Temporal tipping point

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The Eleventh Doctor and Dermot O'Leary travel in the TARDIS to the National Television Awards, described by the Doctor as a temporal tipping point. (TV: Dermot and the Doctor ^[+]Loading...["Dermot and the Doctor (TV story)"])

A temporal tipping point was the opposite of a fixed point in time, (TV: Cold Blood ^[+]Loading...["Cold Blood (TV story)"]) rather being "moments when everything can change." (AUDIO: The Shadow Vortex ^[+]Loading...{"timestamp":":21:51","1":"The Shadow Vortex (audio story)"}) A tipping point could "change future events, create its own timeline, its own reality." (TV: Cold Blood ^[+]Loading...["Cold Blood (TV story)"])

History

This section is not ordered by standard chronological order but rather an approximate chronological meta-time order.

Pre-War era

Similarly, the Seventh Doctor identified the Wenley Moor Affair as a crucial nexus-point in Earth's time stream such that a countless number of futures could be claimed from that moment with near-endless divergent realities. (COMIC: Final Genesis ^[+]Loading...["Final Genesis (comic story)"])

War era

During the Last Great Time War, Stasi Lieutenant Kruger assumed that the War Doctor's claim that history would not remember men like him kindly, then Lara Zannis's scheme could not be successful as Earth continued to exist; exasperated, the Doctor explained that the opposite was true, as the whole of 1961, from beginning to end, was one big moment when "everything can change." (AUDIO: The Shadow Vortex ^[+]Loading...{"timestamp":":21:51","1":"The Shadow Vortex (audio story)"})

Post-War era

The Eleventh Doctor identified the 2020 Cwmtaff incident as a "temporal tipping point", explaining that it was not a fixed point in time. (TV: Cold Blood ^[+]Loading...["Cold Blood (TV story)"])

The Doctor also identified 26 January 2011, the night of the National Television Awards, as a temporal tipping point; "millions of people are going to be making vitally important decisions, and if they make just one tiny mistake the entire universe will be destroyed." (TV: Dermot and the Doctor ^[+]Loading...["Dermot and the Doctor (TV story)"])