Sonic Projector Stasis Screens

Doctor and Melkur face off in the Sanctum

The glass screens, sacred barriers within the Sanctum, slide back at Melkur’s command to confine the Doctor within a pressurized space, becoming both a trap and a weapon in his temporal dominion.

Before: Embedded within the Sanctum’s walls, standing as sacred ritual barriers and protective boundaries.

After: Partially actuated and unstable, sealing the Doctor inside with Melkur and threatening collapse under escalating pressure.

Adric and Nyssa warn of imminent meltdown

The glass screens form a pressurized containment around the Source Manipulator, reflecting golden energy tendrils and groaning under escalating strain as the chamber collapses in on itself.

Before: Sealed the device containing the Doctor and Melkur.

After: Fracturing and unstable, threatening implosion or explosion.

Doctor escapes TARDIS rupture forces

The Sanctum's Trapping Glass Screens form a fragile barrier around the Source Manipulator. When the Doctor escapes the chamber’s gales, he runs through one of these unstable panes, shattering it to flee, leaving a jagged escape route amid the collapsing energy.

Before: Intact reflective barriers containing chaotic energy within the Sanctum

After: Shattered in one pane, allowing both peril and escape during the crisis

Doctor and Adric stabilize the Source

The Sanctum's Trapping Glass Screens form a translucent enclosure around the Source Manipulator, reflected in golden energy tendrils as the Doctor and Melkur struggle. Their structural integrity fails under escalating temporal strain.

Before: Intact but stressed by temporal surges, shimmering with distorted energy reflections

After: Partially collapsed, contributing to the Doctor’s escape route and visual exposure of the unstable chamber

Luvic becomes new Keeper of Traken

The trapping glass screens hold the chamber under controlled pressure to stabilize the Source. Once Luvic assumes the Keeper’s chair, the screens close around him, sealing the chamber and reflecting the new authority vested in him. This spatial confinement signals continuity of governance and ritual authority as Traken transitions from crisis to renewed stability.

Before: Panels partially open during the crisis, trapping energy inside.

After: Sealing screens close around Luvic, isolating the chamber with formal closure.

The Master seizes Tremas in the sanctum

The Sanctum's trapping glass screens, already stressed by energy reversals, remain intact during the reversal phase but are rendered vulnerable by the subsequent instability caused by the Master’s possession. Their fragility becomes a literal and symbolic fracture point in the ceremony.

Before: Reinforced and partially shattered from earlier energy surges during reversal attempt

After: Further destabilized, with a pane already broken serving as an exit for the Doctor and Adric

Nyssa deciphers sonic projectors stasis trap

The sonic projectors are visually identified by their positioning around the TARDIS, immediately revealed as the concealed devices generating an anti-time stasis field that halts all motion within a radius of the trapped vessel.

Before: Silent and undetected devices positioned strategically within the Central Registry as part of Master's sabotage

After: Revealed as active components of the temporal stasis field entrapping the TARDIS

Desperate search leads to the Master's trap

The sonic screens are maneuvered by teams of Logopolitans, acting as mobile barriers that process calculation flows within the Registry. The Master manipulates this system by miniaturizing one of the men pushing the screen and repurposing the screens as part of his entrapment scheme.

Before: Operational as part of the Registry's computational framework, pushed between rows of Logopolitans in a coordinated pattern.

After: Used by the Master after miniaturizing one of their operators; repurposed as part of a control mechanism, indicating compromised integrity.

Monitor confronts Master about Logopolis sabotage

Adric attempts to physically disrupt the sonic screen protecting the Master's control console by moving it away from the main controls, directly challenging the Master's technological dominance. This intervention triggers the Master's electro-muscular control device, making the screen a focal point of resistance and retaliation.

Before: Positioned as a protective barrier around the Master's control equipment within the Central Register chamber

After: Removed from its original position by Adric before being ordered replaced by the Master

Doctor pleads as Master crushes reality

The sonic screen is a critical console interface monitored by the Logopolitans. Adric seizes it to disrupt the Master’s tampering, but its removal is immediately enforced again by the Master’s commands. It represents the fragile point of resistance against the Master’s silence.

Before: Positioned to block unauthorized access to the main console.

After: Replaced as commanded by the Master after Nyssa’s attack.

Master tortures Adric to break Tegan

The sonic screen is physically moved by Adric away from the main console, disrupting the Master's control over Logopolis's systems. The Master responds by activating an electro-muscular constrictor device, forcing Nyssa to seize the sonic screen once more, now as a weapon against Adric.

Before: The sonic screen was part of the Central Register's console setup, functionally a computational interface.

After: Adric successfully moves it away from the console, but the Master's intervention forcibly redirects it into violence.