History Main / VoidBetweenTheWorlds

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** The Void, which provides the page quote, which is a PlaceBeyondTime and space that exists between parallel universes and leaves traces of "void stuff" on whoever passes through it. "Void stuff" becomes visible when viewed through special filters (like those the Doctor has, disguised as a pair of normal 3D glasses). This may or may not be the same as the white void outside the main universe that appears in the first episode of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E2TheMindRobber "The Mind Robber"]], and the white void between N-Space and E-Space that provides the main setting of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E5WarriorsGate "Warriors' Gate"]].

*** As shown in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E12ArmyOfGhosts "Army of Ghosts"]], it IS possible to traverse the Void, with a specially designed "void ship". This ship has 2 modes... normal mode, where it has mass/volume/etc and behaves like a physical object, and "void mode", that is capable of traversing the Void. In void mode, the ship has no mass, no volume, and doesn't register on any instruments, though it can still be seen. Objects with mass and volume aren't capable of navigating the void because there is no space or time there. Even the human characters are unnerved by looking at it in void mode, and the Doctor is downright terrified of it.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E9ItTakesYouAway “It Takes You Away”]], the Doctor and companions also explore an antizone, akin to the main universe’s immune response around a particularly dangerous TimeyWimeyBall or RealityBreakingParadox. The antizone, a void of dim caves filled with giant flesh-eating [[MothMenace Moth Menaces]] and an eccentric alien guard, turns out to be sequestering a GeniusLoci universe that existed as a primordial deity before the Big Bang, and wants to seep back in.

* In ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'' episode "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S2E16ThePremonition The Premonition]]", a test pilot and his wife simultaneously crash in a jet and a car, then find themselves out of sync with time, with everything outside of their vehicles immovably stuck. At first, [[TimeStandsStill time seems to be frozen]], but they're actually JustOneSecondOutOfSync with the timestream. What happens if the protagonists aren't back in the jet and the car when time resynchronizes? They'll get trapped in "a black, motionless void" of "eternal nothing" -- as a character called the "Limbo Being", who was in the same situation but didn't escape, informs them.

* In one episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', Reginald Barclay thinks he can see something in the nothingness where you go when you're being transported. As a result, he thinks he has transporter psychosis. [[spoiler:However, it turns out there ''are'' creatures living in the transporter stream, microscopic organisms that aren't terribly dangerous. The crew figures out how to filter them from Barclay using the transporter again, and Barclay himself realizes that the missing scientists they've been searching for tried the same thing and got stuck. ''They'' are the big creatures he saw, and by grabbing one, he's able to pull him out unharmed into material form ion normal space.]]

* In an early episode of ''Series/TwinPeaks'''s third season, subtitled ''The Return'', Dale Cooper is tossed from the [[EldritchLocation Black Lodge]] into an apparently infinite void of blackness occupied only by a strange cube-shaped vessel which transports him to Earth. Three other characters reference this place in passing during the season, one specifically calling it 'a void'.