First Minister of Chance

The Minister of Chance was a renegade Time Lord and one of the four surviving elementals.

A day to come
The Minister was an agent of the Celestial Intervention Agency who ran away and entered politics on the planet Samael under the name "Felicity Morgan". She held a number of titles, including Minister for Fisheries and Minister of War, and transformed the planet's politics for the better. After the Third Doctor helped protect her from, ensuring that she would be able to continue doing good, one of the Minister's assistants remarked that she might start calling herself the "Minister of Luck". (AUDIO: The Same Face)

The Tomorrow Window showed the Eighth Doctor a vision of his future which included a man with a bent nose wearing a cream suit and strolling through Regent's Park. His long hair was swept back and his chin was held imperiously high. (PROSE: The Tomorrow Windows)

Doing good in the universe
The Minister thwarted General Tannis' plans to infect the planet Alnelan with a deadly plague, but his female assistant "wandered off" on the planet.

Following his defeat Tannis agreed to the Treaty of Karselai and signed away any rights to alien planets. Despite this, the Canisian military, led by Tannis, brutally conquered the Santine Republic, confining the leading members of the Republic to a prison camp. The Minister, who was able to transfer a virus to a Canisian computer via speech, seeded a rebellion on Santiny while the Seventh Doctor investigated the deaths of two Time Lords on Earth. Tannis was also working towards wiping out the last members of the Fraction, and by massacring the Santine prisoners he provoked the Minister into breaking the rules about non-interference and destroy the fleet.

Due to the Minister's violation of the rules, the Doctor was forced to confront him and revoke his TARDIS. (NOTVALID: Death Comes to Time)

The formula for doors
The Minister instead learned to travel between worlds using the formula for doors.

In a new incarnation, he met Kitty in Tantillion and travelled with her as he fought Rathen. (NOTVALID: The Minister of Chance)

Legacy
In the post-War universe the Eighth Doctor saw the Minister in a vision of the four surviving elementals, the four Time Lords who survived the War in Heaven. The Minister appeared alongside the Emperor, the Man with the Rosette, and an unknown woman. In the vision, he was tall, wore a cravat, and held a pair of dice. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles)

Behind the scenes

 * In Dan Freedman's pitch for a continuation of the Death Comes to Time storyline, the Minister of Chance would have taken up the Doctor's mantle out of guilt. Though this series was not commissioned by the BBC, Freedman later crowdfunded it as the Minister of Chance audio series, where the character had regenerated into an incarnation played by Julian Wadham; Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann also appeared in the series, though not as their Doctor Who characters. The audio series was later novelised by Freedman for Arcbeatle Press.
 * The appearance of the Minister as the "man with a bent nose" in The Tomorrow Windows and The Gallifrey Chronicles accompanied other references to Death Comes to Time by mentioning Anima Persis and Tannis, respectively. The man with the broken nose and the dice, depicted with Fry's likeness (albeit in shadow), also visually cameoed in Miranda.

Category:Individual Time Lords