User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-24894325-20170121220436/@comment-1789834-20170124152822

They refer to it a lot as "The Ship" in the Hartnell era, one notable example being in The Edge of Destruction, however that's not really what's being discussed here. We're talking about the use of "The Ship" in the FP works. Of course, we can all sit here as adults and say that it's 99% likely that connection is what's meant by the author... but what we need is evidence for each time "The Ship" is a setting.

And we shouldn't use "It's time consuming" as an excuse to generalise and just sweep all mentions of "The Ship" to "The Doctor's TARDIS". By that logic, we'd link every mention of "The Doctor" to "The Doctor", rather than discuss it. Every time there's no evidence or every time it's uncertain, we discuss it in a thread dedicated to that specific book or audio.

Also don't forget the title of this thread concerns whether or not The Doctor's TARDIS is to be treated as a living being or a thing.