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 designed to convey the user(s) through time and through space.

Whereas a "time machine" moved the user through time and a spaceship moves 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 utilized the Time Vortex, the TARDISes of the Time Lords being an example of this. The Daleks copied these properties and integrated them into their Dalek time machines. (DW: The Chase) Some methods were not even vehicles, such as a vortex manipulator or time ring. (DW: The Sound of Drums, Genesis of the Daleks)