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We've seen other TARDISes than those in ''The Chase''. In ''Rememberance of the Daleks'', that creepy little girl had some kind of Dalek time travel sphere that Ace's boyfriend from that episode stole, and in ''Day of the Daleks'', the human guerillas made a time machine based on stolen Dalek plans. Anyway, despite any similarities between the designs, I doubt that the Silence used Dalek technology for their time ships. If for no other reason, I can't see the Silence manipulating the Daleks as easily as they did the humans. It wouldn't exactly take mass-hypnosis to cause the Daleks to shoot any Silence they see on sight.[[User:Icecreamdif|Icecreamdif]] <sup>[[User talk:Icecreamdif|talk to me]]</sup> 03:26, December 20, 2011 (UTC) | We've seen other TARDISes than those in ''The Chase''. In ''Rememberance of the Daleks'', that creepy little girl had some kind of Dalek time travel sphere that Ace's boyfriend from that episode stole, and in ''Day of the Daleks'', the human guerillas made a time machine based on stolen Dalek plans. Anyway, despite any similarities between the designs, I doubt that the Silence used Dalek technology for their time ships. If for no other reason, I can't see the Silence manipulating the Daleks as easily as they did the humans. It wouldn't exactly take mass-hypnosis to cause the Daleks to shoot any Silence they see on sight.[[User:Icecreamdif|Icecreamdif]] <sup>[[User talk:Icecreamdif|talk to me]]</sup> 03:26, December 20, 2011 (UTC) | ||
The time controller in ''Rememberance of the Daleks'' didn't work the same way as the TARDIS and that was a major plot point -- the reason the Daleks wanted to get hold of the Hand of Omega. (See the Doctor's explanation to Ace, while sitting on the stairs in the school.) My point was that the Daleks have been shown using '''ships ('''rather than other devices) for time travel only rarely. In the revived series, those ships have been their normal spaceships. The only time the Daleks were shown using something resembling a TARDIS was in ''The Chase''. That thing was even dimensionally transcendent, which their spaceships are not. Mind you, the Silence ships don't seem to be dimensionally transcendent, either. | |||
There's an unanswered question about '''why '''the Daleks only ever built one dimensionally transcendent timeship. Yes, they lost that one (and Barbara and Ian, with the Doctor's help, used it to get home, then destroyed it) but the Daleks ought to have been able to build others. I've sometimes wondered if the Time Lords found out about that one and intervened in the Daleks timeline to remove their knowledge of the technology involved -- perhaps a topic for discussion elsewhere on this site but not directly relevant here. | |||
The Silence certainly would have difficulty manipulating the Daleks and the Daleks wouldn't need much encouragement to exterminate the Silence on sight. As I said earlier (though I admit I used understatement), if the Silence tried it and the Daleks found out, the Daleks would react with serious hostility. Nevertheless, the Doctor obviously believed the the Daleks had useful knowledge about the Silence, which at least suggests some kind of contact between them. It might, of course, be indirect contact. It's very unlikely to have been friendly contact; the Daleks aren't the friendly type. But contact there must have been and that hemispherical "connection point" '''does '''look rather Dalek. --[[Special:Contributions/89.242.72.248|89.242.72.248]] 09:28, December 20, 2011 (UTC) | |||
