A prequel to what I hope will lead to stories in the Stargate and Star Trek realities.
The Dr. Who character is played in the Dr. Who and the Daleks Movie by Peter Cushing.
In theory.
Dr. Julian Who had been working on the subspace project for many years, using a specially designed laser device to discover that space has a substrate level, designing many new technologies when he'd discovered the substrate of normal 3 dimensional space. With six of these highly advanced lasers, Dr. Who was able to piece together enough information with the limited technology he had to discern the levels of subspace, similar to the layers of an onion. Learning soon after that certain energy fields would and could warp subspace, Dr. Who started researching possibilities into investigating into this new discovery.
He needed to make a decision though. This decision would shape the way he saw the world.
Does he tell the world?
The answer is no. Dr. Who decided he would keep this research to himself for the time being because he wanted to learn more about what he was studying even though the knowledge of what he'd learnt would have revolutionised how people viewed science with this new idea of the structure of the universe.
After developing the subspace field technology, Dr. Who discovered he could siphon energy from subspace providing a clean source of energy that didn't and would not pollute the planet, but he was so fascinated by the repercussions of the technology he ignored the possibilities it may be the answers against pollution. In later life he would see this arrogance could cost lives.
The new power cell, barely the size of a softball powered his laboratory and it's energy surplus was nearly inexhaustible. Over the years and technology advanced, Dr. Who would later have a power source a third of the size of the original device, and later to the size of a marble or a jewel.
One night after watching Forbidden planet, Dr. Who is fascinated by the concept of United Planet's federation cruiser C-57d's hyperdrive engine, and two days later he watches a TV program about surfing. Although the sport isn't Dr. Who's cup of tea, he sees something about the science of surfing on space, not on water, being the principle mode of space travel. Knowing that energy could warp space, Dr. Who sets about to make it into a practical reality.
For six months, Dr. Who uses his subspace technology to simulate a warping field in a series of experiments to develop a hyperdrive engine to allow humanity to leave the confines of the Earth. Eventually he designs three subspace warp field generators powered by three separate subspace energy batteries. Placing an apple in the centre of the field, he turned it on. The apple disappeared in a flash of light, but it didn't reappear in the identical generator field. It actually appeared in the garden outside, destroyed and burnt. For years he toiled in his lab, correcting his formula for the teleportation system until his precious granddaughter, Susan, came into his lab after her parents had died and her grandfather gladly became her guardian, and in an unexpected move changed his formula to read that space is moving.
The correction astounded the scientist.
With the newly reprogrammed teleport technology, Dr. Who with Suzie helping him in the lab teleported another apple and it arrived safely without being destroyed. With teleportation a reliable possibility, Dr. Who looked for inspiration of what to do next seeing as he'd spent so many years working on the teleportation and power systems. What else was there?
The answer came in two but highly related ways. When experimenting with the teleport technology, Dr. Who and his granddaughter later discovered that time and distance had been removed from the equation, but time could be put into the equation. Time wasn't some presence, it just was. With time added back into the teleport equation, the Whos were able to teleport a pocket watch into the future. By the clock in the laboratory, compared with the watch sent into the future, a mere second had passed for the watch when two hours had passed.
The next experiment came when Suzie was folding a sheet of paper neatly as part of an activity that had nothing to do with the experiments when she stoppped, stared at what she was doing, and then spent the rest of the day using what she knew of the subspace warping equations, and eventually came up with a formula to warp space into a pocket universe on a subspace strata.
After a year of checking the equation, Dr. Who and his granddaughter created their first pocket universe, and used it to house a subspace capacitor.
One night, Dr. Who and Susan were watching a science fiction film about time travel, when Dr. Who stood up. " That's it! A time ship, we'll build a time machine."
That was the beginning of the project they later called TARDIS.