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::It's pretty well established that even many people from the early/mid 21st century--from Zoe Heriot to Henry van Statten--didn't know about the Daleks. If this does get explained away, it seems likely that people from farther in the future wouldn't know about those events either. | ::It's pretty well established that even many people from the early/mid 21st century--from Zoe Heriot to Henry van Statten--didn't know about the Daleks. If this does get explained away, it seems likely that people from farther in the future wouldn't know about those events either. | ||
::The history of the Daleks is a continuity nightmare. As far as I can tell, there are at least four lines of continuity: 1) From ''The Daleks'' to ''Evil of the Daleks''; 2) From ''Genesis'' to ''Remembrance''; 3) From ''Dalek'' to ''Victory''; and a completely new line for with ''Pandorica''. And even these are confused. For example, the Tenth Doctor references ''Invasion'' in the third line. | ::The history of the Daleks is a continuity nightmare. As far as I can tell, there are at least four lines of continuity: 1) From ''The Daleks'' to ''Evil of the Daleks''; 2) From ''Genesis'' to ''Remembrance''; 3) From ''Dalek'' to ''Victory''; and a completely new line for with ''Pandorica''. And even these are confused. For example, the Tenth Doctor references ''Invasion'' in the third line. | ||
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::Following up on the first answer given above, time in the Whoniverse is two-dimensional; ''Power'' may be after ''Doomsday'' along the fourth dimension, but it's clearly before it along the fifth. To limited species like humans who only sense 4 (or 3.5) dimensions, anything which is later on either time dimension is unknown. | |||
* IIRC, Ben says the Doctor was always going on about Daleks before regenerating. But didn't we see mostly every moment of their time together before this, with no mention of Daleks? The War Machines went directly into the Smugglers went directly into the Tenth Planet, right. Apologies if I've gotten show/novelization mixed up. | * IIRC, Ben says the Doctor was always going on about Daleks before regenerating. But didn't we see mostly every moment of their time together before this, with no mention of Daleks? The War Machines went directly into the Smugglers went directly into the Tenth Planet, right. Apologies if I've gotten show/novelization mixed up. | ||
::I suppose the Doctor must have made off-screen references to the Daleks. | ::I suppose the Doctor must have made off-screen references to the Daleks. | ||
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::We didn't see every moment. For example, ''The Smugglers'' takes place over far more than 100 minutes of in-universe time. | |||
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