Time-Space Visualiser: Difference between revisions

|appearances=[[DW]]: ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]''<br />[[MA]]: ''[[The Eye of the Giant (novel)|The Eye of the Giant]]''<br />[[DWM]]: ''[[Happy Deathday (comic story)|Happy Deathday]]''<br />[[EDA]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]''<br />[[VG]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]''

The origins of the Visualisers remain unknown. One ended up in the [[Space Museum]] of the [[Morok Empire]] and was given to the [[First Doctor]] by [[Tor (The Space Museum)|Tor]] as a souvenir after helping to defeat the [[Morok]]s. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Space Museum (TV story)|The Space Museum]]'')

After getting the Visualiser working, the Doctor and his companions used it to observe [[Queen]] [[Elizabeth I]] and [[Francis Bacon]] meet with [[William Shakespeare]], [[Abraham Lincoln]] deliver his [[Gettysburg Address]] and [[the Beatles]] perform "[[Ticket to Ride]]". The Visualiser later showed them the [[Dalek]]s launching their [[Dalek time machine|time machine]] on a mission to exterminate them, which let them to buy some time. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'')

The [[Third Doctor]] later used the Visualiser to trace the origin of an alien spaceship fragment to the island of [[Saluta]] in [[1934]], creating a time bridge to that year. ([[MA]]: ''[[The Eye of the Giant (novel)|The Eye of the Giant]]'') He kept it as late as his [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh incarnation]] where he used it to observe the timeline after he repaired the [[Dalek]]s' alterations using the [[Eye of Time]]. ([[VG]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'')

The [[Sixth Doctor]] watched the [[2006]] [[cricket]] Test Match between [[Australia]] and [[South Africa]] shortly after defeating [[Davros]] and the Daleks at the [[Battle of Waterloo]] on [[18 June]] [[1815]]. [[Flip Jackson]] described it as a "manky old thing" and criticised it for being in black and white. ([[BFA]]: ''[[The Fourth Wall (audio story)|The Fourth Wall]]'')

While his granddaughter [[Susan Foreman|Susan Campbell]] and great-grandson [[Alex Campbell]] were celebrating Christmas in the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] with him and [[Lucie Miller]], the [[Eighth Doctor]] wanted to watch the [[Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth II]]'s [[1953]] [[Queen's Christmas speech|Christmas speech]] using the Visualiser as that was a "great year." ([[BFA]]: ''[[Relative Dimensions (audio story)|Relative Dimensions]]'')

The Daleks used a similar device, the [[Visualiser]], which [[Amy Pond]] called a 'Librarian Dalek'. ([[VG]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'')

The Visualiser could "tune in" to events all over the [[universe]] in many time eras. The [[First Doctor]] said that the Visualiser could only show events in the past. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'') However, [[Faction Paradox]] used a Time-Space Visualiser (presumably a different model) to forecast [[Fitz Kreiner]]'s future, showing him an image of himself as [[Father Kreiner]]. ([[EDA]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'') [[Izzy Sinclair]] used the Time-Space Visualiser to play various [[video game]]s, such as ''[[Happy Deathday]]'', which involved the Eighth Doctor and his past incarnations. ([[DWM]]: ''[[Happy Deathday (comic story)|Happy Deathday]]'')