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(Created page with "{{User:Cousin Ettolrhc/Sandbox/Template:The Doctor's TARDIS console rooms}} '''The Doctor's TARDIS''' contained a '''console room''', also known as a control room, which varied in structure and size across iterations. This changing of TARDIS appearance was described by the Fifth Doctor as changing the "desktop theme" (TV: ''Time Crash (TV story)''). One at least two occasions, it was the Doctor's violent regeneration which caused their TARDIS to comp...") |
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This changing of TARDIS appearance was described by the [[Fifth Doctor]] as changing the "desktop theme" ([[TV]]: ''[[Time Crash (TV story)|Time Crash]]''). One at least two occasions, it was the Doctor's violent regeneration which caused their [[TARDIS]] to completely overhaul its internal dimensions, without aid of the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]], [[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]''). | This changing of TARDIS appearance was described by the [[Fifth Doctor]] as changing the "desktop theme" ([[TV]]: ''[[Time Crash (TV story)|Time Crash]]''). One at least two occasions, it was the Doctor's violent regeneration which caused their [[TARDIS]] to completely overhaul its internal dimensions, without aid of the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]], [[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]''). | ||
According to [[River Song]], a TARDIS usually had multiple console rooms ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lifeboat and the Deathboat (audio story)|The Lifeboat and the Deathboat]]''). Indeed, the Doctor's TARDIS was shown on multiple occasions to have a [[#Secondary console room]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Masque of Mandragora (TV story)|The Masque of Mandragora]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]''), although both the [[Fourth Doctor|Fourth]] and [[Eighth Doctor]]s claimed it was actually the original, with the [[Eighth Doctor]] claiming he used it [[The Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)|ages ago when he wore a tricorn hat]]. | According to [[River Song]], a TARDIS usually had multiple console rooms ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lifeboat and the Deathboat (audio story)|The Lifeboat and the Deathboat]]''). Indeed, the Doctor's TARDIS was shown on multiple occasions to have a [[#Secondary console room]|Secondary console room]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Masque of Mandragora (TV story)|The Masque of Mandragora]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]''), although both the [[Fourth Doctor|Fourth]] and [[Eighth Doctor]]s claimed it was actually the original, with the [[Eighth Doctor]] claiming he used it [[The Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)|ages ago when he wore a tricorn hat]]. | ||
===Secondary console room=== | |||
There existed a second, wooden control room which the [[Fourth Doctor|Fourth]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Masque of Mandragora (TV story)|The Masque of Mandragora]]'') and [[Eighth Doctor|Eighth]] Doctors claimed was actually the primary, original control room. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'') | |||
The Eighth Doctor recalled having used the wooden control room [[The Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)|"ages ago" when he wore a tricorn hat]], before he had begun using the secondary, white control room. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'') When the Fourth Doctor found the control room again, he found a [[recorder]] and a smoking jacket there, suggesting both the [[Second Doctor|Second]] and [[Third Doctor]]s had this room at times. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Masque of Mandragora (TV story)|The Masque of Mandragora]]'') | |||
This control room in its original form was simpler and more compact than the white control room, with the console resembling a desk, no visible [[time rotor]] and all the controls hidden behind what appeared to be fold-down wooden flaps; one flap also had a writing desk beneath it. It had more subtle roundels, some of them framing stained glass windows. For a brief period, the [[Fourth Doctor]] used this as the main control room. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Masque of Mandragora (TV story)|The Masque of Mandragora]]'', ''[[The Hand of Fear (TV story)|The Hand of Fear]]'', ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'', ''[[The Robots of Death (TV story)|The Robots of Death]]'', ''[[The Invisible Enemy (TV story)|The Invisible Enemy]]'') | |||
After destroying the console in the main control room, the [[Fifth Doctor]] and [[Tegan Jovanka]] retreated to the secondary control room to gain the advantage on [[Chaos (The Kamelion Empire)|Chaos]]; Tegan commented that the secondary control room looked like "[[Sherlock Holmes]]'s back bedroom". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Kamelion Empire (audio story)|The Kamelion Empire]]'') | |||
While looking for a [[Kymbra Chimera]] which had invaded the TARDIS, the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Frobisher]] discovered it and [[Peri Brown|Peri]] in the second control room. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Changes (comic story)|Changes]]'') | |||
[[Ace]] discovered the second control room whilst exploring the TARDIS, which she originally thought to be the Doctor's study, and once again the Doctor battled the Mandragora Helix from inside it. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Distractions (comic story)|Distractions]]'', ''[[The Mark of Mandragora (comic story)|The Mark of Mandragora]]'') | |||
At least one second control room was lost when the [[Seventh Doctor]] ejected the primary one from the TARDIS in an attempt to defeat Qataka, a megalomaniac who had downloaded her mind into the TARDIS, the Doctor having tricked her into thinking that the [[life support system]]s were controlled from that console. However, Qataka was able to use the console to turn herself into the godlike [[Timewyrm]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)|Timewyrm: Genesys]]'', ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)|Timewyrm: Revelation]]'') | |||
At one stage, the Seventh Doctor suspected that the secondary control room had been deleted, as he hadn't seen it in a while. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'') | |||
The [[Eighth Doctor]] stated that the [[#Victorian parlour|lush Victorian control room]] the [[Seventh Doctor]] used near the end of his lifetime ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') was this second control room — in actuality the original, which he had neglected in favour of the "secondary" white control room for a long time, having undergone some alterations. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'') Hence, once he started using that original room again, the white control room became the "secondary control room". The Doctor went there after his memory was erased by {{Roberts}}'s trap. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'') | |||
The Eighth Doctor was forced to again retreat to his secondary control room with Cardinal [[War Ollistra|Ollistra]], Doctor [[Eva Morrison]] and Commander [[Roxita]] when a group of [[Vashta Nerada]] infiltrated the ship, using a set of three spacesuits in this room as part of a plan to purge the Vashta Nerada from the TARDIS. At this time, the control room was once again made of simulated [[wood]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Day of the Vashta Nerada (audio story)|Day of the Vashta Nerada]]'') | |||
