How many lives does the Doctor have left? Isn’t Matt Smith the eleventh?
Remember the episode with the Doctor’s daughter? David Tennant was the Doctor, but I don’t recall the season. Wasn’t she technically a Time Lord/Lady? I wondered if she might reappear at some time.
He’ll have as many left as they choose to use, you think a few references to the maximum numbers of regenerations will STOP it? Come on, that’s what Creative Writing and selective memory are all about.
Yep, Matt’s Eleven. There’s been wild speculation as to how many regenerations there will be.
Jenny appeared in the third season episode, “The Doctor’s Daughter”. Physically she was Gallifreyan (two hearts), but she regenerated into herself, and did not transform. There has also been speculation about Jenny’s return.
(Cute aside: Georgia Moffett, the actress who played Jenny, is the daughter of Peter Davidson, the Fifth Doctor, and married David Tennant, the Tenth Doctor.)
They can go with as many regenerations as River Song put into him without violating continuity.
I remember back in the Tom Baker days, the rule was that Time Lords were limited to twelve regenerations (there was an entire storyline about the Master using up his 12 and trying to earn more from the Time Lords), but I believe this was a limitation imposed by the Time Lords themselves rather than a biological limitation. Since it hasn't been mentioned in the new series, I think we are to assume with the destruction of Galifrey (or it being stuck in the time loop or whatever) that the Doctor's regenerations are unlimited since there are no other Time Lords to enforce the twelve rule. (Show's what a geek I am that I actually know this...)