Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-9435571-20130724194223/@comment-9435571-20130727151411

Fair enough - although I started the thread 3 days ago and got no response. I then figured that if I actually edit the article, it might at the very least help get the discussion started, even if someone ends up reverting my edits.

Anyway, back to the topic. The box in the article says:

"As of February 2013, we at Tardis are applying Occam's Razor, and simply going with release date. Since it was released long after Dust Breeding and Master, we're assuming that it takes place after these stories, and before Mastermind, which was released later and for the Master himself was set immediately after Doctor Who. "

If we go strictly by release date for the lack of any other data, then the UNIT: Dominion Master must go before Mastermind (which features an incarnation of the Master directly after the TVM). We still don't know exactly when this happens in the Master's timeline, but the current placement is already conjectural and based on release order, so my move was simply to another conjectural place based on release order, but with the latest releases in mind.

This aside, I don't think going strictly by release order is entirely accurate - this would e.g. make the Master in Trail of the White Worm a post-Ainley incarnation, since it was released after Master, even though I think we can all agree that it's the Fourth Doctor era version of the Master. Given that the Doctor and the Master usually encounter each other in the right order, I'd say that a better idea would be going with release order for encounters with a given incarnation of the Doctor. Generally, unless it is specifically stated, the Doctor tends to meet his adversaries in the right order.

Either way, whether we go with release order alone or with the incarnation of the Doctor encountered AND release order (unless specified otherwise), with the latest info in mind, this puts the Dominion Master after Dust Breeding and Master but before the TV movie and Mastermind.

Unless at a later date this is stated specifically to be an earlier or older incarnation of the Master, that is. But for now putting it between Master and the TV movie is the least conjectural.