The Dalek Trap ( comic story ) The Dalek Trap was a comic story original to " The Dalek Outer Space Book " , a Dalek annual of the 1960s . Summary . Space Pilot Commander Don Morais and his co - pilot , Zec , are on a deep - space reconnaissance mission . Harassed by the Dalek s , they implement a plan to get rid of their pesky foes . They have their fellow pilots fly in close formation so that they ' ll appear as one craft on their opponents ' screens . At the last moment they split apart to deliver a massive blow . The plan works brilliantly . With the Daleks now vanquished , Don sends the other pilots back to base while he and Zec press on with the reconnaissance . For days , the mission proves a quiet one . Between the planet s of Troch and the Vale of Holocaust , things quickly go sour . Their ship is gripped by a mysterious force which knocks out their instruments and pulls them toward a dangerous stellar whirlpool . At the last moment , a kind of lightning storm hits the ship , and reverses the hull ' s polarity . Now , instead of being drawn towards the whirlpool , they are repelled by it . The two adventurers have escaped almost certain death ! What they ' ve not avoided are more mysteries . Suddenly , their viewscreen fills with the image of another spacecraft . The only problem is that Don recognises it as a ship that went missing more than three hundred years ago . Attempts to raise its crew fail , but it ' s flying so close to Don ' s ship that he needs to get control of it before his ship is damaged . Don and Zec initiate docking procedures and are soon onboard the ancient vessel . No sooner have they transferred over than its controls spark to life . No one ' s in the ship , but it ' s now rapidly exiting the area . Too late , Don and Zec understand it was all a trap . Before they know it , they ' re on Skaro , forced to do the bidding of the Golden Dalek . To demonstrate why they must accept the mission , he tortures them with plasmoral constrictive gas . After they recover , they get their orders . Don and Zec are to go to the depths of the planet to find the rare mineral , doranium . It ' s in a tight spot the Daleks simply don ' t have the agility to reach . Doranium , it turns out , will give Dalek weaponry enough power to reach targets vast distances away . Essentially , doranium is a miracle power source that will make the Daleks invincible . Still , the duo have very little choice but to help their foes . They go on a very long hike down to the strata of Skaro ' s crust that contains the mineral , until the Valley of Rocks . The precise spot of the doranium vein is directly beneath a brand new Dalek space station . This gives Don an idea . Since doranium is naturally electric , he can short it out with his water bottle , allowing them to pass to the surface of Skaro through a pre - existing hole in the doranium strata . At the same time , the resulting electric explosion weakens the foundations of the Dalek space station . It falls into the now - open doranium pit and explodes . The doranium ' s natural electricity has now been exhausted and the mineral is useless . With one tiny action , Don has deprived the Daleks of the fuel and the staging area they were going to use for universal conquest . The two pilots quickly find a spacecraft in which they leave Skaro and return to base . Notes . " to be added " Continuity . " to be added "