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Furthermore, the analysis will be restricted to those companions taken
from Earth in the past fifty years, as historical and intergalactic legal principles
are just too complex.
In 1963, Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton were taken by the Doctor’s first incarnation in the TARDIS against their will, and were not returned to Earth until 1965. In 1966, Dodo Chaplet wandered into the TARDIS, believing it to be an actual police box, only to be whisked away. The same year, Polly Wright and Ben Jackson were carried off while attempting to return the TARDIS key to the Doctor.
The Doctor decided to take a break from the abductions until the very end of his Fourth incarnation, when in 1981 Tegan Jovanka was carried away by the TARDIS, assuming it to be an actual police box. Then, after another stint of seeking permission from potential travelling companions, in 2006, the TARDIS transported Donna Noble on-board; though this was not technically the Tenth Doctor’s doing, and prosecution of the TARDIS would likely prove impossible. From here, the Doctor’s Eleventh incarnation went on to abduct Rory Williams (later known as Rory Pond) in 2010; even though the Doctor’s intentions were to provide a romantic getaway for him and his fiancée, the abduction was still non-consensual. This rounds out the total number of abductions to seven, not including Donna Noble.
With a maximum sentence of life for each of these abductions, the Doctor could be sentenced life imprisonment for seven regenerations. Considering that he just gained a new regeneration cycle, this would consist of over half his new lifetimes if served consecutively and has the potential to last hundreds of years. Though the Doctor is most times benevolent, kind, and thoughtful, the careless abductions of his less-willing companions have the potential to come back to bite him.
That is, unless he can get UNIT to grant him a pardon.
Which they probably will. Because he’s the Doctor.
Deal with it.
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