Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-4028641-20151008023030/@comment-38288735-20191105122205

Yeah, I'm not saying it's not a possibility, but I can't think of any evidence of it. I really can't think of any non-Crispy Master stories set between "The Deadly Assassin" and "The Keeper of Traken". I think it's just a way of trying to fit Legacy of the Daleks with later stories that blatantly disregarded Legacy of the Daleks.

EDIT: After going back to Legacy of the Daleks, I want to add to my previous statement. I believe that a bit of this revolves around one somewhat vague sentence. When Susan uses the tissue compression eliminator on the Master, it says,


 * There was no respite for him now, no way to regenerate from such a death.

It's unclear whose viewpoint this statement is from. Under one possible reading, it's from the Master's point-of-view or an omniscient narrator's and, if they're the Master or omniscient, why don't they mention that the Master is out of regenerations anyway? Since they didn't, that means this must not be the Thirteenth Master!

To me, that seems like a VERY tenuous hook to hang a belief on when nothing else I can think of seems to support it. I'm always open to new information, though!