TARDIS Information system: Difference between revisions
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| {{Infobox Object
| | #REDIRECT [[TARDIS information system]] |
| |image=TardisInformationSystem.jpg
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| |type = Database
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| |origin = Gallifrey
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| |first=Castrovalva (TV story)
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| |appearances = ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]'', ''[[Frontios (TV story)|Frontios]]''
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| The '''TARDIS information system''' was a searchable database discovered by the [[Fifth Doctor]]'s companions [[Nyssa]] and [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]] from a readout in the [[control room]]. The Fifth Doctor called it the '''TARDIS databank'''.
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| Articles in the databank were accessed by typing in an initialism for the subject. Entering ''IF'', for example, brought up the database's [[index file]].
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| {{Ainley|c}} had modified the Doctor's TARDIS using [[Block Transfer Computation]] as part of his plan to ensnare the Doctor in [[Castrovalva]]. At least some of the databank's contents, such as the entry on Castrovalva, would not otherwise have existed. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'')
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| [[Nyssa]] later consulted the databank to give a definition of [[Rondel]], and discovered that it was anciently known as the [[Arc of Infinity]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]'') [[Turlough]] read aloud a historical account from the information system, telling of [[Earth]]'s collision with [[Sol|its sun]] to Tegan in order to purposefully upset her. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontios (TV story)|Frontios]]'')
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| == Behind the scenes ==
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| As is obvious in the picture at right, the graphics department seemed confused about capitalisation. Technically, they called it the "TARDIS Information system", which awkwardly capitalises one word but not the other. On this wiki, we're arbitrarily choosing to go with a lowercase "information" and "system", since most other [[:category:TARDIS components|TARDIS components]] do not get capitalised.
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Revision as of 19:52, 24 February 2013
