Space-time vessel


 * "Time machine" redirects here. For the novel of the same name, see The Time Machine.

A space-time vessel, timeship, time ship or temporal ship or, colloquially, time machine, was a vehicle intended to convey the user(s) through time and space.

Space-time travel did not necessarily require a vehicle. It could be achieved by use of a vortex manipulator or time ring, (TV: The Sound of Drums, Genesis of the Daleks) though "time travel without a capsule" was usually painful. (TV: Blink, The Sound of Drums)

Characteristics
Whereas a "time machine" moved the user through time and a spaceship moved the user through space, a space-time vessel combined these abilities to enable the user to visit anywhere in the universe at any time.

Often these vehicles had dimensionally transcendental properties and utilised the Time Vortex. The TARDISes of the Time Lords were an example of this. The Daleks copied these properties and integrated them into their Dalek time machines. (TV: The Chase)

Space-time craft, at least around the 23rd century, were powered by Zeiton-7. (TV: Vengeance on Varos) Although the Daleks' time machines were powered by taranium. (PROSE: Mission to the Unknown (novelisation))

Examples

 * TARDIS
 * Dalek time machine
 * The Cybermen captured a time vessel that landed on Telos. It needed at least two people to pilot it, though whether that was a standard or not is unknown. (TV: Attack of the Cybermen)