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=== Power sources === | === Power sources === | ||
The power source of the Dalek casing also changed several times. During his first encounter with them on [[Skaro]], the [[First Doctor]] learned that the casing was externally powered by [[static electricity]] transmitted through the metal floors of the [[Dalek City]]. Isolating a Dalek from the floor using a non-conductive material shut down the casing, although it was not immediately fatal to the [[ | The power source of the Dalek casing also changed several times. During his first encounter with them on [[Skaro]], the [[First Doctor]] learned that the casing was externally powered by [[static electricity]] transmitted through the metal floors of the [[Dalek City]]. Isolating a Dalek from the floor using a non-conductive material shut down the casing, although it was not immediately fatal to the [[Dalek mutant|occupant]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Daleks (TV story)|namedep=The Escape (3)}}) The Daleks initially overcame this weakness by adding dishes to their casing, at the back of the [[weapons platform]], to receive power, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)}}) although even these were ultimately replaced by vertical rectangular [[slat]]s around the midsection which absorbed other sources of power. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Chase (TV story)}}) | ||
Even quite late into their history, some Daleks originating on Skaro itself remained powered by [[static electricity]]: this was the case with the Daleks from the ship that crashed on [[Vulcan (The Power of the Daleks)|Vulcan]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Power of the Daleks (TV story)}}) although their home time postdated the [[Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|War of the Daleks (TV story)}}) Though by another account, these Daleks predated the [[2150s Dalek invasion of Earth]] and were some of the earliest to leave Skaro. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)}}) Even Daleks who did not visibly draw their power supply from static electricity retained some sort of association with it, as it was by involving static electricity in his experimental time machine that [[Theodore Maxtible]] accidentally summoned into his home Daleks who nevertheless could move freely along its wooden floors. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)}}) | Even quite late into their history, some Daleks originating on Skaro itself remained powered by [[static electricity]]: this was the case with the Daleks from the ship that crashed on [[Vulcan (The Power of the Daleks)|Vulcan]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Power of the Daleks (TV story)}}) although their home time postdated the [[Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|War of the Daleks (TV story)}}) Though by another account, these Daleks predated the [[2150s Dalek invasion of Earth]] and were some of the earliest to leave Skaro. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)}}) Even Daleks who did not visibly draw their power supply from static electricity retained some sort of association with it, as it was by involving static electricity in his experimental time machine that [[Theodore Maxtible]] accidentally summoned into his home Daleks who nevertheless could move freely along its wooden floors. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)}}) | ||
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=== Speech === | === Speech === | ||
[[File:Dalek Executioner 1.jpg|thumb|right|A [[Bronze Dalek]]'s luminosity dischargers light up as it speaks. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Eve of the Daleks (TV story)}})]] | [[File:Dalek Executioner 1.jpg|thumb|right|A [[Bronze Dalek]]'s luminosity dischargers light up as it speaks. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Eve of the Daleks (TV story)}})]] | ||
According to certain accounts, the Dalek creature had no visible vocal apparatus as such and their voices were electronic, as the [[ | According to certain accounts, the Dalek creature had no visible vocal apparatus as such and their voices were electronic, as the [[Dalek mutant|mutant]] inside could barely utter a squeak. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)}}, [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Jubilee (audio story)}}) In contradiction to these accounts, Daleks stripped of their casings were heard to speak in the familiar Dalek voice on several occasions, including but not limited to [[Dalek Caan]] after his casing had been ruined by exposure to the whole of time and space, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}}) a [[Black Dalek]] whose shell had been entirely consumed by the [[Kiseibya]], ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Enemy of the Daleks (audio story)}}) and a [[Reconnaissance Dalek|stranded Dalek reconnaissance scout]] who reached [[Earth]] in the [[9th century]] and was stripped of its casing by [[human]] warriors. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Resolution (TV story)}}) One incident showed that a human voice spoken from within a Dalek casing would gain the typical Dalek voice's metallic quality. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Daleks (TV story)}}) | ||
At any rate, Daleks spoke in high-pitched, stilted, robotic voices that were easy for others to mimic; ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)}}, {{cs|Dalek (TV story)}} et al.) their most infamous battle-cry was "EX-TER-MINATE!", each syllable screeched in a frantic-sounding, electronic scream (the last two syllables together). Other common utterances included "I (or "WE") OBEY!" to any command from a superior. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Destiny of the Daleks (TV story)}}, {{cs|Dalek (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Parting of the Ways (TV story)}} et al.) Daleks also had communicators built into their shells to emit an alarm to summon other Daleks if the casing was opened from outside. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Planet of the Daleks (TV story)}}) | At any rate, Daleks spoke in high-pitched, stilted, robotic voices that were easy for others to mimic; ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)}}, {{cs|Dalek (TV story)}} et al.) their most infamous battle-cry was "EX-TER-MINATE!", each syllable screeched in a frantic-sounding, electronic scream (the last two syllables together). Other common utterances included "I (or "WE") OBEY!" to any command from a superior. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Destiny of the Daleks (TV story)}}, {{cs|Dalek (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Parting of the Ways (TV story)}} et al.) Daleks also had communicators built into their shells to emit an alarm to summon other Daleks if the casing was opened from outside. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Planet of the Daleks (TV story)}}) | ||
