Dalek

Examples of physical appearances of the Daleks from 1963 to present

The Renegade Daleks

**The Daleks** are one of the most popular long-running villains in the BBC science fiction series ***Doctor Who***. They are a species of genetically altered mutants placed within a mobile armored tank. Their creator **Davros** engineered them to be ruthless, extremely violent and merciless, seeing all other species as inferior and needing to be, as the Daleks put it, *"exterminated"*. The Daleks were created due to the thousand year war between the Kaleds and Thals leaving the planet **Skaro** as a nuclear wasteland. Kaled scientist Skaro believed that the only way for his people to survive was racial purity. They sight one individual Time Lord, **the Doctor**, as their greatest enemy.

The Daleks resemble man-sized pepper pots with a single mechanical eye stalk situated on a rotating dome, their electronic, screeching voices being visualized by their two light bulbs lighting up on their dome heads. A gun-mount containing a gun-stick death ray was used for attack, next to a telescopic manipulator resembling a plunger. Their lower half is covered in hemispherical protrusions that act as a sensory array. They travel by gliding across the floor or by hovering.

## History

The Daleks were created on Skaro by Davros as a means of ending the Kaled/Thal war. The **Fourth Doctor** arrived on a mission from the Time Lords to tamper with their creation so that they would never exist, but the Doctor ultimately decided against it (TV: *Genesis of the Daleks*). After seemingly killing Davros, the Daleks thought the Thals until they relegated to living in large cities due to further nuclear fallout and the environment being uninhabitable (TV: *The Daleks*).

Upon first meeting the Doctor, the Daleks grew a hatred for him as he continuously foiled their plans of universal domination. The **Second Doctor** while on trial cited the Daleks as one of the many evils that he has encountered and fought in his time travelling the universe (TV: *The War Games*). The Fourth Doctor would meet Davros once again when he was reawakened centuries after his assumed death, rejoining with the Daleks (TV: *Destiny of the Daleks*).

#### Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War

The Daleks were divided after the return of their creator. Some Daleks believed that Davros was central in their conquest and he should be followed, while others were completely against this, seeing the inclusion of Davros as heresy as he wasn't a "true Dalek". This lead to infighting amongst the Daleks which eventually irrupted into a Civil War. The **Imperial Daleks** were the faction that followed Davros, while the ones who opposed their creator formed the **Renegade faction** (TV: *Resurrection of the Daleks* & *Revelation of the Daleks*).

The war continued as the Dalek factions fought in London of 1963, where the Imperials seemed to have defeated the Renegades before their mothership was destroyed along with the entirety of Skaro by the Seventh Doctor using the Hand of Omega (TV: *Remembrance of the Daleks*). However, the true final battle of the Civil War would take place in space after Davros's escape capsule was found and he was reawakened once again. With their ships and resources drained, the Imperial Daleks were already weakened beforehand and they were ultimately defeated by the Renegades, who had Davros executed for good. (TV: *War of the Daleks*)*.*

## List of appearances

##### Season 2 (1964-1965)

* *The Dalek Invasion of Earth*
* *The Space Museum*
* *The Chase*

##### Season 3 (1965-1966)

* *Mission to the Unknown*
* *The Daleks' Master Plan*

##### Season 4 (1966-1967)

* *The Power of the Daleks*
* *The Evil of the Daleks*

##### Season 10 (1972-1973)

* *Frontier in Space*
* *Planet of the Daleks*