Forum:Enemies, intention and association

This is a little bit of a conceptual question about what makes an enemy an enemy.

All the delegates who were in Mission to the Unknown worked with the Daleks, as the Daleks in that story were the First Doctor's enemy does that make them enemies of the First Doctor? Despite having never met the First Doctor?

I think to be an enemy they need to have met the person they're an enemy of (or at the very least encountered direct influence of that person).

The Dracula (robot) in The Chase, as is shown in the story he's a robot, which would suggest he's got no internal motivation, so is he an enemy of the Daleks or just robot acting on preprogrammed commands?

Now to prosecution; the humans in The Ark put the Doctor and co on trial for bringing the common cold to the Ark, they later cure it and go on their merry way. Are they the First Doctor's enemy for placing him on trial? Or are they upholding their laws? Making them as themselves separate from the laws they uphold?

We don't have Darkel as an enemy of the Sixth Doctor for presiding over the Doctor's trial, yet we do have Goth listed as the Second Doctor's enemy for being present at his trial. --Tangerineduel / talk 13:10, January 17, 2012 (UTC)