The history of the Daleks from the BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who.
Origin[]
The true form of the Daleks (Dalek Caan).
The Daleks originated from the planet Skaro during a thousand-year-long war between the Scientifically-minded Kaleds and the warlike Thals. They were originally Kaleds, but the Kaleds' chief scientist, Davros, determined that the only way for his people to survive the war was by accelerating their mutations that were becoming increasingly prevalent due to long-term nuclear warfare to determine the end result.
After finding the final form, Davros took the deformed abominations and further modified them for survival, altering their brain chemistry to marginalize all emotions except hate and anger and placing them in tank-like "Mark III Travel Machines", which were partly based on the design of his wheelchair. In order to survive, Davros determined that the Daleks would need to exterminate all other forms of life. Even the Time Lords of Gallifrey saw them as being a significant threat to the universe and recruited the Fourth Doctor to infiltrate Skaro and prevent the genesis of the Daleks. However, despite his best efforts, he was unsuccessful.
Five centuries later, the First Doctor, his granddaughter Susan and companions Barbara and Ian encountered the Daleks for the first time after getting stranded on the planet Skaro; at this point in time, the Thals had become agrarian pacifists, struggling to survive on what few crops they could harvest from Skaro's barren soil, while the Daleks thrived in their city (though they were unable to leave, since their casings drew power from the city's metal floors). The Time Lord and his fellow time travelers were captured by the Daleks but ultimately managed to escape and convince the Thals to rebel against the Daleks. Despite this seeming defeat, the Daleks would return. According to the audio Return to Skaro, the surviving Dalek Supreme manipulated a Thal scientist into creating a new generation of Daleks. Due to the Daleks having discovered the existence of other planets with life, the Daleks planned to conquer other worlds, but were defeated by the returning Doctor and companions, with the Dalek City being destroyed. However, the Thals believed that the Daleks were not extinct.
The Endeavor of the Daleks[]
Invasion of 22nd century Earth[]
The Daleks went onto develop interstellar travel, as seen in the TV Century 21 comic of the 1960s. The Dalek Empire confronted species such as humanity and the Mechanoids, eventually leading to the conquest of Earth by the mid 22nd Century, subjugating almost all of humanity. By the time the Doctor encountered them, the Daleks were plotting to replace the planet's core with an engine and use it as an enormous ship. Nevertheless, the Doctor managed to rally Earth's few resistance fighters, and the 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, leading to the Dalek Empire's overthrowal.
Over the course of their encounters with the Doctor and his other incarnations, the Daleks developed time travel and sent a squad after the First Doctor to exterminate him. The squad chased them to the planet of Aridius, New York City in 1966, the Mary Celeste, the Festival of Ghana. The Daleks created a robot version of the Doctor to "infiltrate and kill" the real Doctor and his companions, but it was destroyed. The squad was eventually destroyed in a fight with the Mechanoids on the planet Mechanus.
The Daleks Master Plan[]
In the year 4000, the Daleks allied themselves with the treacherous Guardian of the Solar System Mavic Chen and beings from the Outer Galaxies, planning to conquer the solar system with the aid of the Time Destructor. As seen in Mission to the Unknown, Space Security Service agent Marc Cory discovered the alliance’s formation on Kembel however the Daleks exterminated him before he could send word to Earth. Months later, Mavic Chen supplied them with an emm of Taranium, which was vital to the Time Destructor. However the First Doctor, escaped with the Taranium, and the Daleks pursued him until he apparently surrendered it to them - this turned out to be a fake, however, so a Dalek task force with a Red Dalek sent from Skaro in another time machine pursued him and his companions through time until the core was finally recovered in Ancient Egypt. They successfully recovered the core, although the Red Dalek was killed by rocks during the battle with the Egyptians. The Doctor eventually activated the Time Destructor to destroy the Daleks and their invasion fleet.
In Power of the Daleks, a crashed Dalek ship was found on the planet Vulcan, having been buried for centuries. A human scientist Lesterson found the Daleks, and activated them, despite the Second Doctor's warnings. The surviving Daleks posed as obedient robotic servant drones, claiming to be the colonists' willing servants. The Daleks took advantage of the colonists' naïve trust to establish a reproduction plant - on a conveyor belt system - with which to increase their numbers. The Doctor eventually destroyed the Daleks by turning the colony's power source against them, but not before the Daleks killed a vast number of the colony's inhabitants. Additionally, at least one Dalek survived the engagement, raising its eyestalk as the Doctor's TARDIS departed.
The Human Factor[]
In The Evil of the Daleks, the Daleks had noticed humans experimenting in primitive time travel in the Victorian era, and took over the operations of Theodore Maxtible and Edward Waterfield, convincing Maxtible to work for them by promising the secrets of Alchemy, and forcing Waterfield to serve them by holding his daughter Victoria prisoner. The lured the Doctor and Jamie McCrimmon from 1966 Earth to Waterfield's antiques shop by having the TARDIS stolen, and bringing them back to 1866. 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, who he named Alpha, Beta and Omega. The Dalek Emperor revealed the Daleks’ true intention was to isolate the Dalek factor, and implant it into humanity, using the TARDIS to spread the ‘Dalek Factor’ across time, which was demonstrated when Maxtible was given the Dalek Factor. However, through trickety, the Doctor was able to infuse multiple Daleks with the human factor, thus triggering a Dalek civil war between the original Daleks and the human factor Daleks, believing that the final end of the Daleks had been achieved.
Return of the Daleks[]
However, the Daleks would eventually go onto rebuild their forces. In Day of the Daleks, the Daleks used time travel to invade 22nd century Earth after it was devastated in World War III, which was caused by a paradox. The Daleks ruled through proxy via Controllers and Ogron enforcers, with Earth's resources being used to fuel the Dalek's empire. The Dalek forces fought against human guerillas, and had their first encounter with the Third Doctor when he was brought to their timezone. The Doctor and Jo worked out that the wars were triggered when the rebel guerillas travelled back in time to the Second World Peace Conference, and one of their number destroyed it in a bid to prevent the war. After the Daleks discovered their Controller had been convinced to turn against them, they exterminated him and travelled back in time with a force to ensure that the conference failed. They were held off by UNIT while the Doctor and Jo rescued the delegates and convinced the rebel Shura to blow up the mansion when the Daleks were inside, destroying their force and preventing the timeline of Dalek supremacy.
Second Dalek War[]
The Daleks at their return.
In 2540 the Daleks allied with the Master in an attempt to cause a war between the Earth and Draconian Empires after which they would conquer the Galaxy with the aid of an army made up of at least 10,000 Daleks hidden on the planet Spiridon. However, the Third Doctor exposed the plan to Draconia and Earth. After the Master's failure, the Daleks instead decided to increase focus on discovering invisibility on Spiridon. Despite the operation's oversight being taken over by the Supreme Dalek, the Doctor and a Thal platoon managed to freeze the Dalek army on Spiridon. This would lead to a great war between the Daleks and Earth and it's allies.
In the novel Prisoner of the Daleks, the Tenth Doctor jumps a Time Track and ends up in this era. The Daleks, by this point using more advanced casing resembling those of the Time War era, found they were losing the War., thus plotted to use the Arkheon Threshold, a rift in time above a planet they had destroyed decades earlier, to wipe humanity from time. In an operation commanded by the Dalek Inquisitor General, they used human prisoners to dig through the crust of the planet to reach the Threshold. The Daleks also tricked the people of the planet Auros into fleeing from their planet to be captured to also work in the mines. The Daleks captured the Doctor, along with a crew of Dalek Bounty Hunters of the Wayfarer spaceship, and the Doctor was forced to reveal his identity. Dalek X arrived to subject the Doctor to torture and extract Bowman's brain to learn how to bypass Earth's defence systems.
The Doctor explained that the Daleks did not have the technology to use the Threshold, but Dalek X thought the Doctor's TARDIS would allow their plan to succeed. The Doctor used his TARDIS as a lure to take Dalek X to Hurala, where Bowman, Koral and he escaped due to Cuttin' Edge attacking a Dalek and being exterminated. The Doctor detonated the abandoned fuelling station on Hurala, destroying all the Daleks as well as Dalek X's flagship, the Exterminator. Dalek X managed to survive, albeit badly damaged and unable to escape. The loss put a huge dent in the Dalek war machine, thus giving Earth the opportunity to push back their fleet and the Dalek Empire surrendered shortly after.
Shortly after, in Death to the Daleks, the Daleks created a space plague, with which the only cure was the element Parrinium. A Dalek Saucer travelled to the planet Exxilon in search of Parrinium, where all of its power was taken by the Exxilon City. The Dalek task-force encountered the Third Doctor and his companion Sarah Jane Smith along with a human expedition. After finding their weapons were drained, the Daleks were forced to ally with the humans. While their gunsticks didn't work, the Daleks replaced them with machine guns and enslaved the Exxilons in search for parrinium. When their power was restored, the Daleks revealed they were the cause of the Space plague and were about to fire plague missiles to kill the Exxilons and the Doctor as they made their getaway in their ship. However, it and its crew were destroyed by Dan Galloway, who had stowed away on the ship with a Dalek bomb, which he detonated.
The Movellan War[]
Eventually encountering a hostile race of androids called the Movellans, the Daleks entered into a war with them. As seen in The Pilot, the Twelfth Doctor briefly crossed into a warzone with Bill and Nardole. By the time of Destiny of the Daleks, they realized they were in a stalemate and decide to revive Davros to give them an advantage in the presence of the Fourth Doctor. 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. The Daleks were left locked in combat with the Movellans until they would develop a virus that targets the Daleks about a century later.
In The Five Doctors, a single Dalek appeared as an enemy in the deadly games on Gallifrey, when Borusa had captured the five incarnations of the Doctor. It chased the First Doctor and Susan, and was destroyed when it was hit by its own laser which was reflected by a mirror maze.
The Dalek Civil War[]
In Resurrection of the Daleks, the Daleks as led by the Supreme managed to release Davros from his human prison to help develop a cure for the Movellan's virus. The Supreme also was engaged in a complex plan to capture the Fifth Doctor using a genetically duplicated Dalek agent and duplicate him and his companions to assassinate the Time Lords High Council. However their creator betrayed them, brainwashing a pair of Daleks to be loyal to him, and the Doctor escaped, turning the Dalek agent to his side. While the Davros loyalists were destroyed, both the Doctor and Davros independently used the Movellan virus against the Daleks, with the former Dalek agent destroying the Dalek Ship.
Davros later developed a new breed of Daleks loyal to him on the planet Necros, being created out the bodies of cryogenically frozen humans. However, several humans instead called the main Daleks to deal capture Davros, which they succeeded with. Their attempt to take Davros's army was thwarted when they were blown up. However Davros's presence and ideas caused a schism among the Daleks, with one faction (the white-and-gold-clad "Imperial Daleks") following Davros's leadership and the other (the original, grey-and-black-armored "Renegade Daleks") rejecting their creator to instead follow the Supreme Dalek.
Eventually, Davros' Imperial Daleks succeeded in conquering Skaro, and both Dalek factions eventually took their battle to 1960's Earth in order to obtain the Hand of Omega to refine their crude time travel technology. The Renegade Dalek faction, with aid from the human fascist organisation The Association, managed to retrieve the Hand first, however, they were delayed from returning to their own time by the Seventh Doctor. This allowed the Imperial faction to gain the advantage, and all but wipe out the Renegades, taking the Hand with them. However, the Doctor rigs the hand to have Skaro's sun go supernova to wipe out the Dalek homeworld and the Imperial Dalek fleet. Though the Renegade Supreme Dalek self-destructed upon learning to be the last of its kind, Davros escaped his flagship's destruction in an escape pod and created a new breed of Dalek.
Conflict with the Time Lords[]
At some point, as seen in The TV Movie the Daleks executed the Master for his crimes, with the aging Seventh Doctor collecting his remains. Some sources indicated that this was an attempt by the Time Lords to ease tensions between the two sides.
Years after the Daleks invasion of 22nd century Earth, in the audio dramas Lucie Miller/To the Death, the Daleks of that time period encountered one of their own kind from the far future; the Dalek Time Controller. After being repaired by the Renegade Time Lord the Monk, the Time Controller took command of his ancestors, and ordered the recommencement of their invasion, forcing the Monk to unleash a deadly plague to weaken humanity. Later, The Monk also provided the resistance with the technical ability to hack into Dalek transmissions during a final attempt to end the invasion, but he betrayed them to the Daleks. The master plan was to pilot the Earth with a time warp engine, which would have become a plague planet teeming with the viruses, through time and space, infecting entire planets. The invasion was stopped by the Eighth Doctor, thanks to the sacrifice of Lucie Miller and Alex Campbell, with the Daleks all being pulled into a time warp, seemingly including the Time Controller.
Dark Eyes[]
Invading alternate Gallifrey's[]
Time Lord Victorious[]
This recounts the Dalek's involvement with the Time Lord Victorious multi-media storyline
According to Time Lord Victorious, after Davros fled the Dalek Civil War, one of the Dalek Supremes executed the rest of the Dalek Council and was elected the new Dalek Emperor of the Imperial Daleks. However, due to the interference of the Time Lord Victorious in the Dark Times, the Dalek's history was rewritten so that they never fought the Time War. After receiving a message from an ancient Dalek drone which was a survivor of a Time Squad from the future, the Emperor became aware of fluctuations in time involving the Doctor. He decided that he needed more information and thought of the Archive of Islos as a place to acquire it.
In the comic Defender of the Daleks, the Daleks found themselves battling the Hond, a race from the early days of the universe who sought to destroy all life in existence, 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. 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. The Daleks, also planning to travel back to the source of history's alterations, elected to recruit a different incarnation of the Doctor.
In The Enemy of My Enemy, 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 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. In the novel All Flesh is Grass, the Daleks attempted to use their time in the Dark Times to defeat the Time Lord Victorious, but while they defeated his fleet they could not stop him. Having been inspired by the Vampires' abilities, they began extracting and weaponising the unique life forms of the Dark Times on the basis that the Emperor would approve of such a strategy. The Time Commander and Executioner eventually received pre-recorded orders from the Emperor for the event of their failure, instructing them to destroy Gallifrey in the Dark Times to prevent the rise of the Time Lords. However the three Doctors present, the Eighth, Ninth and now redeemed Tenth Doctor defended Gallifrey, turning the two objectives against one another, and blasting their saucer back to their own time.
In Mutually Assured Destruction, the Eighth Doctor continued to sabotage the saucer, and stirred conflict between their forces until the Strategist, Commander and Executioner turned on one another and their Saucer was damaged beyond repair. one surviving Drone was left adrift in space and sent the message the Emperor had received at the start of the crisis.In the audio Genetics of the Daleks, said Drone was eventually brought aboard the Starship Future in 2985. There it attempted to rebuild its casing and encountered the Fourth Doctor. The Prime Strategist escaped, and both the Strategist and Emperor were left intent on eventually destroying Gallifrey and the Time Lords.
The Time War[]
At the height of their empire, from humanity's perspective, From the perspective of humanity, the Daleks vanished after the Tenth Dalek Occupation, to begin the final battle with the Time Lords, the Last Great Time War. According to Gallifrey: Time War, the Daleks marked it by attacking the Temporal Powers, fellow time travelling allies of the Time Lords. Led by the Dalek Emperor, the Daleks battled the Time Lords led by Rassilon in the Time War, which threatened the whole of creation.
On the Last Day of the Time War, the Dalek fleet bombarded Gallifrey from orbit, and managed to invade Gallifrey's second city, Arcadia. The Fall of Arcadia marked the moment where the War Doctor revealed his intentions to obliterate both them and his people using a living weapon of mass destruction called the Moment. However, joined by his future incarnations by the Moment's intervention, the Doctor was able to save Gallifrey while the Daleks unintentionally destroy themselves, making it seem that both sides perished. However, his memory of saving Gallifrey was wiped from his memory to preserve the timeline,
The aftermath of the War[]
"Metaltron", Henry Van Statten's captive Dalek.
One damaged Dalek was found by Henry Van Statten, a wealthy American businessman and the owner of the Internet in 2012, placed in a secret underground museum known as the Vault. Van Statten referred to it as a "Metaltron" and tortured it in order to make it talk, but all it did was "scream". This Dalek sent out a distress signal which was intercepted by the TARDIS, where it would be encountered by the Ninth Doctor and his companion, Rose Tyler. The Dalek tricked Rose into touching it, thus using her imprint to regenerate and free itself from captivity. It went on a killing spree, before realizing it had gained emotions, thus it demanded Rose give it the order to self-destruct. Rose, though reluctant at first, relented, and the Dalek self-destructed.
The Emperor Dalek, confronting the Doctor.
Another survivor is an Emperor Dalek, driven mad by his isolation to the point of conceiving himself as a god and creating a more dangerous form of Dalek from human corpses after time-traveling to the time of the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire, where he and his fleet manipulated the human race for many years by using minions like the Jagrafess, the Editor, and Anne Droid. When the Doctor, Rose, and Captain Jack Harkness returned to the Game Station in the year 200,000, the Emperor and his fleet finally revealed themselves and launched an invasion of Earth, beginning by attacking the Game Station.
After realizing that he was vastly outnumbered by the Daleks and that he had run out of options, the Doctor decided that he would use the station to generate a Delta Wave, a powerful energy wave that would wipe out the entire Dalek fleet, but, unfortunately, kill everything else as well, including himself. Not wanting to risk Rose, the Doctor used Emergency Program One of the TARDIS to send Rose home, but Rose, desperate to save the Doctor, looked into the heart of the TARDIS and absorbed the Time Vortex, thus becoming an omnipotent-figure known as the Bad Wolf entity. Manipulating the TARDIS to return to the Game Station, Rose used her new-found powers to decimate the entire Dalek fleet and the emperor with it, revive Captain Jack (who had been killed by the Daleks earlier) and save the Doctor. This was considered as the last act of the Time War.
The Cult of Skaro and the New Dalek Empire[]
The Cult of Skaro with the Genesis Ark.
Another group of survivors is the Cult of Skaro, who escaped into the nothingness between dimensions — the Void — taking with them a Time Lord prison, the Genesis Ark, which contained millions of Daleks. The Daleks' Void Ship finally emerged in 21st century Earth, where it was examined by the Torchwood Institute. The path of the void ship also left a breach in spacetime that allowed the Cybermen of a parallel universe to cross over. This resulted in a three-sided fight between the humans, Cybermen, and Daleks until the Tenth Doctor caused the monster armies to be sucked into the void with the Cult of Skaro escaping.
Having escaped to 1930's New York, in Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks, the Cult were unable to create a new generation of Daleks. the Cult's leader Dalek Sec hatched a plan of evolve their species into a more adaptive race to escape extinction by recruiting a man named Mr. Diagoras to finishing the Empire State Building and reinforce it with Dalekanium metal while Dalek Caan, Dalek Thay, and Dalek Jast were assigned to take more intelligent humans they capture to became part of the Final Experiment: converting their bodies into blank slates to be infused with Dalek DNA. With his fellow Daleks making sacrifices for their scheme, Sec follows suit by assimilating Diagoras to become a "Human Dalek". With his humanized DNA, Sec intended to splice his genetic code into the humans through gamma radiation from the Sun.
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Dalek Sec's death.
However, as Sec began to develop emotions and make peace with the Doctor, Caan staged a coup that killed Sec and became the new cult leader with the intent to infuse the captured humans with pure Dalek DNA. However, the Doctor managed to infuse their Dalek-human army with Time Lord DNA. Confronting the Doctor in the theatre, Sec was killed defending the Doctor, and the, the would-be Human Daleks turned against the Cult, destroying Thay and Jast. However, Dalek Caan exterminated them remotely, and, unwilling to witness another, the Doctor offered to help Dalek Caan, who instead initiated an emergency temporal shift with the last of his power.
In The Stolen Earth/Journey's End, it was revealed that Caan managed to force his way into the Time War to save Davros at the cost of his sanity and casing. Producing a new generation of Daleks from his flesh, history quickly repeated itself with the Daleks turning on their creator and keeping him alive as a prisoner only for his scientific knowledge. Davros didn't resent them and engineered the Reality Bomb, which would cause the erasure of the enteriety of reality.Although various companions attempted to stop the Daleks, Davros simply had the companions teleported to the vault where he had imprisoned The Doctor and the returned Rose. However, thanks to the creation ‘clone’ of The Doctor, Donna had acquired some of The Doctor’s knowledge, allowing her to disrupt the Reality Bomb and sent the planets back to their points of origin, while the clone Doctor programmed the Daleks to self-destruct. As the Crucible collapsed, Dalek Caan revealed to Davros, having seen the actions of his kind throughout time, he had actually decided to put an end to his race's evil by engineering its demise.
The New Dalek Paradigm[]
The officer class of the New Dalek Paradigm.
However, remnants of the New Dalek Empire survived and ended up in England during World War II where they posed as weapons called "Ironsides" that were used by Winston Churchill against the Nazis. Awaiting for the Eleventh Doctor, the Daleks trick him to confirm them as true Daleks so that can activate the Progenitor, a small capsule containing pure Dalek DNA from Skaro. Though their plan was a success, the five newly created Daleks vaporize their predecessors before escaping into the future where they rebuild the Dalek race as their final victory. This was the official formation of the New Dalek Paradigm.
In videogame City of the Daleks, these new Daleks used the Eye of Time to restore Skaro and invade Earth in the 1960's. However, the Dalek's new timeline was undone by the Doctor and Amy. They played a role in the Doctor's sealing in the Pandorica to save the universe with the Cybermen, the Sontarans, the Judoon, and others. Furthermore, the Doctor later searched the data of a damaged Dalek for information about the Silence.
At some point, in the novel The Dalek Generation, the Daleks, led by the "Dalek Litigator" manipulated a galaxy that was suffering under a recession by creating Sunlight Worlds as new homes to the civilisation's effected, governed by the Dalek Foundation. After the Eleventh Doctor was lured there, he tried and filed to convince the populace that the Daleks were evil. The Daleks were in fact plotting to use the all-powerful Cradle of the Gods to transform the Sunlight Worlds into copies of Skaro. The plan was foiled when the Doctor managed to convince the Dalek Puppet, Jenibeth Blakely, who he had befriended as a child, to turn on the Daleks, and the Cradle reset the worlds to their past selves before self-destructing. From the Time Controller's perspective, this was his first encounter with the Doctor.
Inside the Parliament of the Daleks.
Eventually, the Doctor, who was lured to the Parliament of the Daleks and his companions Amy and Rory are drafted by the Dalek Prime Minister and enter the Asylum of the Daleks, a planetary prison, to disable the force-field so that the Daleks could destroy the Asylum before its most dangerous occupants could escape. It was at that time that Doctor encounters Oswin Oswald, learning that she is a human converted into a Dalek yet managed to maintain herself. Helping the Doctor succeed at the cost of her life, Oswald hacked into the Daleks' psychic path-web to delete all memory of the Doctor from them forever, so that he could escape.
The Daleks would go onto participate in the Siege of Trenzalore, to prevent the Time Lords returning to the universe. Unlike the rest of the participants, they did not immediately assault the Papal Mainframe's forcefield, instead slowly building up their forces. 300 years into the siege, the Daleks assaulted the Mainframe, killing everyone before converting them into Dalek puppets. The Daleks then regained their memories of the Doctor by scanning the memories of Tasha Lem. They wanted to stop the Doctor from answering the question for his name along with other races, but a trap they laid for him at the Mainframe was thwarted by Lem. The Daleks would breach the force field leading to the siege to turn into war over the next few centuries, eventually leading to the Daleks being the last forces standing against the Doctor and the Church. When the Doctor grew too old to carry on fighting, the Daleks had one last confrontation with him, with their ship hovering over the town. The Daleks were stopped when the Doctor gained a new regeneration cycle and put his regeneration energy against them while turning into the Twelfth Doctor, with it being said that the original members of the Paradigm finally perished in the blast.
The Children of Davros[]
| “ | I am not a good Dalek, you are a good Dalek. | „ |
| ~ Rusty, the good Dalek. |
Rusty as he exterminated the Daleks.
The Daleks reappear in the episode Into the Dalek. In the episode, the Doctor and Clara arrive on a ship of Aristotle, a ship of resistance fighters that was hiding from the Daleks. Onboard, they encountered a Dalek that had apparently turned good, having seen the birth of a star and experienced beauty, which the Doctor nicknamed 'Rusty'. The Doctor, Clara, Journey Blue and two soldiers were shrunk and entered Rusty's casing, in order to fix a radiation leak that was slowly killing him; along the way, they encountered Dalek Antibodies, which killed the two accompanying soldiers. When the Doctor fixed the leak, however, Rusty reverted to his Dalek nature and went on a killing spree, broadcasting a signal to the rest of the Daleks to retrieve him from the Aristotle. In order to prove that a Dalek with morals could exist, the Doctor sent Clara and Blue to Rusty's memory banks while he ventured to Rusty's mutant form. Clara reactivated the suppressed memory of the star birth while the Doctor linked his mind with Rusty's, hoping he would remember the experience of beauty, but Rusty also experienced the Doctor's hatred for the Dalek race, causing him the view them as an evil that needed to exterminated.
Rusty then went on a killing spree against his own kind, killing the Daleks that had boarded the Aristotle. After the Doctor, Clara and Blue emerged from Rusty's casing, Rusty left the Aristotle to continue his vendetta against his people, having sent them false information that the Aristotle had self-destructed. Before leaving, the ship, Rusty called the Doctor a "good Dalek".
The Daleks returned to their city on Skaro with their dying creator, Davros. The Daleks, due to Davros having no control over them, captured and appeared to exterminate Missy and Clara after the two tried to escape imprisonment on Skaro. Later, the Twelfth Doctor stole Davros' chair and trundled into Dalek control, brandishing a severed gunstick. The Daleks attempted to exterminate the Doctor but failed, as the force field on Davros' chair still held after its owner left. The Daleks and Davros were later given some of the Doctor's regeneration energy to be fashioned into Time Lord-Dalek hybrids, but were defeated when the Dalek City was destroyed by the decomposing Daleks in the sewers below the city, whom had also been healed by the regeneration energy and revolted against the Daleks, reducing the City to rubble.
The Recon Scout Dalek on Earth[]
As seen in Resolution, a Dalek Reconnaissance Scout, an advanced Dalek and one of the first to leave Skaro, ended up on Earth in the 9th Century. It was a threat so dangerous that it took the might of three kingdoms banding together to defeat it. While it's casing was destroyed, the mutant hacked into three pieces and each piece was taken to a different part of the globe by a Custodian to prevent the creature's return. On 1st January 2019, a piece of the Dalek was awakened, and after merging itself together, took over a human to use as it's puppet. It used her to rebuild it's casing, and went on a rampage, aiming to summon the Dalek fleet to Earth. The Thirteenth Doctor and her "fam" managed to stop it, first destroying it's casing, then tricking the mutant into being sucked into a supernova.
However, in Revolution of the Daleks,the Reconnaissance Scout's casing would be used by Robertson's company as the basis of a program to create Defence Drones. The Reconnaissance Scout would be inadvertently be resurrected when organic remnants were cloned into a new body by scientist Leo Rugazzi. The mutant secretly infiltrated the company to create a breeding farm for a new race of Daleks and puppeted Leo when he attempted to kill it. The new Daleks began their invasion on the day of their reveal to the public, with Earth being a stepping stone to the rest of the universe. The Doctor was forced to summon a squad of Death Squad Daleks from across time, who exterminated the impure Dalek race, including the original Reconnaissance Dalek. These Daleks began to turn to invading Earth themselves with Robertson's help. However, their ship was destroyed by Captain Jack, Graham and Ryan, and the Doctor lured the remaining forces into a spare TARDIS, which she sent to the Void, the journey destroying said TARDIS and the Daleks.
Revenge on the Thirteenth Doctor[]
The Daleks make minor appearances during Series 13, Flux. As seen in Once, Upon Time, while the universe was being destroyed by the Flux, the Daleks, Cybermen and Sontarans asserted their hold over the rest of the universe, exploiting the power vacuum and lack of opposition. Expanding quickly, the Dalek "borders" grew to encompass a sector of the galaxy, including conquering abandoned Lupari space. Bel, who along with her husband Vinder had fought the Daleks, avoided a Dalek patrol on a forested world, and managed to barely escape the "Dalek Sector" while under fire. As seen in The Vanquishers, aware of the threat of the Flux, the Daleks and the Cybermen joined with the Sontarans offer of a ceasefire. They hoped to hide their fleets behind a Lupari shield meant for Earth, but were tricked into being ravaged by the Flux, with the Doctor later trapping the Sontarans fleet with them.
Eve of the Daleks[]
After the surviving Daleks discovered the Doctor's involvement in destroying their warfleet, they dispatched several Executioner Daleks, armed with advanced gunsticks, to kill the Doctor once and for all. After her TARDIS was located in ELF Storage on Earth, the Daleks locked the building within a force field, and three Executioners killed the two humans already present, Nick and Sarah. Afterwards, they successfully executed the Doctor and her companions Yaz and Dan, but everyone in the storage facility became trapped in a degrading time loop, due to the TARDIS being in the process of rebooting itself.
The Daleks were able to use the time loop to anticipate what the humans would do to escape their own attacks, and were joined by two other Executioners. The Doctor and her companions managed to take advantage of the loop, such as Dan sacrificing himself to distract a Dalek or Nick 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. On the final loop the Daleks were lured to the basement by false life signs and tricked into setting off explosives, destroying them and the building.
The Power of the Doctor[]
The Daleks formed an alliance with the Master and the Cybermen, as part of a scheme to erase the Doctor for good, and the Daleks could conquer Earth, which he nicknamed "The Master's Dalek Plan". 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, feeling the Daleks had strayed too far from their Kaled roots 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. The Daleks and Cybermen then witnessed the Master take the Doctor's place with a forced regeneration. The Daleks continued their drilling scheme, activating eruptions in Bolivia, Ecuador, Indonesia, and Iceland. However, former companions Graham O’Brien and Ace were able to destroy at least one drill themselves with Nitro 999, and the returned Doctor used the Cybermen's conversion planet to literally freeze every active volcano at once, destroying the Daleks into the bargain.