Frontios Colony Monitoring System Screens

Wall-mounted surveillance/monitoring screens in the duplication room/bunker, used for visual transmission and coercive displays

5 appearances

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

5 moments

S21E7 · Frontios Part 1

Military authority silences scientific dissent

Research Room Audio Monitoring Headphones are worn by a technician seated at the console, used to monitor communications and data feeds. Their presence underscores the colony’s tenuous connection to external monitoring and internal control.

Before: In use as part of the research room’s monitoring setup, reflecting active but strained scientific endeavors.

After: Silenced and abandoned as the military takes control of the room and shuts down all research operations.

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S21E11 · Resurrection of the Daleks Part 1

Daleks breach then briefly retreat from AirLock 3

The AirLock 3 surveillance monitor displays real-time visual data of the Daleks’ approach and the crew’s defensive positions. It serves as the bridge crew’s eyes during the engagement, with Styles relying on its targeting data to deploy the hidden weapon effectively against the invaders.

Before: Active and monitoring the airlock feed. Green vector traces and threat indicators are visible during the breach.

After: Still operational but likely showing signs of overload or damage from prolonged use and impact from the blast.

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S21E13 · Resurrection of the Daleks Part 3

Doctor endures Dalek mental colonisation

The bank of Duplication Room Observation Monitors displays real-time footage of the Doctor undergoing mental extraction, his physical distress and fragmented memories broadcast across multiple screens. Flickering images of past companions held captive within his mind create a nightmarish tableau that drives home the machine's psychic horror to passive viewers.

Before: Powered on and standby, waiting for mental feeds to lock onto target victim

After: Still active, displaying heightened threat assessments and emotional reactions from observing companions

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S21E17 · Planet of Fire Part 3

Turlough monitors fire in Sarnian Temple

The monitor’s flickering greyscale feed locks onto the Temple Hall of Fire, revealing the extinguished pyres as its central display. Peri and Turlough converge on the screen, using it as both evidence of success and a tactical focal point to coordinate their next moves under the bunker’s amber emergency illumination.

Before: Dormant with a dead pixel count, its brass controls corroded and cabling brittle with age; it was reactivated by Turlough’s adjustments to the bunker’s Trion-monitoring systems

After: Operational, displaying a stabilized but vulnerable image of the Hall—its imagery a fragile testament to their victory

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S21E24 · The Twin Dilemma Part 2

Professor Edgeworth asserts control over Jacondan twins

The wall-mounted monitoring screen, previously used to display ship status, suddenly flickers ablaze with Mestor’s grotesque image to deliver an explicit ultimatum. It amplifies the base’s surveillance culture and transforms a mere display device into a conduit of terror that instantly quashes the twins’ rebellion.

Before: Idle, showing ship telemetry while Edgeworth conferred with Noma and Drak about the malfunctioning vessel.

After: Extinguished again, reverting to mundane data feeds as Mestor withdraws, leaving the monitor cold and indifferent.

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