Theory:Timeline - The Great Intelligence

This page lists appearances of the Great Intelligence in the order in which it experienced them. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories.

According to PROSE: Legacies, the Great Intelligence was an imprint of an inter-dimensional being, which existed in many realities, always ending up as the Great Intelligence and sharing the same basic attributes, although the Intelligences originated in various ways, including an immortal soul, and various Great Old Ones.

Its linear timeline starts with TV: The Abominable Snowmen and ends with PROSE: The Forgotten Son after being splintered across the Doctor's timeline. PROSE: The Forgotten Son also explains that the Intelligence lost its memory and somehow ended up in 1842. This explains how the intelligence was in London in 1892 when it possesed the body of Padmasambhava in Tibet between the 17th century and the 1920's/30's.

The events of PROSE: Fear of the Web, a date is given of February 1969 for the TV: The Web of Fear. However, in AUDIO: The Web of Time, River Song acknowledges that due to the Doctor's long time spent on Earth during the seventies, UNIT had to create a whole new dating protocol due to numerous events happening several times in history.

Timeline

 * Between c.1925 and c.1935 TV: The Abominable Snowmen
 * This is the immortal soul Intelligence also known as Yog-Sothoth. At some point in the 17th century, it possessed the Tibetan lama Padmasambhava while it was travelling the astral plane and forced him to build its Robot Yeti over the next two centuries.


 * PROSE: Fear of the Web
 * This novel tells not only the events of The Web of Fear, but it also acts as a prequel and sequel. It also references Captain Knight's other mission in Soho, which is depicted in The Web of Time. One potential setting for the events of The Web of Fear is early 1969.


 * AUDIO: The Web of Time
 * Captain Knight disappears briefly in Fear of the Web and goes to Soho, where he meets River, who must preserve his life in order for him to die in The Web of Fear as planned.


 * TV: The Web of Fear
 * The Intelligence encounters UNIT, set in either 1969, 1975, or other various dates. The Intelligence has been following the Doctor's adventures and traps him, intending to drain his mind and experience. It's left bound to the Earth.


 * PROSE: Legacies


 * PROSE: Times Squared
 * One potential date given is October 1969.


 * PROSE: Night of the Intelligence
 * Set one year after The Web of Fear.


 * AUDIO: Time of the Intelligence
 * Set "a few years" after The Web of Fear. The Intelligence wants to summon the Doctor back to Earth.


 * COMIC: Yonder... The Yeti
 * Set in the 1980s


 * HOMEVID: Downtime/PROSE: Downtime
 * The Intelligence plots revenge on Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, freeing itself from the binds of The Web of Fear. It takes over Victoria Waterfield in 1984, destroying Det-Sen Monastery, and is eventually defeated at New World University in 1994.


 * PROSE: Millennial Rites
 * The Intelligence mentions being recently repelled from Earth, and on New Year's Even, 1999, is pushed out towards the blue shift.


 * The Intelligence forgets its memories and ends up in 1842. (PROSE: The Forgotten Son)


 * TV: The Snowmen
 * The Intelligence meets Walter Simeon in 1842, and by 1892 amasses as a swarm of sentient snow.


 * TV: The Bells of Saint John
 * The Intelligence remembers UNIT.


 * TV: The Name of the Doctor
 * The Intelligence is scattered across the Doctor's time stream.


 * PROSE: The Forgotten Son
 * The Great Intelligence is aware of the events of The Snowmen and Walter Simeon.

Currently Unplaced

 * PROSE: Avatars of the Intelligence
 * PROSE:  Child of the New World