Dalek Supreme Type D
Check the behind the scenes section, the revision history and discussion page for additional comments on this article's title.
Designated Dalek Supreme Type 5 by the Dalek Survival Guide, (PROSE: Dalek Survival Guide) a distinct model of Black Dalek casing was identified by the Time Lords (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual) as being used by the Supreme Dalek who led the Renegade Daleks in the Hand of Omega Incident. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks) The Dalek Survival Guide claimed that the Supreme was referred to in contemporary documentation only as "Black Dalek". (PROSE: Dalek Survival Guide)
Characteristics[[edit] | [edit source]]
During the Shoreditch Incident, the Supreme Dalek's black casing resembled its subordinate grey Renegade Daleks. Its accessories were now mostly silver including the grating section neck rings, middle section slats and mesh, the middle section band and the sense globes. Its luminosity dischargers were orange (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks) or red. (PROSE: Dalek Survival Guide)
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
Hand of Omega Incident[[edit] | [edit source]]
During the Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War, long following the model of the Duplicate Incident, (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe) The Black Dalek personally led the Renegade Daleks during the Hand of Omega Incident November 1963. There, it created a mind-link between itself and the human child Judith Winters to remedy its rigid Dalek mind's lack of imagination. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks) Its connection with Judith Winters caused the Supreme Dalek problems; the girl's human emotions would filter into the Daleks' mind when she was accessing the battle computer, treating each problem as nothing more than a game, and causing strange thoughts for the Dalek. Physically, the connection also made the Daleks' sluggish heartbeat race beyond the safety parameters, forcing the life-support computer in its casing to increase the amount of tranquillisers pumped into its body, making it difficult for the Dalek to concentrate properly. (PROSE: Remembrance of the Daleks) The Dalek Supreme ended up as the last surviving member of the Renegade Daleks present after a skirmish with the Imperial Daleks, where the Hand of Omega was taken by the triumphant Imperials. Following the destruction of Skaro, the Seventh Doctor convinced it that it had no purpose. At this point, in a state of confusion and distress, it destroyed itself, breaking the link with Judith Winters. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)
Legacy[[edit] | [edit source]]
This casing was the fourth of five Supreme Dalek models, preceding the New Dalek Paradigm of the post-Time War universe, which were identified by the Time Lords in their scrutiny of the Daleks' timeline and recorded in the Dalek Combat Training Manual, published during the Last Great Time War. The Time Lords, who believed these Supreme Daleks to all be different individuals, associated this model with the Hand of Omega Incident. (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual)
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
Prop[[edit] | [edit source]]
Ironically, the Black Dalek in Remembrance of the Daleks was depicted using a prop originally constructed to serve as one of Davros' Necros Daleks in Revelation of the Daleks.[1] The same prop appeared in Red Dwarf's Doctor Who crossover skit, and, painted grey once again, as well as having been given a new neck and eye, it appeared again as a Grey Dalek in The Curse of Fatal Death.[2]
Merchandise[[edit] | [edit source]]
- A figurine of the "Renegade Supreme Dalek" was released with issue 87 of Doctor Who: Figurine Collection magazine.
Invalid sources[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Universal Databank identifies Dalek Supreme as an alternative title for Black Dalek warlords, and that the Supreme Dalek in the Hand of Omega Incident, followed the Supreme of the Spiridon campaign and the Duplicate Incident, who itself followed the Supreme of the 2150s Dalek invasion of Earth and the Mechonoid Incident.
- The Dalek Handbook's list of Dalek paradigms, by real world appearance, counts this Supreme Dalek in a 1985-1988 paradigm with its subordinate Renegade Daleks along with the Necros Daleks and the Imperial Daleks.
