Talk:Respiratory bypass system

Human Nature, The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe, Mummy on the Orient Express

 * His eleventh incarnation survived the vacuum of low earth orbit long enough to find and put on an impact suit — backwards. (TV: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe) The Twelfth Doctor was able to remain conscious in a space train that was being drained of oxygen long enough to modify a teleportation system to send the train's passengers into the TARDIS (TV: Mummy on the Orient Express).


 * At least one human may have developed such a system: Timothy Dean, who gained one when he was infected with the Seventh Doctor's DNA. (PROSE: Human Nature)

Is the term "respiratory bypass system" ever stated in these stories? And if not (I'm almost positive that Mummy doesn't), isn't it speculative to credit those scenes to this? Also the Human Nature one is very weirdly phrased. -- Tybort (talk page) 19:15, October 14, 2014 (UTC)


 * It's mentioned in The Robots of Death (season 14 of the classic stuff, not sure which episode), and also an Eleventh Doctor comic. The term "respiratory bypass system" is stated in both.


 * However, having watched back all three mentioned episodes, the term "respiratory bypass system is never mentioned, meaning these may and probably are just examples of the Doctor simply holding his breath or making advantage of his superhuman lung capacity, as mentioned during some episodes of his earlier incarnations. Benkor1 ☎  19:02, August 13, 2019 (UTC)