Dalek Supreme Type C
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A distinct model of Dalek casing was identified by the Time Lords (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual) as being used by the Supreme Dalek who oversaw the Duplicate Incident. (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks)
Characteristics[[edit] | [edit source]]
Following the Dalek-Movellan War, the Supreme Dalek's black casing resembled its subordinate grey Daleks. It sported white accessories; the bulb-shaped luminosity dischargers, the eyepiece's insulator discs, a mesh underneath the middle section slats and the base unit's sense globes. (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks)
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
Duplicate Incident[[edit] | [edit source]]
In the aftermath of the Dalek-Movellan War, the Black Supreme Dalek planned to restore the Daleks to power through a series of ambitious schemes. Firstly, he planned to rescue Davros from cryogenic imprisonment and manipulate him into finding a cure for the Movellan virus. At the same time, he planned to capture the Fifth Doctor and his companions, Tegan Jovanka and Vislor Turlough, with a time corridor and create duplicates of them, which would be sent back to Gallifrey to assassinate the High Council of the Time Lords. Additionally, he also planned to use human duplicates to infiltrate key positions in Earth's government positions, and cause their society to collapse in preparation for invasion.
The attempt to free Davros from the space station which served as his prison was successful, but the Supreme Dalek's plan was put at risk by Davros' insistence that he remain close to his cryogenic chamber, and his refusal to board the Dalek ship. Lytton tried to convince the Supreme Dalek that there was no time to cater to Davros' demands, but the Supreme Dalek claimed to have a plan that would force Davros to leave with them of his own free will. In the meantime, he was determined that no harm come to Davros, as without his genetic expertise, the Dalek race had no future.
The plan to duplicate and Doctor and his companions also succeeded, but Davros proved to be greatly unreliable, and it soon became clear that he had no intention of helping the Daleks cure the Movellan virus. Instead, he converted two Daleks and several troopers to his cause and instigated a civil war against the Supreme Dalek for control of the Dalek race. Realising that Davros could not be trusted, the Supreme Dalek ordered Lytton to execute him. Lytton suggested simply shooting down the space station, but the Supreme Dalek, paranoid, insisted that he needed to see Davros dead.
When the troopers failed, he instead dispatched Daleks to carry out the task; however, these Daleks were killed by Davros, who had already released the Movellan virus onto the space station. The Supreme Dalek ordered Lytton to exterminate the Daleks and troopers loyal to Davros, then dispatched a squad of Daleks to execute Lytton when he had outlived his usefulness. A battle ensued between the Supreme's forces and those of Davros, which ended with more Daleks infected with the Movellan virus released by the Doctor. Lytton was one of the only survivors.
Although one of his plans had failed, the Supreme Dalek was confident that his duplicates on Earth would still bring about the collapse of society. Contacting the Doctor via the TARDIS scanner, the Supreme Dalek maintained that the Daleks could not fail. His gloating rant was cut off when Stien, an unstable Dalek duplicate, activated the space station's self-destruct, which destroyed the adjacent Dalek Battlecruiser, seemingly killing the Supreme Dalek. (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks) The Lives and Deaths of Davros, written by Lorraine Baynes, claimed as such. (PROSE: The Secret Lives of Monsters) However, the Supreme Dalek had been transmitting to the Doctor from "a secret location" and survived the event. (PROSE: Resurrection of the Daleks)
By the time of its destruction in the Hand of Omega Incident during the Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War, the Supreme Dalek was in a new model casing. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)
Legacy[[edit] | [edit source]]
This casing was the third 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 Duplicate Incident. (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual)
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
Prop[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Black Dalek in Resurrection of the Daleks was depicted using by painting a hybrid prop, the top half of which was originally constructed for The Dalek Invasion of Earth with a bottom half made for exhibition at Madame Tussauds.[1]
Merchandise[[edit] | [edit source]]
- A figurine of this Supreme Dalek was released with issue 70 of Doctor Who: Figurine Collection magazine.
Invalid sources[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Universal Databank identifies Dalek Supreme as an alternative title for Black Daleks warlord, and that the same Supreme served in the Spiridon campaign and the Duplicate Incident, following an earlier Black Dalek associated with the 2150s Dalek invasion of Earth and the Mechonoid Incident, before another Black Dalek took its place by the time of the Hand of Omega Incident.
- The Dalek Handbook's list of Dalek paradigms, by real world appearance, counts this Supreme Dalek in a 1974-1984 paradigm with its subordinate Movellan War grey Daleks as well as the silver "Exxilon Daleks" and their leader.
