Matrix a Doctor Who

Pavel Vachtl

MATRIX - poprvé v příběhu 4. Doktora, pak u 5., 6.,

The Deadly Assassin (1976), Arc of Infinity (1983)

TRON - 1982

Brainstorm - 1983 (Ch. Walken, Natalie Wood)

William Gibson - Burning Chrome 1982 (cyberspace); Neuromancer 1984 (přes BBC America)

MATRIX - film 1999

Technologie a informační paměťPánů Času

Mind Robber - 1968

Land of fiction - literární matrix

Terminátor - War Machines 1966

Vetřelec - Ark in Space

Jiné pravzory

The Matrix was a supercomputer, a micro-universe used by the High Council of the Time Lords as a storehouse of knowledge to predict future events.

The Matrix, specifically, contained a simulated reality environment, once described as a "micro-universe" (TV: The Ultimate Foe) which stored the personalities of Time Lords now without physical bodies and even the past incarnations of living Time Lords. (COMIC: The Forgotten) Living beings could also access the Matrix. The terms Matrix and APC Net, however, have sometimes been used interchangeably.

The Amplified Panatropic Computer Net (or Amplified Panatropic Computations) was section within the domain of the Matrix on Gallifrey. (TV: The Invasion of Time)

Matrix Pánů času

The Matrix stored the memories of dead Time Lords in a framework of electrochemical cells. (TV: The Deadly Assassin) It also received data from sensors in TARDISes. (PROSE: The Quantum Archangel) It was not only a record of the past, but could predict the future as well.

The amount of knowledge in the Matrix, though vast, was not complete, and could be tampered with, given access. The unauthorised extraction of a Time Lord's bio-data from the Matrix was an offence tantamount to treason. (TV: Arc of Infinity) A particularly skilled person such as the Valeyard could create images of events that never had happened nor ever would. (TV: Mindwarp, Terror of the Vervoids, The Ultimate Foe)

Whenever anyone used the Matrix to acquire a specific piece of information, a safeguard would cause anything else the user accidentally stumbled across to be wiped from their minds. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys)

Matrix a APC

The APC, like the rest of the Matrix, was composed of trillions of electrochemical cells in a continuous matrix. When a Time Lord dies, a brain scan is made at the moment of death and the impulses are transferred to the Matrix.

The Net's fuction was to monitor life in the Capitol and use the combined knowledge and experiences to predict future developments. (TV: The Deadly Assassin) Every Time Lord living and dead, from Rassilon to the lowest orderlies, had the brain scan entered into the Net, and it was illegal to remove their scan from it. The Garvond fed on these minds. (PROSE: The Dimension Riders)

Returned to Gallifrey by Councillor Goth, the Master used the Matrix, secretly infiltrating it and using Goth as his agent within it. Goth confronted the Fourth Doctor there and attempted to kill him. (TV: The Deadly Assassin)

Matrix byl přísně střežen

If two or more incarnations of the same Time Lord accessed the Matrix simultaneously, they all gained equal access to all other incarnations' memories. Because of this, a young, pre-Key to Time version of Romana I instantly understood her future when Lady President Romana II joined her in the Matrix. (AUDIO: Lies)

To living beings, the Matrix could appear like conventional reality, (TV: The Deadly Assassin, The Ultimate Foe) a surreal dream, (COMIC: The Tides of Time) a dark void (TV: Arc of Infinity) or first one, then another. Physical laws were malleable to the will of the inhabitant.

Experience and sheer will gave one control over "reality". For example, the Fourth Doctor shouted, "I reject it," and his wounded leg instantly healed; this was undone by a more skilled Time Lord. (TV: The Deadly Assassin)

Další aspekty

Beings known as the Matrix Lords, including Rassilon himself, "lived" there and could direct actions in the universe. They created a physical agent, Shayde, to act for them in the outside world. (COMIC: The Tides of Time)

Access to the Matrix was through an apparatus connected to the head of the user. (TV: The Deadly Assassin) The Crown of Rassilon worn by any Time Lord gave them instant access. (TV: The Invasion of Time) The Keeper of the Matrix held the Key of Rassilon, granting access to the Seventh Door, thought legendary until the Doctor used the Key to access it. The Seventh Door allowed physical access to the Matrix. (TV: The Ultimate Foe)

Many facts, figures, and formulas were contained within the Matrix, including: how to build the Demat Gun the threat posed by the Timewyrm quantum mnemonics from the Pre-Universe faster-than-light travel anti-gravity power dimensional transference history from the Humanian Era, Sensorian Era, Sumaran Era, and Rassilon Era

Přístup do Matrixu

According to one account, an ancient Gallifreyan evil named Pandora also survived and emerged from a special partition within the Matrix. Lady President Romana was eventually able to destroy the entity by destroying the Matrix itself. (AUDIO: Lies) Sentient Matrix The Sentient Matrix opposes the Eleventh Doctor. (COMIC: Sky Jacks) Another account said that Gallifrey was destroyed by the Eighth Doctor to prevent the voodoo cult Faction Paradox from starting a time war between the Time Lords and the Enemy. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell) It was later revealed that the Time Lords had survived within the Matrix, which had then been downloaded into the Doctor's mind, although he had to sacrifice much of his memory to make space for it. Their reconstruction was possible, but would require a sufficiently advanced computer. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles) Another account showed that in the final moment of the Last Great Time War, the deaths of every Time Lord being uploaded to the Matrix allowed it to gain sentience. The Matrix survived the end of the Time War by uploading a copy of itself into the Doctor's TARDIS. (COMIC: Sky Jacks)

Matrix a Time war

Another account showed that in the final moment of the Last Great Time War, the deaths of every Time Lord being uploaded to the Matrix allowed it to gain sentience. The Matrix survived the end of the Time War by uploading a copy of itself into the Doctor's TARDIS. (COMIC: Sky Jacks)

On behalf of the corrupt High Council, seeking to cover up the Ravolox affair that the Sixth Doctor had accidentally uncovered, the Valeyard acted as the prosecutor in the Doctor's trial in exchange for his seven remaining regenerations. (TV: The Ultimate Foe) Keeping his end of the bargain, the Valeyard presented extracts from the Matrix depicting recent past events in the Doctor's life as evidence of the Doctor violating the Time Lords' non-interference policy. (TV: The Mysterious Planet, TV: Mindwarp)

Unbeknownst to the Time Lord jury present at the trial, the Valeyard had tampered with the Matrix extracts to show the Doctor in the worst possible light and steer the trial to a guilty verdict. He created the impression the Doctor had betrayed his companion, Peri Brown, to save himself. (TV: Mindwarp) He also added the charge of Genocide of the Vervoids despite their artificial nature, and the fact this was from the Doctor's future. (TV: Terror of the Vervoids)

Valeyard a Matrix (1986)

the Master eventually stepped in after taking delight in seeing the Doctor's plight, and revealed the Valeyard's motives. The Valeyard escaped into the Matrix via the Seventh Door, which he opened with a copy of the Key of Rassilon. He was pursued and finally defeated by the Sixth Doctor when he tried to use a particle disseminator to destroy the court at the Doctor's trial.

The Doctor programmed the disseminator to feed back into the Matrix and escaped before the resulting blast apparently destroyed the Valeyard. The Inquisitor dismissed the trial. However, as the Sixth Doctor and his companion Melanie Bush departed, the Valeyard was secretly still present – having somehow escaped under the guise of the Keeper of the Matrix. (TV: The Ultimate Foe)

TARDIS matrix - vědomí TARDIS, spojené s časoprostorem

Seventh Door

As Lord President, the Doctor used the Matrix to gain access to the secrets needed to defeat the Sontaran invasion of Gallifrey, specifically the De-mat Gun. (TV: The Invasion of Time) While connected to the Matrix, he learned of the existence of the Timewyrm (PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys) and Quantum mnemonics. (PROSE: Millennial Rites) After his supposed execution to stop Rassilon's exiled contemporary Omega from returning to the universe of matter, the Fifth Doctor hung suspended in the Matrix. Omega also had access to the Matrix. (TV: Arc of Infinity) One of the many versions of Clara Oswald created after she entered the Doctor's time stream appeared in the Matrix saw the Fifth Doctor when he was sent there. (TV: The Name of the Doctor) The Valeyard established a stronghold, the "Fantasy Factory", in the Matrix as part of his plan to steal the Sixth Doctor's remaining regenerations. During his attempt to stop him, the Doctor, as well as the Master, entered into the "dreamscape" therein, the latter taking his TARDIS (or an illusory version of it) there. The Valeyard somehow took over the Keeper of the Matrix. (TV: The Ultimate Foe) The Seventh Doctor confronted the Dark Matrix, which was trapped inside a TARDIS as it imploded. (PROSE: Matrix)

Deadly Assassin, Invasion of Time, Arc of Infinity, The Trial of a Time Lord