Talk:Kaled

Dal

To settle arguments between names, it is possible that "Dal" could be what the Thals called the Kaleds... or possibley part of the Dalek name... like if they had like a recorder and the dalek said somat like "we are daaaleeeks!" and like the recorder was destroyed in mid-word... u know stuff like that will help.Forerunner 20:49, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

The first idea's more likely, but another interpretation could be that Dals and Thals were two races of the Kaled species, but the Dals, being arrogant, considered only themselves worthy of having their species name and dropped the name "Dal" in favour of "Kaled". Whatever theories you can come up with, however, will still just be speculation. ~ Ghelæ -talk-contribs 07:55, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

In one of the I, Davros audio drama series Davros does mention in passing the Dals, Thals and some others I think, so they were separate species / groups at some point prior to the war (have only listened to them all once so can't point out which specific one out of the four it was though). --Tangerineduel 11:55, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Shouldn't we maybe add to the Appearances section all of the appearances of Davros, he is a Kaled so they count as Kaled appearances. I'm A Hydroponic Tomato! Bigredrabbit 01:09, November 29, 2009 (UTC)

There are no references to the Dals on this page, other than under "Also known as." Some explanation is probably warranted, as Dals and Kaleds can be easily confused with one another. I'd like to suggest adding a Behind the Scenes note with the following text, copied from the Dal page: "TV: The Daleks names the Dals as the predecessors of the Daleks. TV: Genesis of the Daleks, which actually showed the creation of the Daleks, contradicted this and named the Daleks' ancestors as the Kaleds." It may also help to include the following, also from the Dal page: "The Dals were extinct by the time of the Thousand Year War between the Thals and the Kaleds, as were the Tharons, as a result of a programme of genocide orchestrated by the Kaleds. (AUDIO: Purity)" However, I won't be making that edit myself as I haven't listened to the story and can't verify it's accuracy. Andbeonetraveler ☎ 19:47, June 17, 2013 (UTC)

Anagram

In the opening of the article it says that Kaled is an anagram of Dalek. Surely within the show it is the other way round, dalek is an anagram of kaled. Should we not swap this round? Thetictocmonkey 15:47, April 5, 2010 (UTC)

Given that no one has replied I will go ahead and make this minor edit :) - Thetictocmonkey 18:41, April 5, 2010 (UTC)

It seems obvious to me that Terry Nation, who based the Daleks on the Nazis, intended the Kaleds to be a political party (or politico-religious? See the horned war god) within the Dal nation, with the Dals in the role of the Germans and the Kaleds as the Nazis. To underline this, he chose two obviously related names for the main nations involved in the Thousand-Year War: Dals and Thals. Any English-speaker who also speaks a bit of German will see that these two closely-related languages have adopted one of the same linguistic mutations which distinguishes English from German: a German "D" is almost invariably an English "Th". Examples: Thick - Dick, Thin - Dünn, That - Dass, This - Dies, Thumb - Daumen, etc. and I could go on for hours. I do not believe that the Kaleds were originally intended to be a race or a species.79.88.81.69^{talk to me} 11:25, May 25, 2013 (UTC)

The kaleds are extint?

Davros links

The references to Davros in the final paragraph of this page should probably be changed to internal links (as in the first paragraph under Culture). Anyone have a problem with this? Andbeonetraveler ☎ 19:56, June 17, 2013 (UTC)