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{{Merge|Timeline|this is a synonymous term for timeline.}}
{{Cleanup|Furthermore, many examples of time streams on this page would be better covered on [[personal timeline]], with primarily only documentation of the concept in general on this page.,}}
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{{first pic|Doctor's time stream.jpg|[[The Doctor's time stream]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'')}}
The '''time stream''' was the pathway for the movement of [[time]], usually in relation to individual peoples or [[planet]]s. The [[Eleventh Doctor]] once used "time stream" and "[[timeline]]" as synonyms. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'') The personal time streams of individuals were known as '''life-streams'''. The [[Time Lord]]s were capable of throwing life-streams into reverse such that an individual would [[Temporal dissolution|cease to have ever existed]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons]]'')
The '''time stream''' was the pathway for the movement of [[time]], usually in relation to individual peoples or [[planet]]s. The [[Eleventh Doctor]] once used "time stream" and "[[timeline]]" as synonyms. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'') The personal time streams of individuals were known as '''life-streams'''. The [[Time Lord]]s were capable of throwing life-streams into reverse such that an individual would [[Temporal dissolution|cease to have ever existed]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons]]'')
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== Individuals ==
== Individuals ==
=== General ===
After [[Sixth Doctor]], [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]], and [[Gareth Jenkins (A Fix with Sontarans)|Gareth Jenkins]] defeated [[Group Marshal]] [[Nathan (A Fix with Sontarans)|Nathan]] and [[Turner (A Fix with Sontarans)|his subordinate]] from the [[Tenth Sontaran Battle Brigade]], ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[A Fix with Sontarans (home video)|A Fix with Sontarans]]'') within the space of a few [[hour]]s, the Sixth Doctor returned Gareth to his correct time-stream. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Fixing a Hole (short story)|Fixing a Hole]]'')
On [[Gallifrey]], the [[Time Lord]]s had access to the time streams of individuals. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'', ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'')
By one account, at the time of his arrival on [[Earth]], the Time Lords had intended to throw {{Delgado}}'s life-stream into reverse such that he [[Temporal dissolution|would have never existed]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons]]'')
[[Salyavin|Professor Chronotis]]'s [[Chronotis' TARDIS|TARDIS]] could interfere with an individual's time stream. ([[TV]]: ''[[Shada (TV story)|Shada]]'', [[WC]]: ''[[Shada (webcast)|Shada]]'')
When the [[Timewyrm]] appeared in [[Great Britain]] in [[1981]], it stated the timestream was in flux before becoming trapped in [[puterspace]] by the [[Seventh Doctor]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Last Word (comic story)|The Last Word]]'')
Provided with [[the Doctor's sonic screwdriver]] by a future version of the [[Eleventh Doctor]], [[Rory Williams]] used it to release the Doctor from the [[Pandorica]]. Touching it with the sonic screwdriver on his person, the Doctor confirmed from the resulting a spark of [[temporal energy]] that the two were the same sonic screwdriver from different points in its time stream. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'')
In his attempt to recruit [[River Song]] for the [[Battle of Demons Run]], Rory acknowledged time streams when he asked her if she had met him yet. ([[TV]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'')
The ''[[Teselecta]]'', a vehicle of the [[Justice Department]], made an error as its crew travelled to [[1938]] in order to punish [[Adolf Hitler]]. As [[Jim (Let's Kill Hitler)|Jim]] reported, they were too early and had to go later in his time stream, however, the ''Teselecta'' colided with [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] before they could do so. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'')
[[Clara Oswald]] was extracted from the very end of her time stream, just before her [[death]] by [[Quantum Shade]], after the [[Twelfth Doctor]] deceived the [[Time Lord]]s into believing that she could give them details about [[the Hybrid]]. She appeared in the [[Capitol]]'s [[extraction chamber 7]], after which the Doctor attempted to flee [[Gallifrey]] with her. Ultimately, Clara used a [[neural block]] to erase the Doctor's [[memory]] of her before returning "the long way round" to meet her fate on Gallifrey. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'')
Combining the resources of [[time travel]] with their memory extraction techniques, the [[Testimony Foundation]] lifted the near-dead momentarily from their time streams in order to duplicate their [[memory|memories]] before returning their physical selves to the moment of their dissolution without pain, distress or any recall of the process. ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'')
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=== The Doctor ===
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The [[Seventh Doctor]], when considering whether to let [[Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart]] discover [[time travel]] in the [[22nd century]] or not, thought his interference could do things to the timestream that "even a Dalek would think twice about". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Transit (novel)|Transit]]'')
The [[Seventh Doctor]], when considering whether to let [[Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart]] discover [[time travel]] in the [[22nd century]] or not, thought his interference could do things to the timestream that "even a Dalek would think twice about". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Transit (novel)|Transit]]'')


During the crash of the [[Byzantium (ship)|Byzanitum]], [[River Song]] acknowledged whilst speaking with [[Father]] [[Octavian (The Time of Angels)|Octavian]] that she was dealing with the [[Eleventh Doctor]] at an earlier point in his time stream, before he learnt exactly who she was. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of Angels (TV story)|The Time of Angels]]'')
During the crash of the [[Byzantium (spacecraft)|Byzanitum]], [[River Song]] acknowledged whilst speaking with [[Father]] [[Octavian (The Time of Angels)|Octavian]] that she was dealing with the [[Eleventh Doctor]] at an earlier point in his time stream, before he learnt exactly who she was. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of Angels (TV story)|The Time of Angels]]'')


During [[Big Bang Two]], the Eleventh Doctor experienced his time stream "unraveling, erasing" and "closing" as he observed himself in the past. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'')
During [[Big Bang Two]], the Eleventh Doctor experienced his time stream "unraveling, erasing" and "closing" as he observed himself in the past. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'')
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== Species ==
== Species ==
=== Time Lords ===
[[Gallifrey]] existed in [[Gallifrey's time stream|an exclusive time stream]] which granted it power over history. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'')
The [[Second Doctor]] stated that the [[Time Lord]]s were responsible for placing and maintaining the time streams, and without them, countless millions of planets would die. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Nameless City (short story)|The Nameless City]]'')
The [[Time Lord]]s revisited their own time stream to rewrite their laws in an attempt to trap [[the Valeyard]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Trial of the Valeyard (audio story)|Trial of the Valeyard]]'') When in the [[Soviet Union]] in [[November]] [[1967]], a Time Lord informed the Seventh Doctor that they had eased his arrival into the time stream. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Thin Ice (audio story)|Thin Ice]]'')
=== Others ===
The [[Species (Rise and Fall)|inhabitants]] of an [[Planet (Rise and Fall)|unnamed planet]] were in a different time stream from the rest of the universe. When the [[First Doctor]] and [[Ian Chesterton]] visited the planet, a few minutes passed for them, but the inhabitants lived through their entire civilisation from its rise to its fall. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Rise and Fall (audio story)|Rise and Fall]]'')
The [[Guardians of Time]] were able to "insert" themselves into the time stream, where upon they either took over or created the personas of powerful individuals in [[history]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destroyer of Delights (audio story)|The Destroyer of Delights]]'')
The [[Resurrectionist]]s were able to reverse time for the recently deceased, returning them to an earlier point in their time stream and psychically directing them away from the actions that lead to their death. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[You Are the Doctor (audio story)|You Are the Doctor]]'')
[[Time Roach]]es consumed time streams, either ageing or de-ageing individuals. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Foreshadowing (audio story)|Foreshadowing]]'')
The [[Graxnix]] were removed from the time stream by the [[Tenth Doctor]], trapping them between seconds. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Hotel Historia (comic story)|Hotel Historia]]'')
The [[Two Streams Facility]] of [[Apalapucia]] used time streams (which was the source of the name). [[Apalapucian]]s with the [[Chen-7]] plague were kept in the facility in different time streams, allowing them to live out their whole lives in one day. This also meant that each patient was kept isolated in a different time stream, but in the same place. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Waited (TV story)|The Girl Who Waited]]'') Depending on the timestream, [[1 January]] marked several [[New Year's Day]]s in a row on Apalapucia. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time Traveller's Diary (novel)|Time Traveller's Diary]]'')
== Planets ==
The [[Third Doctor]]'s [[Doctor Who and the Silurians|encounter]] with the [[Silurian]]s was a crucial [[causal nexus|nexus point]] in Earth's time stream. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Final Genesis (comic story)|Final Genesis]]'')
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The time stream was the pathway for the movement of time, usually in relation to individual peoples or planets. The Eleventh Doctor once used "time stream" and "timeline" as synonyms. (TV: The Name of the Doctor) The personal time streams of individuals were known as life-streams. The Time Lords were capable of throwing life-streams into reverse such that an individual would cease to have ever existed. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons)

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The term "time stream" was used interchangeably with other terminology such as timeline, (AUDIO: Reborn) time track, (AUDIO: Disassembled) parallel universe, and reality. (AUDIO: Forever)

Time streams formed possible futures, as the sigil ring allowed Ruath to change time streams and visit the future Earth ruled by Haemovores. (PROSE: Goth Opera)

The Grey Man plucked the Doctor's TARDIS from the time streams, meaning that the Time Vortex was composed of time streams in addition to time winds. (PROSE: Falls the Shadow) Nyssa explained that the Fifth Doctor travelled the time streams, in addition to moving from planet to planet. (AUDIO: Hexagora)

When concerned about changing history and erasing themselves, the Monk informed Vicki Pallister and Steven Taylor that they were safe as long as they stayed away from their native time streams, meaning they existed as temporal anomalies. (AUDIO: The Secret History)

Disruptions in the quantum equaliser of Space-Time Manipulators had the potential to open up time streams which could cause temporal displacements. For instance, while Alistair Gryffen was working on the quantum equaliser, a sudden power surge caused a time stream which displaced Jorjie Turner from 2050 to November 1963 (TV: The Cambridge Spy)

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The Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

Main article: The Doctor's time stream

The Second Doctor wouldn't risk re-entering the time stream with the time rotor dismantled. (PROSE: The Nameless City)

At one point when the Third Doctor was attempting to repair his TARDIS, he saw a brief appearance of different versions of himself and Jo Grant, and when they disappeared he told Jo they had gone "back into their own time stream". (TV: Day of the Daleks)

During the First Omega Crisis, Lord President Pandad IV, despite the objections of High Chancellor Socra, had the Second and First Doctors extracted from their respective sections of the time stream to aid the Third Doctor against Omega. (TV: The Three Doctors)

Using a Time Scoop, Lord President Borusa took the first four incarnations of the Doctor and several of their companions out of their respective time streams to the Death Zone on Gallifrey in order to play the Game of Rassilon on his behalf. In the case of the Fourth Doctor and Romana II, the attempt to lift them from the time stream was unsuccessful and so they were trapped in a time eddy until the crisis was resolved. (TV: The Five Doctors)

The Seventh Doctor, when considering whether to let Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart discover time travel in the 22nd century or not, thought his interference could do things to the timestream that "even a Dalek would think twice about". (PROSE: Transit)

During the crash of the Byzanitum, River Song acknowledged whilst speaking with Father Octavian that she was dealing with the Eleventh Doctor at an earlier point in his time stream, before he learnt exactly who she was. (TV: The Time of Angels)

During Big Bang Two, the Eleventh Doctor experienced his time stream "unraveling, erasing" and "closing" as he observed himself in the past. (TV: The Big Bang)

While awaiting his death at Lake Silencio, the Eleventh Doctor had the Teselecta send letters to Amy Pond and Rory Williams, River Song, Canton Everett Delaware III, and a younger version of himself. He explained that to deliver the messages himself, it would involve crossing his own time stream, "best not", he remarked. (TV: The Wedding of River Song)

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The Doctor's time stream appeared as an open wound in the fabric of reality inside the ruins of the Doctor's TARDIS in the future on Trenzalore, where the Doctor was buried. The Great Intelligence, in the form of Walter Simeon, arrived on Trenzalore, accompanied by faceless humanoids called the Whisper Men, whom he used to bring several of the Eleventh Doctor's friends there to draw him out so he could invade his time stream, turning all of his victories into defeats and having his ultimate revenge. He did so by directly entering his time stream inside the ruined future TARDIS. However, this plan was foiled by Clara Oswald, who followed the Great Intelligence through the wound. Just as he was, she was ripped into countless versions of herself throughout history and saved the Doctor countless times throughout his incarnations. The original Clara then found herself in a wasteland inhabited by various Doctors. The Eleventh Doctor entered the time stream and was able to extract her, though she saw an unknown incarnation. (TV: The Name of the Doctor)

The Twelfth Doctor, attempting to return to the Drum in 2111 from Краснодар in 1980, found himself half an hour back in time. Watching his earlier self arrive, the Doctor observed to Mason Bennett that he was now locked in his own time stream and so the TARDIS would not let him leave. As such, they had to stay out of sight before time caught up. (TV: Before the Flood)

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