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** It's an offhand comment in a brief conversation seconds before the Fifth Doctor returns to his own part of the timeline, and there's hundreds of years between Five and Ten. Chances are, he just forgot that part of the exchange.

** It's possible that when Five became Eight and fought in the Time War, he figured that the war was so big that it caused a few paradoxes. Specifically, he didn't ever expect to experience Time Crash as Ten, because ''that'' Ten had just fought the Master, but obviously all the Time Lords died in the war, so obviously that could never happen. It's only when the Time Crash actually occurs that he (as Ten) realizes that no paradox has erased the event.

* The two above things can be explained by the fact that the versions of the Doctor only remember meeting other versions of the Doctor ''when they're with other versions of the Doctor''. That's why Nine didn't remember he'd turn into Ten despite having met Ten as Five, but it's why Ten could remember Five seeing what Ten did once Five and Ten were together. When he's on his own, the Doctor probably has a general idea that he's met other versions of himself, but it's only when he's ''with'' those other versions that he can recall details. It's why Eleven was still uncertain about whether he'd saved Gallifrey even though he was essentially told as much... once he wasn't around the Doctor that told him so, his memories got muddy.