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The [[Dalek]]s introduced anachronisms in many times they visited, including [[1866]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Evil of the Daleks]]'') [[1930]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan]]'') 1963, ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'') [[1984]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks]]'') and other times visited by the Daleks after the [[Last Great Time War]]. | The [[Dalek]]s introduced anachronisms in many times they visited, including [[1866]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Evil of the Daleks]]'') [[1930]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan]]'') 1963, ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'') [[1984]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks]]'') and other times visited by the Daleks after the [[Last Great Time War]]. | ||
Upon seeing a [[Sontaran]] [[teleport pod]] in the [[Rattigan Academy]], the [[Tenth Doctor]] told [[Luke Rattigan]] that "it might be [[Earth]] technology, but that's like finding a [[mobile phone]] in the [[Middle Ages]].", pointing out that the presence of such futuristic technology was an anachronism. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]'') | |||
=== Examples of their prevention === | === Examples of their prevention === | ||
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Anachronisms were objects, ideas or persons present in a time which was not related to its own, and thus liable to create a time paradox.
Overview
Regulation
The Time Lords' First Law of Time set out to prevent anachronisms such as a person meeting themselves (TV: The Three Doctors) or returning Eldrad to her present, by that time (from a 20th century point of view) the distant past. (TV: The Hand of Fear)
Serious instances
When Anti-Time began to bleed into the universe, anachronisms began to affect history and had a disastrous effect on the Web of Time. (AUDIO: Neverland)
Examples of their creation
The Monk had, by the time he met the First Doctor in 1066, caused many deliberate anachronisms in Earth history to "improve" it. (TV: The Time Meddler) The Fourth Doctor caused anachronisms of his own by deliberately defacing copies of the Mona Lisa, writing with felt tip pen on the canvas, "This is a fake". The words were readable in the 20th century after X-rays had been discovered. (TV: City of Death)
The Rani created anachronisms in the alternate Rome on Terra Nova. (PROSE: State of Change)
The Daleks introduced anachronisms in many times they visited, including 1866, (TV: The Evil of the Daleks) 1930, (TV: Daleks in Manhattan) 1963, (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks) 1984 (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks) and other times visited by the Daleks after the Last Great Time War.
Upon seeing a Sontaran teleport pod in the Rattigan Academy, the Tenth Doctor told Luke Rattigan that "it might be Earth technology, but that's like finding a mobile phone in the Middle Ages.", pointing out that the presence of such futuristic technology was an anachronism. (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem)
Examples of their prevention
The First Doctor warned Barbara Wright against attempting to change 15th century Aztec culture. (TV: The Aztecs)
Since portable stereos did not exist in the 1960s, the Seventh Doctor called the ghetto blaster that Ace carried around with her in Shoreditch in November 1963 a "dangerous anachronism." (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)
