TARDIS control room (Dr. Who and the Daleks)
When Dr. Who and Susan built TARDIS, the ship's original interior was a mess of wires and technology. (TV: Dr. Who and the Daleks [+]Loading...["Dr. Who and the Daleks (theatrical film)"]) The same room appeared as the control room of the Machine. (PROSE: Cold Fusion [+]Loading...["Cold Fusion (novel)"])
Relative to the TARDIS exterior, the room was bigger on the inside due to the principle of electrokinetic theory that space expands to accommodate the time necessary to encompass its dimensions. (TV: Dr. Who and the Daleks [+]Loading...["Dr. Who and the Daleks (theatrical film)"]) Patience cited the exact same mechanics as to why the Machine's version of this room was dimensionally immanent. (PROSE: Cold Fusion [+]Loading...["Cold Fusion (novel)"])
Dr. Who later replaced this version of his control room with a cleaner version with almost entirely different controls save for the red lever. (TV: Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. [+]Loading...["Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (theatrical film)"])
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The doors of the TARDIS exterior had the exterior design on their interior sides.
The room was filled with technology on hanging clear plastic sheets, which hung in front of a simple black wall. Yellow, blue, red, and white wires hung from various points across the walls, crossing and covering the room. Also hanging along these sheets were rectangular lights which pulsed with colours of green and purple. Pieces of paper with various technical details were pinned to technology across the room. To the right of the doors was a star chart.
The floorspace of the room had many devices, including several structures of bronze spheres connected by rods.
In the centre of the room was a raised area with a red lever which set TARDIS in motion. Behind this was a cabinet which had the fluid link section on its upper half, with fluid link K7 in the upper left corner. On the wall behind the cabinet was a relatively small white-bordered rectangle which was the TARDIS scanner, operated by a control panel on a sheet hanging above and to the left of it.
In front of the red lever was an area with a carpet and rocking chair which Dr. Who sat in.
The side of the room far from the doors had a glass dome filled with wires and gadgetry, with many red and blue lights extending from its surface. The centre of this dome had a spinning orange light (TV: Dr. Who and the Daleks [+]Loading...["Dr. Who and the Daleks (theatrical film)"]) which was the Time Control Unit. (PROSE: Cold Fusion [+]Loading...["Cold Fusion (novel)"]) The superionised electrokinetic pre-oscillator, the final part that Dr. Who needed to get TARDIS working, was connected to the side of this dome and was where Dr. Who set the vessel's coordinates. (TV: Dr. Who and the Daleks [+]Loading...["Dr. Who and the Daleks (theatrical film)"])
In the corner next to the dome was a more ovoid glass container with a rotating metal device, with colourful bowling pins on the glass surface.
The fault locator was hanging above this machine, being a metal cone a sonar with a deep blue interior. It had lights on its base which indicated which part of the ship had a fault. (TV: Dr. Who and the Daleks [+]Loading...["Dr. Who and the Daleks (theatrical film)"])
Roz Forrester's impression of the Machine's version of this room was as follows:
Tertullian Medford thought that the room resembled "the aftermath of an electronics firm's Christmas party". (PROSE: Cold Fusion [+]Loading...["Cold Fusion (novel)"])
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The Remembered TARDIS had a similar aesthetic to this control room, its controls being a disparate collection of devices connected by visible wires. While most of the wires resembled those seen in the War Doctor's control room, one shelf had a string of intertwined red, yellow, and blue wires. (TV: The Mind Robber [+]Loading...["The Mind Robber (TotT TV story)"])
