| Spiritual Healing Remix Video!!Subtitle Live in France 2006!!!!Iceland Airwaves Festival 2006 (Still makes me laugh!Then, in early 2007, the band released what is perhaps their greatest work: the eloquent and brooding ABANDONED LANGUAGE (Ipecac Recordings 2007)."Are you sure you want to delete this comment?"My recent albums are on my page.Please also include pictures of your group, BIOS, and contact information.Thank you and I look forward to working with you soon!WHAT UP WHAT UP DALEK ITS DJ BIZZNEZZ DUDE THAT GAVE GIO DA DRAWING TO PUT UP IN THE RECORDING STUDIO..DROPPIN IN TO WISH CRAZY BLESSINGS TO THE CAMP!Im listening now and I have flown to another world...Good luck and many greeting from Czech Republic.All the best from germany!Thank's very much,nice to get you on my top friends Big Up!!!Excellent, good to see you guys coming back to Milwaukee.See you guys on Leap Day.LEK is online now atwww.Enjoy the weird Sides of Music...Glad to see a Milwaukee date on that tour schedule.Dalek and Russian Circles in the same night.This could be an attempt to steal your username and password.This is not a MySpace login page, please do not enter your MySpace login information (email address or password).Do you wish to continue your form submission?"Id + " Text: " + targetLink."Dalek" is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who that was first broadcast on April 30, 2005.It should not be confused with the first Dalek serial, The Daleks.As the Doctor muses over the fact that he's getting old, he touches the glass casing of the Cyberman exhibit and sets off an alarm.The Doctor enters the darkened Cage, and begins by saying that he is here to help.It is a Dalek, in chains, declaring him an enemy of the Daleks and crying its intent to exterminate.The Doctor, panicked, bangs on the door and demands to be let out, until he realises that the Dalek's casing is cracked and worn and its weapon stalk does not work.Delighted, the Doctor taunts the Dalek, asking it: "If you cannot kill, then what good are you Dalek?".He then proceeds to ask what the Dalek is doing here, to which Dalek responds stating it is waiting for orders.The Doctor says that no orders will be forthcoming; the Dalek race is dead, all ten million ships of its fleet burning, and the Doctor was the one who destroyed them.The Dalek asks what happened to the Time Lords, and the Doctor grimly acknowledges that all of them are dead as well, casualties of the last Time War.In a fury, he pulls a lever, sending electricity coursing through the Dalek, but Van Statten sends his guards to stop the Doctor.As they ride up to the upper levels, Van Statten's assistant, Diana Goddard, tells the Doctor that the Dalek fell to Earth fifty years before, on Ascension Island, where it burned in a crater for three days before anyone could approach it.The Doctor concludes it must have fallen through time somehow, and Van Statten notes that the Dalek is not the only alien on Earth now.The Doctor is chained up, stripped to the waist and painfully scanned.Meanwhile, Adam is showing Rose (who is unaware of the Doctor's predicament) around the base.When Adam shows her the Dalek on the monitor, they see one of the technicians, Simmons, torturing it, trying to get it to speak again as per Van Statten's orders.There, Rose talks to the Dalek, offering to help.The Dalek feigns haplessness, getting Rose to approach it.In sympathy, Rose touches the Dalek casing, and immediately the Dalek absorbs her DNA, which allows it to regenerate part of its casing and break free of its chains.Simmons approaches it, unaware of the Daleks power as he remarks "What are you gonna do ...Although the lock to the Cage has a billion combinations, the Dalek easily runs through them in a matter of seconds.Rose and Adam are evacuated from the level as Van Statten's guards surround the Dalek, firing at it.Dalek has killed all of them.Adam, Rose and a female guard named De Maggio are climbing the stairs to the upper levels, hoping to escape the Dalek, but it hovers up after them, killing De Maggio.Van Statten still thinks the Dalek can be negotiated with, but the Doctor bluntly tells him that the Dalek will kill everyone who is different from a Dalek, because it honestly believes they should die.Once Rose and Adam are clear, they open fire on the Dalek, but it sits there, impervious, even allowing the Doctor to see this on the monitors to prove it.It then hovers in the air, triggering the sprinklers.With one shot, it electrifies the water on the floor and kills the guards there.The Doctor suggests, with almost uncharacteristic venom, that if it wants an order, it should just kill itself and rid the universe of its filth.The Dalek observes that the Doctor would make a good Dalek.Over her "superphone", Rose tells the Doctor it was not his fault, and the Doctor hears the Dalek cry, "Exterminate!"The Dalek, however, has not killed Rose.The DNA it absorbed from her is making it hesitant, and it can feel Rose's fear, something that a Dalek should not be able to do.It contacts the Doctor, holding Rose hostage and demanding that the bulkheads be opened or it will kill her this time.The Doctor tells Van Statten that he already killed Rose once; he cannot do it again.He then unseals the doors.The Dalek reaches Van Statten's office, and threatens to kill Van Statten for torturing it.Rose stops it, and the Dalek hesitates once more.Rose tells the Dalek that it does not have to kill anymore and asks it what it wants.The Dalek replies that it wants freedom.They ride up to Level 1, and there, the Dalek blows a hole in the roof of the Vault, letting the sunlight stream through.Thinking on Rose's words, he realises that the DNA the Dalek absorbed from Rose is mutating it further.The Dalek also realises this, as its mind is filled with so many new ideas, and it cannot reconcile it with the Dalek notion of species purity.The Dalek rises into the air, the globes on its shell disengaging to form a sphere formation around it.Rose asks whether it is possible, since the Dalek survived, that some of the Time Lords did as well, but the Doctor says he would feel it if they had, and it feels like there is no one.Adam comes by, saying that they have to leave as Goddard is sealing the base, and Rose hints to the Doctor that they should take Adam along, as he always wanted to see the stars.Cast notes
Nicholas Briggs, who provides the voice of the Dalek here and in the Big Finish audios, has also played the Doctor in the Audio Visuals line of audio plays.In the 2005 series, he also provided the voice of the Nestene Consciousness in "Rose".Sarah Gardner, host of Osiris and Daniel Jackson's former girlfriend and colleague.While Goddard is an American, Gardner is English (although Plowman is a New Zealand native).Doctor actually heard the callsign.However, the corrugated piping on the sides of the head and the small gun ports in its forehead were not used in The Invasion design, but in 1975's Revenge of the Cybermen, which took place in the late 29th century.BBC for Van Statten's fictional company.Daleks
This is the first episode in which the creature inside a Dalek is seen in detail for a substantial length of time.It is also the first Dalek occupant to have a visible eye, and is unusual in being blue (almost all Dalek mutants seen previously and after this episode were some shade of green).The Dalek ability to fly or hover dates back to The Chase (1965), where a Dalek was implied to have taken flight.In Revelation of the Daleks (1985), a Dalek hovered to exterminate two victims, but this was not very clearly depicted on screen (although Davros was clearly seen hovering in the story, and on the DVD release new CGI effects show the Dalek flying briefly).Finally, a Dalek was clearly seen to hover up stairs in Remembrance of the Daleks (1988).In the Dalek comic strips of the 1960s, Daleks flew on platforms called "transsolar discs".This is the first Dalek oriented Doctor Who episode since the conception of Davros that does not involve him.The last Dalek story without Davros was 31 years earlier (Death to the Daleks).Diana Goddard mentions that the Dalek landed on Earth roughly 50 years prior to the episode, which would place at around 1962.This roughly coincides with the events of Remembrance of the Daleks (1988), a story set in 1963 which also coincidentally features the apparent annihilation of the Daleks.Time Lord design (albeit in Dalek possession).The nature of this process has yet to be clarified.The Dalek absorbs Rose's DNA and her ability to experience emotions.However, the Dalek mutant considers this a form of contamination.In The Evil of the Daleks, the infusion of the "Human Factor" into some Daleks made them more friendly to humans and rebel against the Dalek Emperor.In some later stories, the Human Factor was actively sought by the Daleks to overcome the limitations of their rigid logic.Dalek appeared in a museum in the story The Space Museum, albeit as an empty casing, in 1965."The Parting of the Ways" in the case of "Dalek").The scene where the Doctor taunts the Dalek about its inability to kill without the use of its weapon echoes a similar scene in Death to the Daleks (1974) where the Third Doctor uses similar dialogue to taunt a group of Daleks rendered powerless by an energy dampening field on the planet Exxilon.The scene where Rose and Adam taunt a Dalek for its (apparent) inability to climb stairs is similar to a taunt the Fourth Doctor delivers in Destiny of the Daleks.When Henry Van Statten asks what the Daleks are, the Doctor explains they are mutants inside an armored, robotic shell created "by a man who was king of his own little world".This is a reference to Davros.When the Dalek tells Rose, "I feel your fear," she replies, "What do you expect?"This is the same answer Victoria Waterfield gives a Dalek who makes a similar statement in "The Evil of the Daleks".As the Doctor electrocutes the Dalek, it cries out "Have pity!"In Genesis of the Daleks (1975), one of the first Daleks states that "pity" is not registered in its vocabulary banks and it has no understanding of the word.When the Doctor tells the Dalek that the Time Lords perished with the Daleks, it replies "...The Doctor was accused of cowardice in Resurrection of the Daleks by Davros, as he could not kill.Abslom Daak, Dalek Killer in the eponymous comic strip.William Hartnell, Terry Nation, Richard Martin.Back to the Vortex by Shaun Lyon; the book also cites "Return of the Daleks" as a working title.Rob Shearman previously wrote the Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio play Jubilee, which also featured a lone Dalek that was chained and tortured and who develops a relationship with the Sixth Doctor's companion Evelyn Smythe.One of the pictures on the BBC website shows a prop pizza box with the words "Jubilee Pizza" on it as a reference to the episode's audio predecessor.The final plot of Jubilee unfolds very differently from that of "Dalek".On the DVD audio commentary for this episode, Shearman mentions that in early drafts Van Statten had a wife, who featured in the episode, and Adam was their son.The episode had to be rewritten when negotiations with Terry Nation's estate for the use of the Daleks (who are jointly owned by the estate and the BBC) fell through.Davies was substituted for the Dalek, but the rewrites were extensive to accommodate different dialogue, action and motivations."Absence of the Daleks".An interview with Shearman included in the DVD release of the 2005 series was taped during the interregnum when it was not known if the Daleks could be used in the episode.The character of Simmons (Nigel Whitmey), the Dalek torturer who is killed by the Dalek "plunger", was named after Kai Simmons, who played a similar role in Jubilee and is a university friend of Shearman's.Goddard is the maiden name of Shearman's wife, Jane Goddard, who has appeared in many Big Finish Productions audio stories; including The One Doctor).Mediawatch also objected to Van Statten's invitation to Adam and Rose to "canoodle or spoon, or whatever you Brits do," as inappropriate sexual language, a view that was ridiculed by fans on internet forums, and by celebrity fan Mitch Benn on The Now Show.The use of the expletive "goddamn", a first in televised Doctor Who, was not mentioned (though this is not seen as particularly strong language in Britain).Many fans from around the world tuned in over the Internet and saw "Dalek" as it was broadcast in the UK.The scenes of the Dalek being tortured contributed to the BBFC's decision to give the DVD release containing "Dalek" a "12" rating.Awards
The episode was nominated for the 2006 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form; the episodes "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances" won."Dalek" topped the second place category in terms of votes.David Tennant, Russell T Davies, James Hawes.William Hartnell, Terry Nation, Richard Martin."Dalek" episode guide on the BBC website
"Dalek" at Doctor Who: A Brief History Of Time (Travel)
"Dalek" at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
"Dalek" at Outpost Gallifrey
"Dalek" at TV.Episode 6: Dalek
"Exterminate!"Louise Plowman (Diana),
Bruno Langley (Adam),
Nigel Whitmey (Simmons),
John Schwab (Bywater),
Jana Carpenter (Di Maggio),
Joe Montana (Commander),
Barnaby Edwards (Dalek Operator),
Nicolas Briggs (Dalek Voice).Beneath the Salt Plains of Utah, the billionaire collector Henry Van Statten holds the last relic of an alien race.Episode released on DVD.World War Three and Dalek.Dalek: Robert Shearman (writer), Dave Houghton (visual effects producer), Nicholas Briggs (Dalek Voices), Bruno Langley (Adam Mitchell).The Doctor Dances: Steven Moffat (writer), John Barrowman (Captain Jack Harkness), and Dave Houghton (visual effects producer).The Christmas Invasion, the 2005 Christmas special episode starring David Tennant as the Doctor.Visual effects featurette about the making of the aliens.Jack Harkness and the actor who plays him, John Barrowman.Henry van Statten arrives at the bunker to view his collection for his birthday.In passing, he also orders that the US President be replaced; when his personal assistant, Polkowski, politely questions this order, van Statten fires him on the spot, and his guards drag Polkowski away to erase his memory and dump him on the side of the road somewhere.Goddard thus contacts Simmons, who is in charge of torturing the alien captive.The Doctor and Rose are brought before van Statten, who is examining the new alien artefacts bought at auction by another of his employees, a young Englishman named Adam.Inside the darkened vault, the Doctor sees the abandoned instruments of torture, and he approaches the alien, introducing himself and offering his help.Dalek, chained up and immobile.Doctor, destroyed all other Daleks in existence.When the Dalek questions him about the Time Lords, the Doctor is forced to admit that they too are dead, victims of the Time War; he and the Dalek are the last of their kinds in the Universe.Something about his boyish enthusiasm reminds Rose of the Doctor.Daleks, it has been genetically engineered to have no emotions but hatred.The Doctor is stripped down and placed in a device that scans his body, putting him through some pain as it determines that he has two hearts.Despite his disgust for van Statten, the Doctor makes another heartfelt attempt to convince him that the Dalek must be destroyed; now that it knows the Doctor is here, it has a reason to break free, and if it does, nobody on the planet will be safe.Adam uses his emergency pass to get Rose into the cage, but warns her not to get too close to the Dalek.Dalek absorbs DNA from her handprint, extrapolates her genetic material, and begins a cellular regeneration process, healing itself.Rose backs away as the Dalek pulls itself free, snapping the chains that held it down.Simmons storms into the cage, and scoffs when the Dalek raises its sucker arm towards him...Bywater contacts them and assures them that the cage has been secured.However, it takes the Dalek mere seconds to break the code and open the door.Bywater orders Di Maggio to get Rose and Adam to safety while he holds off the Dalek; however, bullets have little effect on it, and it trundles over to the computer and smashes its sucker arm through the screen, drawing energy and data directly into its body.America is experiencing a blackout, and the Dalek has absorbed knowledge from the entire Internet, learning everything it needs to about the planet Earth.Daleks is ready to take action.Bywater rushes down the corridor to join them, but the Dalek emerges from the cage and guns him down before he can reach safety.The guards open fire on the Dalek, but van Statten orders them to stop, insisting that the prize of his collection must not be harmed.In any case, the Dalek is generating a force field that melts the bullets before they so much as scratch its armour, and it swivels about in place, its top and torso moving independently from its base, until it has slaughtered every single guard in the corridor.Doctor thus advises Goddard to distribute weapons to everyone in the facility.The Dalek seems stymied by the stairs, and Di Maggio offers it the chance to surrender and discuss terms.But instead, it reveals that it has the ability to hover.As it begins to float up the stairs, Di Maggio sends Adam and Rose to safety while she stays behind to delay the Dalek; as they flee, they hear it exterminate her.Rose and Adam rush through a vast storage chamber in the weapons testing facility, where guards, technicians and scientists are gathering to hold back the Dalek; however, as the Dalek enters the chamber behind them, it seems to focus in on Rose.Dalek was looking directly at her, as if acknowledging her existence in some way...The water on the floor conducts the charge of the blast, and the Dalek need only fire twice to exterminate every single human in the room.However, it has now confirmed that there is no sign of Dalek life anywhere in range, and without orders, it is at a loss.The Doctor thus orders it to kill itself and erase the Dalek scourge from the Universe; however, the Dalek is committed to the survival of its species, even if it is the only one of its kind.It signs off as the Doctor raves furiously at it, telling him that he would make a good Dalek himself.Doctor hears the Dalek open fire.But Rose is in fact still alive, and the Dalek is as surprised as she is.When it took her DNA, it took much more than just the ability to regenerate itself...Doctor opens the vault and lets the Dalek out.Adam reveals that his workshop contains a number of alien weapons that have yet to be catalogued.The Doctor sorts through them, and soon finds a weapon capable of destroying even a Dalek.The Dalek confronts van Statten and demands to know why he tortured it, and although he claims at first that he was just trying to get through to it, to communicate so he could help it, he finally breaks down and admits that he just wanted it to talk to him.Rose stops the Dalek from exterminating van Statten, insisting that there must be something else that it wants, and after a moment, the Dalek admits that it wants its freedom.Dalek has held back from killing and is now basking in the sunlight.Dalek and it will never be human, the Dalek begs Rose to order its destruction, and she eventually does so, out of pity.Admitting that it is afraid at last, the Dalek closes up its battle armour and rises into the air.The last of the Daleks is dead.Adam follows to warn them that Goddard intends to close the base and fill it with cement, but as he prepares to return home, Rose tells the Doctor that Adam has always dreamed of seeing the Universe.Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf: In a trend begun in the first episode and continuing up to the series finale, each episode contains references to the "Bad Wolf".The Daleks first appeared in the episode The Daleks, and have since reappeared on occasions too numerous to list here.The destruction of the Time Lords at the hands of the Daleks appears to contradict their destruction as told in The Ancestor Cell, but given that the Doctor erased the people responsible for that event from history before Gallifrey itself was annihalated, it's always possible that history was somehow altered and the Daleks were inserted into the gap.Given that the Time Lords deliberately sent the Doctor back to alter Dalek history in Genesis of the Daleks, that story could be seen, in retrospect, as an early volley in, or an attempt to head off, the Time War."Style Sheet: Light Colors, Standard Text")
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document.Louise Plowman (Goddard), Bruno Langley (Adam), Nigel Whitmey (Simmons), John Schwab (Bywater), Jana Carpenter (De Maggio), Joe Montana (Commander), Barnaby Edwards (Dalek Operator), Nicholas Briggs (Dalek Voice)The TARDIS materialises in a dark warehouse in 2012, many storeys below the surface of Utah near Salt Lake City, in what appears to be a museum of alien artifacts...But van Statten realises the Doctor may have some use to him, as he puts him into a cell with Geocomtex's one live alien specimen...Doctor soon realises is a Dalek.Dalek that should not exist.The Doctor informs the Dalek of recent history, where at the end of a massive Time war, the Daleks and the Time Lords fought and destroyed each other; both he and the Dalek are the last of their kind.The idea infuriates the Doctor and changes the Dalek's perception, but the Doctor soon attempts to electrocute the Dalek.Rose, meanwhile, gets to know Adam, who does much of the research at the base and years to go to the stars, but soon persuades him to let her see the captive Dalek.Rose meets it, and feels pity for it...Dalek, it samples her DNA, allowing it to recharge itself and escape.Suddenly, the Dalek is loose and the base is under full alert; it kills the security officer, Bywater (John Schwab) and his entire squadron, and heads toward the main complex.Adam and Rose flee into the stairwell, while the Dalek kills a soldier, De Maggio (Jana Carpenter), who tries to stop it.The two meet up with another security contingent, but the Dalek outwits its commander and the team when it activates the fire safety sprinklers and then electrocutes everyone through the water.Adam and Rose flee upward as the Dalek levitates to follow them; Adam makes it to safety, but before Rose is able to get through the bulkhead, the Doctor is forced to close it.The Dalek takes her prisoner, but for some reason doesn't kill her.The Dalek tries to use Rose as leverage; it almost attacks van Statten and Diana but then stops, and takes Rose to the top floor, where it appears it will attempt to escape.However, the Dalek is transfixed by the sunlight shining on it through the roof; Rose's DNA has not only reactivated it, but begun to change it completely.The Doctor arrives with a weapon Adam helped him find, but Rose pleads for the Dalek, who has opened its casing and allowed the light to penetrate the mutated creature inside.Rose gives in, and the Dalek commits suicide.The Doctor and Rose return to the museum to reenter the TARDIS, but Rose has dragged Adam along, asking the Doctor if he can travel with them to see the stars he's always imagined.Up Artist), Kirsty Robertson (Casting Associate), Ceres Doyle (Assistant Editor), Marie Brown (Post Production Supervisor), Matthew Clarke (On Line Editor), Kai van Beers (Colourist), Jennifer Herbert (2D VFX Artist), Simon C.Daleks, this story featured one lone Dalek and took place in America, totally within an isolated bunker in Utah.The Dalek is the last of his kind, like the Doctor; the Daleks fought the Time Lords in the last Time War, and both races were completely eradicated.Van Statten's museum of alien artifacts includes a Cybermen head from "Revenge of the Cybermen" and a Slitheen arm.Adam (Bruno Langley) joins the Doctor and Rose at the end of the story.The Dalek is refered to as a Metaltron (Van Statten and his team do not know its real name), while his company is called Geocomtex.Van Statten's helicopter is called Bad Wolf One."Doctor Who Confidential" transmissions.From TARDIS Index File, the free Doctor Who reference.For the 2005 episode, see Dalek (TV story).For the 1964 serial, see The Daleks (TV story).The Daleks were an extraterrestrial race, primarily of mutated Kaleds from the planet Skaro.Other common utterances included "I (or WE) OBEY!"The interdependence of biological and mechanical components arguably made the Daleks a type of cyborg.Renegade Dalek Civil War were inarguably true cyborgs, surgically connected to their shells.The casings were made of bonded polycarbide armour (DW: Remembrance of the Daleks, Doomsday), a material that was also called dalekanium.DW: The Dalek Invasion of Earth)
In an alternate future, dalekanium was an unstable explosive that could penetrate Dalek casings (DW: Day of the Daleks).The two may have been the same, or the term may simply have been a neologism to describe a product of the Daleks.The lower shell was covered with many hemispherical protrusions or "Dalek bumps".Davros, creator of the Daleks.The voice of a Dalek was electronic, the Dalek creature having no vocal apparatus as such.Daleks also had a radio communicator built into their shells, and emitted an alarm to summon other nearby Daleks if the casing was opened from outside.The Dalek's eyepiece was its most vulnerable spot, and impairing its vision often led to its main weapon being fired indiscriminately.The Dalek casing also functioned as a fully sealed environment suit, allowing travel through a vacuum or underwater without the need for additional life support equipment.DW: The Dalek Invasion of Earth, The Parting of the Ways)
Due to their gliding motion, some models of Dalek were notoriously unable to tackle stairs, which made them easy to overcome under the right circumstances.For example, at one time the Doctor and his companions escaped from Dalek pursuers by climbing into a ceiling duct.DW: Destiny of the Daleks) Some models appearred to be able to hover, or even travel under their own power like small spacecraft (DW: The Chase, Revelation of the Daleks, Remembrance of the Daleks, Dalek, The Parting of the Ways, Doomsday).The armour of Dalek Sec and Dalek Caan had "temporal shift" capacity, possibly unique to those units and the others of the Cult of Skaro.DW: Doomsday)
The power source of the Dalek casing appears to have varied at different points in their history.During his first encounter with them on Skaro, the Doctor learned that the casing was externally powered by static electricity transmitted through the metal floors of the Dalek City.DW: The Daleks)
By the beginning of the Last Great Time War the Daleks had adapted their technology to use a form of energy apparently inextricably linked to the process of time travel (possibly Artron energy).DW: Dalek, Doomsday)
Whatever the power source was that the Daleks used in the interim, it was (apparently uniquely) immune to being drained by the City of the Exxilons.Strangely, the Daleks retained motive power and the ability to speak even though their weaponry was shut down (strongly suggesting the weapon systems had a separate power supply).The Doctor indicated that this was because the Daleks were psychokinetic, the City being unable to absorb psychic energy.Other references to the Daleks having any kind of psychic potential are rather scarce, but on the planet Kyrol the Doctor later discovered an enclave of humanised Daleks who had, through years of meditation, developed their psychokinesis to a remarkable degree.Main article: Creation of the Daleks
Over the course of their history, the Daleks developed time travel (DW: The Chase), an interstellar (and later intergalactic) Dalek Empire (DW: The Daleks' Master Plan) and factory ships for conquest (DW: The Power of the Daleks).The Daleks fought the Last Great Time War with the Time Lords.The Dalek Emperor was one of the few survivors.This Emperor came to see itself as a god, and built its new society around the Daleks' worship of itself.In the end, the Daleks and their fleet were reduced to atoms.DW: The Parting of the Ways) The Dalek organisation known as the Cult of Skaro, so named after the Dalek homeworld, also survived the War and later the Battle of Canary Wharf.Culture
Daleks had little to no individual personality and a strict hierarchy.Ultimately, the most fundamental feature of Dalek culture and psychology was an unquestioned belief in the superiority of the Daleks.This belief is thought to be the reason why Daleks never significantly modified their mechanical shell's designs to overcome its obvious physical limitations; any such modification would deviate from the Dalek ideal, and therefore must be inferior and deserving of extermination.The schism between the Renegade and Imperial Daleks was a prime example of this, with each faction considering the other to be a perversion despite the relatively minor differences between them.This belief also meant that Daleks were intolerant of such "contamination" even within themselves.DW: Dalek, Evolution of the Daleks, BFA: The Mutant Phase)
Another offshoot of this superiority complex was their complete ruthlessness and lack of compassion, although this is also due to genetic modifications made to the original Kaled mutants by Davros.Dalek species to compensate for these shortcomings.One of the Daleks as they appeared during the Doctor's first encounter with them on Skaro.As noted above, the Daleks that were resurrected through the manipulation and mutation of human genetic material by the Dalek Emperor were religious fanatics that worshiped the Emperor as their god.DW: The Parting of the Ways)
Although the Daleks were well known for their disregard for due process and Galactic Law, there were at least two occasions on which they took enemies back to Skaro for a "trial" rather than killing them on the spot; the first was their creator Davros (DW: Revelation of the Daleks), and the second was the renegade Time Lord known as the Master (DW: Doctor Who: The TV Movie).The reasons for the Master's trial have never been made clear.It has been suggested that the Daleks' retrieval of Davros was not for a 'trial' in the criminal sense but rather a test to see if he was in fact worthy of becoming the supreme leader of the race.The Daleks were known to write poetry (NA: The Also People), and some of the more elaborate Dalek battlecries had an almost poetic quality about them (for example, "Seek and Locate!DW: The Chase)) In an alternate reality, the Daleks showed a fondness for the works of Shakespeare.BFA: The Time of the Daleks)
Due to their frequent defeats by the Doctor, he became a legendary figure in Dalek culture and mythology.They had standing orders to capture or exterminate the Doctor on sight, and were occasionally able to identify him despite his regenerations.The Daleks knew the Doctor as the Ka Faraq Gatri, (meaning "The Bringer of Darkness" or "Destroyer of Worlds") (DW: Remembrance of the Daleks (novelisation)).The Doctor claimed that the Daleks also called him "The Oncoming Storm" (DW: The Parting of the Ways).NA: Love and War)
The Doctor, in turn, grew to be almost monomaniacal in his belief that the Daleks were completely evil and unworthy of trust or compassion.This contrasts with some of his earlier dealings with the Daleks; for example the Doctor attempted to instil a "human factor" in Daleks (DW: The Evil of the Daleks) and he hesitated when presented with the opportunity to destroy the Daleks at the point of their creation (DW: Genesis of the Daleks).His conviction of the irredeemability of the Daleks motivated a venomous outburst by the Doctor leading the mutant to observe that the Doctor "would make a good Dalek."Other appearances
Two Doctor Who movies starring Peter Cushing featured the Daleks as the main villains: Dr.Invasion Earth 2150 AD, based on the television serials The Daleks and The Dalek Invasion of Earth, respectively.Cushing's Doctor is not an alien, but a human inventor, and is literally named "Doctor Who."The movies used brand new Dalek props, based closely on the original design but with a wider range of colours.Originally, the movie Daleks were supposed to shoot jets of flame, but this was thought to be too graphic for children, so their weapons emitted jets of deadly vapour instead.Aside from meeting up with the Doctor in them, the DWM strips also introduced a new nemesis for the Daleks, the Dalek Killer named Abslom Daak.Daak was a convicted criminal in the 25th century who was given the choice between execution and being sent on a suicide mission against the Daleks.He chose the latter and, when the woman he loved was killed by the Daleks, made it his life's purpose to kill every Dalek he came across.The Daleks have also appeared in the Dalek Empire series of audio plays by Big Finish Productions.Walker, Stephen James (1994)."Talking Daleks" featurette, The Dalek Invasion of Earth London, UK: BBC Video."Dalek", Doctor Who Confidential BBC Wales.Terry Nation's Dalek Special, Target Books.This page was last modified 18:09, 6 January 2008.Phantom of the Opera19 December 2007Barnaby Edwards, best known to Dalek fans as the lead Dalek operator in the new series of Doctor Who, has written and directed a new audio production of Phantom of the Opera.Relive the Dalek Masterplan one last time17 December 2007The team behind the stage production of the Dalek Masterplan has posted a video of rehearsals on You Tube.Kylie poses with Dalek on new issue of Doctor Who Magazine13 December 2007Guest star of the Doctor Who Christmas special, Kylie Minogue, poses on the cover of the new Doctor Who Magazine.Airfix Daleks on their way?Money Programme may have noticed Airfix designers measuring up a Dalek, in preparation for a new model kit.Dalek episodes Dalek, Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways.Celebrating Terry NationApril 19 2008Holiday Inn Hotel, Ipswich10th Planet is celebrating the creator of the Daleks, Terry Nation, at a special event in Ipswich, in April 2008. |
