B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (283 page)

[
310
]
The Prisoner’s Dilemma
. This is presumably the same galactic recession mentioned in
Nightmare of Eden
.

[
311
] Dating
The Art of Destruction
(NSA #11) - The Doctor says it’s “the eleventh of April 2118”.

[
312
]
The Face-Eater
. The dates given in the book seem to contradict a number of other stories set around this time.

[
313
]
Tomb of Valdemar
. The Centauri are described as “multi-limbed” and having a “giant eye”, so these are almost certainly the same race as first seen in
The Curse of Peladon
.

[
314
]
Cold Fusion

[
315
] The space port has been open a hundred years before
The Year of Intelligent Tigers.

[
316
] Dating
Kursaal
(EDA #7) - It’s fifteen years after the Doctor and Sam’s first visit.

[
317
]
State of Decay
. No date is given. On screen, one computer monitor seems to suggest that the computer was programmed on “12/12/1998”, but the
Hydrax
is clearly an interstellar craft.
The TARDIS Logs
suggested a date in “the thirty-sixth century”,
The Terrestrial Index
placed it “at the beginning of the twenty second”.

[
318
]
Lucifer Rising
(p59, p272-273).

[
319
]
The Taking of Planet 5
(p15).

[
320
]
Spiral Scratch

[
321
] Dating
The Face-Eater
(EDA #18) - The date is given (p126).

[
322
]
St Anthony’s Fire

[
323
]
The Taint

[
324
]
The Face-Eater

[
325
] Dating
The Space Pirates
(6.6) - A monitor readout in episode two suggests that the year is “1992”, but this contradicts dialogue stating that prospectors have been in deep space for “fifty years”. No other date is given on screen. The
Radio Times
said that the story takes place in “the far future”. Earth is mentioned once in the first episode, but after that only a “homeworld” is referred to. The force here is specified as the Interstellar Space Corps. The regulatory actions of the government suggest that space travel is becoming more common now, but is still at an early stage.

As Zoe is unfamiliar with the technology of this story, it is almost certainly set after her time. The Main Boost Drive is not very advanced, and this story almost certainly takes place well before
Frontier in Space
, where hyperdrive technology is common. At the start of the story, the V41-LO is both “fifty days” and “fifty billion miles” from Earth - it seems reasonable to assume that writer Robert Holmes meant “billion” in the British sense of a million million, rather than the American (and now generally accepted British) thousand million. If this is the case, then the Beacon is 8.3 light years from Earth (otherwise it is a thousandth of this distance, and only just outside the solar system).

The Programme Guide
set the story “c.2600”.
The Terrestrial Index
suggested it was “during the Empire” period.
The TARDIS Logs
claimed a date of “8751”.
Timelink
suggested “2146”,
About Time
“2135ish”.

[
326
] The Issigri Mining Company appears in
The Space Pirates
. Another company with the same initials, the Interplanetary Mining Company, is seen in
Colony in Space
. In the Missing Adventure
The Menagerie
, we learn that they are the same company (p161). The change of name must have occurred before
Lucifer Rising
, when we see IMC in action.

[
327
]
Lucifer Rising.
The evil polluting company in the television version of
The Green Death
is called “Global Chemicals”. A real company of that name objected, and the name was changed in the novelisation to “Panorama Chemicals”.

[
328
]
Fear Itself
(PDA)

[
329
]
Benny: Another Girl, Another Planet
. Aragonite was mentioned in
The Space Pirates
.

[
330
]
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
(p203-204).

[
331
]
Heritage
(p198).

[
332
]
Leviathan

[
333
] Dating
The Murder Game
(PDA #2) - The date is given (p12).

[
334
]
Lucifer Rising
(p158).

[
335
]
Parasite

[
336
] Dating “The Daleks: The Terrorkon Harvest” (
TV21
#70-75) - There’s no indication how long after “Impasse” this
TV Century 21
Dalek story is set, allowing the first significant gap in the narrative. The next story, “Legacy of Yesteryear”, is set “centuries” after the first (which seems to be set in 1763 AD). The novel
GodEngine
notes that the Daleks became concerned with Earth ten years before they invade, and that’s exactly what we see happening in these strips, so the novel has been used to establish the dating of these stories. This block of stories ends with the Daleks discovering Earth of the future and gearing up to invade - clearly a reference to
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
.

[
337
] Dating “The Daleks: Legacy of Yesteryear” (
TV21
#76-85) - It is “centuries” since the original Daleks were frozen - and that happened the day of the meteorite strike that set off the neutron bomb (seen in “Genesis of Evil”). The Daleks remember Yarvelling and his inventions. So there are “centuries” between “Impasse” and “The Terrorkon Harvest”.

[
338
] Dating “The Daleks: Shadow of Humanity” (
TV21
#86-89) - There is no indication how long it has been since “Legacy of Yesteryear”. The Emperor now knows about “human beings”, although it’s unclear when he heard the name - perhaps fragments of evidence were discovered in the wreckage of Lodian’s ship after the previous story. The following stories all seem to take place without lengthy gaps between them.

[
339
] Dating “The Daleks: The Emissaries of Jevo” (
TV21
#90-95) - At the end of the story, the Emperor praises Kirid’s “human spirit”, and before that Kirid seems to call himself “human”, although he looks more like a humanoid alien (he has forehead ridges, like a Klingon). Given that the next story features a spaceship from Earth, we are now definitely in the future.

[
340
] Dating “The Daleks: The Road to Conflict” (
TV21
#96-104) - The story is set soon after “The Emissaries of Jevo”. There’s no date given, but this story features an interstellar human passenger spacecraft, and the people have never heard of the Daleks. So this is set before
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
, almost certainly in the first half of the twenty-second century, which fits in with later televised stories such as
Nightmare of Eden
.

[
341
] Dating “The Daleks: Return of the Elders” (
DWM
#249-254) - This was a sequel to the
TV Century 21
strip. It is set straight after “The Road to Conflict”. The Daleks attack the solar system, but it ends in failure. The Emperor vows to succeed next time - and that is almost certainly what happens, as we discover in
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
.

[
342
] “10.6 human years” and “about ten years” before
GodEngine
(p107, p168).

[
343
]
Frontier Worlds

[
344
] Dating
St Anthony’s Fire
(NA #31) - The Doctor tells Bernice that the year is “2148” (p39).

[
345
] “Five years” before
GodEngine
(p15, p98, p193).

[
346
]
GodEngine

[
347
]
Cold Fusion

[
348
]
Autonomy

[
349
] Dating “The Grief” (
DWM
#185-187) - The date isn’t specified. CHEX is an agency of the Sol Government; it has energy weapons and genetic fabrication units. The story appears to be set early in humanity’s exploration efforts.

[
350
]
Killing Ground
(p15).

[
351
]
Benny: Another Girl, Another Planet

[
352
]
Excelis Decays

[
353
]
GodEngine
(p18).

[
354
] “One hundred fifty years” after
Zygon: When Being You Isn’t Enough.

[
355
] “A year” before
GodEngine.

[
356
]
Lucifer Rising
,
GodEngine

[
357
] Dating
Lucifer Rising
(NA #14) - The story takes place in the mid-twenty-second century, shortly before the Dalek Invasion of Earth. The Adjudicators’ simularity registers the Doctor’s arrival as “19/11/2154” (p30), Paula Engado’s death as “22/2/2154” (p174) and her wake as “23/2/2154” (p13). Ace and Benny had expressed the desire to “pop back to the year 2154 or so” (p338), so at first sight it might appear that the story is set
in
2154. However, this is inconsistent with the Dalek Invasion, which the authors of
Lucifer Rising
place in “2158” (p337). On p195, there’s mention of a raid “in Tokyo in fifty-six”. The story is here placed in 2157, consistent with this chronology’s dating for the Dalek Invasion.

[
358
]
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
, with the date established in
The Daleks’ Master Plan.

[
359
] According to the Doctor in
The Dalek Invasion of Earth.

The Middle Period of Dalek History

Taking the Doctor’s analysis at face value, the Middle Period of Dalek history might be the time when their power is at its zenith - they are technologically advanced, expansionist and feared. In the words of the Doctor in
Death to the Daleks
, they are “one of the greatest powers in the universe”.