Hand of Omega
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| Plot element from the Doctor Who television series | |
| Publisher | BBC |
| First appearance | Remembrance of the Daleks (5–26 October 1988) |
| Created by | (Series) (Story) Ben Aaronovitch |
| Genre | Science fiction |
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| Type | Device |
| Function | Stellar manipulator |
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The Hand of Omega is a fictional device from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
In Remembrance of the Daleks the Seventh Doctor explains that the "Hand of Omega" is the mythical name for the remote stellar manipulator invented by Omega, the first of the Time Lords of the planet Gallifrey. Omega was a stellar engineer who used the Hand to create the supernova which would be the power source for the Gallifreyans' experiments and subsequent mastery over time travel. The supernova appeared to consume Omega, but instead shunted him into an antimatter universe. It subsequently collapsed into a black hole, the nucleus of which was harnessed by Omega's colleague Rassilon as the Eye of Harmony, giving the Time Lords the capability of time travel. In homage to Omega, and in keeping with their alleged "infinite capacity for pretentiousness", the Time Lords dubbed the manipulator the "Hand of Omega" (despite the device looking nothing like a hand).
The Hand of Omega was removed from Gallifrey by the First Doctor prior to his self-imposed exile before the events of the first Doctor Who episode. He then hid it in a funeral parlour in London in 1963, as seen in the 1988 serial Remembrance of the Daleks.
The Hand resided in a casket that made it resemble a coffin. The casket had a dull, bronze appearance to it, but what material it was actually made from is unknown. Seemingly possessed of some basic intelligence, the Hand had the ability to levitate and follow simple orders. It was also able, on the Doctor's orders, to suffuse a baseball bat with energy, which the Doctor's companion Ace then used briefly as a weapon.
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