Time Window
This definitely needs a dab to distinguish it from the portal. The capitalised W isn't enough.
Talk about it here.
- You may be looking for the time portals of the same name.
The Time Window was an experimental form of temporal technology secretly developed by UNIT in contravention of the Third Doctor's orders in the 1970s.
Nature[[edit] | [edit source]]
Located "ten floors down" from the operations room at UNIT HQ, the Window took up an entire, large room. Rather than true time travel, it would summon up ghostly visions of the past. Although this was not how UNIT initially thought to use it, the Fifteenth Doctor showed them that it was boosted by being keyed to the memory of one of the people standing within it. (TV: The Legend of Ruby Sunday [+]Loading...["The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)"])
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
In 2024, the Fifteenth Doctor, determined to get to the bottom of the mystery of Ruby Sunday's origins, got Kate Stewart to admit to the Time Window's existence. Positioning himself and Ruby inside it, with Morris Gibbons operating the controls, he had the Time Window summon up the events of 24 December 2004, when Ruby was abandoned at the church on Ruby Road. However, they were unable to see the woman who dropped off the baby Ruby, who seemed "shadowed" and glitched past them when they tried to get a closer look at her. Shortly thereafter, the Doctor and Ruby noticed a cloud of malice existing behind them, which retroactively imprinted itself on the VHS of the CCTV tape of the night's events. Closer analysis of the footage showed that the cloud, which turned out to be the essence of Sutekh, contained a second version of the TARDIS. (TV: The Legend of Ruby Sunday [+]Loading...["The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)"])
