The End (short story)

Summary
The world-weary Doctor and his time-travelling friends of various races join together to found the Institute of Time, one of the time-travellers asks the Doctor if the Institute will still be standing at the end of the universe. The Doctor takes a trip in the TARDIS to find out. Arriving near the end of the universe, the Doctor finds the Institute in ruins and that all of his friends have killed themselves because they know they have no place in the next universe. The Doctor finds his first incarnation standing in the ruins and begins to talk with him, the Doctor tells his future self not to give up and that there are plenty of new planets to visit. With a new sense of adventure the Doctor travels back in time to the founding of the Institute, but does not tell his friends what he saw.

Characters

 * Eighth Doctor
 * First Doctor
 * Radregh

Continuity

 * The Doctor says that there was a rule among the Time Lords that they musn't travel beyond a certain point in time (and although he can remember the rule and the time - he cannot remember why the rule was made). Later in his life, the Doctor travels to the year 100 trillion, and mentions that not even the Time Lords had ever traveled this far. (DW: Utopia)
 * The Doctor's travels had made him world-weary, until his sense of adventure is rekindled by a conversation with his first self. (ST: Osskah)

Timeline

 * This story occurs after ST: Osskah
 * This story occurs before ST: For the Man Who Has Everything