User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-3999524-20141211184047/@comment-188432-20141212031952

Oh and I think you're misreading the bit on 235. In this passage, regeneration means incarnation. It's quite common practice throughout prose Doctor Who to use regeneration to mean both the physical act of regeneration (the regeneration of the Third Doctor into the Fourth), as well as to mean a particular incarnation ("the fourth regeneration of the Doctor surveyed the landscape before him"). These days, we don't like that kind of imprecision, and a lot of people will argue strongly that regeneration and incarnation are not the same. But all you have to do is read almost anything by Terrance Dicks involving Gallifrey or multiple Doctors and you'll soon see that it's perfectly commonplace.