The fictional race of powerful aliens of which
The Doctor, protagonist of the long-running
BBC science fiction series
Doctor Who is a member in dubious standing. Hailing from the planet
Gallifrey, which is in the constellation of
Kasterborus in
Mutter's Spiral, the Time Lords are a long lived and conservative lot, being able to live for centuries and regenerate bodies twelve times (for a total of 13 bodies, unless they come up with some
mad scheme to extend the
regenerations, ala
The Master or the
Valeyard).
The Time Lords have mastered the power of the black hole and travel the universe in TARDISes, ever observing, rarely acting. For this reason, the activist Doctor was a renegade from their society. It is a poorly kept secret that the CIA (Celestial Intervention Agency) is the activist element in Time Lord society, recruiting the Doctor and perhaps others to perform "black ops" type operations for them throughout the universe.