GRACE:
This is amazing!
Life’s Champion :
This is No Good.
We don't even have enough auxiliary
Power to move next door.
(The Monitor is flashing Timing Malfunction.)
Life’s Champion:
The Beryllium chip. Grace.
GRACE:
Yes, Doctor.
Life’s Champion:
Careful
GRACE:
Yes, Doctor.
(The Doctor opens a panel
in the console.)
GRACE:
This looks pretty Low-Tech….
Life’s Champion
Low tech? Grace, this is a
Type-40 TARDIS,
able to take you to any planet
in the universe and to any date
in that planet's existence.
Temporal Physics.
GRACE:
Oh, you mean like
interdimensional transference.
That would explain
the spatial displacement
we experienced as
we passed over
the threshold.
Life’s Champion :
….Yes, if you like.
(The Doctor gets the
Beryllium chip attached.)
Life’s Champion :
…Yes! (The Cloister Bell stops.)
Life’s Champion:
There! The Eye is closing.
Now, let's see —
(He hits the console.)
Life’s Champion:
Come on! Oh, no.
GRACE:
What?
Life’s Champion :
I've a horrible feeling
we're already too late.
GRACE:
It's 11:48. We still have
11 minutes.
Life’s Champion :
There is No Context. Hold on.
(The Doctor throws a big lever and the ceiling turns into a representation of space.)
GRACE:
What are you doing?
Life’s Champion :
I'm setting coordinates for
one minute after midnight.
GRACE:
Why?
Life’s Champion :
If this is True,
The Eye has been open too long
and There is No Future.
I only Hope. Oh, no!
(In the representation, planets start to explode.)
GRACE:
Is this thing reliable?
Life’s Champion:
Whatever's Happening can't be stopped
by closing The Eye.
GRACE:
Well, how come you
didn't know that?
Life’s Champion :
I haven't opened
The Eye before.
GRACE:
Now you tell me.
Life’s Champion :
Grace, closing The Eye
may not be Enough.
We have to Go Back
to before The Eye was opened.
Maybe even before we arrived.
GRACE:
This is a Time-Machine….
Life’s Champion :
…with No Power.
GRACE:
What?
Life’s Champion :
The Eye being open so long
must have drained the TARDIS.
GRACE:
Great!
Life’s Champion :
I'm sorry.
GRACE:
You must have The Power
to get back. You must!
Life’s Champion:
Not Enough.
GRACE:
What about all those
glorious predictions?
All that knowledge about
What's Going to Happen to
Gareth, to me, to This City?
That must come from
somewhere. Think!
Life’s Champion
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait! —
…..are you any good at
setting alarm clocks?
GRACE:
No!
Life’s Champion
Grace!
GRACE:
I'll Try.
Life’s Champion
Listen very carefully.
GRACE:
Okay.
Life’s Champion :
We pre-set the coordinates
just as I divert The Power
from within The Eye itself
into the time rotor, here.
GRACE:
We jump-start The TARDIS?
Life’s Champion :
We jump-start The TARDIS.
millennial (adj.)
1660s, "pertaining to the millennium," from stem of millennium + -al (1). Meaning "pertaining to a period of 1,000 years" is from 1807. As a noun from 1896, originally "a thousandth anniversary." From 1991 as a generational name for those born in the mid-1980s and thus coming of age around the year 2000.
also from 1660s
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-al (1)
suffix forming adjectives from nouns or other adjectives, "of, like, related to, pertaining to," Middle English -al, -el, from French or directly from Latin -alis (see -al (2)).
millennium (n.)
1630s, "the 1,000-year period of Christ's anticipated rule on Earth" (Revelation xx.1-5); from Modern Latin millennium, from Latin mille "thousand" (see million) + annus "year" (see annual); formed on analogy of biennium, triennium, etc.
For vowel change, see biennial.
General (non-theological) sense of "an aggregate of 1,000 years, a period or interval of 1,000 years" is attested by 1711.
Meaning "the year 2000 A.D." is attested by 1970.
“[T]he men of the modern world — up to a generation ago anyway — saw 2000 as a millennial year in the light of science. Men were then to be freed of want, misery, and disease; reason and advanced technology would rule; all would finally be for the best in what would then be the undoubted best of all possible worlds.”
— Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
December 1962
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