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 |companions   = [[Jon Bowman|Bowman]], [[Koral]]
 |enemy        = [[Dalek X]]
-|setting      = [[Hurala]], [[Arkheon]], [[Auros]], c.[[2580s]]<ref>The war in the story was sparked by the events of ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'', which was set in [[2540]]. Reference to the [[First Dalek Incursion]] taking place "over forty years" before the events of the novel roughly point to the [[2580s]] as the story's time period.</ref>
+|setting      = [[Hurala]], [[Arkheon]], [[Auros]], c.[[2580s]]<ref>The war in the story was sparked by the events of ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'', which was set in [[2540]]. Reference to the [[First Dalek Incursion]] taking place "over forty years" before the events of the novel roughly point to the [[2580s]] as the story's time period. Curiously, the Doctor explicitly asks for the year in the novel and receives an answer, but the reader is never told what it is.</ref>
 |writer       = [[Trevor Baxendale]]
 |read by      = [[Nicholas Briggs]]
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 ''Prisoner of the Daleks'' did not feature the [[Dalek]]s as antagonists in print for the first time in revived-era material, beaten as it was by the [[2006 (releases)|2006]] [[Quick Reads]] novella, ''[[I Am a Dalek (novel)|I Am a Dalek]]''. However, it was the first of the New Series Adventures to pit them against [[the Doctor]], and the first full-length original novel to do so since ''[[Legacy of the Daleks (novel)|Legacy of the Daleks]]'' in [[1998 (releases)|1998]].
+The story returns the Doctor to the period of the [[Second Dalek War]], during the [[26th century]], a storyline which began in [[1973 (releases)|1973]] with ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'' and ''[[Planet of the Daleks (TV story)|Planet of the Daleks]]''. Though never thereafter revisited by the [[Doctor Who|TV series]], the conflict provided the background for ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comic stories featuring [[Abslom Daak]] and various aspects of the [[Virgin New Adventures]]. ''Prisoner of the Daleks'' delves right into the heart of the Dalek war effort and brings the war to a climax, providing the storyline with a sense of finality and closure almost thirty-six years after it began.
 == Publisher's summary ==
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 Five [[day]]s later, the [[bounty hunter]] [[spacecraft|ship]] ''[[Wayfarer]]'' lands on the planet, its crew of five hoping to use the stores to refuel their ship. They soon come across the TARDIS, and hear a repeating tapping noise. One of them, [[Scrum]], realises it's a [[Morse code]] [[SOS]] message. They trace it to the computer data core room where they find and free the Doctor, who has been sending it with a [[spoon]]. On the insistence of the Doctor and another of the bounty hunters, [[Stella (Prisoner of the Daleks)|Stella]], the group investigate the computer's systems. They discover an override which, when activated, took control of the base and trapped the Doctor. Someone had used the computer to set a trap. Who did is soon answered when the group are attacked by a [[Dalek]] patrol.
-The Doctor and the bounty hunters, who reveal that they kill Daleks for a living, race back to the ''Wayfarer'', escape to the TARDIS being blocked by Daleks. They take off but the Daleks blow up a refuelling pump, sending debris flying into the ship through the open landing ramp, badly wounding Stella. As the crew attempt to put her into cryo-freeze a [[Dalek (Prisoner of the Daleks)|Dalek]] gets into the ship through an air-lock. It exterminates Stella. Before it can kill anyone else, the Doctor freezes it with the emergency cryo-charge intended for Stella. With the Dalek immobilised, Stella's body is also frozen and the crew make a course for [[Auros]], Stella's home world. On the way, the Dalek's [[Dalek Eyestalk|eye stalk]] is removed so the crew can claim the prize-money for killing it, and it is placed in the cargo hold. Whilst talking with the crew the Doctor realises he's travelled back along the time line to before the [[Last Great Time War]]. At this point, the Daleks are locked in a huge galactic war with [[Earth]]'s first empire, at a moment when victory can go either way. The Doctor also learns more about the crew. Commanding the ship is [[Jon Bowman|Bowman]], a former Earth trooper who has been fighting the Daleks for years. Scrum is the crew's technician, [[Cuttin' Edge]] is a former Space Marine who was dishonourably discharged and Stella was the ship's Medic. The other crew member, [[Koral]], is a humanoid alien whose planet and people of [[Red Sky Lost]] were destroyed by the Daleks.
+The Doctor and the bounty hunters, who reveal that they kill Daleks for a living, race back to the ''Wayfarer'', escape to the TARDIS being blocked by Daleks. They take off but the Daleks blow up a refuelling pump, sending debris flying into the ship through the open landing ramp, badly wounding Stella. As the crew attempt to put her into cryo-freeze [[Dalek (Prisoner of the Daleks)|a Dalek]] gets into the ship through an [[airlock]] and it exterminates Stella. Before it can kill anyone else, the Doctor freezes it with the emergency [[cryo-charge]] intended for Stella. With the Dalek immobilised, Stella's [[body]] is also frozen and the crew make a course for [[Auros]], her home planet.
+En route, the Dalek's [[Dalek Eyestalk|eye stalk]] is removed so the crew can claim the bounty for killing it, and place it in the [[cargo]] hold. Whilst talking with the crew the Doctor realises he's travelled back along the time line to before the [[Last Great Time War]]. At this point, the Daleks are locked in a [[Second Dalek War|huge galactic war]] with [[Earth]]'s [[Earth Empire|first empire]] with the outcome undertain. The Doctor also learns more about the crew. Commanding the ship is [[Jon Bowman|Bowman]], a former Earth trooper who has been fighting the Daleks for years. Scrum is the crew's technician, [[Cuttin' Edge]] is a former Space Marine who was dishonourably discharged and Stella was the ship's Medic. The other crew member, [[Koral]], is a humanoid alien whose planet and people of [[Red Sky Lost]] were destroyed by the Daleks.
 Upon arriving at Auros the Doctor and the crew discover that the planet's population are abandoning the planet as the Daleks are about to invade. Using the Osterhagen Principle, they detonate a series of nuclear bombs and destroy the planet to prevent it falling to the Daleks. The Doctor and Bowman realise the Daleks will ambush the retreating convoy. They try to warn them but the Daleks arrive, forcing the convoy to surrender and destroying its flagship as a warning to the other ships.
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 * This novel was reprinted and re-released as an ebook by [[BBC Books]] on [[6 March (releases)|6 March]] [[2014 (releases)|2014]] as ''The Monster Collection Edition''.
 * Dalek X's colour scheme is vastly similar to the colour scheme of the [[Dalek Supreme (Planet of the Daleks)|Supreme Dalek]] from ''[[Planet of the Daleks (TV story)|Planet of the Daleks]]'', though lacking a [[gold]] [[dome]]. This is known because it is based on the [[Character Options]] black and gold RC Dalek from the battle pack released in 2005.
-* The Daleks in this book are pre-[[Last Great Time War|Time War]] due to the Doctor crossing the Dalek timeline. It specifically takes place during the [[Second Dalek War]] of the [[26th century]]. A specific year isn't given, though the approximate decade is indicated.
+* The Daleks in this book are pre-[[Last Great Time War|Time War]] due to the Doctor crossing the Dalek timeline. It specifically takes place during the [[Second Dalek War]] of the [[26th century]]. A specific year isn't given (Cuttin' Edge tells the Doctor but it is not revealed to the reader), though evidence points to the approximate decade of the [[2580s]].
 === Audio release ===