Genesis Dalek
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The Genesis Daleks were the original group of Grey Daleks who were created by Davros. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks)
The Dalek Prime, leader and ultimate last survivor of this Dalek group, acknowledged them as the first Daleks. At the same time, the Eighth Doctor referred to the Skaro City Daleks as "the first". (PROSE: War of the Daleks)
The Genesis Daleks were Grey Daleks, inhabiting the first Mark III Travel Machines created by Davros, (TV: Genesis of the Daleks) rather than the "low-frequency" blue Dalek War Machines which the Time Lords associated with the Daleks' "early period". (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual)
Hierarchy[[edit] | [edit source]]
According to one account, the earliest Daleks existed as equals. One Dalek, finding the rule among equals approach to be inefficient, crowned himself as the singular ruler of the Dalek race, (PROSE: The Evil of the Daleks) establishing a Dalek hierarchy. (PROSE: The History of the Daleks)
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Main article: Creation of the Daleks
Most accounts of the Daleks' creation credited the Kaled scientist Davros as responsible for bringing the Daleks into being. By one account, the first Dalek prototype was created from the brain of Baran, a captured Thal spy. (AUDIO: Guilt) Another account held that the initial purpose of the Daleks would have them serve as semi-autonomous robots guided by organic brains, Davros producing Dalek One as a proof of concept. (PROSE: Davros Genesis)
Following the destruction of the Kaled Dome, Davros activated his first Daleks and sent them to exterminate the Thal Dome only to later lose control of them, the Daleks turning on their creator. The Fourth Doctor, sent back to subvert the Daleks' origins, subsequently managed to entomb the Daleks but felt that, at best, he had only delayed the rise of the Dalek Empire. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks)
According to the research of human historians, the Genesis Daleks quickly erected the Dalek City only to be attacked by Thal survivors. To end the fighting, the early Daleks detonated a neutron bomb but, underestimating its destructive yield, became trapped in their city for centuries as they waited for the fallout to lessen. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe) Another body of research also believed that the Genesis Daleks were the direct ancestors of the Daleks who had fought in the Thal-Dalek battle, postulating that the Daleks eventually came to believe that inductive static power, despite its limitations, was a more efficient means of power than the one Davros had designed. (PROSE: The Whoniverse)
By another account, the Genesis Daleks had remained entombed in the remains of the Kaled bunker, the Dalek Prime emerging only when the Humanoid Daleks, mutated descendants of the Kaled race, were themselves beginning to mutate into Dalek mutant due to neutronic fallout. Seeing an opportunity, the Prime incorporated these lesser Daleks into its forces while its Kaled-derived brethren became the Prime's inner circle. (PROSE: The History of the Daleks)
Legacy[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Main article: Dalek Empire
According to one account, Davros's Daleks led by the Dalek Prime ultimately emerged from their entombment and forced the Thals to evacuate Skaro. By this account, it was this faction of Daleks which established the Dalek Empire. (PROSE: The History of the Daleks) The Eighth Doctor concurred with this account. (PROSE: War of the Daleks)
In their scrutiny of the Daleks' timeline, the Time Lords observed that Davros's prototype grey Dalek design was replicated for later units with variant coatings resulting in different shades of grey across many campaigns. They designated these the "Type IV Dalek", following the "Type III" Silver Daleks which themselves followed the Dalek Earthforce and the Skaro City Daleks. (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual)
By the aftermath of the Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War, the Dalek Prime claimed to be the last survivor of what he knew to be the "first Daleks" and identified himself as the ancestor of the billions of Daleks that had been created since. (PROSE: War of the Daleks) By one account, the original Dalek Emperor was resurrected to lead the Daleks in the Last Great Time War, (AUDIO: Restoration of the Daleks) only to be destroyed by the Bad Wolf in the post-Time War universe. (TV: The Parting of the Ways)
Parallel universes[[edit] | [edit source]]
In the Warrior's universe, the Doctor was convinced by Sarah Jane Smith to destroy the incubation room. When he sent her and Harry Sullivan to retrieve the Time Ring, an already active Dalek exterminated the two. The Dalek managed to inflict fatal wounds on the defiant Doctor but he was Time Scooped back to Gallifrey before it could deliver the killing blow. (AUDIO: Dust Devil)
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- According to The Discontinuity Guide, the more advanced Daleks took to space to escape the neutron bomb whist the Skaro City Daleks, who were the early products of the experimental program conducted by the late Davros, were left behind on Skaro. These primitive Daleks were all wiped out in the battle with the Thals, though the advanced Daleks would later return to make their home on Skaro, preceding the Dalek Civil War which took place somewhere between the 19th century and the mid-22nd century.[1] It is further noted that, since the Fourth Doctor inadvertently changed Dalek history so that Davros survived, this event would have occurred vastly differently if it happened at all in the new timeline.[2]
- The Genesis Daleks were named in issue 39 of Doctor Who: Figurine Collection.
