Theory:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/The Power of the Daleks


 * Not only does the Doctor regenerate, but his clothes do as well.
 * A side effect of a first regeneration?
 * Doctor's first regeneration was less violent than the others, so it is possible that he had more control over it.
 * This still doesn't explain how it could happen. Would we have to consider it as a production error?
 * Its suggested that the Troughton Doctor is a younger Hartnell Doctor. And, they have swapped places. It was first referred to as a rejuvenation, and not a regeneration.


 * How do the colonists not recognise the Daleks after the events of Doomsday and Journey's End?
 * It's pretty well established that even many people from the early/mid 21st century--from Zoe Heriot to Henry van Statten--didn't know about the Daleks. If this does get explained away, it seems likely that people from farther in the future wouldn't know about those events either.
 * Time in the Whoniverse is two-dimensional; Power may be after Doomsday along the fourth dimension, but it's clearly before it along the fifth. To limited species like humans who only sense 4 (or 3.5) dimensions, anything which is later on either time dimension is unknown.
 * In the 11th Doctor novel The Dalek Generation humans don't know of the Daleks as villains. We don't know when the story takes place, so bad history records is an easy answer to this.
 * Perhaps the simplest explanation is the one given in Remembrance: humans just have an extraordinary ability to forget past events (hence why Ace knew nothing about Yetis in the Tube, or the Loch Ness Monster in the Thames.


 * IIRC, Ben says the Doctor was always going on about Daleks before regenerating. But didn't we see mostly every moment of their time together before this, with no mention of Daleks? The War Machines went directly into the Smugglers went directly into the Tenth Planet, right. Apologies if I've got show/novelisation mixed up.
 * I suppose the Doctor must have made off-screen references to the Daleks.
 * We didn't see every moment. For example, The Smugglers takes place over far more than 100 minutes of in-universe time.


 * In episode one, the Doctor has a dagger that he got from Saladin, however he never met Saladin, as evidenced in The Crusade when the Doctor says he has always wanted to meet Saladin but is unable to.
 * Maybe he met Saladin some time later.