[Doctor Who] If a Time Lord meets an incarnation of a different sex and they screw, what would the kid be like? Does that qualify as incest?
[Doctor Who] If a Time Lord meets an incarnation of a different sex and they screw, what would the kid be like? Does that qualify as incest?
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prob get all timey wimey
“All is all, and all is All.”
I’m not into the deep lore of Doctor Who like some on here. But if I recall from another discussion, there has never been a pregnant time lord shown on screen and in some novels they refer to time lord’s being created in birthing pods rather than conceived naturally.
I’m sure Gallifrey has a deep south, so go ask down there.
If everything about the time lord changes it is reasonable to expect they would have different DNA as well. And in that case there is no reason to think they would be inbred.
It’s a moot question.
Gallifreyans don’t reproduce via sexual intercourse, but by being “woven” on “genetic looms”.
If they were able to do so, considering that it’s possible for a regeneration to be a different (humanoid) species, then it wouldn’t technically count as incest.
Buuuuuuuuuuut, it’s probably considered to be incest in a cultural sense.
This is one of many reasons why traveling into established events is forbidden. And why the Time Lords created a universal “now” which they all operate under.
They can time travel all they want, but their individual flow of time is the same as every other time lord’s. One year for The Doctor in their TARDIS is the same year on Gallifrey, and no one can time travel on Gallifrey.
Well it certainly wouldn’t be incest but it might be masturbation. They are after all having sex with themselves at that point.
Now the question is when the doctor regenerates into a new form does he have different dna? If his DNA actually changes then the baby would be completely healthy because it would be significantly diverse.
I’m assuming that whatever makes a time or the time lord is not particularly genetic in the way we process genes since the function of Genesis in credibly basic chemistry, just at length.
Genetic expression is a long sequence of simple actions to create proteins. Some of those proteins are the proteins that perform the long sequence of simple actions. So yeah you can’t just throw a bunch of DNA in a dish and have a creature walk out of it you need a continuity of life. That is you need a working organism in order to create another working organism. With each iterative reproduction the complexity can rise or fall slightly but again that’s because the elaboration gets longer or shorter not because the nature of the elaboration changes.
It’s more like a wank I reckon
This is the most interesting, original Doctor Who question I’ve heard. It could go either way, the offspring could be fine or potentially a real mess.
does this come under the part of 2 of the same object cannot occupy the same space, therefore they couldnt?
Oh, hi Lord Rassilon. Took you some time.
Time Lords can occupy the same time and space as their past/future selves, but it’s bad for them. They have trouble remembering what happens during that time once they’ve parted ways. And it’s heavily implied that before the Time War, that Time Lords interfering in their own time line and talking to themselves was a kind of crime.
The ninth Doctor even runs into a kind of monster that seems to spontaneously emerge when somebody crosses their own timeline in a way that creates a paradox. The monsters seem like a pretty big deal. So before the Time War, trying to reproduce with your own past/future self would bring law enforcement from Gallifrey to your door. And after the Time War, there aren’t that many Time Lords left. It’s pretty much just the Master and the Doctor. And while it might be possible for either of them to try such a thing, neither seems to want to do so.
This just seems like masturbation with extra steps, or a long way to go for a fancy wank
That said there’s this thing called the Blinovich Limitation Effect, a phenomenon where there’s a discharge ^^heh of energy when something touches itself ^^heh ^^heh from a different point in its timeline
In Time Lords it “shorts out their time differential” causing them to be unable to remember their time together with themself^^heh ^^heh ^^heh , kind of like a self defense mechanism to prevent paradoxes
Considering its function and disrupting effects I could imagine it also prevent lasting repercussions like self-reproduction
Technically not incest as its two different people down to genetics but they also share a consciousness as well. I’d say it’s like two avatars meeting and hooking up in a sense
There are many versions of canon.
The old one I tend to subscribe to states that Gallifreyans and Timelords do not reproduce sexually, they are printed off devices called Looms. While they have sexual organs, they are sterile and the vast majority are totally asexual.
The Timelords in question would be considered deviant or disturbed if they were known to have done so willingly, but they couldn’t have kids.
New canon, whatever you like, just rererererererererererererererererererereretcon it and you’re good.
Assuming their genes work kinda like ours, then the child should, in theory, be…their clone? 50% from one and 50% from the other…that’s 100% of both their identical DNA.
But does a time lord have the same DNA every time they change their appearance? Probably not? I don’t know how it works.
“Touching your past self” often has dire consequences. “Having a kid” would probably create a really really big paradox.