Type V Dalek
The Dalek Drone Type 3 or Type V Dalek was a modified model of the silver Dalek casing identified by the Dalek Survival Guide and the Time Lords respectively, noted for their role in the Exxilon Gambit. (PROSE: Dalek Survival Guide, Dalek Combat Training Manual)
Appearance[[edit] | [edit source]]
These Daleks were distinguished by their silver casings which featured black sense globes as well as silver slats on their black weapons platforms which, during the Exxilon Gambit, were equipped with substitute weaponry to compensate for their disabled armament circuits. Along the eyepiece was a series of blue insulator discs. Like the grey Daleks and unlike the earlier silver Daleks, these Daleks sported a black "pupil" at the centre of their eye lens. The Exxilon expedition was led by a Dalek leader distinguished by its amber head lamps. (TV: Death to the Daleks, AUDIO: The Dalek Protocol)
Following the earlier silver Daleks, the Type III, and the initial grey Daleks, the Type IV, the Time Lords identified these Daleks as being essentially Type III Daleks with modified "multiphase" sensor globes and a new protective coating. They further identified the prototype Imperial Daleks created by Davros, the Type VI, as being based on the structure of the Type V. (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual) A Dalek recorded in a book by some historians utilised an identically-coloured casing to the Type V, but with the same shape as a Type VIII Dalek. (PROSE: The Whoniverse)
The Dalek Survival Guide suggested that the "Dalek Drone Type 3", a variation of the "Type 1", was a version adapted for long-haul space flight, which explained the reflective surfaces that could stave off some of the adverse effects of hyperspatial exposure. (PROSE: Dalek Survival Guide)
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
After the Dalek war, a ship of silver Type V Daleks travelled to the planet Exxilon in search of Parrinium, the only cure to a plague which the Daleks hoped to exploit, where all of its power was taken by the Exxilon City. The Dalek task-force encountered the Third Doctor and his companion Sarah Jane Smith along with a human expedition. They attempted to gun down the humans, but discovered that the Exxilon City had also drained their power supplies, rendering their gunsticks useless and forcing the Daleks to form an unholy alliance with the humans. While their gunsticks did not work, the Daleks replaced them with machine guns and enslaved the Exxillons in search for parrinium. When their power was restored, the Daleks revealed they were the cause of the Space plague and were about to fire plague missiles to kill the Exxilons and the Doctor as they made their getaway in their ship. However, it and its crew were destroyed by Dan Galloway, who had stowed away on the ship with a Dalek bomb, which he detonated. (TV: Death to the Daleks) Some years later the Daleks returned to Exxilon after the plague began to infect Daleks. (AUDIO: The Dalek Protocol)
The Time Lords suggested that the prototype Imperial Daleks created by Davros, which they identified as Type VI Daleks, were based on the structure of the Type V. (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual)
A Type V Dalek was an inmate of the Dalek Asylum planet which persisted in the post-Time War universe, with the Eleventh Doctor acknowledged that intensive care housed insane Daleks who had survived encounters with him on worlds such as Exxilon. The Dalek was present when the planet was destroyed in the Asylum Incident. (TV: Asylum of the Daleks)
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
Merchandise[[edit] | [edit source]]
- A figurine of this Dalek model with its substitute weaponry, named "Weapons Malfunction Dalek", was released with the thirteenth "Rare Dalek" issue of Doctor Who: Figurine Collection.
Invalid sources[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Dalek Handbook takes the appearance of silver Daleks in the Exxilon Gambit as evidence that the taskforce were Daleks native to the 27th century time period whom had been subsumed into time travelling grey Dalek forces from the future, beyond the year 4000. In their list of real world paradigms, The Dalek Handbook counts the Exxilon Daleks and their leader in a "1974-1984" paradigm with the later grey Daleks and their Supreme Dalek (Duplicate Incident).
Other matters[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Fresh from Death to the Daleks, silver "Exxilon Dalek" props were used for the live portion of Glorious Goodwood.
- Silver "Exxilon Daleks" feature alongside grey Daleks in Regression of the Daleks, a fictional 1988 serial of Doctor Who which features in the fourth episode of It's a Sin.
