Shield
A shield, also known as shielding, (TV: Sleep No More) was used to protect people and places (TV: The Daleks' Master Plan, Planet of the Spiders, et al.) from danger (TV: The Mind Robber [+]Loading...["The Mind Robber (TV story)"]). They could be used to keep people safe (TV: Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror) or prevent scanning or detection (TV: The Poison Sky).
Types of shields
Types of shields included:
- Anti-magnetic shields, (TV: The Wheel in Space)
- Meson shields, (TV: The Wheel in Space)
- Polished shields, (TV: The Mind Robber [+]Loading...["The Mind Robber (TV story)"])
- Heat shields, (TV: Inferno et al.)
- Innocence, (TV: Planet of the Spiders)
- Security shields, (TV: The Invasion of Time)
- Hyperspatial force shields, (TV: The Pirate Planet)
- Defence shields, (TV: The Horns of Nimon)
- Vortex shields, (TV: Shada)
- Baryon and anti-baryon shields, (TV: The Leisure Hive)
- Magnetic shields, (TV: Four to Doomsday et al.)
- Bulkhead shields, (TV: Earthshock)
- Vacuum shields, (TV: Enlightenment)
- Deflector shields, (TV: Timelash)
- Emergency shields, (TV: The Satan Pit)
- Oxygen shields, (TV: Voyage of the Damned)
- Outer shields, (TV: The Impossible Astronaut)
- Trees, (TV: In the Forest of the Night)
- Gravity shields, (TV: Sleep No More)
- Planetary shields, (TV: The Vanquishers)
- Cloaking shields, (TV: The Power of the Doctor) and
- Consciousness shields. (TV: The Power of the Doctor)
Other things that could be used as shields included humans such as Claire Clairmont. (TV: The Haunting of Villa Diodati)
History
The mythical Perseus escaped Medusa by looking at her reflection in his polished shield. (TV: The Mind Robber [+]Loading...["The Mind Robber (TV story)"])
Shields were used by Sontarans, including General Ignatius Antias Salutio and Commander Caecilius Crassus Procullus, who thought they were Romans in Ireland in 55 BC. (AUDIO: The Battle of Giant's Causeway [+]Loading...["The Battle of Giant's Causeway (audio story)"])
