Well now . I never actually said that did I ? <| sep |> Yep , McDavid is fucking God , I see him have a nice long Career with the Oilers . Still I ' m happy we ' re not in the same division with them anymore , unlike now with the Central . <| sep |> That ' s a shoutout , a reference like utwcsata suggests are enough to define the character without cheapening him , not a full confirmation . We can just as easily write that away as a potential future Doctor , but the deal is we don ' t even have to do that , we can just say Hey , look at him , it ' s Tom Baker ! Doctor Who is awesome ! and forget about it . Which is , again , the Curator ' s whole point . If anyone comics , audios , BBC , any official source starts telling full stories about the Doctor ' s future selves , it doesn ' t expand the future , it narrows it down . There ' s a reason the storytellers are so adamant that the Valeyard is not and never was a future Doctor unlike many theoryspinners keep claiming , and that ' s because if we know what the Doctor is like in the future , eventually the storytellers have to tell that story to make it fit and inevitably , they won ' t . BBC is never going to show the Doctor regenerating into Tom Baker again , it ' s totally unfeasible ! Big Finish could make audios with him , Titan could make comics with him , but what ' d be the point ? Particularly since he only appears to maintain a museum , and not have adventures .