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User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-1272640-20161223201024/@comment-1272640-20170105041328 SeaniesBeanies wrote: Scream of the Shalka is set in a separate continuity to the mainline DWU, and there are no reasons to believe it is an alternate timeline from any other story, which is rather important when you have to write your articles from an in-universe perspective. The only other nods to this Ninth Doctor that I'm aware of in the DWU are in The Tomorrow Windows and The Gallifrey Chronicles, in which it is an easter egg for fans. Neither Jonny Morris nor Lance Parkin seriously considered REG as a "proper" Doctor at this point in time, not least because both books had been released after the new series' announcement, but also because the Shalka Doctor is quite clearly regarded as a possible future for McGann's Doctor- a possible future that we have seen didn't come to fruition, and if this possible future Doctor never appeared, then Scream of the Shalka did not happen within the DWU, and hence should remain labelled invalid.

As an aside, I am opening a debate on the Panopticon regarding changing some policy in T:VS that has struck me as unclear as this debate has gone on, if any of you would wish to join me. Erm, what? Shalka was always intended to be set in the DWU as it was in 2003. Everything up to that point was part of continuity. This was the Ninth Doctor at the time. The Doctor there was the same one who stole a TARDIS and ran away with his granddaughter Susan.