Dodecahedron Exterior Controls

The crystalline metal lattice of the Dodecahedron artifact's surface houses these controls, their angular surfaces pulsing with red and amber light as the Watcher manipulates them to override the TARDIS's coordinate subsystem. Adric's frantic recognition that these controls are being 'unset' triggers the immediate evacuation of him and Nyssa from time and space, their resistance and confusion highlighting the abrupt violence of the Watcher's intervention against the TARDIS's collapsing integrity.

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2 moments

S18E8 · Meglos Part 4

Doctor lures pursuit while sabotaging the trap

The Dodecahedron's controls are explicitly warned against by the Doctor, highlighting their vulnerability and the potential danger if tampered with. Their presence in the laboratory underscores the device's proximity and the stakes of its misuse.

Before: Located on the Dodecahedron's surface in the Power Room of Meglos' complex.

After: Remain unactivated but their warning becomes a focal point of later sabotage.

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S18E28 · Logopolis Part 4

Adric and Nyssa flee collapsing TARDIS reality

The angular controls on the dodecahedron’s surface pulse with ominous red and amber light as the Watcher overrides the TARDIS’s coordinates. Their angular surfaces serve as the mechanism for severing the ship’s temporal tether, violently disconnecting the subsystem.

Before: Part of the TARDIS control network, unremarkable and failing under entropy, until the Watcher repurposes them as tools of intervention.

After: Temporarily stabilized in the Watcher’s grip, no longer subject to the TARDIS’s collapsing integrity, functioning as an extraneous control point.

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