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|object name=Time-Space Visualiser | |object name=Time-Space Visualiser | ||
|origin=Unknown (possibly the [[Morok]]s) | |origin=Unknown (possibly the [[Morok]]s) | ||
|appearances=<ul><li>[[DW]]: ''[[The Chase]]''</li><li>[[MA]]: ''[[The Eye of the Giant]]''</li><li>[[DWM]]: ''[[Happy Deathday]]''</li><li>[[EDA]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell]]''</li></ul> | |appearances=<ul><li>[[DW]]: ''[[The Chase]]''</li><li>[[MA]]: ''[[The Eye of the Giant]]''</li><li>[[DWM]]: ''[[Happy Deathday]]''</li><li>[[EDA]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell]]''</li><li>[[VG]]: ''[[City of the Daleks]]''</li></ul> | ||
|type=Time viewing device | |type=Time viewing device | ||
}} | }} | ||
A '''Time-Space Visualiser''' (also known as a '''Space-Time Visualiser''' or '''Time Television''') was a device that allowed the operator to tune in to any event in history. | A '''Time-Space Visualiser''' (also known as a '''Space-Time Visualiser''' or '''Time Television''') was a device that allowed the operator to tune in to any event in history. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
The origins of the Visualisers remain unknown. One ended up in the [[Space Museum]] of the [[Morok Empire]], which was given to the [[ | The origins of the Visualisers remain unknown. One ended up in the [[Space Museum]] of the [[Morok Empire]], which 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]]'') | ||
After getting the Visualiser to work again, 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 enabled them to buy some time. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Chase]]'') | After getting the Visualiser to work again, 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 enabled them to buy some time. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Chase]]'') | ||
The [[ | 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]]'') He kept it as late as his [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh incarnation]] where he used it too observe the timeline after he repaired the [[Dalek]]'s alterations using the [[Eye of Time]]. ([[VG]]: ''[[City of the Daleks]]'') | ||
The Daleks used a similar device, the [[Visualiser]], which [[Amy Pond]] called a 'Librarian Dalek'. ([[VG]]: ''[[City of the Daleks]]'') | |||
==Functions== | ==Functions== | ||
The Visualiser could "tune in" to events all over the [[universe]] in many time eras. [[First Doctor|The First Doctor]] said that the Visualiser could only show events in the past. ([[DW]]: ''[[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]]'') [[Izzy Sinclair]] used the Time-Space Visualiser to play a video game involving the [[ | The Visualiser could "tune in" to events all over the [[universe]] in many time eras. [[First Doctor|The First Doctor]] said that the Visualiser could only show events in the past. ([[DW]]: ''[[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]]'') [[Izzy Sinclair]] used the Time-Space Visualiser to play a video game involving the [[Eighth Doctor]] and his past incarnations. ([[DWM]]: ''[[Happy Deathday]]'') | ||
==Behind the scenes== | ==Behind the scenes== | ||
