly driven insane and died just a few days afterwards. (AUDIO: Frozen Time)

The grandson
The diary of Lord Barset was secretly passed down to his grandson, another Lord Barset. Lord Barset was granted a licence to go on an Antarctic expedition to both find the remains of his grandfather's expedition the lizard men's city.

Lord Barset arrived in Antarctica in the Fortitude. When his people failed to make radio contact after six days, he and several others from the Fortitude arrived to the dig site with arms. There, instead of the city his grandfather found, he discovered the remains of an Ice Warrior maximum security prison, where the Seventh Doctor was thawed.

In a "quest for knowledge", he had the Ice Warrior war criminals, led by Lord Arakssor, thawed. Lord Barset and Captain Harman were trapped inside the prison, while the Doctor, Geni and Mac left in Aristo One. Barset and Harman tried to escape to the Fortitude, but Harman was killed by an Ice Warrior's sonic weapon, and Lord Barset was injured and presumed dead. Discovering the Doctor and Geni had returned, he worked with them to stop the Ice Warriors altering the structure Earth's greenhouse gases to cool down the planet and make it into Arakssor's "fortress".

As the process started, Lord Barset was knocked out by falling hail. The Doctor and Geni put him in a small chamber for him to recover. When he woke, he shot at Lord Arakssor, allowing the Doctor to boost the signal to get the attention of the warship of Red 0089. Arakssor then killed him. (AUDIO: Frozen Time)

Behind the scenes
The grandson Lord Barset was a vocal role voiced by Anthony Calf in Frozen Time. The grandfather, who died decades before Frozen Time's main setting, did not appear in a flashback and had no performer in the story.

Diana, Princess of Wales
Diana, Princess of Wales, née Lady Diana Spencer (PROSE: Prisoners of the Sun) and sometimes known as Lady Di, (PROSE: The Dying Days) was the wife of Prince Charles. (PROSE: Prisoners of the Sun) She married Charles in 1981. (PROSE: Graham Dilley Saves the World)

When Peter Tyler got his wedding vows to Jackie Prentice wrong, Jackie told the registrar to carry on with the vows, saying, "It's good enough for Lady Di." (TV: Father's Day)

Views on the Doctor
In the words of Madame Vastra, the Doctor was "kind", "a hero" and "the saviour of worlds". (TV: The Snowmen)

Victor Kennedy said he read up on the Doctor and how he was "so passionate" and "so sweet". The Tenth Doctor responded that he may have been these things, but warned Victor not to mistake these traits for "nice". (TV: Love & Monsters) The Tenth Doctor referred to himself as "the Oncoming Storm" and "the Bringer of Darkness". (TV: The Day of the Doctor) According to the Great Intelligence, the Doctor was "blood soaked". (TV: The Name of the Doctor)

Eye of Harmony
[Source explicitly describing the Doctor's Eye as the Gallifreyan Eye's namesake as noted on Talk:Time Vortex goes here] This piece of Time Lord engineering was also an exploding star in the act of becoming a black hole. The Eleventh Doctor explained that "[y]ou rip the star from its orbit [and] suspend it in a permanent state of decay". (TV: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS)

The Eye of Harmony was described by both the Eighth (TV: Doctor Who) and Eleventh Doctor (TV: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS) as the TARDIS' power source. The Eighth Doctor said it was "[t]he power source of the heart of the TARDIS". (TV: Doctor Who)

Humanian Era
The Humanian Era was a period of Earth history which encompassed at least 29-31 December 1999. (TV: Doctor Who)

CyberNomads
"CyberNomads" was the name of a group of nomadic Cybermen which were postulated by ArcHivist Hegelia to have travelled out into the galaxy prior to the massive loss of life of the Cybermen that stayed behind in the solar system on Planet 14.

After several failed attempts at taking over Earth following the destruction of Mondas, by 2191, the Cybermen were considered to have become extinct. Although most were hibernating in the Cyber-tombs on Telos, Hegelia thought there was another group — the cyberNomads. These were thought to have been the Cybermen which were active on Agora in 2191.

Hegelia hypothesised that another group of cyberNomads reopened the Cyber-tombs on Telos, which helped create a new race — the Neomorphs. (PROSE: Killing Ground)

Neomorphs
According to ArchHivist Hegelia, the Neomorphs were a "new race" of Cybermen which the cyberNomads helped create when they reopened the Cyber-tombs on Telos. They were the Cybermen which proliferated during the 26th century. (PROSE: Killing Ground)

Moffat later career opinions
In 2013, Moffat considered "An Unearthly Child" to "still [be] an extraordinary piece of television by any standard" and "absolutely amazing". He considered William Hartnell's portrayal to be "brilliant" but found it was Patrick Troughton's Second Doctor who "[lay] down the central rules" of being the Doctor. He noted that Jon Pertwee's "showmanship" was largely in the Third Doctor's costume, and that he played the Doctor far more seriously than even Christopher Eccleston.

In 2013, he continued to love Peter Davison's Fifth Doctor. He thought he went in the opposite direction to Tom Baker and made him "real and passionate and heartfelt". He felt that in serials like The Caves of Androzani, it wasn't so much that the Fifth Doctor was more vulnerable or less effective, to which Moffat claimed he wasn't, but that he "[made] you feel the journey in a way that Tom Baker didn't".

By this point, Moffat concluded that the effects team of the BBC London version of the show were "brilliant people"; they usually had the know-how and experience to make effects shots as good as the opening scene of The Trial of a Time Lord, they didn't really have the time or the money to realise them. Moffat "quite like[d]" the idea of the Valeyard being a dark version of the Doctor, but claimed he wasn't completely sure if he understood it.

Around this time, Moffat considered some of the last stories of the run, including the "terrific script" and "very, very well-directed [story]" of Remembrance of the Daleks to be "superb" and "show[ed] a really regalvanised production team just really trying to deliver proper blockbusters". He also noted how the spaceship landing was done "superbly" by the special effects team without using CGI.

He believed that "stylistically, tonally, everything", that when you follow the final episode of Survival with Rose, Doctor Who was "really the same show" and it "came back exactly as it left".