The New Dalek Paradigm (short story)

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The New Dalek Paradigm
Main enemy:	New Dalek Paradigm
Key crew
Publisher:	BBC Books
Writer:	Mark Gatiss
Release details
Part of:	The Brilliant Book 2011
Release date:	30 September 2010
Format:	Short story, 2 pages
The Brilliant Book 2011
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The New Dalek Paradigm was a short story published in The Brilliant Book 2011. It was written by Mark Gatiss, serving as a companion to his TV episode Victory of the Daleks. The story served as a short history of the New Dalek Paradigm's genesis and was presented as an in-universe document compiled by the Anti-Dalek Force.

Plot

The Anti-Dalek Force review the history that led up to the birth of the so-called New Dalek Paradigm, from the creation of the Progenitor devices thousands of years prior to the event to the emergency temporal landing of a damaged Dalek flying saucer in Earth's 20th century.

Characters

• Davros
• Eternal Dalek

Worldbuilding

• Black and yellow is known all over the Universe as "Nature's danger colours."

Notes

• As later made even more explicit by Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe, the description of the five "castes" of the Paradigm refers to the Eternal Dalek as a singular being, rather than a variant with many individuals like the other four.

Continuity

• The Anti-Dalek Force, who first appeared in PROSE: Terror Task Force ^[+]Loading...["Terror Task Force (short story)"], investigate the lead-up to the New Dalek Paradigm's creation. (TV: Victory of the Daleks)