The History of Omega, the Beginning and the End of the Time Lords

If we thought all Doctor Who was going to build its upcoming finale around was the return of one classic villain from its history in the Rani, “Wish World” told us to think again in its final moments, as it invoked the name of an all-time terror in the history of the Time Lords: the dread Omega, not seen in the show properly in over 40 years. But Omega’s history is, fitting for a key player in the origins of the Time Lords themselves, paradoxically much old and yet also much more recent than that. The First History of Omega A solar engineer and a prominent figure in early Gallifreyan society—and, as later audio stories would reveal, a close confidant and schoolfriend of Rassilon, another key player in the foundation of the Time Lords—Omega first appeared in Doctor Who‘s first anniversary special, “The Three Doctors,” in late 1972. There it was revealed that it was Omega’s research that unlocked the key to time travel that would radically overhaul Gallifreyan society and create the Ti ... Read full article.