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[[File:Tasha Dalek Puppet.jpg|thumb|left|[[Tasha Lem]] as a Dalek puppet. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')]]During the [[Siege of Trenzalore]], the Daleks attacked the [[Papal Mainframe]] and converted everyone into Dalek puppets, including the [[Silent]]s. [[Tasha Lem]], however, was able to resist her conditioning and destroyed three Daleks that threatened the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Clara Oswald|Clara]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') | [[File:Tasha Dalek Puppet.jpg|thumb|left|[[Tasha Lem]] as a Dalek puppet. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')]]During the [[Siege of Trenzalore]], the Daleks attacked the [[Papal Mainframe]] and converted everyone into Dalek puppets, including the [[Silent]]s. [[Tasha Lem]], however, was able to resist her conditioning and destroyed three Daleks that threatened the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Clara Oswald|Clara]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') | ||
At some point, [[Bors (The Doctor's Meditation)|Bors]] was converted into a Dalek puppet, and located the TARDIS for the Daleks. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') | At some point, [[Bors (The Doctor's Meditation)|Bors]] was converted into a Dalek puppet, and located the [[Twelfth Doctor]]'s [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] for the Daleks in [[1138]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') | ||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
Revision as of 08:01, 26 June 2020
Dalek puppets were beings who had been taken by the Daleks and partially converted via nanogenes to serve them as slaves.
Biology
The Dalek nanogenes automatically would convert any organism it came in contact with, living or dead, making them into a Dalek puppet. These slaves were used as sleeper agents. When activated, they would have a miniature Dalek eyestalk extend from their forehead and a miniature Dalek gunstick from the palm of their hand. Later versions did not have a gunstick emerge from their hand, instead they outstreached their arm and a beam came out of their hand. They could also emit a charge that stopped the victim from moving by making contact with them.
Dalek nanoclouds were airborne and invisible, and would slowly convert the victim into an unwitting servant of the Daleks. Not even death could protect victims from this fate: the conversion process worked on dead and living flesh alike, and could turn innocent corpses into shambling, zombie-like creatures. Time Lords could not be converted by this means. (TV: Asylum of the Daleks)
Progenitors
More primitive progenitors of the Dalek puppets were the Robomen, who were prisoners on whose brains the Daleks operated in a surgical procedure called the Transfer after being sought after for intelligence and given a drug to make the process more successful, fitting them with large, helmet-like headsets. The Daleks' mind control technique was unstable, and the Robomen would eventually go insane and commit suicide. (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth) The eyestalk extending from Dalek puppets' foreheads made them visually reminiscent of Dalek Troopers. (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks)
History
The air of the Dalek Asylum planet contained a nanocloud and so the conversion process occurred when any unprotected non-Dalek landed on the planet. All intact bodies of the Alaska had this fate befall them, apart from Oswin Oswald, who was entirely converted to a Dalek by the unhinged inmates. (TV: Asylum of the Daleks)
Jenibeth Blakely was captured by the Daleks at a young age and was kept as a prisoner for many years before being turned into a Dalek puppet. However, she was able to resist the control because she still had the mind of a child. She attacked the Dalek Time Controller and destroyed some of its guards, forcing it to retreat. (PROSE: The Dalek Generation)
During the Siege of Trenzalore, the Daleks attacked the Papal Mainframe and converted everyone into Dalek puppets, including the Silents. Tasha Lem, however, was able to resist her conditioning and destroyed three Daleks that threatened the Eleventh Doctor and Clara. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)
At some point, Bors was converted into a Dalek puppet, and located the Twelfth Doctor's TARDIS for the Daleks in 1138. (TV: The Magician's Apprentice)
Behind the scenes
Many enemies in the Doctor Who: Legacy mobile game are Dalek puppets of allies or other enemies, including Silent, Tasha Lem and several Church members.
