The Triumph of Davros (audio story)

The Triumph of Davros
Doctor:	Tenth Doctor
Companion(s):	Anya
Main enemy:	Davros, Dalek Supreme, First Movellan
Main setting:	Kembel, 4500
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Matt Fitton
Director:	Ken Bentley
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Howard Carter
Sound:	Howard Carter
Cover by:	Simon Holub
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Release number:	3.3
Release date:	13 October 2021
Format:	1 CD Download
Production code:	BFPDW10THDALEKU3
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-83868-360-3 (physical); ISBN 978-1-83868-361-0 (digital)
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The Triumph of Davros was the third and final story in the audio anthology Dalek Universe 3, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Matt Fitton and featured David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor, Jane Slavin as Anya Kingdom and Terry Molloy as Davros.

It was the conclusion of a two-part story, which began in The Dalek Defence, and served as a series finale to the Dalek Universe series.

Publisher's summary

Returning to a familiar planet, with Movellan and Dalek warships floating in the sky above, the stakes for the time-travellers are higher than ever.

The mistakes of the Doctor's past are coming back to haunt him. Alliances are made and broken. And the course of the war is about to turn.

The Doctor can't stop what's coming. But maybe, just maybe... he may be able to save his friends.

Plot

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Cast

• The Doctor - David Tennant
• Anya Kingdom - Jane Slavin
• Davros - Terry Molloy
• The Daleks - Nicholas Briggs
• Vilsa / Jeska / Dranta - Ajjaz Awad
• Colonel Keelan - Joseph Millson
• The First Movellan - Joe Sims

Worldbuilding

• The Kembel Faction Analyst possesses an orange casing.
• The Dalek Supreme, of which Davros states there are many, serves the Emperor.
• The Kembel Project is based in an underground facility.
• The Movellans have a network similar to the pathweb, which the Doctor describes as a "galactic hive mind."
• Movellan's have memory cores and identity signatures so they can recognize each other.
• Effects on the First Movellan transfer into all other Movellans in his vicinity.
• The Daleks' time machine was their greatest achievement in time travel before it was destroyed. Since then, Dalek time travel has only been applied to military uses rather than scientific.

Notes

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Continuity

• The Doctor remembers Mark's death at Beltros Station. (AUDIO: The Trojan Dalek)
• Keelan and Anya dress as Movellans to infiltrate their ship. (AUDIO: The First Son)
• The Doctor mentions the plans of Abigail Crane and Major McLinn to create weapons to use against the Daleks. (AUDIO: The House of Kingdom, The Trojan Dalek)
• The Doctor and Davros are once again coerced into collaborating in a laboratory setting. (AUDIO: Davros)
• The Doctor reveals to Anya that Kembel was where her aunt Sara died. (TV: The Daleks' Master Plan)
• Davros will later revise his opinion of the Doctor to consider him his intellectual equal and rival. (AUDIO: Davros)
• The Doctor recalls him sabotaging the Daleks' previous time machine, remarking he was impressed that it got "those two" to London, 1965. Dalek research into time technology were halted temporarily as a result of the ongoing war. (TV: The Chase)
• The Doctor realises that the Dalek which attacked him from a time bubble was actually targeting Mark. (AUDIO: The Wrong Woman)
• The Doctor speculates that the Daleks on Kembel are another breakaway group. The Supreme Dalek of the Kembel Faction is initially hostile to Davros's prothletising and answers to the Dalek Emperor. (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks, Revelation of the Daleks; AUDIO: The Mutant Phase)
• The Daleks' tactic of using bomb-belts echoes a similar tactic employed by the Cybermen on Nerva Beacon. (TV: Revenge of the Cybermen)
• The Dalek facility includes chutes with gravity wells that allow Daleks to float to the planetary surface. (TV: Planet of the Daleks)
• The First Movellan decides to exploit the biology of the Daleks to create a virus. (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks)
• The Doctor decides to visit Elizabeth I in 1562. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
• When Davros ponders about constructing a unified information network for the Daleks, the Doctor notes that they already have the Pathweb to fulfil that role. (TV: Asylum of the Daleks)
• The Doctor is still against soldiers saluting him. (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem, Planet of the Dead)
• The Doctor reminds Davros that they both deduced how to end the Dalek-Movellan War on Skaro. (TV: Destiny of the Daleks)
• Following his time as a prisoner in stasis, Davros will come to resent his Dalek creations. (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks)
• The Doctor had previously accidentally mentioned the Last Great Time War to Daleks who predate the conflict. (COMIC: Defender of the Daleks)
• Mark notes to the Doctor that his attempts to be a good man are what matters. (TV: Into the Dalek)

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External links

• Official The Triumph of Davros page at bigfinish.com