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[[file:Time_travel.jpg|thumb|250px|The [[Third Doctor]] time travels. ([[DW]]: ''[[Day of the Daleks]]'')]]
[[File:Time_travel.jpg|thumb|250px|The [[Third Doctor]] time travels. ([[DW]]: ''[[Day of the Daleks]]'')]]
'''Time travel''' was, as the name suggested, the (usually controlled) process of travelling through [[time]], even in a non-linear direction.
'''Time travel''' was, as the name suggested, the (usually controlled) process of travelling through [[time]], even in a non-linear direction.


==Methods==
== Methods ==
===Technological or Biotechnological Methods===
=== Technological or Biotechnological Methods ===
====By [[space-time vessel]]====
==== By [[space-time vessel]] ====
*Time travel of this kind commonly required a great deal of power. The [[Time Lord]]s converted a [[star]] into a [[black hole]] in order to achieve time travel ([[DW]]: ''[[The Three Doctors]]'') and used the [[Eye of Harmony]] thereafter. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'')
* Time travel of this kind commonly required a great deal of power. The [[Time Lord]]s converted a [[star]] into a [[black hole]] in order to achieve time travel ([[DW]]: ''[[The Three Doctors]]'') and used the [[Eye of Harmony]] thereafter. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'')


*The [[Third Zone]] scientists [[Kartz]] and [[Reimer]] built a primitive time machine modelled on Time Lord technology. It was close to working, but ultimately only made one successful trip before it was destroyed. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Two Doctors]]'')
* The [[Third Zone]] scientists [[Kartz]] and [[Reimer]] built a primitive time machine modelled on Time Lord technology. It was close to working, but ultimately only made one successful trip before it was destroyed. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Two Doctors]]'')


*[[Magnus Greel]] used an experimental [[time cabinet]] based on [[51st century]] [[human]] technology. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'')
* [[Magnus Greel]] used an experimental [[time cabinet]] based on [[51st century]] [[human]] technology. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'')


*The [[Imperial Dalek]]s under [[Davros]], who already had limited time travel technology, expected to do the same. ([[DW]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'')
* The [[Imperial Dalek]]s under [[Davros]], who already had limited time travel technology, expected to do the same. ([[DW]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'')


*Following the (presumed) loss of the Eye of Harmony, the [[Ninth Doctor]] used the [[Cardiff rift]] to "re-charge" his [[the Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Boom Town]]'')
* Following the (presumed) loss of the Eye of Harmony, the [[Ninth Doctor]] used the [[Cardiff rift]] to "re-charge" his [[the Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Boom Town]]'')


:''Travel using time vessel commonly involves the [[Time Vortex]].''
:''Travel using time vessel commonly involves the [[Time Vortex]].''


====Other Technological Means====
==== Other Technological Means ====
*[[Osmic projector|Osmic projection]] was a means to time travel used by the [[Sontaran]]s. The [[Third Doctor]] described this method as rather limited in its temporal range, when used by the Sontaran scout. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time Warrior]]'')
* [[Osmic projector|Osmic projection]] was a means to time travel used by the [[Sontaran]]s. The [[Third Doctor]] described this method as rather limited in its temporal range, when used by the Sontaran scout. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time Warrior]]'')
*[[Time Scoop]] technology enabled the user to transport other people and objects remotely. But without any ally on the other end to return one, it could leave the user stranded in another time period with no way to return. ([[DW]]: ''[[Carnival of Monsters]]'')
* [[Time Scoop]] technology enabled the user to transport other people and objects remotely. But without any ally on the other end to return one, it could leave the user stranded in another time period with no way to return. ([[DW]]: ''[[Carnival of Monsters]]'')
*[[Time corridor]] technology was used by the [[Dalek]]s, ([[DW]]: ''[[The Evil of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Victory of the Daleks]]'') [[Osirian]]s ([[DW]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars]]'') and the [[Borad]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Timelash (TV story)|Timelash]]'')
* [[Time corridor]] technology was used by the [[Dalek]]s, ([[DW]]: ''[[The Evil of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Victory of the Daleks]]'') [[Osirian]]s ([[DW]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars]]'') and the [[Borad]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Timelash (TV story)|Timelash]]'')
*A kind of [[time viewer]], called a [[quantum imager]], enabled one to observe and (to a limited degree) communicate with people in the past. ([[BFBS]]: ''[[The Least Important Man]]'')
* A kind of [[time viewer]], called a [[quantum imager]], enabled one to observe and (to a limited degree) communicate with people in the past. ([[BFBS]]: ''[[The Least Important Man]]'')
*Pushing energy into [[warp drive]] could create a [[time window]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Girl in the Fireplace]]'')
* Pushing energy into [[warp drive]] could create a [[time window]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Girl in the Fireplace]]'')
:''A warp drive accident fractured one unfortunate individual, [[Scaroth]] into "fragments" scattered through various eras of time and linked by [[telepathy]] ([[DW]]: [[City of Death]]). Another warp drive accident had the effect of propelling the vehicle in question roughly 65 million years back in time. ([[DW]]: [[Earthshock]]'')
:''A warp drive accident fractured one unfortunate individual, [[Scaroth]] into "fragments" scattered through various eras of time and linked by [[telepathy]] ([[DW]]: [[City of Death]]). Another warp drive accident had the effect of propelling the vehicle in question roughly 65 million years back in time. ([[DW]]: [[Earthshock]]'')
*A [[rift manipulator]] could be used in conjunction with the temporal rift itself. ([[TW]]: ''[[Captain Jack Harkness]]'', ''[[End of Days]]'')
* A [[rift manipulator]] could be used in conjunction with the temporal rift itself. ([[TW]]: ''[[Captain Jack Harkness]]'', ''[[End of Days]]'')
:''The column in the centre of a human-built rift manipulator bore a resemblance of the central column a TARDIS, indicating, perhaps, a similar function.''
:''The column in the centre of a human-built rift manipulator bore a resemblance of the central column a TARDIS, indicating, perhaps, a similar function.''
*A [[vortex manipulator]] could be used as a crude time travel device, although it was known to misfire by hundreds of years and break down easily. It was referred to by the [[Tenth Doctor]] as more of a "space hopper" compared to the TARDIS. It was later used by [[River Song]] and the [[Eleventh Doctor]] after the TARDIS exploded in June 2010. ([[DW]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]''/''[[The Sound of Drums]]'', ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]''/''[[The Big Bang]]'')
* A [[vortex manipulator]] could be used as a crude time travel device, although it was known to misfire by hundreds of years and break down easily. It was referred to by the [[Tenth Doctor]] as more of a "space hopper" compared to the TARDIS. It was later used by [[River Song]] and the [[Eleventh Doctor]] after the TARDIS exploded in June 2010. ([[DW]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]''/''[[The Sound of Drums]]'', ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]''/''[[The Big Bang]]'')
*A time machine was created by UNIT with the help of [[Rose Tyler]] and the unusable TARDIS to send [[Donna Noble]] back to her own timeline from [[Donna's World|a universe]] the [[time beetle]] created. ([[DW]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'')
* A time machine was created by UNIT with the help of [[Rose Tyler]] and the unusable TARDIS to send [[Donna Noble]] back to her own timeline from [[Donna's World|a universe]] the [[time beetle]] created. ([[DW]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'')
*[[Emergency temporal shift]]: was a form of time travel used by the [[Cult of Skaro]] to escape being sucked into [[the Void]] and was later used by [[Dalek Caan]] to escape from 1930s New York. ([[DW]] ''[[Doomsday]]'', ''[[Evolution of the Daleks]]'')
* [[Emergency temporal shift]]: was a form of time travel used by the [[Cult of Skaro]] to escape being sucked into [[the Void]] and was later used by [[Dalek Caan]] to escape from 1930s New York. ([[DW]] ''[[Doomsday]]'', ''[[Evolution of the Daleks]]'')


===By [[Psychic]] Power or Other Natural Ability===
=== By [[Psychic]] Power or Other Natural Ability ===
* The [[Eight Legs]] could [[teleport]] as easily through time as through space. [[K'anpo Rimpoche]], a highly advanced Time Lord with great mental discipline, could do the same. ([[DW]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders]]'')
* The [[Eight Legs]] could [[teleport]] as easily through time as through space. [[K'anpo Rimpoche]], a highly advanced Time Lord with great mental discipline, could do the same. ([[DW]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders]]'')
*The enigmatic [[Bilis Manger]] could also also teleport at will through both time and space. This ability was only seen in the vicinity of the Cardiff Rift however, and so could have been linked to it in some way.([[TW]]: ''[[Captain Jack Harkness]]'', ''[[End of Days]]'')
* The enigmatic [[Bilis Manger]] could also also teleport at will through both time and space. This ability was only seen in the vicinity of the Cardiff Rift however, and so could have been linked to it in some way.([[TW]]: ''[[Captain Jack Harkness]]'', ''[[End of Days]]'')
*[[Transcendental Being]]s had free movement through space and time.
* [[Transcendental Being]]s had free movement through space and time.
*[[Fenric]] could transport other living beings via [[time storm]]s. The people displaced by the time storm often believed they had caused the time storm themselves. ([[DW]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'', ''[[Silver Nemesis]]'', ''[[The Curse of Fenric]]'')
* [[Fenric]] could transport other living beings via [[time storm]]s. The people displaced by the time storm often believed they had caused the time storm themselves. ([[DW]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'', ''[[Silver Nemesis]]'', ''[[The Curse of Fenric]]'')
*The [[Fairy|Fairies]] could travel through time and space naturally. ([[TW]]: ''[[Small Worlds]]'')
* The [[Fairy|Fairies]] could travel through time and space naturally. ([[TW]]: ''[[Small Worlds]]'')
*The [[Weeping Angel]]s had the ability to send others back in time with a touch. ([[DW]]: ''[[Blink]]'')
* The [[Weeping Angel]]s had the ability to send others back in time with a touch. ([[DW]]: ''[[Blink]]'')
*[[The Trickster]], prior to manifesting as a corporeal being, could traverse time and space with ease, though not at any given moment. ([[SJA]]: ''[[Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?]]'', ''[[The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith]]'')
* [[The Trickster]], prior to manifesting as a corporeal being, could traverse time and space with ease, though not at any given moment. ([[SJA]]: ''[[Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?]]'', ''[[The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith]]'')


===By Space-Time Anomaly===
=== By Space-Time Anomaly ===
*The [[Tharil]]s "rode the [[time wind]]s". ([[DW]]: ''[[Warriors' Gate]]'')
* The [[Tharil]]s "rode the [[time wind]]s". ([[DW]]: ''[[Warriors' Gate]]'')
*A [[warp ellipse]] could possibly make time travel possible. ([[DW]]: ''[[Mawdryn Undead]]'')
* A [[warp ellipse]] could possibly make time travel possible. ([[DW]]: ''[[Mawdryn Undead]]'')
*Travel via time rift was possible. The [[Weevil]]s arrived on Earth via this method ([[TW]]: ''[[Everything Changes]]''), as did a human [[aircraft]], the ''[[Sky Gypsy]]''. ([[TW]]: ''[[Out of Time]]''). During rare "negative spikes", the Rift also occasionally abducted random people in time and space from Earth, and disastrously attempted to correct itself. ([[TW]]: ''[[Adrift]]'').
* Travel via time rift was possible. The [[Weevil]]s arrived on Earth via this method ([[TW]]: ''[[Everything Changes]]''), as did a human [[aircraft]], the ''[[Sky Gypsy]]''. ([[TW]]: ''[[Out of Time]]''). During rare "negative spikes", the Rift also occasionally abducted random people in time and space from Earth, and disastrously attempted to correct itself. ([[TW]]: ''[[Adrift]]'').
*[[Sarah Jane Smith]] acquired an alien/futuristic [[Time Converter]] which allowed her to open and close [[time fissure]]s, but these usually only linked two particular places in time. ([[SJA]]: ''[[The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith]]'')
* [[Sarah Jane Smith]] acquired an alien/futuristic [[Time Converter]] which allowed her to open and close [[time fissure]]s, but these usually only linked two particular places in time. ([[SJA]]: ''[[The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith]]'')


===Mirrors===
=== Mirrors ===
*[[Edward Waterfield]] and [[Theodore Maxtible]] attracted the attention of the [[Dalek]]s while experimenting with [[static electricity]] and [[mirror]]s. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Evil of the Daleks]]'')
* [[Edward Waterfield]] and [[Theodore Maxtible]] attracted the attention of the [[Dalek]]s while experimenting with [[static electricity]] and [[mirror]]s. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Evil of the Daleks]]'')
*The mysterious [[The Gateway|Gateway]] situated in the void between [[N-Space]] and [[E-Space]] provided access to different times and realities, sometimes through mirrors. The exact process remains unknown. ([[DW]]: ''[[Warriors' Gate]]'')
* The mysterious [[The Gateway|Gateway]] situated in the void between [[N-Space]] and [[E-Space]] provided access to different times and realities, sometimes through mirrors. The exact process remains unknown. ([[DW]]: ''[[Warriors' Gate]]'')
*[[Mariah Learman|General Mariah Learman]] and [[Professor Osric]] succeeded briefly in making a functioning time machine with over 100 clocks and 1000 mirrors in her prime ministerial house. The act of measuring time changed time and therefore time could be manipulated. The mirrors were coated in [[Orthopositronium]], a material where the positron and the electron orbited each other in the same direction. It briefly worked when the Daleks ship ran aground in the [[Time Vortex|The Time Vortex]] and they homed in on it and made it work. It needed [[Chronon]]s to work, which were sourced when the [[Eighth Doctor|Eighth Doctor's]] companion, [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley]], held the master clock. It took her and [[Viola Learman]] to [[Shakespeare|Shakespeare's time]]. This ceased to function when Charley entered [[The Doctor's TARDIS|The TARDIS]] ''[[BFA|(BFA:]][[The Time of the Daleks]]) ''
* [[Mariah Learman|General Mariah Learman]] and [[Professor Osric]] succeeded briefly in making a functioning time machine with over 100 clocks and 1000 mirrors in her prime ministerial house. The act of measuring time changed time and therefore time could be manipulated. The mirrors were coated in [[Orthopositronium]], a material where the positron and the electron orbited each other in the same direction. It briefly worked when the Daleks ship ran aground in the [[Time Vortex|The Time Vortex]] and they homed in on it and made it work. It needed [[Chronon]]s to work, which were sourced when the [[Eighth Doctor|Eighth Doctor's]] companion, [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley]], held the master clock. It took her and [[Viola Learman]] to [[Shakespeare|Shakespeare's time]]. This ceased to function when Charley entered [[The Doctor's TARDIS|The TARDIS]] ''[[BFA|(BFA:]][[The Time of the Daleks]]) ''


===Taking "The Slow Path"===
=== Taking "The Slow Path" ===
Some individuals, by necessity, sought to take what the [[Tenth Doctor]] once described as "the slow path," ([[DW]]: ''[[The Girl in the Fireplace]]'') spending hundreds or thousands of years patiently waiting to return to a desired time. ([[NA]]: ''[[Birthright (novel)|Birthright]]'') A less arduous method would involve [[cryogenics]] or some other form of life suspension.
Some individuals, by necessity, sought to take what the [[Tenth Doctor]] once described as "the slow path," ([[DW]]: ''[[The Girl in the Fireplace]]'') spending hundreds or thousands of years patiently waiting to return to a desired time. ([[NA]]: ''[[Birthright (novel)|Birthright]]'') A less arduous method would involve [[cryogenics]] or some other form of life suspension.


==See also==
== See also ==
*[[TARDIS]]
* [[TARDIS]]
*[[Temporal paradox]]
* [[Temporal paradox]]
*[[Blinovitch Limitation Effect]]
* [[Blinovitch Limitation Effect]]
*[[Gallifreyan history]]
* [[Gallifreyan history]]
*[[Time viewer]]
* [[Time viewer]]
*[[Time-active]]
* [[Time-active]]
*[[Time-aware]]
* [[Time-aware]]
*[[Time corridor]]
* [[Time corridor]]
*[[Dalek time technology]]
* [[Dalek time technology]]
**[[DARDIS]]
** [[DARDIS]]


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File:Time travel.jpg
The Third Doctor time travels. (DW: Day of the Daleks)

Time travel was, as the name suggested, the (usually controlled) process of travelling through time, even in a non-linear direction.

Methods

Technological or Biotechnological Methods

By space-time vessel

  • The Third Zone scientists Kartz and Reimer built a primitive time machine modelled on Time Lord technology. It was close to working, but ultimately only made one successful trip before it was destroyed. (DW: The Two Doctors)
Travel using time vessel commonly involves the Time Vortex.

Other Technological Means

A warp drive accident fractured one unfortunate individual, Scaroth into "fragments" scattered through various eras of time and linked by telepathy (DW: City of Death). Another warp drive accident had the effect of propelling the vehicle in question roughly 65 million years back in time. (DW: Earthshock)
The column in the centre of a human-built rift manipulator bore a resemblance of the central column a TARDIS, indicating, perhaps, a similar function.

By Psychic Power or Other Natural Ability

By Space-Time Anomaly

Mirrors

Taking "The Slow Path"

Some individuals, by necessity, sought to take what the Tenth Doctor once described as "the slow path," (DW: The Girl in the Fireplace) spending hundreds or thousands of years patiently waiting to return to a desired time. (NA: Birthright) A less arduous method would involve cryogenics or some other form of life suspension.

See also

Time travel
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