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== The Doctor's Visualiser == | == The Doctor's Visualiser == | ||
=== Acquisition by the First Doctor === | |||
One damaged Visualiser was captured by the [[Morok Empire]] following the capitulation of [[Grantanimus Five]]. ([[PROSE]]: [[The Time Lord Letters (novel)|"A Parting Gift"]]) It was then placed on a Morok [[Space Museum]] on [[Xeros]], and was eventually given to the [[First Doctor]] by [[Tor (The Space Museum)|Tor]] as a souvenir after he and his companions helped them to defeat the [[Morok]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Space Museum (TV story)|The Space Museum]]'') It had an instruction manual. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Doctor's Tale (audio story)|The Doctor's Tale]]'') | One damaged Visualiser was captured by the [[Morok Empire]] following the capitulation of [[Grantanimus Five]]. ([[PROSE]]: [[The Time Lord Letters (novel)|"A Parting Gift"]]) It was then placed on a Morok [[Space Museum]] on [[Xeros]], and was eventually given to the [[First Doctor]] by [[Tor (The Space Museum)|Tor]] as a souvenir after he and his companions helped them to defeat the [[Morok]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Space Museum (TV story)|The Space Museum]]'') It had an instruction manual. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Doctor's Tale (audio story)|The Doctor's Tale]]'') | ||
The Doctor finally began fixing it shortly after leaving [[Sonning]] in [[1400]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Doctor's Tale (audio story)|The Doctor's Tale]]'') and spent hours working on it either side of a visit to [[57 Acacia Avenue]] in [[2004]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Every Day (short story)|Every Day]]'') After getting the Visualiser working, the Doctor and his companions used it to observe [[Queen]] [[Elizabeth I]] and [[Francis Bacon]] meeting with [[William Shakespeare]], [[Abraham Lincoln]] delivering his [[Gettysburg Address]] and [[the Beatles]] performing "[[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 buy some time. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'') | The Doctor finally began fixing it shortly after leaving [[Sonning]] in [[1400]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Doctor's Tale (audio story)|The Doctor's Tale]]'') and spent hours working on it either side of a visit to [[57 Acacia Avenue]] in [[2004]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Every Day (short story)|Every Day]]'') After getting the Visualiser working, the Doctor and his companions used it to observe [[Queen]] [[Elizabeth I]] and [[Francis Bacon]] meeting with [[William Shakespeare]], [[Abraham Lincoln]] delivering his [[Gettysburg Address]] and [[the Beatles]] performing "[[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 buy some time. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'') | ||
According to one account, this Time-Space Visualiser was actually a hoax created by a group of criminal Daleks forced to chronicle Dalek history as punishment. These prisoner Daleks noticed the Doctor using the device before being pursued by a squad of Daleks they recognised as their future selves. They knew such a machine was scientifically impossible, but in order to ensure their future freedom, they built what would serve as an apparent Time-Space Visualiser that actually displayed recordings of the Daleks' human slaves performing reenactments of the events they knew the Doctor and his companions would view. The criminal Daleks smuggled themselves out of prison, but were allowed to continue their plan by the [[Dalek Supreme]], who knew they were incompetent and broadcast their attempt for the amusement of other Dalek chroniclers. The criminal Daleks left their fake visualiser on the Xeron Space Museum for the Doctor to find. One of the Daleks was killed by a Morok curator due to not paying admission and became an exhibit, while the rest were indeed those that chased the TARDIS crew through time and ended up being defeated by the [[Mechanoid]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Survival Guide (novel)|Dalek Survival Guide]]'') | |||
===Later uses=== | |||
The [[Third Doctor]] later used the Visualiser to trace the origin of an alien spaceship fragment to the island of [[Salutua]] in [[1934]]. He used the same experiment to try and create a [[time bridge]] to that year in an attempt to bypass his exile, but this was only possible due to the unique nature of the [[omicron]] radiation contaminating the fragment. The time bridge project was abandoned after his trip to Salutua nearly had disastrous consequences for history. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eye of the Giant (novel)|The Eye of the Giant]]'') | The [[Third Doctor]] later used the Visualiser to trace the origin of an alien spaceship fragment to the island of [[Salutua]] in [[1934]]. He used the same experiment to try and create a [[time bridge]] to that year in an attempt to bypass his exile, but this was only possible due to the unique nature of the [[omicron]] radiation contaminating the fragment. The time bridge project was abandoned after his trip to Salutua nearly had disastrous consequences for history. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eye of the Giant (novel)|The Eye of the Giant]]'') | ||
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While his granddaughter [[Susan Foreman|Susan Campbell]] and great-grandson [[Alex Campbell]] were celebrating Christmas in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the 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." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Relative Dimensions (audio story)|Relative Dimensions]]'') | While his granddaughter [[Susan Foreman|Susan Campbell]] and great-grandson [[Alex Campbell]] were celebrating Christmas in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the 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." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Relative Dimensions (audio story)|Relative Dimensions]]'') | ||
== Other Visualisers == | |||
The [[Sixth Doctor]] once told [[Evelyn Smythe]] that the [[Time Lord]]s had Time-Space Visualisers which they used to spy on him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The 100 Days of the Doctor (audio story)|The 100 Days of the Doctor]]'') | The [[Sixth Doctor]] once told [[Evelyn Smythe]] that the [[Time Lord]]s had Time-Space Visualisers which they used to spy on him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The 100 Days of the Doctor (audio story)|The 100 Days of the Doctor]]'') | ||
At the onset of the [[New Dalek Paradigm]], the [[Strategist Dalek (Victory of the Daleks)|Strategist Dalek]] used a Time-Space Visualiser to observe the [[Dalek Empire]]'s [[Roboman|Robomen]], ordering the [[Scientist Dalek (Victory of the Daleks)|Scientist Dalek]] to create the [[Dalek puppet]]s based off their designs. ([[PROSE]]: '' [[Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)|The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe]]'') They later developed their own version of the technology, the [[Visualiser]], which [[Amy Pond]] called a "Librarian Dalek". ([[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'') | At the onset of the [[New Dalek Paradigm]], the [[Strategist Dalek (Victory of the Daleks)|Strategist Dalek]] used a Time-Space Visualiser to observe the [[Dalek Empire]]'s [[Roboman|Robomen]], ordering the [[Scientist Dalek (Victory of the Daleks)|Scientist Dalek]] to create the [[Dalek puppet]]s based off their designs. ([[PROSE]]: '' [[Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)|The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe]]'') They later developed their own version of the technology, the [[Visualiser]], which [[Amy Pond]] called a "Librarian Dalek". ([[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'') | ||
