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|The [[First Doctor]] and his companions became exhibits in the [[Morok]]s' [[Space Museum]]||[[First Doctor]], [[Ian Chesterton]], [[Barbara Wright]], [[Vicki]]||[[TV]]: ''[[The Space Museum]]'' | |The [[First Doctor]] and his companions became exhibits in the [[Morok]]s' [[Space Museum]]||[[First Doctor]], [[Ian Chesterton]], [[Barbara Wright]], and [[Vicki]]||[[TV]]: ''[[The Space Museum]]'' | ||
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|[[Barbara Wright]] married [[Ptolemy I]] and became [[Queen]] of [[Alexandria]]||Alternate Barbara||[[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of Shadows]]'' | |[[Barbara Wright]] married [[Ptolemy I]] and became [[Queen]] of [[Alexandria]]||Alternate Barbara||[[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of Shadows]]'' | ||
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|The [[22nd century Dalek invasion]] didn't take place||[[Fifth Doctor]] and [[Nyssa]]||[[AUDIO]]: ''[[Renaissance of the Daleks]]'' | |The [[22nd century Dalek invasion]] didn't take place||[[Fifth Doctor]] and [[Nyssa]]||[[AUDIO]]: ''[[Renaissance of the Daleks]]'' | ||
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|Earth in [[2008]] was controlled by smoke creatures||[[Fifth Doctor]], [[Nyssa]] and [[Thomas Brewster]]||[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Haunting of Thomas Brewster]]'' | |Earth in [[2008]] was controlled by smoke creatures||[[Fifth Doctor]], [[Nyssa]], and [[Thomas Brewster]]||[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Haunting of Thomas Brewster]]'' | ||
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|[[Adric]] created a city of intelligent [[scorpion]]s||[[Fifth Doctor]] and [[Nyssa]]||[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Boy That Time Forgot]]'' | |[[Adric]] created a city of intelligent [[scorpion]]s||[[Fifth Doctor]] and [[Nyssa]]||[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Boy That Time Forgot]]'' | ||
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|[[Phil]] and [[Trev]] created a perfect world||[[Fifth Doctor]], [[Nyssa]] and [[Thomas Brewster]]||[[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Perfect World]]'' | |[[Phil]] and [[Trev]] created a perfect world||[[Fifth Doctor]], [[Nyssa]], and [[Thomas Brewster]]||[[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Perfect World]]'' | ||
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|[[Walter Raleigh]] went back in time and encountered aliens||[[Sixth Doctor]]||[[AUDIO]]: ''[[Voyage to the New World (audio story)|Voyage to the New World]]'' | |[[Walter Raleigh]] went back in time and encountered aliens||[[Sixth Doctor]]||[[AUDIO]]: ''[[Voyage to the New World (audio story)|Voyage to the New World]]'' | ||
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|[[Sixth Doctor|The Doctor's]] arrival on the planet [[Bixor]] to investigate the cause of its destruction, turned out to be the actual cause of its destruction | |[[Sixth Doctor|The Doctor's]] arrival on the planet [[Bixor]] to investigate the cause of its destruction, turned out to be the actual cause of its destruction||[[Sixth Doctor]]||[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wings of a Butterfly (audio story)|The Wings of a Butterfly]]'' | ||
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|The Herd-Leader of the Bovine travelled back in time to warn himself he shouldn't help Columbus discover America||[[Perpugilliam Brown]], [[Christopher Columbus]]||[[AUDIO]]: ''[[Trouble in Paradise]]'' | |The Herd-Leader of the Bovine travelled back in time to warn himself he shouldn't help Columbus discover America||[[Perpugilliam Brown]], [[Christopher Columbus]]||[[AUDIO]]: ''[[Trouble in Paradise]]'' | ||
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|[[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] became immortal||[[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Evelyn Smythe]]||[[AUDIO]]: ''[[My Own Private Wolfgang]]'' | |[[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] became immortal||[[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Evelyn Smythe]]||[[AUDIO]]: ''[[My Own Private Wolfgang]]'' | ||
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|[[Bailey|President Bailey]] allowed [[ | |[[Bailey|President Bailey]] allowed the [[Slithergee]] race to settle on the first moon of the planet [[Puxatornee]] in the year [[3060]], which allowed the Slithergee to take complete control of the planet in the year [[3090]]||[[Seventh Doctor]], [[Melanie Bush|Mel]], [[Stuart (Flip-Flop)|Stuart]], and [[Reed]]||[[AUDIO]]: ''[[Flip-Flop (audio story)|Flip-Flop]]'' | ||
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|The assassination of [[Bailey|President Bailey]] caused the next President, [[Mitchell (Flip-Flop)|Mitchell]], to declare war on [[ | |The assassination of [[Bailey|President Bailey]] caused the next President, [[Mitchell (Flip-Flop)|Mitchell]], to declare war on the [[Slithergee]] race in the year [[3060]], the result of which left the planet [[Puxatornee]] devastated by the year [[3090]]||[[Seventh Doctor]], [[Melanie Bush|Mel]], [[Stuart (Flip-Flop)|Lieutenant Stuart]], and [[Reed|Lieutenant Reed]]||[[AUDIO]]: ''[[Flip-Flop (audio story)|Flip-Flop]]'' | ||
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|Daleks were peaceful||[[Seventh Doctor]]||[[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ripple Effect (short story)|The Ripple Effect]]'' | |Daleks were peaceful||[[Seventh Doctor]]||[[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ripple Effect (short story)|The Ripple Effect]]'' | ||
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|[[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]] was shot and killed by a [[Vardan]] in [[1976]]||[[Artemis (No Future)|Artemis]] the [[Chronovore]]||[[PROSE]]: ''[[No Future]]'' | |[[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]] was shot and killed by a [[Vardan]] in [[1976]]||[[Artemis (No Future)|Artemis]] the [[Chronovore]]||[[PROSE]]: ''[[No Future]]'' | ||
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|'''[[Alternate timeline (Time & Time Again)]]'''||[[Seventh Doctor]], [[Ace]] and [[Bernice Summerfield]]||[[COMIC]]: ''[[Time & Time Again (comic story)|Time & Time Again]]'' | |'''[[Alternate timeline (Time & Time Again)]]'''||[[Seventh Doctor]], [[Ace]], and [[Bernice Summerfield]]||[[COMIC]]: ''[[Time & Time Again (comic story)|Time & Time Again]]'' | ||
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|The [[Knights of Velyshaa]] conquered [[Gallifrey]]||[[Fifth Doctor]], [[Sixth Doctor]], [[Seventh Doctor]], the [[Temperon]]||[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sirens of Time]]'' | |The [[Knights of Velyshaa]] conquered [[Gallifrey]]||[[Fifth Doctor]], [[Sixth Doctor]], [[Seventh Doctor]], and the [[Temperon]]||[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sirens of Time]]'' | ||
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|[[Elizabeth Klein]] created the [[Galactic Reich]] after stealing [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] and making repeated corrections to the timeline||[[Seventh Doctor]] | |[[Elizabeth Klein]] created the [[Galactic Reich]] after stealing [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] and making repeated corrections to the timeline||[[Seventh Doctor]], [[Elizabeth Klein]], and the [[Selachian]]s (the last two inadvertently, after being manipulated by the Doctor)||[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Architects of History]]'' | ||
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|[[Edward Grove]] came to life||[[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Charley Pollard]]||[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Chimes of Midnight]]'' | |[[Edward Grove]] came to life||[[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Charley Pollard]]||[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Chimes of Midnight]]'' | ||
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|Daleks invaded Earth in the 17th century||[[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Charley Pollard]]||[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Time of the Daleks]]'' | |Daleks invaded Earth in the 17th century||[[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Charley Pollard]]||[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Time of the Daleks]]'' | ||
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|[[The Master]] used a [[conceptual bomb]] made from [[Bob Dovie|Bob Dovie's]] refusal to accept the existence of [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] to erase said TARDIS, thus meaning [[the Doctor]] never left Gallifrey | |[[The Master]] used a [[conceptual bomb]] made from [[Bob Dovie|Bob Dovie's]] refusal to accept the existence of [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] to erase said TARDIS, thus meaning [[the Doctor]] never left Gallifrey||[[First Doctor]], [[Second Doctor]], [[Third Doctor]], [[Fourth Doctor]], [[Fifth Doctor]], [[Sixth Doctor]], [[Seventh Doctor]], and [[Eighth Doctor]]||[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'' | ||
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|Humans didn't evolve and Earth was a [[Tractis]] colony known as [[Paratractis]]||[[Eighth Doctor]], [[Sam Jones]], [[Jo Grant]]||[[PROSE]]: ''[[Genocide (novel)|Genocide]]'' | |Humans didn't evolve and Earth was a [[Tractis]] colony known as [[Paratractis]]||[[Eighth Doctor]], [[Sam Jones]], and [[Jo Grant]]||[[PROSE]]: ''[[Genocide (novel)|Genocide]]'' | ||
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|[[Sato Katsura]] formed the [[Church of the Glorious Dead]] which conquered [[Earth]]||[[Kroton (Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman)|Kroton]]||[[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'' | |[[Sato Katsura]] formed the [[Church of the Glorious Dead]] which conquered [[Earth]]||[[Kroton (Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman)|Kroton]]||[[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'' | ||
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|[[Pete Tyler]] didn't die and [[Reaper]]s began consuming humanity||Pete Tyler||[[TV]]: ''[[Father's Day]]'' | |[[Pete Tyler]] didn't die and [[Reaper]]s began consuming humanity||Pete Tyler||[[TV]]: ''[[Father's Day]]'' | ||
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|'''[[The Year That Never Was]]'''||[[Tenth Doctor]], [[Martha Jones]] and Captain [[Jack Harkness]] ||[[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'' | |'''[[The Year That Never Was]]'''||[[Tenth Doctor]], [[Martha Jones]], and Captain [[Jack Harkness]] ||[[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'' | ||
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|'''[[Donna's World]]'''||alternate [[Donna Noble]], with assistance from [[Rose Tyler]]||[[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'' | |'''[[Donna's World]]'''||alternate [[Donna Noble]], with assistance from [[Rose Tyler]]||[[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'' | ||
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|The [[Progenitor]] [[Dalek]]s repopulated [[Skaro]] and exterminated humanity to extinction in [[1963]]||[[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Amy Pond]]||[[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'' | |The [[Progenitor]] [[Dalek]]s repopulated [[Skaro]] and exterminated humanity to extinction in [[1963]]||[[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Amy Pond]]||[[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'' | ||
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|[[The Doctor's TARDIS]] exploded, creating [[Time Field|Cracks in Time]] which began erasing the universe's history||[[Eleventh Doctor]], [[Amy Pond]], [[Rory Williams (Auton)]] and [[River Song]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')||[[TV]]: [[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|Series 5]] | |[[The Doctor's TARDIS]] exploded, creating [[Time Field|Cracks in Time]] which began erasing the universe's history||[[Eleventh Doctor]], [[Amy Pond]], [[Rory Williams (Auton)]], and [[River Song]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')||[[TV]]: [[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|Series 5]] | ||
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| [[Ship (The Way Through the Woods)|Ship]] kidnapped people and wiped [[Foxtown]] off the map|| [[Eleventh Doctor]]|| [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Way Through the Woods (novel)|The Way Through the Woods]]'' | | [[Ship (The Way Through the Woods)|Ship]] kidnapped people and wiped [[Foxtown]] off the map|| [[Eleventh Doctor]]|| [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Way Through the Woods (novel)|The Way Through the Woods]]'' | ||
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|[[Amy Pond]] was stranded on [[Apalapucia]] for 36 years||[[Eleventh Doctor]]||[[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Waited]]'' | |[[Amy Pond]] was stranded on [[Apalapucia]] for 36 years||[[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Rory Williams]]||[[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Waited]]'' | ||
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|'''[[River Song's World]]'''||[[Eleventh Doctor]], [[Amy Pond]], [[Rory Williams]], [[River Song]], the [[Teselecta]]||[[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of River Song]]'' | |'''[[River Song's World]]'''||[[Eleventh Doctor]], [[Amy Pond]], [[Rory Williams]], [[River Song]], and the [[Teselecta]]||[[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of River Song]]'' | ||
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|The [[Silurian]]s attempted to pump poison onto Earth's surface to reclaim it||[[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[River Song]]||[[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock (video game)|The Eternity Clock]]'' | |The [[Silurian]]s attempted to pump poison onto Earth's surface to reclaim it||[[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[River Song]]||[[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock (video game)|The Eternity Clock]]'' | ||
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|The [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] conquered the galaxy||[[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Jean-Luc Picard]]||[[COMIC]]: ''[[Assimilation²]]'' | |The [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] conquered the galaxy||[[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Jean-Luc Picard]]||[[COMIC]]: ''[[Assimilation²]]'' | ||
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|[[Rory Williams]] remained imprisoned in [[Winter Quay]] for the rest of his life||[[Rory Williams]] | |[[Rory Williams]] remained imprisoned in [[Winter Quay]] for the rest of his life||[[Rory Williams]] and [[Amy Pond]]||[[TV]]: ''[[The Angels Take Manhattan]]'' | ||
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|[[Creevix|The Creevix]] erased the existence of [[Guy Taylor]], allowing them to use his [[time machine]] to enter the universe on the [[23rd November|23rd of November]], [[2013]] and consume it||[[First Doctor]], [[Susan Foreman]], [[Second Doctor]], [[Jamie McCrimmon]], [[Zoe Heriot]], [[Third Doctor]], [[Mike Yates]], [[Fourth Doctor]], [[Romana II]], [[Fifth Doctor]], [[Adric]], [[Nyssa]], [[Tegan Jovanka]], [[Sixth Doctor]], [[Peri Brown]], [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Ace]], [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Charley Pollard]], [[Ninth Doctor]], [[Rose Tyler]], [[Jack Harkness]], [[Tenth Doctor]], [[Donna Noble]], [[Eleventh Doctor]], [[Alice Watson]], and [[Cedric Chivers]]|| [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctor]]'' | |[[Creevix|The Creevix]] erased the existence of [[Guy Taylor]], allowing them to use his [[time machine]] to enter the universe on the [[23rd November|23rd of November]], [[2013]] and consume it||[[First Doctor]], [[Susan Foreman]], [[Second Doctor]], [[Jamie McCrimmon]], [[Zoe Heriot]], [[Third Doctor]], [[Mike Yates]], [[Fourth Doctor]], [[Romana II]], [[Fifth Doctor]], [[Adric]], [[Nyssa]], [[Tegan Jovanka]], [[Sixth Doctor]], [[Peri Brown]], [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Ace]], [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Charley Pollard]], [[Ninth Doctor]], [[Rose Tyler]], [[Jack Harkness]], [[Tenth Doctor]], [[Donna Noble]], [[Eleventh Doctor]], [[Alice Watson]], and [[Cedric Chivers]]|| [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctor]]'' | ||
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|The [[Great Intelligence]] negated the Doctor's victories||[[Clara Oswald|Clara]]||[[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor]]'' | |The [[Great Intelligence]] negated the Doctor's victories||[[Clara Oswald|Clara]]||[[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor]]'' | ||
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|The [[War Doctor]] | |The [[War Doctor]] destroyed [[Gallifrey]] and the [[Daleks]] with [[The Moment]]||[[First Doctor]], [[Second Doctor]], [[Third Doctor]], [[Fourth Doctor]], [[Fifth Doctor]], [[Sixth Doctor]], [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Eighth Doctor]], [[War Doctor]], [[Ninth Doctor]], [[Tenth Doctor]], [[Eleventh Doctor]], and [[Twelfth Doctor]]||[[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor]]'' | ||
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|'''[[The Trickster's World]]'''||[[Eddie Smith|Eddie]] and [[Barbara Smith]]||[[TV]]: ''[[The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith]]'' | |'''[[The Trickster's World]]'''||[[Eddie Smith|Eddie]] and [[Barbara Smith]]||[[TV]]: ''[[The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith]]'' | ||
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|[[Ship (The Mad Woman in the Attic)|Ship]] erased [[Sarah Jane Smith]], [[Luke Smith]] and [[Clyde Langer]]||[[Adam Lloyd]]||[[TV]]: ''[[The Mad Woman in the Attic]]'' | |[[Ship (The Mad Woman in the Attic)|Ship]] erased [[Sarah Jane Smith]], [[Luke Smith]] and [[Clyde Langer]]||[[Adam Lloyd]] and [[Rani Chandra]]||[[TV]]: ''[[The Mad Woman in the Attic]]'' | ||
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|[[Deindum]] from the future conquered the galaxy||[[Bernice Summerfield]]||[[PROSE]]: ''[[Present Danger]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Escaping the Future]]'' | |[[Deindum]] from the future conquered the galaxy||[[Bernice Summerfield]]||[[PROSE]]: ''[[Present Danger]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Escaping the Future]]'' | ||
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An alternate timeline was a reality that diverged from the "true" timeline due to the actions of time travellers or other temporal phenomena. They were different from parallel universes in that they did not separate cleanly at the point of creation resulting in the new timeline destroying the old one. (PROSE: Imperial Moon) The phenomenon was also described as an "interstitial spillage of time." (AUDIO: Project: Lazarus)
Physics
Alternate timelines could be visited accidentally by jumping a time track (TV: The Space Museum, AUDIO: The Mutant Phase) or contacting other anomalies (AUDIO: Colditz) in the Time Vortex. Deliberate travel to these timelines was possible if the traveller possessed something, such as the sigil ring, that allowed them to change time streams. (PROSE: Goth Opera)
They may have diverged from points in history when there was temporal fluctuation. The power required to adjust the timeflow and overcome temporal inertia on such a scale couldn't fit on a single planet, but beings with enough power were capable of doing so, such as Sutekh, the Guardians of Time, Rassilon, and the Chronovores. Even the Doctor or the Master could have the know-how or inclination to create them. Because the universe only had a finite amount of mass and energy to exist as one universe, the creation of an alternate timeline adversely affected the real timeline, causing chaos throughout the universe; releasing enough energy could destroy the timeline and set history back on its correct course. (PROSE: Blood Heat)
Though a timeline could be negated, memories of it could still be retained. (TV: The Big Bang, The Impossible Astronaut) Sometimes these memories were subconscious and only surfaced in dreams. (AUDIO: The Time of the Daleks, Jubilee)
Metaphysics
From a metaphysical viewpoint, alternate timelines were always being extinguished as fewer and fewer choices became open. This was particularly affected by time travellers who changed the future whenever they arrived in a new time. This was the cosmic pain of the universe and in this manner Gabriel and Tanith were personifications of the timelines that never existed. (PROSE: Falls the Shadow)
Terminology
The phrase "alternate/alternative timeline/universe" was sometimes used interchangably with "parallel universe"; however, alternate timelines usually changed after a single moment in time, whereas parallel universes usually had more than one difference from the "normal" universe.
Timelines encountered by the Doctor
Timelines encountered by others
Timeline | Negated By | Featured in''' |
The Seventh Doctor defeated the Vardan invasion of Earth by leaving clues for his past self | The Monk | PROSE: No Future |
Insects of the Mind evolved as the dominant life on Earth | The existence of time travel | PROSE: Falls the Shadow |
Britain was a conformist republic | The existence of time travel | PROSE: Falls the Shadow |
Andrea Yates' World | alternate Andrea Yates | TV: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? |
The Trickster's World | Eddie and Barbara Smith | TV: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith |
Ship erased Sarah Jane Smith, Luke Smith and Clyde Langer | Adam Lloyd and Rani Chandra | TV: The Mad Woman in the Attic |
Deindum from the future conquered the galaxy | Bernice Summerfield | PROSE: Present Danger, AUDIO: Escaping the Future |
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