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| | One [[Dalek Saucer]] and three Daleks survived a previous invasion and genocide by escaping through a [[time corridor]]. They ended up in [[1941]]. They found the last surviving [[progenitor]], a Time War device containing pure Dalek DNA and the means to recreate the species - but, due to the circumstances of their creation, the progenitor refused to recognise them as Dalek due to their non-[[Kaled]] genes. To activate it, they engineered an encounter with the Doctor: using an [[Edwin Bracewell|android]] to claim they were his invention and pretending to be machines for the [[British Army]]. When the Doctor arrived (after being called by [[Winston Churchill]]), they tricked him into calling them out - "''I'' am the Doctor and ''you'' are the ''Daleks''!" - so this "testimony" could be used to open the progenitor. |
| |name = New Dalek Paradigm
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| |leader = [[Prime Minister of the Daleks]]
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| |appearances = [[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks]]''<br />[[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]''<br />[[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]''/''[[The Big Bang]]''<br />[[GAME]]: ''[[Doctor Who: Evacuation Earth]]''<br />[[GAME]]: ''[[Doctor Who: Return to Earth]]''<br />[[GAME]]: ''[[The Mazes of Time]]''<br />[[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of River Song]]'' (cameo) <br/> [[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks]]''
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| |members = [[Supreme Dalek]]<br />[[Eternal Dalek]]<br />[[Strategist Dalek]]<br />[[Scientist Dalek]]<br />[[Dalek drone|Drone Daleks]]<br />[[Stone Dalek]]|size = }}
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| The '''New Dalek Paradigm''' was a brand new breed of the [[Dalek]]s created by "impure" Daleks made from the cells of their creator, [[Davros]], by means of a [[Progenitor]] device. They were more powerful and much larger than any of their predecessors.
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| == Overview ==
| | Five new Daleks were created, with pure DNA, a colour-coded rank and a white Dalek Supreme as their commander. These Daleks immediately exterminated the older three for their impurity (the three willingly submitted) and used a time bomb on Earth to prey upon the Doctor's compassion. He returned to England/Britain. While the Doctor was deactivating the bomb, they escaped through a [[time corridor]] to create a new Dalek Empire. ([[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks]]'') |
| === Characteristics ===
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| The Daleks of the New Dalek Paradigm had towering casings and a bulkier, less streamlined design than their predecessors while (for the most part) retaining the basic Dalek structure of a dome-shaped head connected to the torso by a neck and a "skirt" of grey orbs (Black ones for [[Eternal Dalek]]). New to the design, however, was the addition of a rear compartment (replacing the basic back "skirt" panels) , that was supposed to open and allow the New Daleks to access other weaponry. The overall result, however, was that of them having enlarged rear ends.
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| One thing that didn't change, however, was their personalities. If anything, their egos appeared to have increased in size along with the rest of them. They considered themselves invincible and boasted their superiority accordingly, even as [[Spitfire]]s rained down on them. Despite the [[2009 Dalek invasion of Earth|2009 Dalek invasion]] Daleks giving them life, these new Daleks only saw them as impure trash that needed to be swept away. ([[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks]]'')
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| === Hierarchy ===
| | [[Category:Events]] |
| These Daleks were colour-coded according to rank and position. [[Supreme Dalek]]s were white, the [[Eternal Dalek]] was yellow, [[Strategist Dalek]]s were blue, [[Scientist Dalek]]s were orange, while [[Drone Dalek]]s were red. The Prime Minister of the Daleks was the supreme leader of the Paradigm,the Supreme Dalek, as the name suggests, was the second in command. The Strategist Daleks controlled tactical planning and manoeuvering, coordinating the Drone Daleks during battle. The Scientist Daleks examined and formulated new weapons and analysed the genetic and physiological make-up of their enemies to determine their weaknesses. {{fact}} The Eternal Dalek's function has yet to be revealed.
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| | | [[Category:World War II]] |
| While the new Drone Dalek design was mass-produced initally, ([[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Only Good Dalek]]'') the Daleks later mass-produced drones of a Time War design, making the larger red drones more rare. ([[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks]]'')
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| | | [[Category:Dalek history]] |
| The position of ultimate leader varied. During the New Dalek Paradigm's first encounter with the Doctor, there were only five Daleks, each one the first example of their rank, making the Supreme, as the name implies, the ''supreme''. ([[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks]]'') However, as the Daleks started their campaign of Empire-building, at least two [[Dalek Emperor]]s are known to have ruled the New Dalek Paradigm at some point. ([[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Eternity Clock]]'') Later on, a [[Parliament of the Daleks]] was established, and the Supreme Dalek was subordinate to the [[Dalek Prime Minister]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks]]'')
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| == History ==
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| === Origin ===
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| The [[Last Great Time War]] left only small pockets of Dalek survivors, all of which were destroyed in confrontations with [[the Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'', ''[[Bad Wolf (TV story)|Bad Wolf]]''/''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[I am a Dalek]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]''/''[[Doomsday]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Carnage Zoo]]'', ''[[Flight and Fury]]'', ''[[The Living Ghosts]]'', ''[[Extermination of the Daleks]]'') This left [[Dalek Caan]] of the [[Cult of Skaro]] as the last Dalek in existence. ([[TV]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan]]''/''[[Evolution of the Daleks]]'') Caan travelled back to the Time War, breaking through the [[time-lock]] at the cost of his sanity. He saved [[Davros]] from the jaws of the [[Nightmare Child]] and brought him to [[2009]]. Davros [[New Dalek Empire|rebuilt]] the Dalek race, growing them from his own cells.
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| Eventually, Caan, betraying the Daleks, lowered the defences, allowing the Meta-Crisis Doctor to destroy Caan, Davros, and the Daleks. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End]]'') However one Dalek ship with three Daleks onboard managed to perform a time jump back to [[1941]], escaping destruction. ([[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks]]'')
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| === Creation ===
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| The three Daleks found the last surviving [[progenitor]], a device containing pure Dalek DNA and the means to recreate the species. However, due to the circumstances of their creation, the progenitor refused to recognise them as Dalek, as they had been created from Davros's own mutated Kaled cells ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]''). To activate it, they engineered an encounter with the [[Eleventh Doctor]]: using an [[Edwin Bracewell|android]] to claim they were his invention and pretending to be [[Ironside|machines]] for the [[British Army]]. When the Doctor arrived (after receiving a telephone call from [[Winston Churchill]]), they tricked him into calling them out - "''I'' am the Doctor and ''you'' are the ''Daleks''!" - so this "testimony" could be used to open the progenitor.
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| Five new Daleks were created, with pure DNA, a new colour-coded rank, and a [[Supreme Dalek (Progenitor)|white Dalek Supreme]] as their commander. There was also a [[Strategist Dalek|Blue (Strategist)]], [[Scientist Dalek|Orange (Scientist)]], [[Eternal Dalek|Yellow (Eternal)]] and [[Dalek drone|Red (Drone)]]. These Daleks immediately exterminated the older three for their impurity (the three willingly allowed this to happen) and forced the Doctor to let them escape, using a bomb hidden within the Bracewell android on Earth to prey upon his compassion and make him return to Britain. While the Doctor was deactivating the bomb, they escaped through a [[time corridor]] to create a new Dalek Empire, practically laughing at the Doctor for always failing to kill them completely. ([[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks]]'')
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| === Empire-building ===
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| Following their escape, the Daleks discovered the lost [[Time Lord]] artefact, the [[Eye of Time]], allowing them to alter time as they saw fit. The Daleks returned to [[Skaro]], rebuilt their capital city of [[Kaalann]], appointed a new [[Dalek Emperor]] and begun rebuilding their Empire. In this new timeline, they killed every member of the [[human]] race. However, the Eleventh Doctor and Amy undid these events, leaving Earth unconquered and Kaalann still abandoned. ([[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'')
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| In the [[41st century]], the Daleks began another war with humanity. The Eleventh Doctor and [[Amy Pond|Amy]] encountered a group who had been sent on a mission to find a Dalek mutant being experimented on by a scientist who tried to make them less aggressive creatures. The Daleks referred to this mutant as [[The Abomination (The Only Good Dalek)|"the Abomination"]]. They attacked and destroyed Earth's top secret space station, [[Station 7]], and chased the survivors to the planet below. After slaughtering all resistance, they finally found the Abomination in a hidden base, but it escaped its container and disabled the base reactor's safety measures. An explosion destroyed the base, the Daleks, the Abomination, and all the Dalek ships that had landed on the planet. The Doctor, Amy and [[Jay Bourne|Jay]], an [[Space Security Service|SSS]] officer, watched from a safe distance. The Dalek mission was a failure but the war continued. They had agents working in the SSS. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Only Good Dalek]]'')
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| The Daleks joined [[The Alliance (The Pandorica Opens)|the Alliance]] to imprison the Eleventh Doctor in the [[Pandorica]] in [[102]] to save the [[Universe]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'') As the Doctor was not responsible for the [[Total Event Collapse]] as they thought, the Daleks, along with almost the rest of the universe, were destroyed, leaving only two [[Stone Dalek]]s, one of which hindered the Doctor and his companions' efforts to save the universe in [[1996]]. Nevertheless, they were successful and the whole of reality, including the Daleks, were restored. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')
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| The Daleks later planted an idea into the mind of [[Vorgenson]], the son of the [[Lurman]] [[Vorg]], who had invented a machine called the [[Miniscope]], encountered by the [[Third Doctor]]. Vorgenson's idea had him create his own machine, called the Minimiser. He used it to headline a travelling show dedicated to the Doctor. It featured many mind-controlled versions of his recently encountered enemies, apart from the Daleks themselves, dismissed by Vorgenson as "too dangerous". The Daleks' plan was to attract the Eleventh Doctor to the show with Vorgenson's monsters, and capture him in the Minimiser. This plan succeeded, but the audience managed to save the Doctor, and helped him release the [[Cybermen (Pete's World)|Cybermen]] from the Minimiser to destroy the Daleks. ([[SP]]: ''[[Doctor Who: The Monsters Are Coming!|The Monsters Are Coming!]]'')
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| A Scientist Dalek sent an alien family plummeting through time and space to collect all the [[Time Orb]]s. The Scientist recruited many [[Strategist Dalek|Strategist]] Daleks and [[Drone Dalek|Drones]]. It also recruited big armies of [[Cybermen]] and [[Silurian]]s as a distraction for the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Amy Pond|Amy]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Mazes of Time]]'')
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| Searching for information on the Silence before going to what he assumed was his death, the Doctor found a badly damaged [[Supreme Dalek (Progenitor)|Supreme Dalek]] and looked up information on [[the Silence]] in it. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of River Song]]'')
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| Led by a new [[Emperor Dalek]], the Daleks planned to remove [[Gallifrey]] from existence and become the new [[Time Lord|Lords of Time]]. They used a piece of the [[Eternity Clock]] to put a Time-Lock around a large part of [[London]] in [[2106]]. They planned on on making it bigger {{What?}} and once they perfected their Time-Lock technology they would use it to put temporal bubbles around other planets making them unstoppable. The [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[River Song]] managed to take back the piece of the Clock. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock]]'')
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| === The Asylum ===
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| After being ruled by two [[Dalek Emperor]]s, ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock]]'', ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'') a [[Parliament of the Daleks]] was formed, led by a [[Dalek Prime Minister]].
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| When a [[human]] [[starliner]], the [[Alaska (spaceship)|Alaska]], crashlanded on the [[Dalek Asylum]] [[planet]], the security of the insane Daleks contained there was compromised. Fearing what would happen if these Daleks were to escape, the Prime Minister ordered the abduction of the Doctor, who he knew as the predator of the Daleks, so he could be sent to the asylum and lower its impenetrable [[force field]] so the Daleks could destroy their derranged brethren, despite their wish to preserve them and their "beautiful" hatred. Understanding that the Doctor was best assisted by his [[companion]]s, his most recent ones, [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]], were abducted as well.
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| Once the planet's defences were lowered by the human-turned-[[Dalek]], [[Oswin Oswald]], the Parliament launched an attack to destroy the Asylum, but not before she wiped out all memory of the Doctor in the minds of every Dalek. When the Doctor came back to their ship, he was bombarded with "[[the First Question]]" ("Doctor Who?") by the entire Parliament. He left shortly after. ([[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks]]'')
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| == Behind the scenes ==
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| * The [[2010]] redesign of the Daleks attracted much criticism from hundreds of angered fans. <ref>http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/2937261/Redesigned-Daleks-look-like-toys-say-angry-Doctor-Who-fans.html</ref> [[Mark Gatiss]], who wrote their [[Victory of the Daleks|debut episode]], acknowledged the controversial nature of this redesign in his [[in-vision commentary]] on the DVD box set. In conversation with principal Dalek voice artist [[Nicholas Briggs]], and [[Dalek operator]] [[Barnaby Edwards (actor)|Barnaby Edwards]], he opined that the new shape of the Daleks, especially in the dorsal region, was not particularly to his liking. Briggs agreed, but, with Edwards, swiftly noted that in their experience of taking the new Daleks on live exhibition to the public, [[British]] kids, for the most part, loved the new design. The decision was revisited in [[DWM 431]] with critics voicing their opinions on the design. A comparison was made with the [[Russell T Davies|RTD]]-era Daleks, but no the conclusion as to which was the better-made. Steven Moffat finally settled the controversy when he stated in an interview that he would be keeping the bronze Daleks as the standard soldiers, and the Paradigm variants would be in charge of them as an "officer class". This was first seen on-screen in Asylum of the Daleks.
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| * Additionally, further tweaks were made to the 2010 redesign for their reappearance in Asylum of the Daleks: the red Dalek was now a deeper metallic shade of red, and the biological eyes were made more obvious.
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| == Footnotes ==
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