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| A Dalek |
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 The first alien race ever introduced in Doctor Who,
the Daleks have long been one of the most recognisable
details of the entire program, possibly surpassing even
the TARDIS as the most memorable detail about the program.
From the moment they first appeared on screen, they
had struck terror into the hearts and minds of all the
fans of the show, becoming an iconic image regardless
of the different tastes of the audiences watching them.
THE IDEA
When
asked to create the Daleks, Terry Nation set out to
create aliens that were different from anything that
had been seen before. Their dome-like appearances
were inspired by the Georgian State Dancers, whose
long skirts gave them the impression of gliding along
the stage, while their philosophy of eliminating everything
that didn’t fit their vision of perfection -
in other words, destroying anything that wasn’t
a Dalek - owes much to the Nazis.
THEIR DESIGN
Determined to create an alien that would never look like
someone wearing a suit, Nation set out to create something
that was different from anything that had ever been
seen before. Based on Nation’s description in
the script, BBC designer Raymond Cusick brought the
Daleks to life, basing his design around a man sitting
on a chair, subsequently adding the sucker arm and
gun at different levels (The ‘pepperpot’ analogy
that has become most common over the years was only
used later to demonstrate how the Daleks would move
about).
THEIR EVOLUTION
While the Cybermen have evolved drastically over the
years, the Daleks have retained essentially the same
appearance with only minor modifications, such as
the addition of ‘slats’ over the middle
section bands where the arms were located; they have
generally remained the same shape from their debut,
with one gun-arm, one sucker-arm, and one eye-stalk
on a dome-like body. In the new series, the Daleks
underwent their most significant change yet, their
traditional colour changing from grey to gold, with
their eyes becoming a blue light as opposed to the
simple ‘eye’ they’d possessed originally.
THEIR HISTORY
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| Barbara is Threatened |
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Originally, the Daleks - then known as the Kaleds - were
one of two races inhabiting the distant planet of
Skaro, the other race being the Thals. The two races
had long been at war with each other, each one stationed
in a city protected by a huge dome, and their resources
so depleted that they now fought with a mixture of
modern and ancient weaponry and defences. Over the
course of the war, the use of chemical and biological
weapons caused some members of the population to mutate,
prompting scientists to begin research to determine
a means of dealing with the mutation. One of these
scientists, a crippled Kaled scientist known as Davros,
concluded that the mutation was inevitable and unstoppable,
and so diverted his attention to creating a machine
that could transport the Kaleds’ final mutated
form. Resolving that his ‘Daleks’ would
become the ‘supreme victor’ in the universal
wars that he believed would be inevitable, Davros
altered the Dalek creatures genetic make-up, increasing
aggression, removing their conscience and instilling
in them the notion that they were superior to all
other life. Despite the efforts of the Fourth Doctor
- sent by the Time Lords to avert the creation of
the Daleks - Davros was unable to be swayed from his
goal, but realised too late the flaw in his programming;
as they believed themselves superior to everything,
the Daleks saw no need to obey his orders. As The
Doctor trapped the Daleks in the Kaled bunker - he
refused to kill the entire Dalek race as it would
have made him no better than they were, and his actions
still delayed the Dalek development by around a thousand
years, - the Daleks seemingly exterminated Davros,
vowing that they would some day emerge to conquer
all.
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| Daleks Invade Earth |
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Eventually, the Daleks spread out from the city, mounting
a reign of terror across Skaro and the surviving Thals,
who had become a pacifist race due to the damage caused
to Skaro by the war. With the Daleks determined to
wipe out the Thals but confined to their city due
to their current reliance on static electricity to
move, while the Thals were unwilling to fight and
running short of food, the stalemate was only broken
when the First
Doctor, Susan, Barbara
Wright and Ian
Chesterton arrived on the planet and were forced to mount an attack
on the city to recover a vital missing component of the TARDIS. As the
Daleks prepared to release a lethal burst of radiation to destroy the Thals,
Ian led a team of Thals into the main Dalek control room, damaging their
equipment and shutting down the city’s power supply, apparently killing
the Daleks in the process.
When The Doctor tried to use the Fast Return Switch to take Ian and Barbara back to Earth once again, he fell slightly short when the TARDIS materialised on Skaro once again, a few centuries after their past visit ("Return to Skaro"), where they found that the Thals had developed ionisation towers to reduce the radiation in the atmosphere. As The Doctor, Ian and Barbara learned more about the Thal city, Susan was convinced to investigate the old Dalek city with Jyden, the son of the Thals' chief scientist Tryana, but this revealed that a group of Daleks had survived in an underground chamber in the incubation tanks, and had actually helped Tryana develop the towers. Although Tryana believed that the Daleks were now peaceful, with the Dalek Supreme claiming that it wanted to work with the Thals, The Doctor and his companions soon discovered that the Daleks had been leeching power from the ionisation towers to boost their own production facilities. As the Daleks killed Tryana and made it clear that they intended to force The Doctor to give them the TARDIS, Ian and Jyden were able to use an old Dalek casing to rescue The Doctor and give him the chance to infiltrate the Dalek control facility, allowing The Doctor to configure the ionisation towers to target the Skaronium and force the Daleks out of the city before boosting the power being sent to the Dalek city so that it would explode.
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| Dalek Invasion of Earth |
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Although The Doctor believed that this marked the end of the Daleks, it would appear that there were other incubation chambers on Skaro, allowing the Daleks to overcome their old reliance on external power sources. Now fuelled by remote power transmission rather than direct 'contact', the Daleks eventually made their way to Earth, conquering the planet at some time in the early few decades of the twenty-second century ("The Dalek Invasion of Earth"), subsequently beginning mining operations to replace Earth's core with an engine that would allow them to steer the planet from one solar system to another. Aided by the First Doctor, a resistance movement eventually managed to stop the bomb that would have destroyed Earth's core by creating a barrier in the shaft that the Daleks were using to transport it, the resulting explosion destroying the Daleks and their mine. Although some Daleks survived this explosion, they remained in stasis until reactivated by the Roger Delgado Master some years later, The Master seeking to recover a matter transmuter, capable of transforming elements into other elements, that had been hidden in the Dalek base ("Legacy of the Daleks"). When The Master reactivated the Dalek factory where the transmuter was kept, it began to create new Daleks using its store of raw materials and Dalek embryos, but the Eighth Doctor - who had come to Earth to visit Susan, resulting in an out-of-sequence encounter with the younger Master - managed to set the factory to overload, destroying all the Daleks within the factory as The Master escaped.
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| The Chase |
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After the First Doctor defeated their invasion of Earth,
the Daleks began to consider him a serious threat,
devoting a great deal of their subsequent time and
resources to constructing their own time machine,
thus allowing them to pursue the TARDIS across various
points in history. Having visited such locations as
the Mary Celeste, the Empire State Building and a
haunted house at a fun-fair (As well as confronting
a robotic duplicate of The Doctor who was defeated
by the original in a duel), the Daleks confronted
the time travels on the jungle planet Mechanus, where
they faced the beings known as The
Mechanoids, who had
conquered that planet some years back. After the two
sides had destroyed each other, Ian and Barbara took
the Daleks’ time machine to return home - arriving
only two years after they’d originally left
- The Doctor and new companion Vicki departed, with
Steven
Taylor - a pilot who’d crashed on the
planet some years back - as their new companion.
While the TARDIS crew were assisting with opposition to a Dalek invasion on Entropica, Steven was briefly separated from The Doctor and Vicki when he was taken prisoner by the Daleks, only for the ship he was on to crash-land on the planet Shade ("First Doctor Companion Chronicles Volume 2: Across the Darkened City"). With Steven and a damaged Dalek the only two survivors, the Dalek proposed that it and Steven work together to get off the planet, as the Daleks were familiar with the planet from a past attempt at conquest and had left a transmat pod behind but the Dalek itself had suffered so much damage that its weapon was inoperative and it couldn’t move on its own power. Forced to work with the Dalek as it had the transmat activation codes, Steven even saved its life by carrying it across a river while they were being chased by the native animals, the energy-absorbing Chaons, but the Dalek turned on him after he put it in an abandoned Dalek casing in the transmat base. Despite the Dalek proclaiming that it would kill him, Steven forced it to leave him alive by standing in such a manner that the Dalek couldn’t shoot him without destroying the transmat controls, forcing the Dalek to just transmat itself back to Skaro, leaving Steven behind so that he could call The Doctor for the codes necessary to get himself back to Entropica.
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The Dalek Occupation of Winter
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When the TARDIS arrived in Winter, the only city on a planet in a centuries-long winter ("The Dalek Occupation of Winter"), The Doctor, Vicki and Steven discovered that the populace were currently celebrating a new crop of candidates winning positions at the scientific research centre; those who went there often remained for the rest of their lives, dedicating themselves to continued service and sometimes never returning home. Naturally already suspicious of the situation, The Doctor and his companions were horrified when the city leader, Grand Marshall Gaius Majorian, introduced the Daleks as his allies. While Steven was unwittingly recruited into a factory to make Daleks, Vicki was taken to the research centre as a prisoner when she tried to tell Gaius the truth about the Daleks, leaving The Doctor to be interrogated by Jacklyn Karna, Gaius's chief of security. Fortunately, Steven was able to convince his colleague Amala Kost of the evil of the Daleks, allowing him to talk her into joining him as he sneaked into the latest shipment of Dalek casings to the research facility, allowing him to rescue Vicki and Amala's brother Kenrick, who were being forced to move Daleks into the casings. Although Kenrick was injured by the Dalek mutant, the four were able to escape and return to the factory, where they attempted to tell others the truth about the Daleks, only to be interrupted by Jacklyn who had just interrogated The Doctor about the Daleks and wished to join them to live what she felt was a more 'rewarding' life. Although Jacklyn tried to present Steven, Vicki and their allies as dissidents, when Kenrick began to rant that he was a Dalek after he'd been infected by a Dalek mutant, the Daleks killed him as an abomination, stirring up public opinion against the Daleks after the workers saw proof of their evil. With revolution finally in action, Gaius agreed to assist by providing the humans with Dalek weapons, albeit motivated by self-interest rather than any sense of decency, with the humans managing to drive the Daleks out of Winter and contain them in the research centre, albeit with heavy human casualties. With the humans once again in control of their own colony, Gaius ordered The Doctor, Vicki and Steven to depart the planet, wanting to secure his own position rather than risk The Doctor revealing the truth, The Doctor accepting the threat in resignation as he departed. However, Gaius was subsequently killed by the Daleks and Jacklyn, as she still sought power while allied with the Daleks, leaving it unclear if the revolution would continue or if the Daleks would just retake control and rebuild all over again.
The Doctor’s next confrontation with the Daleks was
his most trying one yet, not only because it featured
a rematch with The
Meddling Monk - The Doctor’s
first Time Lord enemy - but because it resulted in
the deaths of two of his companions. Arriving in the
year 4000, The Doctor, Steven and new companion Katarina
found themselves pitted against a Dalek army, the
Daleks now allied with the rogue ‘Guardian of
the Solar System’ Mavic Chen, who had betrayed
the human race in order to gain control of the solar
system. Requiring the rare element Taranium to control
their ultimate weapon, the Time Destructor, the Daleks
had treated Chen as an ally to gain access to the
Taranium, which could only be found on Uranus after
fifty years of mining. Learning of the Dalek plot
upon their arrival on the planet Kembel, The Doctor,
Steven and Katarina tried to escape to warn the rest
of the galaxy, but when they were boarded by a prisoner
who threatened Katarina in an airlock unless he was
taken to the nearest planet - Kembel, - Katarina ejected
the two of them into space to give The Doctor and
Steven the chance to spread the warning. Allying themselves
with security agent Sara
Kingdom after the Daleks
tricked her into killing her brother Bret Vyon, The
Doctor and Steven managed to recover the TARDIS and
trick the Daleks into accepting a fake taranium core,
subsequently going on the run throughout various locations
in time. However, after the intervention of the Meddling
Monk - who had managed to get his TARDIS working after
his last encounter with The Doctor, - the Daleks reacquired
the taranium, leaving The Doctor with no option but
to activate the time destructor ahead of schedule,
aging the entire Dalek invasion fleet - and Sara -
to dust. The Doctor only survived because Steven managed
to get him back to the TARDIS and set the destructor
into reverse after the Daleks had disintegrated but
before The Doctor could do the same; the process couldn’t
bring back the dead, but it served to restore The
Doctor to approximately his original age.
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Fugitive of the Daleks
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Some time after these events, when The Doctor was taken out of time by the Time Lords, the TARDIS was essentially hijacked by the robot duplicate of The Doctor that had been previously created by the Daleks ("The Chase"). Reactivated by a signal from the Daleks, the robot Doctor locked The Doctor’s current companion Dodo Chaplet in her room, but it was so disorientated it was unable to properly pilot the TARDIS itself, driving it to take the ship to ancient Earth where it made contact with the now-old Vicki ("Fugitive of the Daleks"). Initially assuming that the robot Doctor was the true Doctor, Vicki accompanied the robot on its next few journeys to try and determine what had happened, but she eventually realised its true identity and was able to release Dodo from the room while leaving the robot Doctor behind. The true Doctor was able to use another time machine to infiltrate the Daleks and essentially impersonate the Supreme Dalek of the group currently tracking the TARDIS, allowing him to trick the Daleks into abandoning their search after finding his robot double and returning Vicki to her current home time.
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| The Power of the Daleks |
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Shortly
after his first regeneration, the Second
Doctor, accompanied by Polly and Ben Jackson,
found himself on the colony planet Vulcan, discovering
the body of an Earth Examiner sent to investigate
reports of rebels, using the dead man’s pass
badge to give himself unrestricted access to the colony.
Discovering that a scientist had found a crashed space
capsule containing inert Daleks, The Doctor was shocked
when the Daleks claimed to be the colony’s servants.
As the rebels grew in strength, lead by the chief
of security of the colony, the Daleks took advantage
of the colonists' naive trust to establish a reproduction
plant on a conveyor belt system that allowed them
to increase their numbers. Fortunately, The Doctor
was able to destroy the Daleks by turning the colony's
power source against them, allowing the colony’s
deputy governor to re -establish control from the
rebels, subsequently departing, with Ben and Polly
once again convinced that he was the true Doctor (The
source of this Dalek factory ship was later revealed
in "War
of the Daleks").
Shortly after this, The Doctor, now accompanied solely
by Jamie McCrimmon, was investigating the theft of
the TARDIS by antiques dealer Edward Waterfield, whose
daughter Victoria was being threatened by the Daleks
in order to force to operate his time machine (His
time of origin being the Victorian era only serves
to highlight the scale of his intellect). The Daleks
forced The Doctor to monitor Jamie's rescue of Victoria
as part of a test to supposedly identify the human
factor: the special quality possessed by humans that
enabled them to always defeat the Daleks. Having succeeded,
The Doctor implanted the human factor into three test
Daleks, making them friendly and playful, only to
realise that the Daleks’ true intention was
to isolate the Dalek factor - the impulse to destroy
- and implant it into humans, using the TARDIS to
spread the ‘Dalek Factor’across time. The Daleks attempted to use the process on The Doctor, but since he wasn’t human, The Doctor was immune to the Dalek Factor, allowing him to trick the Daleks into infusing multiple Daleks with the human factor. Having triggered a Dalek civil war between the original Daleks and the human factor Daleks, The Doctor departed with Jamie and Victoria, Edward Waterfield having sacrificed himself to protect The Doctor.
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Fear of the Daleks
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Although Jamie argued that The Doctor’s actions against the Daleks had been necessary, The Doctor was troubled by the genocide he had been forced to commit, which was only reinforced when the TARDIS materialised on the planet Tersimmon ("The Death of the Daleks"). When The Doctor and Jamie departed, leaving Victoria to rest in the TARDIS, they found that the planet was full of dead Daleks, meeting a group of human colonists who had survived the Dalek assault only by destroying the colony and most of the population. Learning that the survivors were being hunted by one last Dalek, The Doctor was curious as this lone Dalek was apparently attacking at close range and using sneak attacks, neither of which were a common Dalek strategy. The Doctor and Jamie eventually learned that the killer was actually Anya, one of the surviving colonists, killing the others as she couldn’t cope with her guilt over the deaths of the rest of the colony. The situation was complicated when an advanced Dalek appeared on Tersimmon to eliminate any leftover Dalek technology after their defeat, but The Doctor was able to displace that Dalek once again, speculating that it would become the ‘Dalek Death’, a myth of a Dalek who haunted the battlefields of lost Dalek campaigns, essentially the Dalek equivalent of the Grim Reaper. Anya was left with an emergency beacon informing passing ships of her crimes so that she could be taken for trial, but she suggested that The Doctor let the Dalek go because he wouldn’t know what to do with himself without evil to fight, even as Jamie insisted The Doctor wasn’t like that.
Some time later, after his new companion Zoe had joined the crew
("Fear of the Daleks"), The Doctor visited
the peace conference between the Xantha Empire and
an alien race called the Tibari. However, he was shocked to learn that
Atrika, a Tibari scientist, was using Dalek telepathic
technology in an attempt to take control of the two
cultures for himself and thus create a vast empire.
Connecting Zoe to the machine in an attempt to force
her to assassinate the Tibari president, Atrika then
planned for the Daleks to aid him in seizing control
and forging a new empire, realising too late that
the Daleks had no intention of fulfilling their side
of the bargain. With this realisation, Atrika confessed
to his crimes over the telepathic system before being exterminated, his last act being to use the system to force the Daleks to self-destruct.
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Daughter of the Gods
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While his next encounter with the Daleks was erased from history, it was a personally difficult experience for The Doctor as it only came about because of a mistake by his companions. When Jamie and Zoe decided to reconnect the Time Path Indicator to the TARDIS console ("Daughter of the Gods"), they unintentionally caused the TARDIS to collide with its past self; the Indicator detected the past TARDIS, but the companions were unaware that TARDISes automatically avoided such collisions, with the result that Jamie and Zoe's attempts to avoid the other ship caused the accident they were trying to stop. The collision damaged the dematerialisation circuit of both TARDISes and caused them to crash-land on the planet Urbania six months apart, with the other TARDIS being the First Doctor's TARDIS on its way to Kembel ("The Daleks' Master Plan"). Trapped on the planet, The Doctor and Steven were able to find work to sustain themselves while The Doctor worked on teaching Katarina and repairing the dematerialisation circuit, but without The Doctor's interference, the Daleks completed the Time Destructor and began a new campaign of conquest. When the Second Doctor and his companions arrived six months later, the First Doctor had finished his new dematerialisation circuit, but the Daleks were already sweeping over this part of the galaxy, destroying large portions of the planet until the city where the two Doctors had arrived was the only human habitation left standing. As the two Doctors made contact, their companions were able to defeat the first wave of Daleks when Steven and Zoe lured the Daleks into a trap with the aid of fuel cells from the spaceport, but despite the First Doctor's attachment to Katarina, he was forced to let the Second Doctor take his repaired dematerialisation circuit so that his future self could prevent the TARDIS collision that had caused this new timeline in the first place when the next wave of Daleks attacked. When the collision was averted, the timeline of the Daleks' conquest was erased and Katarina's death restored, with only the Second Doctor showing any sign that he remembered the new timeline that had briefly existed.
When The Doctor was captured by the Time Lords, he was subsequently forcibly recruited as a deniable agent by the Celestial Intervention Agency to deal with various matters on their behalf before his regeneration and exile ‘officially’ began ("The Final Beginning"). The Doctor’s first mission saw him sent to Skaro, as his Time Lord supervisor Raven explained that the Dalek Civil War The Doctor had previously instigated had caused such a drastic shift in the Web of Time that the entire planet had been forced out of time for three centuries, causing damage to established history. After meeting Silas and Catrona, who had come to the planet as surveyors investigating it for potential resources, The Doctor learned that he had been sent there to retrieve Celestine, the Time Lord agent sent to investigate the anomaly first, but by the time he found Celestine the agent had suffered an apparent mental breakdown. Silas was killed by the returning Daleks and Catrona was infected with Dalek nanites, but The Doctor was able to return Celestine to Gallifrey and asked that Catrona receive medical attention. However, as The Doctor departed on his next assignment he was unaware that Raven had killed Catrona rather than giving her medical treatment (albeit on the apparent grounds that there was no way to treat her condition) and Celestine had been shown claiming that he was the Emperor of the Daleks.
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| Day of the Daleks |
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After The Doctor’s regeneration and exile was finally enforced, the
Third Doctor had a rather confusing encounter with the Daleks when UNIT was called upon to provide security for an important peace conference ("Day
of the Daleks"). Discovering the
presence of a group of renegade freedom fighters from
the future in the mansion where the conference was
to be held, The Doctor and his companion Jo Grant were drawn over two hundred years into the future
into a world where the conference had apparently been
sabotaged by Styles - the diplomat in charge of the
conference - in a bid to grab power for himself, resulting
in a series of wars that decimated seven-eighths of
the world’s population and left Earth easy pickings
for the Daleks. However, after travelling into the
future himself, The Doctor realised that the guerrillas
had been caught in a temporal paradox. Styles hadn’t
triggered the explosion; it had been set off by one
of the guerrilla force himself, trapped in the past
when he was separated from the group and so determined
to finish his mission by destroying the mansion that
he failed to realise that the conference was taking
place. Aided by the guerrillas, The Doctor and Jo
travelled back to the past and prevented the explosion,
restoring history to its proper course.
When
they finally returned, the Daleks, in an unusual break
from tradition, had actually allied themselves with
The Master, intending to trigger a war between Earth
and the Draconian Empire in the far future. Having
exposed the truth of the scheme to the two respective
Empires and forced The Master to flee, The Doctor
and Jo tracked the Dalek army to the planet Spiridon,
where they allied themselves with a Thal strike force
sent to eliminate the Daleks. Despite the Daleks’ attempts
to master the native Spiridons’ ability to turn
invisible, the power requirements were too great for
the Daleks to make regular use of the power, allowing
The Doctor to plant a bomb that destroyed the Dalek
army frozen in suspended animation in a cavern beneath
their base. With the war averted, The Doctor and the
Thals departed, The Doctor taking care to remind the
Thals that they should never make war sound like a
game, and tell their comrades back home of the people
who wouldn’t be coming back rather than allowing
them to focus on those who had survived.
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The Conquest of Far
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While preparing to return to Earth, the TARDIS was drawn off course by an unspecified force to the planet Far ("The Conquest of Far"), a planet on the far limits of Earth's empire, where The Doctor had once assisted in the construction of a hypergate to help ships travelling long distances. While exploring the deserted planet, The Doctor and Jo witnessed a platoon of Daleks, resulting in The Doctor falling into an underground chamber while trying to escape the Daleks. Trying to find help for The Doctor, Jo encountered Delralis, a member of the local resistance, while The Doctor was able to make his way to a Dalek fuelling station run by human slaves who had suffered serious mutations due to exposure to the radioactive substances the Daleks used for fuel. Making contact with Jickster, the admiral who had once been in charge of Far's defences and was now the least twisted of the Dalek slaves, The Doctor was able to steal a Dalek saucer and reactivate the hypergate, allowing him and Jickster to escape and make contact with an Earth Alliance fleet. Although Delralis was revealed to be a traitor who had sold out the resistance to guarantee the safety of his wife Elaquon, resulting in Jo being captured by the Daleks, The Doctor was able to talk with Jickster and learn that the Daleks had two secret weapons on Far; a Dalek army in stasis, numbering over a million Daleks, and a giant transmitter that would broadcast a signal enabling the Daleks to turn the attacking Earth fleet into Robomen slaves en masse once they got into range. Delralis attempted to trick Jo into sending a signal to lure The Doctor into a trap, but The Doctor escaped capture and robotisation by using his stolen saucer to return to Far via the hypergate with Jickster and an Alliance strike team led by Thurskan Admiral Naltrox. Making contact with Jo, Delralis and Elaquon, The Doctor learned that Elaquon had been one of the slaves assigned to construct the weapon, Elaquon accompanying The Doctor to disable it while the strike team held off the Daleks. After Elaquon reset the weapon to buy time, The Doctor determined that blowing the weapon up would destroy the complex with them in it, but he was able to reprogram its targeting systems to focus on the Dalek army, the overload of Dalek instructions causing them to self-destruct. Although Delralis turned the weapon off when he was revealed to be a high-level roboman, the signal had lasted long enough to give the arriving Earth Alliance fleet the chance to destroy the army and deliver a new victory for Earth Alliance against the Daleks.
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Poison of the Daleks
(Guy Adams) |
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Sometime later, The Doctor joined UNIT in evaluating Breathe Industries, a company that claimed to have developed a process for filtering pollution out of air ("Poison of the Daleks"). However, when The Doctor investigated the alleged filtration equipment, he was shocked to find that it was actually a transmat device, which, when activated, sent himself, Jo Grant, The Brigadier and Sergeant Benton to the planet Balbo in the distant future, a human colony with an atmosphere so toxic that the population had actually 'evolved' so that their lungs couldn't cope with pure air. Realising that the Daleks were on the planet, The Doctor and his allies were able to join the local resistance, The Doctor working with their local scientific advisor Skwoj to devise new weapons against the Daleks while The Brigadier and Benton gave the resistance more official training. After The Doctor learned that Balbo was the location of a space-time nexus that the Daleks were trying to tap so that they could use it to travel across all of time and space - Breathe Industries' Professor Brock had tapped into the nexus by sheer chance - Skwoj was briefly converted into a high-functioning Roboman so that the Daleks could tap her intelligence to complete the process. Fortunately, The Brigadier and Benton's forces were able to damage the Dalek facility enough to let The Doctor escape and de-program Skwoj as she was acting to send the Daleks through the nexus, allowing Skwoj to reprogram the nexus to send the Daleks back to the Thousand-Year-War on Skaro where they were destroyed in their own past. With only a few Daleks left on Baldo, the resistance was able to destroy them and allow The Doctor and his companions to return to Earth so that they could destroy the transmat at the other end, as Brock and other members of Breathe Industries had been killed when they finally turned against the Daleks, leaving a small number of Daleks that UNIT could destroy with relative ease.
The Third Doctor’s last encounter with the Daleks is
particularly memorable because it marked the first
time that the Daleks ever collaborated with The Doctor,
albeit because they were trapped on a planet with
a vast high-tech city that emitted a field shutting
down all advanced technology such as their weapons.
Trapped on the planet Exxilon by a power failure,
The Doctor, Sarah
Jane Smith and a human expedition
seeking a cure for a violent plague were forced to
work with the Daleks to find a solution for the power
drain in order to leave Earth. Aided by Bellal, one
of the native Exxilons, The Doctor learned about the
city and managed to enter it, subsequently disabling
the field after passing various ‘tests’ laid
out inside the city. Although the Daleks attempted
to escape with the cure for the plague - intending,
naturally, to blackmail their enemies into surrendering
to them in exchange for the cure, - their ship was
destroyed by a bomb planted by a member of the expedition,
Sarah and another of the expedition having already
smuggled the cure onto the Earth ship.
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Energy of the Daleks
(Nicholas Briggs) |
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The Doctor found himself dealing
with the Daleks once again when he and Leela were
visiting Earth in the twenty-first century, discovering
Earth in the middle of an energy crisis as residents
protested against the actions of the GlobeSphere Corporation
("Energy
of the Daleks"). Witnessing a protest
in Trafalgar Square, The Doctor and Leela learned
that GlobeSphere, founded by Damien Stephens, had
developed a new solar energy system that would absorb
solar energy on the Moon and transfer it to Earth,
but he was initially sending it to pre-existing governments
and industrial corporations (Allegedly to help the
economy during the transitional phase). When The Doctor
and Leela were separated after GlobeSphere released
their riot control, The Doctor found himself in the
company of Jack Coulson- the head protestor and an
old friend of Stephens- while Leela was captured by
GlobeSphere security, who were quickly revealed to
be RoboMen. When scans of Leela determined that she
was a time traveller, she was taken to the Daleks
for interrogation while The Doctor spoke with Coulson,
learning of his suspicions about Stephens’s
sudden scientific leaps and acceptance of the government
after their energy restrictions lead to the death
of his mother. Infiltrating the National Gallery-
now GlobeSphere headquarters- through a secret underground
passage, The Doctor confirmed that the Daleks were
present and in control of Stephens, with the Daleks’ interrogation
forcing Leela to reveal The Doctor’s presence
to his enemies. Escaping the RoboMen team sent to
capture him by overloading the microwave receivers
the Daleks used to control them, The Doctor and Coulson
used the RoboMens’ uniforms to infiltrate the
central control room and rescue Leela from the Robotisation
Unit. Locating a Dalek transmat system, The Doctor
was able to escape to the GlobeSphere moonbase with
Leela and Coulson, The Doctor convincing the GlobeSphere
staff to work with him as the Daleks attacked the
moonbase. With the Daleks as proof of the threat,
The Doctor was allowed to access the base’s
control room, ordering the rest of the staff to evacuate
while Coulson tried to appeal to the mind-controlled
Stephens using their old friendship. With Stephens’ information,
The Doctor, Leela and Coulson discovered that the
Daleks- who came from the future where mankind had
often defeated the Daleks’ plans- intended to
transmit excessive amounts of energy to Earth from
the moon, the receivers working together to create
a massive force field that would disrupt Earth’s
gravity, pushing the Moon away and disrupting Earth’s
axis to trigger catastrophic environment disasters.
Although the Daleks assumed that The Doctor would
be unable to stop the countdown, the Daleks were unable
to fire at him without risking damaging the controls,
giving The Doctor time to secretly reprogram the console
and force the Daleks to retreat, the Daleks learning
that The Doctor had reprogrammed the moonbase to direct
the energy beams to the power source of the Dalek
ship only after they had taken off. Although Stephens
was killed by the Daleks as they retreated, Leela
assured Coulson that his friend had been a good man
in the end, and they had still achieved a great victory
by defeating the Daleks.
In an attempt to prove his ability to control the TARDIS to Leela, The Doctor took the TARDIS back to Exxilon (Leela was aware of the planet after they encountered an Exxilon ship ("The Exxilons")), but became trapped on the planet due to a new beacon that had been installed there, the beacon being activated just as the Earth mining team were preparing to leave with the mined paranium. Making contact with his old Exxilon ally Bellal, and unknowingly aided by the base's security chief Anya Kingdom (who would travel with The Doctor in his future and her past ("The Perfect Prisoners")), The Doctor was able to retrieve the TARDIS and destroy the beacon. However, The Doctor and Leela realised that android agent Mark Seven had been reprogrammed during a recent undercover mission to Skaro to provide half the parranium to the Daleks, the Daleks manipulating Mark's programmed value of life to convince him that he 'had' to help the Daleks as well. The Doctor was able to disrupt the Dalek programming and convince Mark to help The Doctor reprogram a Dalek bomb to drive the Daleks off, although Anya was needed to save The Doctor from being caught in the blast. Only Leela was aware of Anya's past/future time with The Doctor, Anya careful to prevent The Doctor and K9 seeing her face and Leela in turn agreeing to keep Anya's secret.
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The Dalek Contract
(Nicholas Briggs) |
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While investigating the experiments of Cuthbert, the mysterious CEO of the powerful Conglomerate, The Doctor and his companion Romana were surprised to learn that Cuthbert had apparently hired the Daleks as security forces for his self-proclaimed greatest experiment ("The Dalek Contract" and "The Final Phase"). Although Cuthbert was convinced that he was in control of the Daleks after drawing up a contract with them, The Doctor and his companions knew that the Daleks could never be trusted. Although the Daleks obeyed Cuthbert's orders to only take prisoners rather than kill their enemies - Cuthbert wanting to escape recent accusations of his disregard for alien life by ordering the Daleks not to kill save for extreme circumstances - their true plan was exposed shortly after The Doctor learned that Cuthbert's plan was to use a dimensional tear as a means of time travel, thus allowing him to sow the seeds for his own company in the past and give his younger self help to establish his authority. Once the tear had stabilised, the Daleks intended to use it to travel to all points in existence and rule history, but The Doctor was able to program the tear to generate a massive dimensional pulse focused on Dalek DNA, destroying all Daleks seeking to claim the portal (Cuthbert travelled through the portal before it could be destroyed, but it was unclear if he succeeded in his goal to essentially create his own reputation).
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| Destiny of the Daleks |
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Returning to Skaro literally centuries
after his last visit, the Fourth
Doctor and the newly-regenerated
Romana were shocked to discover that the Daleks had
returned, seeking to revive Davros; as it turned out,
the Dalek attack after their activation had not killed
him, but merely trapped him in a state of suspended
animation thanks to his chair’s defences. Confronting
a robot race called the Movelleans, The Doctor learned
that the Daleks and Movelleans were currently at war
with each other, but their reliance on logic rather
than impulsive emotion meant that their battle computers
were locked in a deadlock calculating the best possible
plan of attack; every time one of their ships moved
to begin a new battle strategy, one of the enemy’s
ships automatically moved to compensate for the shift,
leaving them permanently locked in a stalemate with
not one single shot having yet been fired. The two
sides hoped that Davros would be able to program them
with the initiative necessary to overcome this defect,
but Davros instead attempted to destroy the Movellean
ship by reprogramming a group of Daleks to act as
a ‘suicide squad’ by loading them with
bombs and sending them to the ship, intending to subsequently
re-establish himself as leader of the Daleks. Having
tricked Davros into activating the bombs early, The
Doctor deactivated the Movelleans and cryogenically
froze Davros until the Daleks’ now-freed human
slaves could take him back to Earth to stand trial.
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The Mutant Phase
(Nicholas
Briggs) |
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At one point during the Dalek invasion, in the year 2158, the Daleks encountered a new threat from the distant future, a crisis that also involved the Fifth Doctor and his companion Nyssa (Resulting in a rather confusing confrontation where the Dalek Emperor of the future told the Daleks of 2158 that The Doctor would thwart their invasion in the future, but killing him now would achieve nothing because he would still have already done it) ("The Mutant Phase"). In the year 4220, a lethal race of giant insects had attacked Earth, leaving the human race reduced to a mere handful of human survivors on a dead planet, with rumours of other surviving colonies dismissed by many... and, even worse, these 'insects' were mutated Daleks, robbed of all higher brain functions and reduced to mindless destructive monsters. Unable to reach into the past themselves due to their limited resources, the Daleks, aided by the Thals, eventually managed to 'attract' the Fifth Doctor to them using a Time Corridor to extract the TARDIS from 2158 - the year the Mutant Phase was first detected in the Dalek genome, - and drew him into the future, where he accepted their mission after realising there was something strange about the existence of the Mutant Phase. Accompanied by the Dalek Emperor in the body of the Thal Ganatus, The Doctor and Nyssa determined that the Mutant Phase began when wasps were altered by genetically modified food and subsequently stung a battle-damaged Dalek with a cracked casing, the wasp's DNA being integrated into the Daleks' genetic make-up by accident. Initially, the Emperor attempted to ensure the Daleks' triumph in all time frames by providing them with a 'cure' for the Mutant Phase in the form of a pesticide, but The Doctor realised that this was the paradox. Originally, the Daleks would have detected the wasp DNA and cured it on their own, but by coming back to offer the pesticide, the Emperor would create the threat it sought to prevent. Smashing the pesticide container, the Emperor created a temporal ripple effect that wiped out all trace of the Mutant Phase, erasing him from history as The Doctor and Nyssa escaped the effects of the paradox in the TARDIS. As The Doctor departed, however, he was left with some degree of hope for the Dalek race, considering that the plague was only averted because the Emperor Dalek listened to The Doctor's warnings and believed him, something that the Daleks would normally have never done.
On a later trip, while Nyssa was taking a visit to the Crusades, the Fifth Doctor arrived in the Savoy Hotel and was shocked to learn that he was in 2158, a year after the Dalek Invasion, but with the Daleks conspicuously absent. Although Earth was at peace in the new history, The Doctor was nevertheless forced to solve the mystery of the Dalek’s non-invasion, beginning with the investigation of the society Global Warning, who possessed surprisingly advanced technology based on accessing the awareness of time-sensitives that was able to track The Doctor’s travels and had also become aware of the Daleks’ original invasion, to the point that someone had begun creating toy Daleks despite the lack of logic in such a creation. Investigating other such anomalies across history, focused around conflicts such as the American Civil War, The Doctor tracked the Daleks to a temporal nexus point, where the Daleks had developed nano-Daleks that would thus spread and turn humans into Dalek slaves. The ‘toy’ Daleks were the current manifestation of these nano-Daleks, but as this transmission method only sent very few nano-Daleks at a time, the Daleks now intended to force The Doctor to release them on a grander scale with the aid of the TARDIS; the new timeline had been created as a result of the Daleks’ attempts to ‘re-do’ their original invasion of Earth to avoid The Doctor’s original intervention by essentially brainwashing the human race with the nanites. Although the nano-Daleks were essentially linked to the TARDIS so that it was locked on a fixed course with The Dalek time corridor and would release the nanites as soon as it materialised, The Doctor was able to trigger the HADS - Hostile Action Displacement System - by encouraging Global Warning to fire on the TARDIS, granting him thirty seconds to regain control of the TARDIS and expel the nano-Daleks into the Time Vortex. With the destruction of the nano-Daleks and the pocket dimension where the Daleks had been using as their ‘base’ to construct the nano-Daleks, the invasion was restored to its original place in history.
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Plague of the Daleks
(Mark Morris) |
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During a visit
to the village of Stockbridge - a location that The
Doctor had visited several times in the past, now
concealed beneath an environmental dome after Earth
became uninhabitable -, The Doctor and Nyssa discovered
a strange plague was afflicting the village that turned
those infected into zombie-like beings ("Plague
of the Daleks"). Investigating the plague, The
Doctor and Nyssa discovered a small group of three
Daleks hidden in the village, having waited so long
that they were actually starting to corrode, but when
The Doctor was infected with the plague it was quickly
revealed that the plague’s true goal was to
turn The Doctor into a Dalek, with the entire situation
having been set up simply so that the Daleks could
capture The Doctor. Fortunately, a distraction Nyssa caused by killing one of the Daleks allowed The Doctor to trick the Daleks into thinking that the infection was progressing faster than it really was. As the Daleks lowered their guard, The Doctor was able to rescue Nyssa and destroy the other Daleks using the virus, although The Doctor was forced to destroy the dome and Stockbridge to prevent any Dalek technology being recovered from the village.
After The Doctor and Nyssa had reunited with their old companion Tegan Jovanka ("Arc of Infinity"), the reformed trio found themselves facing a particularly unique threat from a single Dalek. During an unidentified battle, a lone Dalek had become separated from its fleet and sent hurtling through time to land on the planet Florana in its distant past, at a point when it was still inhabited by a humanoid species ("The Elite") rather than the empty, peaceful planet The Doctor was more familiar with. The primitive society having no real knowledge of other worlds while still possessing a degree of technical skill, the damaged Dalek was able to establish itself as the High Priest of the city where it had crashed, spreading a twisted creed encouraging the development of the 'Elite' citizens over the other cities on the planet. Although the Dalek's primary goal was to encourage technological development so that the planet could create a new time machine for it to return to the fleet, it also drew great satisfaction from its role in this conflict, even if it couldn't participate itself as its usual casing was so damaged that the Church had to create a 'throne' for the Dalek to act as a substitute life support system. While the military waged war against the rest of the planet to enforce the Dalek's creed, the city's intellectually gifted were taught at the Academy to further the war effort while the less intelligent were sent to work camps, and anyone over thirty was killed as they were no longer 'productive' members of society. Arriving on the planet after being caught in the temporal wake of the Dalek's ship, The Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan were captured, Nyssa being sent to the Academy and Tegan to a work camp while The Doctor was brought before the 'High Priest'. Learning of the Dalek's role in creating this world, The Doctor was willing to take the Dalek back to its fleet, reasoning that it was better to get it away from this society and take it back to where it would just be one Dalek among many, but this plan was complicated when a member of the Church overheard the Dalek's plan to leave and instead killed the Dalek so that he could make the 'High Priest' a martyr to his planned coup of the military forces. With the Church and the Military at war while Tegan was able to rally the resistance to strike back, The Doctor found a delta wave emitter the Academy used to brainwash more stubborn students such as Nyssa, modifying it to knock out everyone in the city apart from himself and a few of the older rebels. Still certain that the Dalek was a messenger from his gods, the insane cleric who had killed the Dalek attempted to trigger the High Priest's 'Cleansing Fire' weapon, believing that it would destroy the unbelievers when it was actually a massive signal for the Dalek fleet, but the rebel leader sacrificed himself to destroy the transmitter. The Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan departed once Nyssa had recovered from her brainwashing, leaving the people to rebuild society without Dalek prejudices, but The Doctor mused that his views of Florana's later beauty would forever be marred by this new knowledge of what the population had become.
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Shadow of the Daleks - 2
(Lizzie Hopley, John Dorney, Roland Moore and Jonathan Barnes) |
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During a period when he was travelling alone, after a traumatic encounter with the Cybermen ("Time Apart"), The Doctor found himself caught in a mysterious sequence of trips where he kept encountering the same three faces in different times and places with different names and personalities ("Shadow of the Daleks - 1" and "Shadow of the Daleks - 2"). After travelling across various time periods, The Doctor eventually determined that the TARDIS had crashed into a Dalek timeship that had been created as a temporal bomb, intended to destroy Gallifrey's past, present and future. The three people The Doctor had encountered were temporal echoes of the Daleks aboard the ship, regressed back to the Kaleds they would have been if they never became Daleks, their temporal disruption even causing the original crash. After one of the crew was killed, causing the death of her Dalek counterpart, The Doctor speculated that the current attack was the Daleks' revenge for his own attempt to interfere with their creation, but had enough awareness of the future to have at least an idea that this attack was part of the future Time War ("The Day of The Doctor"). In order to protect Gallifrey, the three Kaleds tricked their Dalek counterparts into exterminating them, thus destroying the Daleks at the same time, The Doctor speculating that this destruction would leave the Dalek Empire with no idea why that mission failed and thus ensuring that they would never try such a thing again.
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The Lost Resort - Nightmare of the Daleks
(Martyn Waites) |
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Some time later, The Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan and new companion Marc, a former Roman slave ("Tartarus") who had been partially converted into a Cyberman ("Warzone/Conversion") arrived at a drilling rig on an alien planet after something hacked Mark’s cyber-components and drove him to enter coordinates into the TARDIS. Once the TARDIS arrived at its destination, The Doctor speculated that some part of Marc had been drawn to the rig so that he could use the sleep-pods on the rig to make up for his new inability to sleep. However, the others were discovered by the commander of the rig after placing Marc in the pod, who revealed that people using the pods had been experiencing nightmares of creatures The Doctor recognised as Daleks, and some weren’t even waking up (the workers’ contracts required them to use the pods so just not doing so wasn’t an option). Entering another pod with Nyssa to confirm what was happening, The Doctor confronted the Dalek Supreme in the dream, where he learned that the Daleks had crash-landed on this planet some time ago, but although the ship and their bodies had been destroyed, the Daleks were able to sustain their minds through their sheer hatred. The Daleks’ final goal was to ultimately infiltrate the dream-pod network and use the rig workers as slave labour to rebuild their bodies and mount a new campaign of conquest, but The Doctor was able to disrupt the network by bringing a disruptor into the dream with him and his companions, interrupting the Daleks’ attempt to hack the dreampods. Although their lack of physical form meant that The Doctor couldn’t destroy the Daleks, The Doctor intended to stay in the dream and hold the Daleks prisoner with the power of his mind, but Marc volunteered to do so himself, as his cybernetic body and already enhanced mind would allow him to keep the Daleks trapped for a long time.
During the 20th
anniversary special "The
Five Doctors",
where all five Doctors were taken from their proper
places in time and placed within the Death Zone -
an area where past Time Lords pitted various species
against each other for sport - the First Doctor and
Susan encountered a single Dalek in a maze of mirrors,
the Dalek subsequently chasing them as it yelled that
The Doctor must be exterminated. Fortunately, The
Doctor and Susan were able to trick the Dalek into
entering a mirrored alcove; as the Dalek fired blindly
at them, the blast reflected off the mirrors and hit
the Dalek itself, the explosion simultaneously creating
a hole in the wall of the building that allowed The
Doctor and Susan to find the other Doctors.
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| Resurrection of the Daleks |
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Although The
Doctor had hoped that their last encounter would see
the end of Davros, the Daleks were unfortunately able
to rescue their creator from the space station that
he was trapped in after his trial, seeking his aid
in creating a cure for an anti-Dalek virus that had
been created by the Movelleans. As well as this, the
Daleks created a time corridor into Earth’s
past, replacing key figures with android duplicates,
with their main goal being to capture The Doctor and
his companions - one of these traps featuring a time
corridor, - replace them with androids, and send the
androids to assassinate the High Council of Time Lords.
Fortunately, although they managed to capture the
Fifth Doctor, Tegan
Jovanka and Turlough in the corridor,
one of their previously created duplicates rebelled
and destroyed the space station, thus leaving the
duplicates without anything to control them and The
Doctor confident that their conditioning would wear
off and allow them to live normal lives among society.
At the same time, The Doctor released samples of the
Dalek virus onto the Dalek ship, killing the Daleks
and forcing Davros to flee in an escape pod as the
virus began to affect him due to his Dalek components.
After an encounter
with Davros on his own, the Sixth
Doctor again encountered
the Daleks’ creator allied with his creations
during a visit to the planet Necros, where the wealthy
could have their newly-deceased bodies cryogenically
frozen until such time as medical science could cure
whatever killed them. Investigating the death of a
friend, The Doctor discovered that the ‘Great
Healer’ of the facility was in fact Davros,
who was using the organic material in the cryogenic
storage units both as the raw material for the synthetic
food that was Necros's biggest export and also to
create a whole new army of Daleks with which to take
control of the universe. Thankfully, the arrival of
Daleks loyal to the Supreme Dalek averted Davros’s
plans, with the Daleks arresting their creator and
ignoring The Doctor (His regeneration prevented them
from recognising him, the only occasion where the
Daleks were unable to instantly identify The Doctor).
During
a visit to a conference of twenty of the greater powers
in time and space on the planet Archetryx, the Sixth
Doctor found himself locked in a new confrontation
with the Daleks as they sought to acquire control
of strange new elements from the Archetryx system
that seemed to defy all known laws of physics. Learning
that his former companion Romana had been captured
twenty years ago when the Daleks literally stole a
planet containing the elements in question, The Doctor
quickly helped to coordinate a defence as the Daleks
attempted to force the stolen planet to crash into
Archetryx, subsequently being reunited with Romana
when she managed to transmat off the planet - where
she had been kept prisoner - with a Dalek focusing
crystal, thus disrupting their plans. Using one of
the ships from the conference, the Daleks were subsequently
able to launch an invasion of Gallifrey, forcing the
Time Lords to program all retina-scan-controlled machines
to respond only to the retina pattern of The Doctor’s
companion Evelyn
Smythe, as the Daleks would otherwise
use the eyes of the Time Lords they killed to gain
access. Learning that the Daleks intended to use the
new elements - which had somehow been programmed with
all the hatred and loathing of the Dalek race - as
a weapon of destruction, but they required Gallifreyian
time technology to control the reaction or the universe
itself would be destroyed in the destruction that
resulted. As the Daleks triggered the element in the
Seriphian galaxy, The Doctor, Evelyn and Romana were
only just able to contain the Effect by combing the
Eye of Harmony with the Dalek focusing crystal, drawing
on the power of all the Daleks to halt the destruction
and leave the Seriphian galaxy a completely new galaxy
(Albeit one that, as a contingency plan, the Daleks
intended to use as the base of their new empire).
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Jubilee
(Robert Shearman) |
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A later visit
to London resulted in a deeply personal confrontation
with the Daleks for The Doctor and Evelyn, as they
found themselves in an alternate timeline where they
had helped the British Empire to defeat a Dalek invasion
in 1903 ("Jubilee") and, as a result, Britain
had taken Dalek technology and used it to create a
worldwide empire
based on power and domination, keeping a crippled
Doctor and a disarmed Dalek - the Dalek unable to
even self-destruct - locked up in the Tower of London
to use as symbols for their empire. While The Doctor
was shown the new world that his future actions had
created, Evelyn found herself locked up with the Dalek,
who actually formed a certain bond with her due to
its inability to kill her and her being the first
human it had met in years who didn’t ‘insist’ that
it act the way she felt Daleks were meant to act.
As the Jubilee celebrations began, the situation became
worse when The Doctor’s subconscious attempts
to hold back the pressure of the timeline collapsed
(Time having been fractured after The Doctor and Evelyn
drastically changed history by fighting the Daleks
in 1903), resulting in the Dalek invasion force of
1903 being drawn to the present. As The Doctor, Evelyn
and the Dalek prisoner were taken to the Dalek Supreme,
The Doctor managed to convince the prisoner that the
Daleks’ program of conquest would inevitably
result in them destroying themselves when all other
races were dead, resulting in the prisoner connecting
itself to the Dalek command net and broadcasting to
the other Daleks that, to survive, the Daleks must
die. With that command issued, the Daleks all self-destructed
(Evelyn destroying the prisoner on its request), thus
eliminating the fleet before the 1903 invasion and
setting history back on track.
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Brotherhood of the Daleks
(Alan Barnes) |
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The Sixth Doctor’s
next encounter with the Daleks ("Brotherhood
of the Daleks") was a particularly
complex meeting, due in no small part to the presence
of his current companion Charley
Pollard, a woman
who he rescued from the year 500 002 who was actually
the companion of his eighth incarnation (Charley thus
forced to constantly lie to The Doctor to stop him
from learning about his future). Arriving on a tropical
planet that the sensors indicated was an ice cavern,
The Doctor and Charley encountered a group of Thals
training for combat, using a virtual fantasy generated
by mental engrams (Located inside the ice cavern the
TARDIS had initially identified). As part of a Dalek
experiment that had been hi-jacked by the Thals after
a future Doctor had stopped the Daleks’ original
plan, Thal scientists had developed a means of transmitting
the thoughts and personalities of comatose Thals into
the Daleks, intending for the Thal-Daleks to infiltrate
the Dalek armies, but The Doctor knew that this couldn’t
work as the Dalek minds and instincts were too strong
to overcome. Although The Doctor and Charley were
nearly captured when the true Daleks arrived - the
experiment’s central goal being to create Daleks
who thought like Thals to capture the spirit of comrades
in arms - Charley was able to buy time by claiming
to be a Dalek replicant sent to capture The Doctor,
her story being plausible enough for the Daleks to
delay in executing her and The Doctor, giving them
enough time to escape and leave the experiment to
destroy itself when the Daleks triggered a self-destruct
mechanism that had been planted in the facility.
During
The Doctor’s next encounter with the Daleks,
the audience - although not The Doctor himself - learned
of a long-abandoned Dalek experiment in viral warfare,
using the mysterious Mila as ‘Patient Zero’ for
a unique virus that transformed those it infected
into duplicates of its original host. Having failed
to perfect the virus as a means of turning other life-forms
into Daleks - and with Mila having escaped them after
the Daleks’ attempts to kill her shifted her
into another dimension due to the combination of the
radiation she was exposed to and the viruses she was
infected with ("Patient
Zero") -, the
Dalek tracked the various viruses they had discovered
back to Amethyst Station, a space station in the distant
past where multiple viruses were being stored as part
of an armistice treaty, waiting to be destroyed by
the enigmatic Viyrans, a powerful and mysterious race
who had been ‘summoned’ by an unspecified
higher authority to track and eliminate the viruses.
Although the Daleks were initially reluctant to do
serious damage to the station due to the risk in jeopardising
the Web of Time, The Doctor - having visited the station
to try and find help for Charley, who had become infected
with Mila’s virus as part of Mila’s efforts
to take her place - unintentionally forced their hands
when he set the Dalek ship to self-destruct, leaving
the Daleks in a desperate effort to keep time on the
station frozen with the Dalek time generators they
had planted around the station when attempting to
steal it. Although The Doctor’s plan had been
to allow the Viyrans to use the time available to
destroy the viruses, a casual comment he made to the
Dalek commander unintentionally caused the Daleks
to realise that they themselves would trigger the
station’s destruction in order to spread the
viruses across time and space for them to find, leaving
the Viyrans to begin their long quest to find and
destroy the viruses.
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The Curse of Davros
(Jonathan Morris) |
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During The Doctor’s
next encounter with the Daleks, he found himself facing
Davros’s faction of Daleks once again - although
evidence suggests that this encounter took place out-of-sequence,
with The Doctor later encountering an earlier version
of Davros to the one featured here - as they attempted
to alter the outcome of the Battle of Waterloo using
a new technology that allowed them to swap minds with
human prisoners ("The
Curse of Davros"),
Davros intending to test the technology in a relatively
minor conflict while also enjoying the opportunity
to reshape human history in such a significant manner,
believing that Napoleon’s victory would create
an Earth more susceptible to Dalek influence. Although
The Doctor attempted to interfere with the plan by
using the technology to swap bodies with Davros, matters
became more complicated when Davros escaped into the
future, returning to the past accompanied by none
other than Philippa ‘Flip’ Jackson, an
acquaintance of The Doctor’s ("The
Crimes of Thomas Brewster") that he could use as a hostage
against The Doctor. Fortunately, The Doctor was able
to convince Flip of his true identity when they met,
giving The Doctor the time to explain his and Davros’s
plans to Flip, the being subsequently rescued from
captivity by Flip’s boyfriend Jared. Having
learned that the Dalek-minded humans were helping
the French soldiers, the three of them raided the
Dalek armoury, Jared providing the British forces
with the same weapons to even the odds while Flip
and The Doctor disguised The Doctor as a Dalek sot
hat he could trick Davros into being alone with them
so that The Doctor could switch their bodies back.
Having convinced Napoleon that the Daleks had intended
to betray him and plant a Dalek mind in his body after
the battle was won, The Doctor persuaded Napoleon
to accept defeat to save the human race from future
Dalek conquest. Although The Doctor was unable to
switch the human and Dalek minds back before Davros
killed the human-minded Daleks rather than give The
Doctor that victory, he was able to program the machine
to wipe the minds of all of Davros’s Daleks
clean while sending them hurtling into the Time Vortex,
although Davros quickly began to re-educate his Daleks
into following his philosophy.
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Masters of Earth
(Mark Wright and Cavan Scott) |
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Arriving on Earth in what he initially assumed to be twentieth-century Inverness, the Sixth Doctor and the newly-returned Peri realised too late that they were actually in 2163, the Doctor unable to get himself and Peri to safety before a Dalek patrol arrived to recruit new slaves for a nearby Dalek refinery ("Masters of Earth"). With Peri taken to the refinery and the TARDIS lost in a bog, the Doctor was forced to make his way to the refinery on foot, only for Peri to escape before his arrival in the company of fellow prisoner Moira Brodie, a name The Doctor recognised from future records of Earth's post-Dalek history as a prominent figure of rebellion during the occupation. Wanting to ensure Moira's survival into the future while keeping his own presence secret, The Doctor joined Moira's small group of escapees as they travelled up towards the Orkney Islands, where there was supposedly a small rebellion preparing to strike back. However, when they reached the islands, it was revealed that Moira Brodie was actually part of the Daleks' new 'Roboman Elite' program, creating new Robomen with concealed implants capable of genuine emotion, intended to infiltrate the human resistance and eliminate them. Fortunately, The Doctor's example helped Moira tap into her true personality, allowing her to throw off her Dalek programming and release a Dalek virus, intended to infect humans with the spores of Varga plants from Skaro, after it had been reprogrammed to infect Daleks, destroying the Dalek mutants within their casings. However, realising that Moira intended to convert all humans into the Roboman Elite so that they could travel out into the universe to vanquish possible future threats, the Doctor deliberately opened a communication channel to the Dalek Supreme to expose Moira's plans, recognising that her actions would simply turn humanity into the new Daleks at best. With the Dalek Supreme aware of Moira's planned treachery, the Daleks triggered a signal that disabled the Robomen Elite, killing Moira and the other Robomen, but leaving The Doctor and Peri time to set the base to self-destruct as they escaped in a Dalek saucer. With the Robomen Elite gone and any records of The Doctor's presence erased, The Doctor and Peri departed, telling an acquaintance who had retrieved the TARDIS from the bog about the legend of Moira Brodie so that her historical legacy would remain intact even if the truth of her had been very different.
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Emissary of the Daleks
(Andrew Smith) |
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The Doctor and Peri had another encounter with the Daleks when they arrived on the planet Omnia, a world several thousand light-years away from any other solar system ("Emissary of the Daleks"). Naturally concerned when told that the planet had been conquered by alien masters twelve years ago who went so far as to outlaw reading and writing, The Doctor was more determined to get involved when he learned that these ‘masters’ were the Daleks. However, he was intrigued by the nature of the Dalek occupation on Omnia as the Daleks were maintaining a surprisingly minimal presence by their usual standards, relying on their representative of Magisterium Carmen Rega to carry out their orders (it would later be revealed that Carmen had been part of the previous ruling council but betrayed them to surrender to the Daleks as she felt that the resulting war would have been pointless and destroyed the planet). Apart from a token force of Daleks apparently active in the Overcity, floating some distance above the former capitol, the Daleks relied on the local ‘police force’, known as the Watchers, to maintain their control. When The Doctor learned that Omnia was a rich source of the rare mineral vitanium, which could be used as starship fuel, he had his answers as to why the Daleks had come to this planet, but it was only after investigating the vitanium mines that he learned that this particular patch of vitanium had been contaminated by rare radioactive particles at some point in the distant past. While this form of radiation was harmless to most races, prolonged exposure of any kind to the element in its natural state was deadly to Daleks; the few Daleks working in the mines had to be given casings with reinforced armour, the samples they mined had to be specially treated before they could be used as fuel, and the Overcity was constructed of a Dalekanium alloy to help shield them from radiation (The Doctor speculated the other metal involved was lead or some other radiation suppressant). Although The Doctor, Peri and their ally Aldo were captured, since Aldo was the son of Carmen Rega, she ultimately chose to betray the Daleks when ordered to kill her own son to prove her loyalty, particularly after the Dalek Supreme affirmed that the Daleks would kill half her planet’s current population for their rebellion despite The Doctor’s capture. After the Magesterium led a raid to rescue The Doctor from the Dalek mothership, The Doctor was able to set off an explosion that destroyed the vitanium the Daleks had already salvaged, the resulting explosion contaminating Omnia’s atmosphere with the same radiation for at least five generations, giving the people time to rebuild their defences. Carmen sacrificed herself to distract the Daleks long enough that they wouldn’t notice The Doctor’s explosive before it was too late, leaving Aldo prepared to admit that his mother did the right thing in the end.
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Order of the Daleks
(Mike Tucker) |
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Travelling with Constance Clarke, The Doctor arrived on the idyllic planet Strellin ("Order of the Daleks"), officially classified as a Grade Three planet with no advanced technology, only for The Doctor and Constance to encounter officials of the Galactic Census just as they left the ship, the Census having come to investigate a mysterious sub-space signal. Once The Doctor and Constance convinced the officials to let them assist in tracking the signal, they traced it to a nearby monastery owned by the Brotherhood of the Black Petal, soon learning that the Brotherhood had recently taken care of the survivors of a crashed ship, five Daleks whose ship had been damaged in a recent conflict. As these Daleks were members of the Emperor's elite guard, they possessed exceptionally powerful psychokinetic abilities, which allowed the five surviving Daleks to manipulate the Brotherhood into creating new casings for the two healthiest Daleks out of stained glass and lead that the Daleks could move with the power of their minds, as well as providing a basic feeding system for the remaining two standard Daleks. The Daleks were further aided by the discovery that the Brotherhood took their name from their guardianship of the rare dream flower, which was widely believed to simply cause hallucinations but could create a psychic network if taken by groups simultaneously. Prior to the Daleks' arrival, the Brotherhood took an extract of dream to create a psychic network that allowed them to commune with their planet, but the Daleks' mental strength allowed them to 'hijack' the network, the Black Dalek of the ship taking complete control of the head of the monastery by projecting itself into the mind of the Abbot while the rest of the brotherhood were forced to donate blood to provide nutrients for the remaining two Daleks. Despite the Daleks' plans for the dream flower, The Doctor, Constance, and the Census representatives were able to evade the Daleks with the aid of a member of the Brotherhood who had stopped taking the petal extract before he could fall under the Daleks' influence, and had devised a potion that The Doctor could use to help the abbot throw off the Black Dalek's control. With the abbot restored, the other Monks used their oil lamps to destroy the Daleks in their glass-and-lead casings, burning their main crop of dream flowers while keeping the last flower secret so that the Daleks could never claim it for themselves.
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The Juggernauts
(Scott Alan Woodard) |
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During his next
encounter with the Daleks ("The
Juggernauts"), The Doctor was shocked to learn
that Davros never made it to Skaro to stand trial
after his capture; the ship he was on was attacked
and crashed on the doomed mining colony Lethe, and
he was the only survivor. Taking advantage of his
initial injuries in the crash concealing his identity,
Davros used an engineered virus to make the colonists
perceive him as simply an old man in a wheelchair
and assumed the alias of Professor Vaso, subsequently
creating the ultimate anti-Dalek weapons by adding
human nervous tissue to the Mechanoids, large robots
that the First Doctor had encountered on the planet
Mechanus that were created to protect the colonists
but were abandoned when the colony never received
any inhabitants. Renaming the redesigned Mechanoids
the ‘Juggernauts’, Davros turned them
into the ultimate anti-Dalek weapon, aided in their
programming by none other than The Doctor’s
companion Mel, who had become separated from The
Doctor after the medical spaceship they were on
was attacked and Mel was forced to leave in an escape
pod, The Doctor forced to ally himself with the
Daleks in order to find Davros and rescue Mel. Although
he told The Doctor that the Juggernauts would revert
to their default programming as terraforming robots
after the Daleks had been eliminated, his use of
living human subjects to provide the necessary nervous
tissue proved to The Doctor that Davros hadn’t
changed, forcing him to call in the Daleks - who
had recruited him to help them capture Davros -
to battle the Juggernauts. As both sides fell fighting
each other, Davros’s self-destruct system
was activated as a result of the damage that his
chair had sustained, forcing The Doctor and Mel
to flee to the TARDIS before the subsequent explosion
wiped out the colony (How Davros survived this is
unknown; the most likely explanation is that he
was able to retreat to an escape pod which contained
a back-up life support system, thus abandoning his
chair while allowing himself to continue).
When the Seventh Doctor first faced the Daleks, he was confronted with a very unique Dalek threat, as they attempted a policy of economic subversion rather than simply trying to conquer Earth through military force of arms ("We Are the Daleks"). With the aid of Alek Zenos, an apparent Dalek slave, the Daleks established the Zenos Corporation, intending to present themselves to the British government as interested in becoming Britain's economic partners in the galactic market. As part of this plan, the Daleks also introduced a new video game, Warfleet, which allegedly depicted a space empire pursuing a rebel ship, but actually allowed the players to take control of Dalek drone ships in the future and use them against the Daleks' enemies, subverting the Daleks' usual handicap of relying on pure logic. The Doctor nearly turned the tables when Mel was able to tell the Warfleet players what was happening and convince them to help the rebels, as well as the revelation that Alek Zenos was actually a double agent working with Thal rebels against the Daleks, The Doctor found himself facing further problems when MP Celia Dunthorpe allied with the Daleks, believing that the economic benefits of an alliance with the Daleks were more important that The Doctor's warning about how dangerous they were. Although the Daleks almost won by using the Zenos Tower to transmit a Dalek perspective across the city of London, brainwashing even Mel to adhere to a Dalek philosophy, The Doctor was able to cure Mel of the programming and pass on instructions before he was taken to Skaro for trial. Using The Doctor's advice, Mel was able to reprogram the time corridor in Zenos Tower to send the entire tower to Skaro, the continued broadcast of the 'Dalek Factor' causing all Daleks on Skaro to turn on each other as their natural aggression and arrogance was amplified. With the Daleks destroying themselves and the Warfleet players having helped the rebels rescue the Thal slaves on Skaro, The Doctor used the building to trigger a time storm after setting up a time corridor to take himself and his allies back to Earth, the resulting storm causing most Daleks left on the planet to age to death as their parts became too old to operate.
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Following this encounter, the Seventh Doctor's next confrontation with the Daleks pushed him further than ever before, mainly since it was
such a personal confrontation ("Remembrance of the Daleks"); not only were two factions
of Daleks at war around Coal Hill School - the school
which Susan had attended and where the First Doctor
had originally met Ian and Barbara and begun his travels,
- but they sought the Hand of Omega, a Time Lord relic
that would allow the Daleks to harness the power of
time travel, hidden on Earth by The Doctor himself.
Despite the aid of a group of soldiers, the Hand was
eventually claimed by the Imperial Daleks, led by
Davros - who had discarded the last of his human form
and now called himself the Dalek Emperor, - but The
Doctor revealed that it was all part of an elaborate
trap, with the Hand sending Skaro’s sun supernova
and subsequently returning to Earth to destroy the
Dalek fleet. With the Dalek ships destroyed and Davros
apparently dead, The Doctor confronted the Dalek Supreme
- the sole surviving Dalek - with its status as the
apparent last of its kind, causing it to self-destruct.
When an accidental trip to a spatial anomaly known as the Temporal Plexus forced The Doctor to escape by generating a temporal pulse, he and Ace found themselves in an alternate universe where the Daleks were peaceful academics, with a reputation so respected in various arts that even the Time Lords came to Skaro for medical attention ("The Ripple Effect"). Although The Doctor eventually determined that this new timeline was not the result of a Dalek plot, but rather the result of the temporal pulse he had generated in the Temporal Plexus twisting reality, he was forced to erase the timeline when he discovered that this universe was collapsing due to the strain of the changed reality on the Web of Time, returning to the Temporal Plexus and duplicating the events that led to his and Ace’s original escape to cancel out the temporal distortion generated by his actions. Despite the fact that even Ace doubted they had achieved anything here, The Doctor noted that the sight of the lost reality left him with some hope that the Daleks may be capable of becoming more than the violent killers he was familiar with in the future, when he had once dismissed the idea that the Daleks could ever be capable of being anything else.
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The Genocide Machine
(Mike Tucker) |
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Some time after
this encounter, The Doctor and Ace encountered the
Daleks as they sought control of the fabled library
of Kar-Charrat ("The
Genocide Machine"),
due to the librarian, Elgin, having
created the ‘wetworks facility’ - a device
that contained all knowledge in the universe. Unable
to access the library due to its defences, the Daleks
instead used time scoop technology to deploy Daleks
to every planet in the sector until they were able
to gain entry thanks to Ace, who had left the library
in a fit of boredom but been given a DNA tag to allow
her to return later. Although the Daleks subsequently
created a duplicate of Ace that deactivated the library’s
temporal shields and granted the Daleks access, the
subsequent download of the information into a Dalek
test subject granted the Dalek an independent mind,
causing it to turn against the Dalek Supreme and force
the Daleks to abandon the planet after Ace destroyed
the Wetworks (A resolution that The Doctor was quite
satisfied with, given that the Wetworks had only been
created due to Elgin harnessing the neural power of
the native Kar-Charratians, not even bothering to
learn if they were sentient before carrying out his
work).
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Enemy of the Daleks
(David Bishop) |
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Some time after this, The Doctor and Ace - now accompanied
by new companion Hex - arrived on the planet Bliss
during the Dalek wars, where, according to The Doctor,
one of the worst atrocities of the conflict with the
Daleks would be committed… with The Doctor visiting
Bliss to ensure the atrocity happened ("Enemy
of the Daleks"). Accompanied by a ‘Valkyrie’ unit
- an all-female fighting force created to combat the
Daleks - The Doctor, Ace and Hex learned that Bliss
was the location where notorious scientist Professor
Toshio Shimura had created a laboratory facility,
The Doctor subsequently learning that Shimura had
created a new life form in his lab. By collecting
and altering the eggs of the ‘Pirhanalocusts’ -
a lethal race of giant insects native to Bliss - Shimura
had not only enlarged the Pirhanalocuts far beyond
their original size, but had also granted them the
ability to evolve beyond their original form by spinning
cocoons for themselves, emerging from these cocoons
as the ‘Kiseibyaa’, a race of lethal insect-like
monsters that ate metal. Shimura intended for the
Kiseibyaa to be unleashed against the Daleks - the
Kiseibyaa devouring the metal Dalek casing and subsequently
laying their eggs in the Dalek mutant - using them
against a Dalek attack force that he had drawn to
his lab by broadcasting a signal, but even without
the moral issues involved in the experiment, The Doctor
knew that, in the end, the Kiseibyaa would be almost
a greater threat than the Daleks, as they would inevitably
turn on humans after the Daleks were gone. With no
other way to stop them - and reminded of his fourth
incarnation’s failure to stop the Daleks at
their beginning - The Doctor programmed the Black
Dalek’s damaged casing to self-destruct - with
the Dalek’s permission - the force of the explosion
destroying the laboratory and all of the Kiseibyaa… the
very atrocity that history would record had taken
place.
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Return of the Daleks
(Nicholas Briggs) |
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The Doctor faced
another personal confrontation with the Daleks during
a return to the planet Spiridon -
now renamed Zaleria - where the Daleks had resumed
their attempts to harness the Spiridons’ secret
of invisibility and salvage the Dalek army that had
been left there after The Doctor’s last encounter
with them ("Return
of the Daleks"). Realising
that the Spiridons had found a means to make themselves
visible once more, the Daleks sought to learn how
to reverse the process, The Doctor agreed to help
the Daleks harness the secret of invisibility if they
released their prisoners. Although it took years of
work, The Doctor was able to develop a cure that,
when released, restored the Spiridons to their natural
state of invisibility while infecting all others on
the planet with ‘light-wave sickness’ -
a disease caused by the massive amounts of energy
required to become invisible - killing all the Daleks
on the planet; The Doctor was only just able to survive
by returning to the dimensional stability of the TARDIS,
and even then he was left ill for some time as his
body fought between its current state of cellular
paralysis and its natural ‘desire’ to
regenerate before his cells finally stabilised.
During a time when Ace was training at the Time Lord Academy on Gallifrey, she became so enraged by the Daleks that she stole an Omega Device from the Capitol, going back into their past at a point after the First Doctor’s original confrontation with them and their subsequent expansion into deep space with the goal of using the Omega Device to wipe out their history ("The New Adventures of Benny Summerfield - Vol. 1"). However, Ace’s lack of emotional control when she initiated the device meant that her efforts failed, instead causing time on Skaro to be stuck in a complex loop where time was repeated over a twenty-four-hour period, those stuck in the loop only aware of it due to them making video recordings and uploading them to a data cloud stored in a pocket dimension. When Benny followed Ace to try and rescue her, unaware of exactly where Ace had ended up, she was briefly caught in the loop herself until her Kaled allies broke into an abandoned city, the subsequent power boost disrupting the time loop and giving The Doctor the chance to break into the city. With most Daleks still unconscious in the loop, The Doctor determined that any potential historical damage could be prevented if they ensured that no Daleks were left conscious when they broke the loop, resulting in Benny using the Omega Device to bring the last conscious Dalek into contact with its future self, the Dalek destroying itself when faced with the prospect of centuries of torment and pain from its implants for no other reason than the Dalek’s constant quest for power.
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Sullivan and Cross - AWOL
(John Dorney and Lisa McMullin) |
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When The Doctor retrieved his old companions Harry Sullivan and Naomi Cross from the twenty-first century (where he had left them by accident in his fourth body) to take them back to their own time ("Sullivan & Cross AWOL: London Orbital"), he was initially distracted by a distress call that drew him to a Halloween festival in Chester in 1969 ("Sullivan & Cross AWOL: Scream of the Daleks"). Discovering a mass grave that had been created by multiple people being killed in the same location over several centuries, The Doctor and Naomi accidentally left Harry behind while tracing the grave back to the first corpse in the distant past, which they realised had been killed by a Dalek. The Doctor determined that these Daleks were one of the first Daleks to master time travel, but their prototype ship had become trapped in a dimensional rift and they were only able to briefly reach out to Earth on that specific date. The Doctor realised too late that the Daleks had created this scenario to lure him in so that the TARDIS’s temporal distortion would weaken the rift and allow them to escape, but Harry was able to drive off most of the festival attendees in 1969 - the point where the Daleks would escape - while The Doctor and Naomi returned to the present by travelling through the rift themselves to bypass the distortion caused by the Daleks. Using the TARDIS telepathic circuits to hack the Dalek pathweb, The Doctor was able to provoke the Daleks into trying to attack the TARDIS, allowing him to lure them back into the rift and then depart while leaving them trapped.
While travelling with new companions Elizabeth Klein and Will Arrowsmith to find Kurt Schalk, the creator of the Persuasion Machine that could convince anyone of the truth programmed in the machine ("Persuasion"), The Doctor tracked the abducted Schalk to the human colony of Azimuth, where he and Ace had once driven off a Dalek invasion. The Doctor was disgusted to learn that Azimuth had decided to escape the social repercussions of the Dalek invasion, such as turning on potential collaborators, by repressing all knowledge of the Dalek conquest to the extent of locking up anyone who even mentioned ‘the D-word’, but he soon realised that a group of Daleks were still on this planet. While Klein tracked her own connection to the history of the Persuasion Machine, The Doctor and Will learned that Davros was also on the planet, seeking to find the remains of an experiment he’d carried out on Azimuth to create a clone of himself to transfer his mind into a fresh body. Although the clone of Davros had gained his own identity, now known as ‘Falkus’ and considering himself to be the new Supreme Dalek, attempted to use the Machine to compel the human population of Azimuth to simply die, but since the Machine was keyed to only work for Klein’s mind, The Doctor and Will were able to convince Klein to break Davros’s attempt to brainwash her, prompting her to destroy the Daleks and Falkus, although Davros managed to escape.
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The Time of the Daleks
(Justin Richards) |
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Following his
regeneration, the Eighth
Doctor encountered the Daleks while investigating
a temporal fissure that had apparently
erased William Shakespeare from history ("The
Time of the Daleks"), tracking it
to the end of the 21st century, where dictator General
Mariah Learman had been conducting time experiments
that had apparently erased Shakespeare. While attempting
to create a time machine using orthopositronium-coated
mirrors, thus allowing her to witness Shakespeare’s
plays, Learman accidentally drew in a group of Daleks
who had escaped a temporal extinction device by travelling
through the temporal fissure. Discovering that Learman
was collaborating with the Daleks to kill Shakespeare
in an attempt to prevent the rebellion against her
rule using him as a figurehead, The Doctor and Charley
Pollard were able to divert
the Dalek assassination force by manipulating the
time machine to send them to various
dangerous points in history. Having rescued the young
Shakespeare - who had been drawn into the future by
one of the rebels in an attempt to protect him, -
The Doctor and Charley tricked the Daleks into activating
their temporal extinction device ahead of schedule,
trapping them in a time loop where they would forever
repeat the same actions over and over without ever
escaping.
Several years
after this encounter, following his return to his
home reality after a period of exile in the anti-time
universe, the Eighth Doctor, Charley Pollard and new
companion C’rizz were shocked to find themselves
on an Earth that had been conquered by Davros and
the Daleks ("Terror
Firma"), with only small
pockets of human resistance remaining in parts of
the world and disguising their intentions by pretending
to be focused on nothing but having parties. While
C’rizz and Charley escaped capture, The Doctor
talked with Davros, learning that not only was Davros
suffering from multiple personality disorder - one
personality being Davros while the other identified
itself as the Dalek Emperor - but, recalling the Fourth
Doctor’s query about whether Davros would release
a virus if he knew it would destroy all life, he had
actually created such a virus using technology from
an alien ship he had discovered when he was sent into
the Time Vortex after his last defeat, as well as
another virus that he had released on Earth earlier
to mutate millions of humans into Daleks. On a more
personal level, Davros revealed that he had actually
forced The Doctor to help him achieve this; after
The Doctor had materialised on board the ship where
Davros had been trapped since the destruction of Skaro,
Davros had captured The Doctor’s then-companions
Samson and Gemma Griffin and used them to force The
Doctor to take him to Earth, subsequently manipulating
the TARDIS to erase The Doctor’s memory of the
Griffin siblings before he departed, leaving Davros
to spread a Dalek-creating virus across Earth for
the sole purpose of destroying The Doctor’s
home like The Doctor had destroyed his while The Doctor
travelled with Charley and C’rizz in complete
ignorance of Davros’s schemes. Despite Davros’s
pleas for The Doctor to kill him - his mind now torn
between a desire to end his twisted life and a desire
to continue it - The Doctor refused to allow Davros
to drag him down to his enemy’s level, allowing
the Daleks to destroy a clone that Davros had created
with the intention of transferring his mind into a
new body. As a result of the trauma caused by the
clone’s destruction, the Dalek Emperor persona
took total control of Davros and subsequently left
for space with the Daleks, The Doctor leaving Davros’s
virus with the British resistance to use against the
Daleks if they should ever return.
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War of the Daleks
(John Peel) |
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Now
travelling alone once more, the Eighth Doctor returned
to the Greenpeace rally where he had left
his current incarnation’s original companion Samantha
Jones, later going on to have another encounter
with the Daleks and Davros (Although the evidence
would suggest that this encounter took place before
the "Terror Firma" encounter as far as
Davros was concerned). Having arrived on a Thal
spaceship ("War
of the Daleks"), The Doctor
was horrified to discover that the Thals had recovered
Davros’s escape pod and were intending to force
Davros to engineer the Thals to become better warriors,
only for the Daleks to discover Davros and take him
back to Skaro to answer for his crimes against the
Dalek people. During the subsequent trial, the Dalek
Supreme informed Davros that Skaro had not been destroyed;
having learned about Skaro’s destruction from
records during their invasion of Earth, the Daleks
- having found themselves unable to change history
during their attempt to invade in "Day of the
Daleks" - had instead transferred Davros, still
in stasis, to another planet that had been terraformed
to resemble Skaro, subsequently creating the Movelleans
to provide them with a reason to awaken him and thus
allow history to unfold as it should while leaving
Skaro intact. As Davros was about to be sentenced,
however, Daleks loyal to him moved to rescue him,
resulting in a civil war that gave The Doctor and
Sam the chance to escape with the Thals, The Doctor
subsequently ejecting a Dalek factory ship that had
been planted on the Thals’ vessel into the Time
Vortex (The ship in question being the one that the
Second Doctor fought in "The
Power of the Daleks")
and departing in the hope that the Thals would ben
encouraged to return to their old ways after what
he had told them. Back on Skaro, Davros was sentenced
to matter dispersal, but he was apparently able to
reprogram the Dalek at the controls, thus allowing
him to escape and (presumably) begin the steps that
would lead to his mental instability in "Terror
Firma".
Following the destruction and restoration of Gallifrey (""The
Ancestor Cell" and "The Gallifrey Chronicles"), The Doctor found himself facing off against the Daleks once again,
this time accompanied by Lucie Miller, a young woman
sent to him by the Time Lords as part of a ‘witness
protection program’ who had just arrived in
the TARDIS ("Blood of the Daleks"). Arriving
on the human colony world Red Rocket Rising following
a meteor strike, the Doctor was shocked to learn that
the Daleks were offering their assistance to the colony,
an offer that had been accepted by the colony president
out of his belief that the Daleks were benevolent.
However, it was subsequently revealed that the Daleks
had actually been summoned by the renegade Professor
Martez, who had combined living and dead humans with
Dalek technology salvaged from a crashed ship, creating
a new race of Daleks that she believed would
help the people to survive. Initially forced to
work with the Daleks to destroy Martez’s creations - the
asteroid strike revealed to be the doing of the Daleks
to try and destroy Martez’s Daleks, seen as
a threat to their ‘purity’ - The Doctor
was eventually able to arrange for both Daleks to
destroy each other, the true Daleks weakened by a
recent conflict and Martez’s Daleks no longer
producing new models after The Doctor convinced Martez
to shut down the birthing machine.
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The Dalek Trap
(Nicholas Briggs) |
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A short time after this, The Doctor and Lucie faced the Daleks again when they were drawn into a pocket dimension in the event horizon of a black hole, which had a disorientating effect on all those within it ("The Dalek Trap"). Once they entered the black hole, The Doctor was reduced to a catatonic state while Lucie found herself fighting to hold on to her full memories, discovering a Dalek ship inside the pocket dimension along with various other crashed ships, although most of the ships' crews had either died or been driven insane by the mental disorientation of the pocket dimension. The Daleks claimed to have been trapped after they witnessed The Doctor's TARDIS shoot something into the supernova that would have become the black hole, retrieving the object in a wooden casket that they termed 'the Darkness'. The Daleks attempted to force the catatonic Doctor to release them from the pocket dimension, but Lucie was able to use the self-destruct device from another salvaged ship to force the Daleks to withdraw and let The Doctor return to the TARDIS. Restored to his full mental capacity, The Doctor was able to channel the energy of the pocket dimension to release all the ships that had become trapped in that pocket dimension, although he learned later that this was part of a plan by the ancient entity The Fendahl ("Image of the Fendahl") to escape its own destruction ("Island of the Fendahl") after the Fourth Doctor unwittingly created this pocket dimension when disposing of the Fendahl skull in a supernova as previously witnessed by the Daleks.
During a time when he was travelling alone, The Doctor decided to investigate recent temporal leakage in the Vault of Stellar Curios, a research facility controlled by the Jaridens, a race who fought off a Dalek invasion by reverse-engineering Dalek technology. Immediately surprised to discover that the Fifth Doctor was already in the vault, The Doctor was forced to assist the Jaridens when Colonel Ulrik was forced to help the Daleks break into the vault in the belief that they would mount a larger attack on his people if they didn’t acquire the Dalek tech in the vault. Using Dalek technology and their two TARDISes, the two Doctors were able to create a complex temporal loop that sent Colonel Ulrik and a few Daleks travelling back to Earth in the Victorian era, where the Seventh Doctor was able to push them further on using equipment he had left with an old friend. Ulrik then found himself in the middle of one of the Jaridens’ key confrontations with the Daleks, where the Sixth Doctor helped Ulrik realise that he had to provide his people with the intelligence that would allow them to adapt Dalek technology for their own purposes. Learning that the Daleks were after a Jariden/Special Weapons Dalek hybrid that had been created to fight the Daleks - to the extent that even Daleks from the future were travelling back in time to acquire it - The Doctors concluded the loop with the older Ulrik sacrificing himself to send his younger self on the trip through time he had just experienced, giving the Fifth and Eighth Doctors time to destroy the other Daleks. With their TARDISes containing the temporal instability, the four Doctors briefly met in the ship before they parted company ("The Four Doctors").
Responding to a distress call from Lucie after he had left her in 22nd century London with Susan and her son Alex Campbell, The Doctor had a particularly personal confrontation with the Daleks when they attempted to invade Earth in the late 22nd century once again, this time aided by The Doctor's old friend The Monk as he sought 'revenge' against The Doctor. Using a Dalek virus he had acquired in the future, the Monk helped the Daleks eliminate opposition by infecting the human race with the plague, subsequently sending his current assistant - and the Eighth Doctor's former companion - Tamsin Drew around the planet to acquire artefacts from museums for his collection, 'defending' his actions by arguing that the Daleks would be defeated eventually. However, the human resistance movement against the Daleks, led by Susan, Alex and the injured Lucie, were able to contact The Doctor for help ("Lucie Miller"), allowing them to plant a bomb in the Dalek stronghold that destroyed their invasion force, although Tamsin, Lucie and Alex were all killed in the attempt, Tamsin dying when the Daleks turned on The Monk while Lucie and Alex sacrificed themselves to deploy the bomb, while The Doctor and Susan only escaped because The Monk rescued them from the explosion as his attempt to punish the Daleks for their betrayal ("To the Death").
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Dark Eyes
(Nicholas Briggs) |
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Finding himself increasingly bitter after so many losses caused by the Daleks, The Doctor was forced to engage in a complex war with the Dalek Time Controller when Celestial Intervention Agency operative Straxus alerted him to a plan being carried out with the aid of the mysterious Kotris, which included WWI volunteer nurse Molly O'Sullivan ("Dark Eyes 1 - The Great War"). Rescuing Molly from a Dalek attack in the trenches, The Doctor learned that she had been contaminated with retro-genitor particles when she was a child, these particles intended to power a weapon that would allow the Daleks to erase the Time Lords from existence. The plan was ended when Kotris was revealed to be Straxus’s next incarnation, Straxus’s interference allowing The Doctor to rescue Molly and depart while the Daleks essentially erased the whole scheme by killing Straxus before he could become Kotris ("Dark Eyes 1 - X and the Daleks"). However, Molly’s body retained retro-genitor particles, which allowed The Master to implement a plan to use her to control the Eminence, an entity so powerful that it had waged a devastating war against the human empire ("Dark Eyes 3 - The Death of Hope"). The Eminence was so powerful that The Doctor went so far as to prevent a resistance movement from driving the Daleks from their world as he had to ensure that the Daleks had enough power to stop an Eminence fleet that The Master had intended to take control of, even if he did his best to force the Daleks to leave that planet later ("Dark Eyes 2 - The Traitor"). With The Master’s plan to control the Eminence a failure, he tried to use Molly’s unique temporal nature to help the Dalek Time Controller conquer Earth in 1920 ("Dark Eyes 4 - The Monster of Monmartre"), but The Doctor and new companion Liv Chenka were able to destabilise the Daleks’ presence in this timeline ("Dark Eyes 4 - Master of the Daleks"), finally erasing that version of history by tricking the Dalek Time Controller into becoming part of the Eminence at the moment of its birth ("Dark Eyes 4 - Eye of Darkness").
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What Lies Inside - Paradox of the Daleks
(John Dorney) |
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While The Doctor and Liv were able to spend some time away from the Daleks in the company of their new friend Helen Sinclair, they were drawn back into a confrontation with the Daleks when investigating a temporal anomaly The Doctor defined as a temporal helix, time somehow looping back on itself ("Paradox of the Daleks"). Arriving on the space station that was the source of the loop, The Doctor determined that the station had been attacked by Daleks from some future conflict, the station’s limited temporal technology somehow creating a temporal rift that the future Daleks could use to travel back with the goal of mounting a pre-emptive attack on their enemy. However, using the station’s existing temporal capsule prototype, The Doctor, Liv and Helen were able to go back in time after the invasion and warn the two temporal scientists on the station what was about to happen. With this advance knowledge, The Doctor was able to develop a weapon that could kill the Daleks and use it so that he and his companions could kill the Kaled mutants and use the Dalek casings to disguise themselves as Daleks. Carefully creating a scenario where he and his companions would react to the Dalek invasion without their earlier selves realising they were present, The Doctor was able to trick the Daleks into thinking that the Dalek Supreme that had come through the rift was a traitor, and then set up a contained time loop so that the remaining Daleks were tricked into destroying themselves.
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| Dalek |
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At some point in his life, the Eighth Doctor was forced into a particularly twisted set of circumstances when a Dalek Time Squad actually made contact with him to ask for his help in investigating a series of threats from the Dark Times of the universe. Although The Doctor was not aware of it at the time, the Daleks had initially requested the aid of his tenth incarnation in confronting the Hond, a race from the early days of the universe who sought to destroy all other life in existence, including themselves, because they were literally the embodiment of the very concept of pain. Unable to exterminate the immortal Hond themselves, the Dalek Prime Strategist, an unconventionally imaginative Dalek, suggested that they contact The Doctor for help, making contact with the Tenth Doctor and explaining the situation ("Time Lord Victorious - Defender of the Daleks"). Having analysed the Hond, The Doctor was able to use Dalek technology to create a transmitter that relieved the Hond of their suffering, also sabotaging that equipment so that it would malfunction when the Daleks inevitably turned on him. With the Hond no longer a threat, the Daleks abducted the Eighth Doctor with the goal of using his insight to investigate the Wrax, who had acquired a 'Devolver' from the Dark Times that could erase entire species from existence. Although the Daleks used the Devolver on the Wrax, they allowed The Doctor to believe that they had just destroyed the machine and would help him investigate the temporal anomalies in the Dark Times that led to the Devolver being found in the present, as they needed the TARDIS to boost their own time-travel abilities to go back that far. However, upon arriving in that era, The Doctor was shocked to find that the reason for the anomalies was his own future self's attempts to change history by destroying the mysterious Kotturuh as they brought death to the universe ("Time Lord Victorious - The Enemy of My Enemy", "Time Lord Victorious - The Knight, The Fool and the Dead"). Naturally, the Daleks attempted to use their time in the past to both attack ancient Gallifrey and create a new wave of Daleks using DNA taken from the vampires that were also investigating the situation with the aid of the Ninth Doctor, but the three Doctors were able to help the Kotturuh destroy the new Dalek/vampire hybrids before the Eighth Doctor forced the Dalek Time Squad back into the future, tricking the Daleks into fighting amongst themselves while he evacuated in the TARDIS ("Time Lord Victorious - Mutually Assured Destruction").
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Time War - Planet of the Ogrons
(Guy Adams) |
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While the exact catalyst is unclear, it is around this point that the Daleks and the Time Lords began to engage in the Time War, as both species fought across the universe to ensure the complete destruction of the other (sources have suggested that the Time Lords' attempt to eliminate the Daleks in "Genesis of the Daleks" was a particular trigger event, but in the end what caused the war to become so great is almost unimportant). The conflict escalated to such an extent that the Time Lords even sought to retrieve Rassilon from his exile in the anti-time universe ("Zagreus" and "The Next Life") in the belief that only he could lead them in this conflict, to say nothing of a complex temporal paradox resulting in three different versions of The Master being allowed to collaborate to restore another version of themselves to life with a new set of regenerations (one of the three Masters involved was younger than the revived Master while the other two were older) ("Ravenous - Day of The Master"). Susan was also recalled to the War despite her long period of living on Earth ("All Hands on Deck"), wanting to vent her rage against the Daleks for the death of her son Alex ("Susan's War"). By contrast, the Eighth Doctor initially tried to avoid the war, focusing on saving civilians from the starship Theseus when the ripples of the Time War changed it from a luxury liner for the rich to a refugee vessel ("The Time War" - "The Starship of Theseus"), even attempting to reform an amnesic Dalek at one point, although the Time Lords killed the Dalek before The Doctor could determine if his efforts had succeeded or failed ("The Time War" - "Echoes of War"). Although the Eighth Doctor maintained a role as conscientious objector throughout the War, he would occasionally get roped into Time Lord missions, such as assisting the Twelve - the latest incarnation of the Collective, a Time Lord whose past personas remained active after regeneration - in investigating what appeared to be a future Doctor who had regenerated into an Ogron (actually an Ogron who had been grafted with some of The Doctor's genes) ("Planet of the Ogrons"), or helping Time Lord Major Tamasan find the last of the supposedly-erased Helixara ("Fugitive in Time") in return for them ensuring that food supplies would reach the area of space known as the Vale of Iptheus ("The Famished Lands"). At one point the Daleks were actually erased from existence when The Valeyard - The Doctor's evil future self, recreated after an accident when The Doctor used a transmat while carrying a genetic resequencing device ("Fugitive in Time") - used a stolen Dalek superweapon to wipe the Daleks from the universe ("The War Valeyard"), but the Dalek Time Strategist was able to escape this fate by travelling to an alternate reality through the dimensional rift that powered the weapon, where it was able to restore the Dalek army through a complex plan involving the manipulation of that reality's version of Davros and the dimensional portal he had created ("Palindrome").
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The Innocent
(Nicholas Briggs) |
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Eventually, The Doctor was forced to acknowledge his responsibility after he crash-landed on Karn while trying to save a young woman who rejected his help because of the damage inflicted on the rest of the universe in the crossfire of the Time War. Faced with imminent death, the Sisterhood of Karn convinced The Doctor that the universe would die without his participation in the War, The Doctor accepting a potion that would influence his next regeneration into a new incarnation specifically intended to be a warrior who could fight in the war ("The Night of The Doctor"). In the course of the War, the War Doctor became a particularly ruthless soldier, willing to sacrifice space fleets that were being used as hostages by Dalek fleets in order to prevent those fleets threatening planetary systems where other Doctors might have tried to find another way ("The Innocent"), although he would avoid plans that called for the sacrifice of innocents as a first option. While officially fighting against the Daleks, the War Doctor often found himself forced to prevent some of his peoples' more desperate plans to achieve victory, although he still acted to prevent some of the Daleks' more dangerous plans, including destroying Earth in 1961 ("The Shadow Vortex"), attacking the Eye of Harmony with the aid of a Time Lord traitor ("Eye of Harmony") or unleashing a mysterious new dimension of reality that would disrupt and destroy Gallifrey ("The Enigma Dimension"). Other weapons
used by the Daleks during this time included a new range of mutations known as the Degradations, Daleks mutated into new and even more disturbing forms as a result of the Daleks' research into alternate timelines, inspired by The Doctor's original attempt to interfere with their creation ("Genesis of the Daleks").
At one point, the Daleks attempted to use the rare temporal anomaly the Tantalus Eye to develop a Temporal Cannon that could erase the Time Lords from history, but the War Doctor was able to turn the tables on them and use the Eye to erase that Dalek fleet from history, although his efforts also resulted in the death of his new temporary companion Cinder ("Engines of War"). After the fall of Arcadia, Gallifrey's second major city ("The Last Day" and "The Day of The Doctor"), the War Doctor, concluding that there was no way to end the war and save his people, stole an ancient weapon known as 'the Moment' from Gallifrey's archives, a galaxy-destroying weapon so complex that it had developed sentience and a conscience, requiring the user to morally justify his use of it.
With the war having ended with The Doctor's use of the Moment to destroy Gallifrey and the attacking Dalek forces simultaneously, the War Doctor - the Moment having 'sentenced' him to live with his guilt by choosing to use it - regenerated once again into the incarnation that would be known as the Ninth Doctor, believing that there were no other survivors of the Time War. However, he would soon encounter another survivor during a visit to the underground Utah bunker of alien fan Henry van Statten in 2012, where he discovered a Dalek soldier that had crashed on Earth in the 1950s after it fell through time during the last battle. However, the Dalek, having absorbed the temporally-charged DNA of The Doctor's companion Rose Tyler to restore itself, eventually committed suicide, Rose's DNA causing it to mutate and develop emotions, the Dalek being unable to cope with its new existence. Another survivor was the Dalek Emperor, who, having rebuilt the Dalek race using genetically altered humans it abducted from Earth in the year 200 100, came to see itself as the God of all Daleks, confronting the Ninth Doctor as he fought to develop a delta wave emitter that would destroy the Daleks by frying their brains… and, since he was unable to refine the emitter to focus exclusively on Daleks, every human being on Earth. At the last minute, The Doctor was unable to go through with it, refusing to become a mass murderer just to stop the Daleks, but Rose, having absorbed the energy of the Time Vortex to become a god-like being, eliminated the entire Dalek fleet with a wave of her hand, turning the Emperor to dust and seemingly ending the war.
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| Army of Ghosts/Doomsday |
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However, this
was revealed to not be the case in the finale of the
second series - barring a brief encounter with a Dalek
discovered in an archaeological dig that had been
sent to try and infect humanity with the ‘Dalek
factor’ once again, The Doctor subsequently
tricking the Dalek into taking a Time Ring that he
had set to self-destruct after apparently making a
deal to send it to another planet in exchange for
leaving Earth alone ("I
Am A Dalek") - when
the Tenth
Doctor and Rose discovered that the Torchwood
Institute of Earth had acquired a ‘Void Ship’,
a ship that existed outside Time itself, dwelling
in the rift between universes ("Army
of Ghosts/Doomsday").
Although an army of five million Cybermen from a parallel
world managed to use the Void ship to cross into this
universe, the true threat was the inhabitants of the
Void ship; the near-mythical Cult of Skaro, an elite
group of four Daleks who dared to have names - Dalek
Sec, Dalek Thay, Dalek Jast and Dalek Caan - and emotions
while coming up with new ways to defeat the enemy
by using the imagination that had been forsaken by
their people long ago. As a result, a moment that
Doctor Who fans had longed for ever since the two
species became the nightmares they are today came
to pass at long last; a war between the Daleks and
the Cybermen. Initially, the Cybermen had the advantage
of numbers - it was five million Cybermen to only
four Daleks, after all - but the Daleks' advanced
weapons gave them the edge regardless, and after the
Daleks managed to open a Time Lord prison capsule,
the Cybermen lost even the advantage of numbers, with
millions of Daleks filling the skies of London. However,
as both species had passed through the void, The Doctor
was able to defeat both of them by opening the rift
into the Void, thus drawing both species into the ‘null
space’ between universes due to them having
absorbed 'background radiation' when they passed through
the void. With the rift open, both species were pulled
into the void, essentially being trapped in a dimension
that has become known as ‘Hell’ by some
people.
As The Doctor
later learned, however, the Cult of Skaro had survived
once again, initiating an ‘emergency temporal
shift’ to escape being pulled into the Void
by retreating to another period of history - in this
case, New York in the late 1920s. Realising that the
Daleks’ devotion to the purity of the race had
led them to the brink of extinction, Dalek Sec oversaw
the creation of Dalek/Human hybrids, combining his
own DNA with that of a human to become the first Human
Dalek in existence. Using Dalekanium - the material
that the Dalek casings were made of - atop the Empire
State Building, the Cult of Skaro intended to use
a lightning strike to energise the bodies of selected
humans with Dalek DNA, creating a new breed of soldiers
for the Cult to send out against humanity. Although
Sec’s transformation caused him to have a change
of heart, resulting in him feeling genuine emotion
and prompting him to try and make the Dalek/Humans
even more human than they would have been, the other
members of the Cult rejected his ideas, preferring
for the Dalek/Humans to remain predominately Dalek.
Although Sec tried to talk them out of their course
of action - even actually sacrificing himself to save
The Doctor - the other members of the Cult were unmoved
by his sacrifice, ordering the Human-Daleks to kill
The Doctor. Fortunately, The Doctor had grabbed the
top of the Empire State Building just as the lightning
struck, causing his DNA to be mixed up with the process.
As a result, the would-be Human Daleks acquired freedom
to turn against the Cult, destroying Daleks Thay and
Jast before Dalek Caan exterminated them by remote
as a failed experiment. Unwilling to witness another
genocide that day, The Doctor offered to help Dalek
Caan, but Caan instead initiated an emergency temporal
shift with the last of his power, escaping to an as-yet-unknown
location.
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| The Stolen Earth/Journey's
End |
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It was later revealed that the subsequent temporal shift
had caused Dalek Caan to break through the temporal lock
that had been established on the Time War, allowing him
to rescue Davros, who had been presumed dead during the
first year of the war after being apparently devoured
by the Nightmare Child at the Gates of Elysium. Although
this rescue drove Dalek Caan mad as he perceived the entirety
of time, Davros instead perceived Caan’s ability
to breach the temporal lock as true proof of the Daleks’ greatness
that the last of them had succeeded where all others had
failed. However, even though he allowed Caan to live thanks
to the prophecies he now made as a result of his glimpse
into the future when he saw Time, Davros disdained Caan’s
emotions and created a new Dalek race grown from his own
cells. The Dalek army now rebuilt, the Daleks, stationing
themselves on the Crucible space station at the heart
of the Medusa Cascade - the location of a rift in the
universe - used a magnetron to steal twenty-seven planets
- including Earth - from across time and space, arranging
them in a specific pattern within the Medusa Cascade.
With the twenty-seven planets now arranged in a pattern,
the Daleks would use the planets to generate neutrino
energy in a single stream, which, when compressed on a
specific location, would cause the electrical fields holding
matter together to collapse, the destruction thus travelling
through the rift to the entire multiverse. Although various
companions attempted to force the Daleks to stop by threatening
to destroy Earth - thus breaking the network - or destroying
the Crucible, Davros simply had the companions teleported
to the vault where he had imprisoned The Doctor and the
returned Rose. However, thanks to the creation of a part-human ‘clone’ of
The Doctor - based on the excess regenerative energy in
his spare hand and the DNA of companion Donna Noble, -
Donna had acquired some of The Doctor’s knowledge,
allowing her to disrupt the Reality Bomb and set the magnetron
in reverse to send the planets back to their points of
origin, while the second Doctor programmed the Daleks
to self-destruct. As the Crucible collapsed, Dalek Caan
revealed to Davros that the destruction of the Daleks
had always been his final goal; having perceived the entirety
of the Daleks’ reign during his temporal shift,
he had come to realise that their attempts at conquest
and control were wrong, and had thus decided to help The
Doctor defeat them.
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Prisoner of the Daleks
(Trevor Baxendale) |
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The Tenth Doctor, now alone, found himself facing the
Daleks once again when the TARDIS somehow jumped time
tracks, causing him to arrive in the universe prior to
the Time War in the middle of the first Earth Empire’s
war with the Daleks ("Prisoner
of the Daleks").
Having encountered a group of Dalek bounty hunters on
the distant planet Hurala after they had taken a Dalek
prisoner, The Doctor learned that the Daleks were planning
to use the Arkheon temporal rift - most likely the reason
for The Doctor arriving in a universe where the Time War
had yet to be waged - as a means of gaining true time
travel by penetrating the Time Vortex. Although The Doctor
and the bounty hunters attempted to find out what the
Daleks were planning, they were captured by the Daleks
and The Doctor subsequently interrogated by Dalek X -
the Dalek Inquisitor General, whose ‘name’ had
been given to him by Earth command, regarded as the Devil
in Dalek form - who swiftly deduced that The Doctor was
from the future and forced him to take them to the TARDIS.
Once back on Hurala, however, The Doctor and the bounty
hunters were able to trick the Daleks into entering Hurala’s
dormant refuelling facility by claiming that The Doctor
had lost the TARDIS key during his previous visit, allowing
The Doctor to trigger the facility to self-destruct, the
resulting energy release destroying Dalek X’s Command
Saucer and his support ships, creating a significant dent
on Dalek operations in this part of the galaxy. Having sealed the Arkheon rift with the TARDIS, The Doctor returned to Hurala to confront the crippled and immobilised Dalek X, who had been trapped at the bottom of the facility before the explosion, his systems too damaged to work while retaining enough power to keep him alive. Before returning to his proper time, The Doctor coldly informed Dalek X that, in the end, the Daleks would never win because they could never accept that every other race was better them, pointing out that there wasn’t a single being in the universe who would willingly become a Dalek.
The Tenth Doctor ended up facing the pre-Time War Daleks once again when a chain of events led to him essentially abducting himself back into the pre-War timeline to stop a dangerous temporal experiment using components stolen from the Nun (a female incarnation of The Doctor's foe the Monk) by the scientist Sheldrake as he attempted to create his own time machine ("Dalek Universe 1 - The Wrong Woman"). While The Doctor was able to stop the temporal collapse caused by Sheldrake's experiments, he found himself trapped in the past when a Dalek that had been monitoring the temporal distortions destroyed the time machine he had been intending to use to send himself back to the TARDIS. Seeking a way back to his universe, The Doctor began to search for temporal scientist Arborrecc with the aid of Anya Kingdom and Mark Seven, but their search was initially hindered when an attack by space pirates led to them meeting Anya's grandfather (who identified himself as Sara Kingdom's father, Anya being the daughter of Sara's sister) ("Dalek Universe 1 - The House of Kingdom"). After a brief diversion that revealed the circumstances of Mark Seven's origins ("Dalek Universe 2 - Cycle of Destruction"), the trio made their way to a facility where Major McLinn of the SSS was attempting to deliberately turn humans into Daleks with the goal of using them to infiltrate Dalek operations, with Arborecc being one of his 'test subjects' ("Dalek Universe 2 - The Trojan Dalek").
Mark Seven apparently sacrificed himself to destroy the facility while The Doctor and Anya escaped, but they then found themselves in the middle of the Daleks' war with The
Movellans a century or so in Anya's future, during which The Doctor discovered that the Movelleans had actually been created based on Mark's salvaged remains ("Dalek Universe 3 - The First Son"). When The Doctor discovered a human expedition that had managed to salvage Davros from the ship that had been taking him to Earth for trial ("Destiny of the Daleks"), the Daleks attempted to retrieve Davros for their own ends, leading to Davros and The Doctor being captured by the Movellans when they crash-landed on Kembel ("Dalek Universe 3 - The Dalek Defence"). Meeting the First Movellan, The Doctor was shocked to recognise it as the remains of Mark Seven, salvaged after his apparent destruction and rebuilt with his memory basically blank. Davros naturally took the opportunity to mock The Doctor as being like him, having created the Movelleans just as Davros created the Daleks, and then attempted to disable the Movelleans by infecting the former Mark Seven with a computer virus. As the human forces took advantage of the chaos to recapture Davros and force the remaining Dalek forces into retreat, The Doctor was able to contain the spread of the computer virus to save the Movelleans as a whole before he retrieved an abandoned Dalek time machine on Kembel and used it to return to his own time, while Anya was recruited by the Earth defences of the current era.
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Out of Time
(Matt Fitton) |
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While the Tenth Doctor was on his 'farewell tour' ("The Waters of Mars" and "The End of Time") he visited the Cathedral of Contemplation, a vast pan-dimensional cathedral that provided sanctuary for all who sought to escape the hardships of the wider universe for a time. However, while visiting the Cathedral, The Doctor not only unintentionally met his fourth incarnation when he deactivated a few of the Cathedral's internal dimensional barriers because he resented being told to stay in one room, but he was present when the Daleks managed to invade the Cathedral from their war in the twenty-sixth century ("Frontier in Space"), having tracked a human platoon who had come to the Cathedral to try and capture a deserter. The Daleks intended to use the Cathedral to mount a mass of invasions across all of time and space, but they damaged their own plans when they killed the Abbess of the Cathedral during the invasion, as the Abbess' species were linked to their creations and her death meant that there was now nobody who could control it. The Daleks attempted to force the two Doctors to act as substitute controllers, but after the Doctors forced the Daleks to let them send the Cathedral's remaining guests to a safe place (the Daleks permitting this as a test and demonstration of the Cathedral's power), the Doctors were ordered to open a portal onto Earth central command during the Daleks' current war. With the Fourth Doctor tracking the spatial coordinates of the portal while the Tenth Doctor directed it temporally, the Tenth Doctor was able to direct the portal to Earth on the day of its destruction ("The End of the World"), resulting in the Dalek strike force being destroyed by the expanding sun ("Out of Time").
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| Victory of the Daleks |
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The Doctor’s
next encounter with the Daleks was one of his most dramatic,
as it marked one of the few occasions where the Daleks
even technically defeated him. Responding to a call for
advice from his old friend Winston
Churchill ("Victory of the Daleks") - whom he had previously met in his
second and sixth incarnations ("Players", "The
Shadow in the Glass") -, the Eleventh Doctor and
his companion Amy Pond learned that Professor Edwin Bracewell
had recently developed the ‘Ironside’ project,
Ironside being a secret weapon that Churchill believed
could help win the war... only for The Doctor to be horrified
when he learned that the ‘Ironsides’ were
Daleks. When The Doctor confirmed the identity of both
himself and the Daleks, the Daleks transmitted his ‘testimony’ to
a Dalek ship hiding behind the moon, the Daleks subsequently
revealing that Bracewell was merely an android the Daleks
had created to conceal their origins; their presence on
Earth in this time had been conceived for the sole purpose
of making contact with The Doctor so that he could activate
the ‘Progenitor’. As the Dalek ship approached
Earth, The Doctor confronted the Daleks on their ship,
deducing that the badly-damaged Dalek ship had fallen
back through time after his last encounter with them.
The Progenitor device - the last of thousands - contained
thousands of Dalek DNA samples, capable of recreating
the Dalek race, but they had needed The Doctor to activate
it as the Daleks no longer registered as being ‘pure’ due
to their new origins from Davros’s cells, The Doctor’s
testimony being required to prompt the Progenitor to recognise
them as Daleks. Although the Progenitor created the first
of a new wave of Daleks - the new Daleks’ first
action being to destroy the old Daleks as ‘inferior’ before
turning their attention to The Doctor -, Amy and Churchill
were able to convince Bracewell to move past his issues
with his identity to help them create weapons to fight
the Dalek ship, The Doctor keeping the Daleks distracted
long enough for the British to launch planes capable of
flying in space. Unfortunately, the Daleks escaped when
they revealed that Bracewell was powered by an Oblivion
Continuum - a miniature wormhole linked to another dimension
of near-unlimited power -, forcing The Doctor to allow
the ship to escape while he returned to Earth to stop
Bracewell from detonating, rendering it inevitable that
he would face them again, although Amy and Churchill assured
him that he had still won by saving Earth.
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| City of the Daleks |
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Shortly
after this confrontation with the Daleks, The Doctor and
Amy were forced to face them once again when a visit to
London in 1963 to see the Beatles in concert resulted
in them arriving on an Earth that had been decimated by
a Dalek invasion, the only apparent human survivor being
a young woman called Sylvia ("City of the Daleks").
Learning from Sylvia that the Daleks had attacked Earth
through a rift in the sky - although she was exterminated
shortly afterwards -, The Doctor and Amy tracked the rift
back to the Dalek city of Kaalann on Skaro, confronting
the Dalek Emperor after The Doctor had constructed a chronon
blocker to maintain Amy’s existence after she began
to fade due to humanity’s history being erased.
Learning that the Daleks had acquired control of the ‘Eye
of Time’- a natural phenomenon said to be the core
of the Big Bang and the literal ‘heart’ of
time and space, once controlled by the Time Lords before
the Daleks found it after the destruction of Gallifrey
("The
Ancestor Cell") - and used it to change
history, The Doctor used the Eye to travel back in time
to before the Daleks had completed preparations for their
invasion, constructing a device that would blind all the
Daleks in the city using the Dalek Visualiser from Kaalann’s
main monitoring room. Having tricked the Daleks into attacking
each other after activating the visualiser - ironically
aided by Amy’s current invisibility as she flickered
in and out of existence due to her paradoxical existence
-, The Doctor and Amy fled through the Eye after releasing
it back into the universe, finding themselves back in
the future facility with the TARDIS, the Dalek army now
eliminated.
The Doctor and Amy found themselves facing
the Daleks once again when they landed on Station 7, a
research
station where scientists attempted to analyse Dalek
technology ("The Only Good Dalek"). Establishing
himself as a government investigator using both the
psychic paper and his old friendship with Sara Kingdom
("The
Daleks' Master Plan"), The Doctor
learned that the scientists at the station had developed
what they believed was a means of taking direct control
of the Dalek casing by installing a positronic brain
between the creature and the control links to the travel
machine, essentially allowing the humans to ‘bypass’ the
Dalek creature and control their machines. This research
station’s worth was apparently proven when the
Daleks attempted to board the station to recover the
scientists’ data, but it was quickly established
that the ‘converted’ Daleks were anything
but; the Daleks had psychokinetically bypassed the positronic
brain as soon as it was installed. With Amy and The
Doctor forced to escape the station in separate pods,
Amy and Jay - one of the soldiers on the station - were
only just able to evade capture with the aid of an apparently
reprogrammed Dalek, while The Doctor and station Commander
Tranter discovered Professor Weston, the former chief
scientist on the station, who had left Station 7 some
months back. Working on the planet, Weston had not only
converted the native animal population with cybernetic
implants to serve as a security force, but had also
managed to genetically re-engineer a Dalek to give it
a full understanding of compassion and mercy, successfully
creating the only truly ‘good’ Dalek. Although
their attempts to use this Dalek to escape were nearly
jeopardised when Tranter was revealed to be a brainwashed
Dalek agent - controlled by an apparently cybernetic
left eye that had been planted on him after his recent
escape from a Dalek prison -, The Doctor’s discovery
of his programming allowed Tranter to resist its influence.
Realising that he was the reason the Daleks had discovered
Station 7, Tranter sacrificed himself to destroy the
Dalek ship - with some slight assistance from Weston’s
altered Dalek -, Weston also giving his life so that
The Doctor, Amy and Jay could get away with his research.
Although The Doctor doubted that anything would come
of Weston’s research, he reflected that its mere
existence represented humanity’s capacity for
hope and ingenuity, traits that the Daleks would never
be able to understand and overcome.
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| The Pandorica Opens/The
Big Bang |
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The Eleventh
Doctor faced the Daleks again when they joined forces
with his other enemies in a vast Alliance to trap him
in the Pandorica - a legendary prison that had been spoken
of in myth, created specifically to hold The Doctor -
after they became convinced that he would be responsible
for a temporal explosion that triggered the creation of
cracks in the universe after the TARDIS exploded, unaware
that the explosion had already taken place when his future
companion River Song was piloting the ship. With the collapse
of history, the various races in the Alliance were all
erased from existence, leaving only statues of themselves
gathered around the Pandorica as ‘after-images’,
Earth the last fragment of time left in the universe thanks
to the exploding TARDIS putting itself in a time loop
at the moment of its destruction to act as a substitute
sun for Earth. Although a ‘stone’ Dalek survived
to the present, awakening once again as a result of the
Pandorica being opened by the young Amelia Pond that existed
in this reality - the residual atoms of the true universe
preserved inside the Pandorica being enough to revive
the Dalek -, it was fought off by the Auton duplicate
of Rory
Williams and The Doctor’s future companion
River Song - River managing to kill it by shooting at
its eyestalk while its shield density was weakened by
its power shortage -, but not before it managed to nearly
kill The Doctor with a lucky shot. With The Doctor having
taken the Pandorica into the TARDIS explosion, using the
TARDIS itself as a power source to transmit the remaining
atoms of the true universe stored within the Pandorica
across all of time and space in a second explosion that
restored the history of the universe, the Alliance was
erased and history restored.
While preparing
for his death at the hands of River Song while she was
controlled by The Silence, The Doctor discovered
a crashed Dalek ship, accessing the datacore of the damaged
Dalek inside it for all information that it possessed
about the Silence so that he could find a way around his
death. Using this information, The Doctor was able to
find a source that could tell him why the Silence wanted
him dead, and subsequently devised a means of faking his
death so that he could throw them off.
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The Dalek Generation
(Nicholas Briggs) |
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Travelling alone after his faked death, The Doctor received a small device similar to a Time Lord messenger cube ("The
War Games" and "The Doctor's Wife") that directed him to a funeral that would have some significance to him in his future ("The Dalek Generation"). Unaware that he was being observed by the Dalek Time Controller - a Dalek genetically engineered to perceive the Time Vortex and map out future events -, The Doctor was tracked as he responded to a distress call from scientists Terrin and Alyst Blakely, but was only able to rescue their three children - Jenibeth, Sabel, and Ollus Blakely - as their parents had just committed suicide to avoid their work being discovered by the Daleks. Exploring the local space, The Doctor learned that the Dalek Foundation had created four hundred artificial worlds, populated by billions of humans relocated from economically harsh planets, who saw the Daleks as saviours, while learning that the Blakelys had been working on a project analysing the mysterious Cradle of the Gods, an artefact so ancient that even the TARDIS couldn’t translate the language written on it. Although naturally suspicious of a situation where the Daleks were a force for good, even after Jenibeth was captured by the Daleks, The Doctor was forced to leave the Sunlight Worlds alone after finding an appropriate guardian for Sabel and Ollus when he failed to convince anyone of the Daleks’ true natures, only to return to the original funeral he had witnessed, learning that it was for the now-elderly Ollus… and discovering that the funeral was a trap set by the Daleks, who had reprogrammed Jenibeth into a human/Dalek android using Dalek nanites. The Cradle of the Gods was a massive terraforming device capable of remaking the Sunlight Worlds into new versions of Skaro, having been ‘treated’ by the Daleks over the decades with the right radiation to control the process, but the codes to control it had been lost with the Blakelys’ deaths… until The Doctor’s return gave him the chance to work out that the codes the Blakelys had discovered were encoded in the childrens’ memories and Ollus’s toy spaceship. Unfortunately for the Daleks, their attempts to control the cradle were overwhelmed by Jenibeth, who had held on to her sanity and childish innocence throughout her long imprisonment and reprogramming through sheer force of will, using her Dalek implants to destroy the Dalek team assigned to her before she focused on the Cradle. With the memories of her siblings to help her focus, Jenibeth was able to program the Cradle to leave the Sunlight Worlds as they were while removing the Daleks, as well as restoring their parents to life and regressing the siblings back to childhood so that they could live the life they should have had.
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| Asylum of the Daleks |
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The Doctor found himself dealing with the Daleks once more when the Parliament of Daleks - a vast Dalek ship dominated by a large chamber of Daleks - actually recruited his help to deal with a threat on the Dalek Asylum, a planet where the Daleks imprisoned Daleks who were so twisted and insane that even the other Daleks were afraid of them (Although they had not destroyed the Daleks in question as they perceived their twisted nature as beautiful) ("Asylum of the Daleks"). Having detected an anomalous signal in the form of music being broadcast from the Asylum, the Daleks had learned that a ship had crashed into the Asylum, but, too scared to go down to the Asylum themselves, forcibly recruited The Doctor to do so. Having tracked down the Eleventh Doctor and his former companions Amy and Rory - reasoning that The Doctor was at his best with others -, the Daleks sent him down to the Asylum via a ‘gravity funnel’ that could penetrate the force field surrounding the planet, thus leaving The Doctor with no other choice but to shut down the force field so that he, Amy and Rory could escape, the deactivated forcefield allowing the Daleks to destroy the Asylum before any of the imprisoned Daleks could find their way out via whatever flaw in the force-field had allowed the ship to crash. Despite the odds against him, The Doctor tracked the signal to the Dalek ‘intensive care’ area (Containing Daleks who had been traumatised after surviving encounters with The Doctor), where he learned that it was being sent by Oswin, a young genius whose ship had crash-landed on the Asylum over a year ago... only to learn that Oswin had been converted into a Dalek by the nanocyte field that surrounded the Asylum and turned those who arrived on it into Daleks (The Doctor and his companions had been given special bracelets to protect them from the nanocytes), creating an illusion that she retained her humanity and was trapped in a small room to retain her sanity. Even after The Doctor revealed the truth about her new Dalek status, Oswin held on to her humanity, allowing The Doctor to deactivate the force field and teleport away as the Daleks destroyed the Asylum. As he teleported back into the TARDIS on the Dalek Parliament, The Doctor learned that Oswin had given him another gift as thanks for his attempt to save her; by hacking into the Dalek Pathnet - the semi-telepathic connection between all Daleks -, Oswin had erased the Daleks’ collective memory of The Doctor, suggesting that they would be weaker in their future confrontations with The Doctor without fear of him to inspire them to develop further.
Unfortunately for The Doctor, he would soon learn that the Daleks had actually become even worse without their memories of him. Most notably, with no knowledge of The Doctor’s existence, the Daleks now concluded that they had won the Time War since they believed all Time Lords were dead. At the same time, the New Dalek Paradigm was aware of the ‘gaps’ in their history left by The Doctor’s absence, as they were still aware of the defeats they had suffered because of him, leaving them afraid of this unknown enemy of the Daleks as they mounted a new campaign against the universe. Just before the Dalek campaign began in earnest, a prototype Dalek time machine from the Time War, essentially developed as a means of infiltrating the Time Lords’ TARDISes, broke away from the Daleks and attempted to oppose them. Unfortunately, while this machine adopted a human avatar and the name ‘Tim’ to escape being defined by its association with the Daleks, it still lacked any true emotional investment in its actions. While the machine’s goal was to destroy the Daleks, it had no concern about the human cost of its agenda, pursuing plans that would result in wars lasting potentially billions of years just because the Daleks would eventually be defeated. Even when it learned of The Doctor’s existence, it assumed that he survived the Time War by running away and staying in hiding rather than recognise that he was the Daleks’ unknown enemy. The Doctor became aware of Tim’s plans when CEO Arabella Hendricks lured The Doctor to an isolated rig to force him to devise a cure for the Darinthian Blight, an artificial disease that essentially killed the richest people in an area. Having driven Hendricks away by turning the Blight against her, The Doctor set out to find the person responsible for giving Hendricks the Blight in the company of Valarie Lockwood, a resident of the rig whose mother had been killed by the Blight ("The Inheritance").
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Everywhere and Anywhere
(Georgia Cook, Alfie Shaw and Max Kashevsky) |
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After discovering another anti-Dalek experiment in the form of the Surge, a virus that allowed the infected to absorb the energy from Dalek weapons and send it back to the attacker ("All’s Fair"), The Doctor and Valarie confronted Tim, who explained his motivations and tried to make The Doctor accept his plan. When The Doctor rejected the scheme and was captured by the Daleks, Tim made the offer to Valarie, arguing that if she became his commander and ordered him to self-destruct the resulting temporal disruption could allow her to change history by making a few quick trips in Tim before he finished exploding. Valarie was able to essentially trick Tim into giving her another chance to stop the Daleks by using his destruction to go back in time and just set up the events she and The Doctor had already experienced, giving Hendricks the Darinthian Blight and inspiring her to start the plan that would kill Valarie’s mother and put her in contact with The Doctor in the first place ("The Last Stand of Miss Valarie Lockwood"). Valarie subsequently used the TARDIS of her timeline to go back a few hours and warn The Doctor and her younger self what had happened so The Doctor would know what not to do against the Daleks, this version of Valarie subsequently experiencing a future she and The Doctor had already witnessed where she died in Chicago in the late 1800s. Using an Archeon generator he had acquired on an earlier trip ("Spirit of the Season"), The Doctor was then able to trap the Daleks in an artificial reality, claiming the goal was to purge the Daleks of their hate and make them a force for good ("Victory of The Doctor"). The Daleks were able to escape this false reality and conquer the universe, but The Doctor then revealed that the Archeon generator had been creating two artificial universes; when the Daleks escaped the original trap they had just transferred into another artificial universe, The Doctor keeping the Daleks distracted in that pocket universe while Valarie and her girlfriend Rowana infected the generator with the Darinthian Blight. As a result of this infection, when the Daleks declared that they were the masters of the universe in the Archeon generator, the entire Dalek army was destroyed by the Blight. The Doctor speculated that some Daleks may have survived if they weren’t linked to the Dalek pathnet at this time, but he and Valarie still caused a significant blow to the Daleks, apparently destroying the New Dalek Paradigm and regressing the Daleks back to their original appearance.
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Victory of The Doctor
(Alfie Shaw) |
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During an investigation into a Zygon invasion of Earth, the Eleventh Doctor not only encountered his previous self, but also met the War Doctor from the last day of the Time War, the Moment having sent the War Doctor into his future just before he activated it to witness the men he would become as a result of his role in the destruction of Gallifrey ("The Day of The Doctor"). With the Doctors having saved Earth by helping the humans and Zygons draw up a peace treaty, the War Doctor prepared to trigger the Moment, only to be joined by his future selves as the Eleventh Doctor came up with a new plan to defeat the Daleks; by literally removing Gallifrey from its current location, the Dalek ships would destroy themselves as their ships began firing at each other once Gallifrey vanished, creating the illusion that both sides had annihilated each other. Although it required all thirteen Doctors to achieve as they had to start working out the necessary calculations at the beginning of their travels, The Doctors were able to take a last desperate gamble and use their TARDISes to take Gallifrey out of time, freezing the planet in an unknown pocket parallel universe as the Daleks annihilated themselves (Apart from the necessary few survivors who were knocked out of the blast radius of the explosion caused by them blowing up their own fleet).
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| The Time of The Doctor |
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The Daleks’ memories of The Doctor were restored when they set out to track a mysterious signal being broadcast across all of time and space from the planet Trenzalore, The Doctor learning that the signal was a message from Gallifrey being sent through the last of the cracks in the universe ("The Eleventh Hour") created by the TARDIS exploding ("The Pandorica Opens/The
Big Bang"). Although The Doctor was initially forced into a state of cold war with the Order of the Silence after they set up a powerful barrier around Trenzalore, not wanting to let other races attack the planet but knowing that the return of the Time Lords would re-ignite the Time War, the Daleks broke the stalemate by attacking the Silence’s primary church, restoring their memories of The Doctor by accessing the Church database. Fortunately, enough of the Silence survived for them to pose a threat to the Daleks when led by The Doctor, but this only resulted in further conflict on Trenzalore until The Doctor’s forces were depleted while the Daleks still had a single mothership ("The Time of The Doctor"). Finally, with The Doctor about to die of old age and on his last life as the Daleks’ final ship attacked, his companion Clara Oswald spoke through the crack as the Doctor prepared to face the Daleks, informing the Time Lords on the other end that The Doctor needed their help to break the prophecy that Trenzalore would be his grave ("The Name of The Doctor"). Accepting Clara’s advice, the Time Lords healed the crack after sending The Doctor enough energy to start a new regeneration cycle, the energy expended by The Doctor as his body reset itself proving so powerful that he destroyed the last Dalek ship left standing with the regenerative energy he released before changing.
Following The Doctor’s regeneration, his new incarnation didn’t take long to encounter the Daleks once again. On only his second major trip in the TARDIS, the Twelfth Doctor rescued a lieutenant from her ship just as it was destroyed by the Daleks, taking her to her home base on the former medical ship Aristotle, where the crew revealed that they had captured a Dalek which had been left damaged for so long that it had apparently developed a sense of morality, compassion and fear, to the point that it actually wanted to destroy the other Daleks. Convinced to investigate the Dalek’s claim - The Doctor grimly noting that only a Dalek could consider morality a malfunction - The Doctor and Clara used a nano-scaler to shrink down and examine the Dalek’s brain directly with the aid of a security team. While analysing the parts inside the Dalek casing - The Doctor nicknaming the Dalek ‘Rusty’ as he explored it - the security team accidentally attracted the Dalek’s antibodies when they damaged a part of it, forcing The Doctor to let one of the team die so that they could escape the antibodies by hiding in the protein strands of recycled material where the Daleks wouldn’t expect anything to attack. Examining Rusty’s power core, The Doctor determined that Rusty was suffering from radiation poisoning that had damaged its systems’ ability to block more positive emotions, talking to it to learn that it had changed after witnessing the birth of a star and concluded that resisting life was futile. However, after The Doctor repaired the damaged power core, Rusty reverted to its original programming, attacking the crew of the Aristotle with The Doctor, Clara and the security team still inside, prompting the team to try and destroy Rusty before Clara convinced The Doctor to take a chance and use their location to their advantage. Focusing on the fact that the radiation had changed the Dalek for a time and the memories that had affected it were still intact, one of the team sacrificed herself to help The Doctor and Clara reach the Dalek cortex to restore Rusty’s awareness of those memories. As The Doctor and Clara attempted to reactivate the memories while the Dalek ship attacked the Aristotle, they managed to restore Rusty’s memories of witnessing the star’s birth before The Doctor linked himself to Rusty’s memories, trying to share his experiences with Rusty, only for Rusty to draw on The Doctor’s hatred of the Daleks instead of his wonder at everything else. Although Rusty subsequently destroyed the other attacking Daleks, The Doctor considered their efforts a failure as Rusty had only seen The Doctor’s hatred rather than his wonder, particularly when Rusty commented that The Doctor was ‘a good Dalek’, echoing his ninth self’s first encounter with them.
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| The Magician's Apprentice/The Witch's Familiar |
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When the still-living Davros set out to find The Doctor as he approached his death - Davros only sustaining himself through a system that drew on the life energy of every other Dalek - having remembered a brief encounter between himself and the Twelfth Doctor when Davros was a child where The Doctor refused to save or kill his future foe, the Daleks took advantage of the opportunity to acquire the TARDIS after Davros's agent discovered The Doctor ("The Magician's Apprentice/The Witch's Familiar"). Having taken The Doctor to Skaro, along with the TARDIS, Clara, and Missy - a new female incarnation of The Master ("Dark Water/Death in Heaven") - the dying Davros attempted to taunt The Doctor about his compassion as his Daleks apparently exterminated Clara and Missy, noting that none of this would have been possible if The Doctor had just killed Davros in that childhood encounter. Although Clara and Missy escaped by Missy configuring a vortex manipulator to be powered by the energy of the Dalek blasts, they were forced to return to the city through the Dalek 'sewers', really the location where they kept Daleks who were too damaged to operate on their own. After Missy lured an active Dalek down so that they could acquire its casing for Clara's use, Davros apparently tricked The Doctor into granting the Daleks access to his regenerative energy, only for The Doctor to reveal that he had anticipated Davros's real plan, with his energy even 'recharging' the Daleks in the sewers so that they could rise up against their fellows. As the Dalek city tore itself apart, The Doctor and Clara fled in the TARDIS, although The Doctor left Missy behind in a rage after Missy tried to trick The Doctor into shooting Clara in her Dalek casing.
While his confrontation on Skaro marked his last full encounter with the Daleks, the Twelfth Doctor had two other brief encounters with them before his next regeneration. When attempting to help his new companion Bill Potts escape a time-travelling entity that was stalking her, The Doctor attempted to shake this enemy off by travelling to a ship in the middle of the war between the Daleks and the Movellans, hoping that the danger of this location would be enough to shake the entity off, although this plan failed ("The Pilot"). As he faced his regeneration, seeking to understand the nature of the mysterious 'Testimony', The Doctor travelled to a planet in the far future where he discovered Rusty, now a 'recluse' hiding in an old weapons factory blowing up any Dalek that came after him, requesting Rusty's aid in accessing the Dalek cybernet to find information about Testimony's true agenda ("Twice Upon a Time").
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Some time after regenerating, the Thirteenth Doctor - The Doctor's first female incarnation - discovered a long-dormant Dalek reconnaissance drone that had been defeated in the Battle of Hope Valley centuries in Earth's past, when a large army of ancient humans joined forces to destroy the creature ("Resolution"). The single battle was so devastating that only three humans were left alive after the battle was over, with those three taking components of the Dalek's casing to different corners of the world to ensure that it could never be reassembled. Unfortunately, the solider entrusted with taking the actual Dalek mutant to a secure location was shot by a random bandit before he could hide it, and, centuries later, this mutant was dug up by an archaeological dig and subsequently revived by the ultraviolet light used to study it. The mutant was then able to latch onto archaeologist Lin and take direct control of her body to continue its assault on Earth. Fortunately, the TARDIS detected the presence of the Dalek mutant and brought The Doctor to the sight of the dig, although the Dalek remained hidden long enough for Lin/the Dalek to get away and murder two policemen after doing research, allowing it to find a company that had been collecting alien technology. After tracking the Dalek through satellite tracking systems to an isolated farm, The Doctor's companions took Lin to safety after the Dalek used Lin to create a facsimile of its usual casing, allowing it to defeat an army platoon and attack the UK's central communications hub with the goal of transmitting a signal to the Dalek fleet. The Doctor and her companions were able to overload the Dalek's casing and melt it, but the Dalek mutant itself was able to escape and take over the body of Aaron, the father of The Doctor's companion Ryan Sinclair, to force The Doctor to take it to the Dalek fleet, only for The Doctor to actually take the TARDIS to the orbit of a dying sun. The Doctor attempted to force the Dalek off Aaron by creating a vacuum corridor just the size of the Dalek, with the goal of drawing the Dalek away from its host, but the Dalek was still strong enough that it almost took Aaron out with it before Ryan was able to help his father resist it, the TARDIS returning to Earth while the Dalek mutant fell into the sun.
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| Revolution of the Daleks |
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A couple of years later, Earth faced a new Dalek threat when UK Technology Secretary Jo Patterson provided technology salvaged from the Dalek scout to a tech company owned by Jack Robertson, a businessman whose reputation had suffered after The Doctor and her allies exposed how his unethical practices led to an outbreak of giant spiders across Sheffield ("Arachnids in the UK"). Patterson's goal was to create a personal army of drones to act as a security force as part of political capital for her bid to become Prime Minister. With The Doctor initially in prison for crimes committed by a previously-unknown past version of herself ("Fugitive of the Judoon", "Ascension of the Cybermen/The Timeless Children"), Robertson only learned after the 'drones' had been put into mass production that Leo, one of his research staff, had managed to clone the original Dalek mutant using the minute DNA samples left inside the original casing. While Robertson was only aware of the computer-controlled Dalek casings, the recreated Dalek mutant was able to create a vast army of clones of itself in another facility in Japan, using Robertson's details to set up the facility and then use the DNA of the workers who created it as 'fuel' for the Dalek mutants, all without Robertson's knowledge, including an elaborate teleportation network that automatically transferred all Dalek mutants into the Dalek casings all over the world. Fortunately, The Doctor was rescued from prison by Jack Harkness in time to learn about the drones' existence, but with no better ideas to stop this new Dalek threat, The Doctor sent a message to the main Dalek fleet to inform them of the existence of the new Daleks. Just as had occurred with Professor Martez's Daleks on Red Rocket Rising ("Blood of the Daleks"), the Daleks sent a division to destroy these 'impure' new Daleks, with this particular division being a Dalek Death Squad who were even more committed to the Dalek vision of blood purity than usual. The Death Squad destroyed Robertson's Daleks within minutes of arriving on Earth, despite the other Daleks numbering in the thousands, allowing Jack, Graham and Ryan to plant explosives on the Death Squad ship while The Doctor lured the remaining Death Squad Daleks on Earth into a secondary TARDIS her companions had acquired during a recent trip to Gallifrey, subsequently setting it to collapse in on itself with the Daleks inside.
When the universe was nearly destroyed by a wave of anti-matter known as the Flux, the Daleks were one of the main races who benefited from the devastation, occupying several planets after the chaos. The Flux's assault on the universe came to a climax when the Sontarans offered an alliance to the Daleks and the Cybermen where the fleets would take shelter from the Flux on Earth, which was protected by another fleet of ships with shields specially configured to deflect the Flux's energies. However, the Sontarans betrayed the Daleks and the Cybermen by configuring the shields to materialise behind the Dalek and Cybermen fleets, with the idea of using the Dalek and Cybermen fleets to essentially 'wear out' the Flux to stop it. Both fleets were apparently destroyed, but The Doctor and her allies were able to reconfigure the anti-Flux shield so that the Sontarans were unprotected by it as well, the Sontarans' destruction slowing down the Flux enough for The Doctor to disable it at its source and undo most of the destruction it had caused.
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Eve of the Daleks
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Despite this devastation, at least a few of the Daleks caught up in the Flux's assault survived the blast, and managed to retreat to Earth on New Year's Eve, 2021, arriving just as The Doctor set the TARDIS to reconfigure itself to repair the damage it had sustained from exposure to the Flux ("Eve of the Daleks"). Discovering the Daleks in a storage facility, The Doctor, Yaz and new companion Dan Lewis were immediately exterminated, but the TARDIS crew and the occupants of the storage facility, Jeff and Sarah (Sarah owned the storage facility and Jeff was her only customer), found themselves caught in a time loop, with a force field around the facility preventing them from leaving. The Daleks were able to use the time loop to anticipate what the humans would do to escape their own attacks, but The Doctor was able to rally the others as she realised that the time loop was shortening on each go around, determining that the loop had been created by the TARDIS using its residual power after the Daleks arrived. The Daleks affirmed that The Doctor was their target, as they sought revenge for her role in the Flux destroying the Dalek fleet (naturally unconcerned that The Doctor just took advantage of the Sontarans' plan). As more Daleks began to materialise in the building, The Doctor and her companions managed to take advantage of the loop, such as Dan sacrificing himself to distract a Dalek or Jeff tricking two Daleks into shooting each other when they cornered him in a corridor. Eventually The Doctor and her allies came up with a plan to trick the Daleks, basically taking random actions in one loop and then putting their actual plan into action in the final loop while the Daleks assumed their prior actions were part of a different plan. In the final loop, the Daleks were lured to the basement of the storage facility by false life signs after The Doctor and her allies had assembled a mass of fireworks there. The Daleks subsequently destroyed the building when they fired at the fireworks, the explosion causing the building to collapse on top of them.
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The Power of The Doctor
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The Daleks returned when The Master managed to make them part of his new alliance with the Cybermen, The Master apparently convincing the other two races that they should at least work together to destroy The Doctor even if a permanent alliance was impossible ("The Power of The Doctor"). As part of this plan, the Daleks set up various subterranean drills all over Earth, with the goal of triggering a series of volcanic eruptions that would then destroy the planet. One Dalek was so horrified by the scale of this plan that it tried to betray the Daleks and offer The Doctor information, but this traitor was discovered by the main Dalek forces and used to lure The Doctor into a trap. Fortunately, even after The Doctor was captured, former companions Graham O’Brien and Ace were able to destroy at least one drill themselves before The Doctor was able to defeat The Master’s part of the plan and return to the fold, subsequently using an artificial planetoid created by The Master to literally freeze every active volcano at once, destroying the Daleks into the bargain.
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Liberation of the Daleks
(Alan Barnes) |
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After a final attack by The Master caused The Doctor to regenerate, the Fourteenth Doctor’s first trip in the TARDIS saw him arrive at what initially appeared to be Wembley Stadium in 1966, but was in reality a Dalek theme park, the Dalek Dome ("Liberation of the Daleks"). Guests could interact with the Daleks in elaborate simulations of various invasions, both real and fictional, such as facing Daleks as medieval knights riding dragons. The projections were all made of psychoplasm based on the dreams of captured Dalek mutants, the twelve captured Daleks serving as the Dalek Emperor in each scenario. Although The Doctor was swiftly removed from the 1966 simulation by the staff, he had already told the Daleks that they weren’t real, prompting the Dalek Emperor to more thoroughly analyse its environment and confirm the truth. When the staff tried to shut down that simulation, the Dalek Emperor was able to escape in the TARDIS as The Doctor had let Georgy, a projected human based on one of the Dome supervisors, into the ship before he realised what he was dealing with, the Daleks tricking Georgy into opening the TARDIS doors so three of them could escape. While the psychoplasm couldn’t last for long in the real world, the TARDIS’s artron energy gave them enough of a presence to operate for a brief time, which led to Georgy having an identity crisis as she realised that she would soon ‘die’ while also remembering other simulations she had endured. Not comprehending the scale of her situation, Georgy fled to a projected Skaro to ask the Daleks for help, allowing them to capture The Doctor and hypnotise Georgy’s template Georgette by exploiting the mental link between the two. The Daleks were able to force The Doctor to explain how they might become real by taking control of the rest of the guests, but when Georgy realised the scale of the Daleks’ evil she resisted their influence, sacrificing herself to break the link the Daleks were using to control the guests. The Doctor was able to provoke the other projected Dalek Emperors into attacking each other before any of them could escape into reality, leaving the Dalek mutants basically stunned into a semi-conscious state, although he left it up to Georgette if they would try and continue the Dalek Dome or destroy the mutants after seeing the reality of the Dalek threat.
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