doctor who - Can there be any more NEW Time Lords?

According to this answer, a time lord can only be "created" on Gallifrey:

The title and distinction belongs solely to those beings from the world of Gallifrey who have been indoctrinated, trained and introduced to the Time Vortex via a particular set of rituals, instruction and guidance

So does that mean that there can be no more new time lords since Gallifrey is in a time lock?

Answer

Short Answer:

According to the definition given above (the generally accepted definition of a Time Lord at this point), no there can not, for two reasons:

There cannot be any more being from the world of Gallifrey.

There is no one left to indoctrinate/instruct/guide them.

(I am making an additional assumption here that the Council of Time Lords must be involved in this indoctrination, and they are obviously not around.)

Longer Answer:

There is nothing to prevent The Doctor from attempting to start a new tradition of Time Lords.

The natives of Gallifrey became Time Lords because of their extremely advanced technology, and the actions of Rassilon and Omega. It's not clear if there is any physical difference between a Time Lord and a non-Time Lord Gallifreyan (e.g. an Outsider). There have been indications that humans, as an example, are anatomically unable to cope with the awareness of time that a Time Lord must have, but that there are ways to overcome this:

Rose Tyler and Donna Noble both temporarily absorbed the knowledge of the Time Vortex (through different means) but their human brain was unable to cope.

The Meta-Crisis Doctor was half-human (one heart, not regenerations) but otherwise appears to have the same awareness of time as The Doctor.

River Song gained some level of Time Lord-ness from her exposure to the TARDIS during gestation, giving her "Time Lord DNA" (I don't know if this means Gallifreyan DNA, which I would find very odd, or if it simply mutated her DNA in such a way to give her Time Lord-like characteristics).

Depending on what exactly makes a Gallifreyan into a Time Lord, it is possible that the same alterations could be made to a human (or other species) to allow them to handle the Time Vortex. If that is the case, it is feasible for The Doctor to start a new generation of Time Lords under his guidance. Otherwise, he would have to get busy procreating :)

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