"Nyssa, can't you steady this thing?" Mary Ann asked as the four of them clutched to the console of the TARDIS.
"I'm trying, but some of these controls have been damaged," Nyssa replied.
"Balinkoff must have been monkeying around with it," Gilligan said.
"No, I don't think so," Nyssa said, shaking her head. "This damage looks much more severe." Very slowly, the TARDIS steadied out.
"That's better," Mary Ann said.
"Yes, but I'm afraid I still don't know where we're going," Nyssa said.
"Sounds familiar," Tegan replied. She began to work the controls at the part of the console at which she was standing. "Hey, this looks interesting."
"What is it, Tegan?" Nyssa asked.
"Looks like a log of some kind, made by the Time Lord who originally owned this TARDIS."
"What does it say?" Gilligan asked.
"Well, from what I can make out, this TARDIS was in a battle in something called the Time War," Tegan said. "Anyway, the TARDIS took heavy damage. The Time Lord was forced to abandon it."
"Time War? What's that?" Mary Ann asked.
"I have no idea," Tegan replied. "The Doctor has never mentioned any such war in all the time we travelled with him."
"Unless, from the perspective of the Doctor, it hasn't happened yet," Nyssa pointed out.
"Good point," Tegan said. "Anyway, I'm guessing that, after it was abandoned, this TARDIS just drifted through time and space, until it came to Earth in the 1960's."
"Where Balinkoff got a hold of it," Gilligan said.
"And now we have it," Mary Ann added.
"Do you think we can finally find the Doctor now?" Tegan asked.
"I don't know, Tegan, as I said, this TARDIS is damaged. It might take a while to get things working again," Nyssa replied. "Let's get started."