(Do you still have the Dr. Who for beginners saved somewhere? I wouldn't mind reading it.)
Sure, here you go:
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WHO IS THE DOCTOR?The Doctor is a 900+ year old alien from a race called the Time Lords, humanoids from the planet Gallifrey, more than 250 billion light years away from Earth. Using super advanced technology, the Time Lords became the masters of time, and ended up a race of observers, keeping a watch to make sure nothing threatened the existence of time, but doing little else, keeping a policy of non-interference. The Doctor hated the Time Lord lifestyle, he wanted to explore and have adventures, so one day, he stole on old out-of-date version of a TARDIS, the main Time Lord time machine, and became a renegade.
Like all Time Lords, the Doctor has the ability to regenerate. When he becomes mortally wounded, his cells renew and rewrite themselves, giving the Doctor a fresh body that looks totally different. This also effects his brain chemistry, so while he's still the same person with all the same memories, each version of the Doctor has their own quirks. Some versions are kinder than others, some are wittier, some are braver, but they're all still the same person. A Time Lord can regenerate a total of twelve times, giving him thirteen different bodies in total before he dies for good. The Doctor is currently on his eleventh body.
A BASIC DOCTOR TIMELINE:The Doctor is ridiculed - Classic Doctor Who - BBCFirst Doctor: A wise-but-grumpy old man kind of character. Gets fed up with the Time Lord society and steals a TARDIS. However, the TARDIS is so old and ends up breaking, among other things, its dematerialistation circuit, meaning that the Doctor could no longer control where and when he'd end up (think of it as an early version of
Sliders). The Doctor took up the habit of traveling with companions. He meets the Daleks and Cybermen, and after getting his life force sucked out, he regenerates into:
Second Doctor Explains Why He Ran AwaySecond Doctor: The cosmic hobo. The Doctor continues his random trips through time and space. However, he ends up in a mess far too big for him, so he's forced to call the Time Lords for help. They do, but the Doctor is captured and put on trial for his crimes, eventually being found guilty. He is sentenced to exile to 1970s Britain, his TARDIS made non-functional, making it so he can no longer trial. The Time Lords force him to regenerate as part of his punishment, turning him into:
Doctor Who: Jo Grant's first time in the TARDISThird Doctor: A sophisticated man of science. The Doctor offers his service to a UN military unit called, er, UNIT as their scientific adviser. The Doctor crosses paths with another renegade Time Lord called the Master as well as the Autons and the Sontarans. The Time Lords begin to ask favors of the Doctor, and after he saves the Time Lords from a being known as Omega, they release him from his exile and give him the parts to repair his TARDIS, giving the Doctor full control over where he goes for the first time in the series. The Doctor makes a heroic sacrifice and becomes:
Doctor Who - The Face of Evil - Deadly Jelly BabyFourth Doctor: A charming fun-loving fellow, all teeth and curls. The Doctor travels the universe with reckless abandoned, though he still gets called in to do the occasional favor for the Time Lords as a kind of probation. At one point, the Doctor saves Gallifrey from a Sontaran invasion, and is made the President of Gallifrey for it. He hates the job, and quickly abandons it. The Doctor eventually crosses paths with two near-omnipotent beings known as the White and Black Guardians, who are both warring over a powerful device known as the Key to Time. The Doctor ends up taking a bad fall and becomes:
The Fifth Doctor and the CybermenFifth Doctor: A much more gentle Doctor. The Doctor continues to travel, but his life is shook up when one of his companions, Adric, is killed. He finally defeats the Black Guardian. He gets poisoned and turns into:
doctor who has a new faceSixth Doctor: The most violent and egotistic of the Doctors. At one point, he's put on trial again, but this turns out to be a sham trial put up by a mysterious figure known as the Valeyard. The Doctor reveals the trial for what it is and is found not guilty this time. He gets attacked by another renegade Time Lord (or Time Lady, in this case) known as the Rani, regenerating into:
Doctor Who Classic FinaleSeventh Doctor: The chess master, a man who is always three steps ahead of his opponent. The Doctor eventually destroys the planet of Skaro, the home world of the Daleks, which kicks off the Dalek/Time Lord war. The Doctor is accidentally shot, becoming:
Doctor Who 1996- These ShoesEighth Doctor: The perfect gentleman. During this time, the Dalek/Time Lord war threatens the entire universe, and the Doctor realizes the Time Lords have become truly corrupt. After using up every other option, the Doctor is forced to destroy both the Daleks and the Time Lords, making him the last of his kind. He regenerates into:
The Doctor Says NoNinth Doctor: The mad bomber. This Doctor suffered a bit of shell-shock from the war and was just a tad mad. Over the course of time, however, he begins to recover from his survivors guilt, but it doesn't help when he discovers the Daleks weren't all destroyed after all. The Doctor regenerates with a smile into:
Fury of a Time LordTenth Doctor: A nerdy bright fellow. The Doctor comes across the Weeping Angels. He falls in love with a woman named Rose, but she ends up trapped in another dimension. Eventually, he regenerates into:
Doctor Who- Eleven "I'm the doctor, basically, RUN!"Eleventh Doctor: An old professor in a young man's body. At some point in the future, someone blows up the TARDIS, causing cracks to form around time and eat away at reality. The Doctor and his companions, Amy and Rory, end up rebooting the universe, Big Bang 2.0 if you will. More happens after that, but that's where my fanfic begins.
WHAT IS THE TARDIS?
TARDIS is short for Time And Relative Dimension in Space. It is the main means of time travel for the Time Lords, teleporting itself to any point in space and time. The one the Doctor uses is a Type 40, an antique model that the Doctor stole from a museum. The TARDIS is powered by forming a link with an artificial black hole called the Eye of Harmony. Thanks to quantum mechanics, the TARDIS is bigger on the inside, in fact it's huge, with hundreds of different rooms including bedrooms, a library, a wardrobe, a swimming pool, a room full of nothing but butterflies, and several different control rooms.
The TARDIS is actually a living machine, the core of it grown from special Gallifrey coral. While unable to communicate, the TARDIS has something one might call a soul. The TARDIS has something called a chameleon circuit, a cloaking device that disguises its exterior to blend in with its surroundings. However, the one on the Doctor's TARDIS is broken, keeping it stuck in the form of a police box from 1963 (police boxes were miniature police stations used in the UK from the 19th century till the early 1970s).
WHO ARE AMY AND RORY?
The Doctor has traveled with many companions over the years, the most recent of which are Amy Pond and Rory Williams. The Doctor had accidentally crashed his TARDIS into Amy's front yard in the early 90s, back when Amy was a child. The Doctor met and came to like Amy, and promised to take her on his travels, but a malfunction causes the TARDIS to jump ahead more than twelve years later. During that time, Amy is treated by psychologists who are convinced the Doctor is just a figment of Amy's imagination. She ends up dating a nurse named Rory, who asks her to marry him. Eventually, the Doctor returns, and both Amy (whom gains the nickname "The Girl Who Waited") and Rory become the Doctor's companions. At one point, Rory dies, but his soul is transplanted into a plastic body in Roman times (long story) and he ends up waiting more than two thousand years to reunite with Amy. Rory's body is restored with Big Bang 2.0, and the two of them finally get married, making them the first married couple to travel with the Doctor.
WHAT IS UNIT?
United Nations Intelligence Taskforce. They'll be important later in the fanfic. Often an ally for the Doctor, UNIT was created in the last 1960s as a military force to investigate and fight off various alien invaders and the odd mad scientist. Think of them as the army version of the X-Files. From it's beginning to the 1980s, UNIT was led by the Doctor's close friend, Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, who stepped down to the role of consultant afterwards.
WHAT IS TORCHWOOD?
Think of Torchwood as UNIT's darker cousin. A purely Britain establishment, Torchwood is a secret organization who specializes in taking alien technology and adapting them for human use, usually to advance human weaponry. Unlike UNIT, Torchwood considers the Doctor an enemy.
WHO ARE THE DOCTOR'S GREATEST ENEMIES?
Daleks- Space Nazies would be the short answer. Daleks are evil incarnate, an unstoppable military force whose mission is to destroy everything that isn't Dalek. Daleks are slimy genetically-engineered squid-like monsters who drive around in personal robotic tanks, armed with powerful laser weapons and protected by heavy armor and force fields. Daleks are not invincible, but are huge in number. Created on the planet Skaro as a weapon by a mad scientist named Davros, the Daleks ended up destroying their makers. However, power supply issues limited them from leaving their planet, a problem they eventually overcame, but nobody knows how (this will be important for the fanfic).
Cybermen- Humanoids beings from a farway planet that were forced to replace their bodies with robotic parts to survive, but this caused them to lose their emotions, turning them into unfeeling creatures. Cybermen are kind of like an early version of the Borg, capable to turning anything they capture into fellow Cybermen.
The Master- A fellow renegade Time Lord, who instead of seeking freedom and adventure like the Doctor when seeking power and immortality. Like all Time Lords, the Master has regenerated several times.
Sontarans- Cloned super soldiers who love war. Not much to say beyond that, really.
Autons- Alien beings of living plastic.
Krotons- Alien beings of living crystal.
Weeping Angels- When you look at them, they turn into stone statues of angels. However, if you turn your back or blink, they start to move again. Weeping Angels feed off time energy, and their touch can send someone to a random point in time.
WHAT IS THE SONIC SCREWDRIVER?
Sonic screwdrivers are the main tools of the Doctor. He's used several over the years, each with different functions. Sonic screwdrivers mainly alter things with sound waves, allowing the Doctor to undue screws remotely, unlock both standard and electronic locks, and interfere with electronic gadgets. More advanced models can scan energy fields and be used as beacons.
And that should do it for ya'. If you have any other questions, don't be afraid to ask.
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