| abstract | - Other Time Lords frequently characterised the Doctor's TARDIS as woefully out-of-date. (TV: The Claws of Axos, The Ribos Operation) Indeed, by at least the time of the Doctor's fourth incarnation, if not much earlier, the model — called a "Type 40" — had been pulled from general service on Gallifrey. (TV: The Deadly Assassin, The Invasion of Time) The craft was prone to a number of technical faults, ranging from depleted resources (TV: An Unearthly Child, The Wheel in Space, Vengeance on Varos) to malfunctioning controls (TV: The Edge of Destruction) to a simple inability to arrive at the proper time or location. (TV: The Visitation, Attack of the Cybermen, The Eleventh Hour, Victory of the Daleks, The Girl Who Waited and many others) However, because the TARDIS was a living being, these "faults" may instead have been at least partially attributed to the manifestation of the ship's free will. Indeed, the TARDIS itself once told the Eleventh Doctor that it may not have always taken him where he wanted to go, it had always taken him to where he needed to go. (TV: The Doctor's Wife) As the centuries passed and all of the Doctor's companions came and went, his faithful TARDIS remained his constant companion. They shared an unbreakable bond, and the Doctor came to feel that in the end, it was just him and his TARDIS. (AUDIO: The Girl Who Never Was, TV: The Doctor's Wife) Such was this bond, that, in an alternate timeline, the TARDIS eventually became the Doctor's final resting place, containing his personal time stream. (TV: The Name of the Doctor) The Doctor's TARDIS, due to his multitude of experiences, is depicted in many cultures around the world in a variety of forms such as a family rescued from the destruction of Pompeii depicting it as the temple of their household "gods", the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble (TV: The Fires of Pompeii), the Eleventh Doctor using the power of its image to counter the influence of the Prometheans (COMIC: Hunters of the Burning Stone). According to the Moment, the appearance of the TARDIS, even just the noise it makes when it appears, brought hope to anyone who hears it, no matter how lost they were. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
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