B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (287 page)

[
473
]
The Highest Science
(p17).

[
474
]
Strange England
(p7).

[
475
] “Seventy years” after
GodEngine.

[
476
] Dating
SLEEPY
(NA #48) - While investigating the Dione-Kisanu Corporation in 2257, the Doctor sends Roz and Bernice back “thirty years”, to “2227”.

[
477
] Dating
Frayed
(TEL #11) - No date is given, but as children are screened for psychic abilities, and this is an early colony world, it ties in with information given in
SLEEPY
. The oldest child is 12, perhaps suggesting the colony has been established that long.

[
478
]
Rain of Terror
. This is twice implied as happening “centuries” ago. The Doctor suggests that it was “millions of years” (p381) ago, although it’s not evident how he comes to that conclusion.

[
479
] “A hundred and fifty years” before
The Dimension Riders
(p61).

[
480
] “A hundred and fifty years” before
The Romance of Crime
(p8). There’s another Great Breakout in the year 5000, according to
The Invisible Enemy
. Uva Beta Five was re-named “New Earth”, but is not the planet of the same name in
Time of Your Life
or
New Earth
.

[
481
] Dating “Spider-God” (
DWM
#52) - No date is given, but it seems to be the early colonial period. It is twenty years since Frederic joined the survey corps, and three years since the
Excelsior
left Earth. The Earthmen have a hover car “scouter” and energy weapons.

[
482
]
Benny: The Sword of Forever
(p40).

[
483
] Dating
Memory Lane
(BF #88) - It is two hundred twenty-seven years and some months after Kim and Tom departed Earth, an event that occurs near the modern day.

[
484
]
SLEEPY

[
485
] “Profits of Doom”. It’s “eight decades” before 2321.

[
486
] At least “a century” - or four termite generations - before
Valhalla
.

[
487
] The “mid-twenty-third century at least”, according to Benny in
Benny: Epoch: Private Enemy No. 1
.

[
488
]
Lords of the Storm

[
489
]
The Leisure Hive

[
490
]
Placebo Effect

[
491
] Dating
The Game of Death
(
DL
#6) - No year is given. The dating clues are somewhat fleeting... the Mars-Centauri Grand Prix is mentioned (and treated as a contemporary event), and it’s said that General Augustus Korch fought in “the last” Dalek War, and was instrumental in securing the release of the infamous Aurora hostages. (This is sometimes confused with the “Auros” incident from
Prisoner of the Daleks
- also by Trevor Baxendale - but Korch didn’t appear in that book, and the two events are very different in detail.)

The TARDIS data bank cites that the Silver Devastation was created “one hundred billion years ago” - a comment unlikely to have any relation to this story, as
Utopia
takes place in 100,000,000,000,000, and the state of humanity there is in no way similar to what’s seen in
The Game of Death
. It’s unlikely that the Nocturns are moving their victims through time to this era: time travel isn’t mentioned (save for TARDIS and the Agent pursuing it), and such a feat - given the Doctor’s claim in
Utopia
that even the Time Lords didn’t venture out as far as the year 100,000,000,000 - would represent an enormous exertion of power for the comparatively frivolous purpose of killing a few people in a habitat dome. It’s an arbitrary guess, but this story feels like it takes place during mankind’s early colonial era - say, in the 2200s. The story continues in
The Planet of Oblivion
.

[
492
] Dating
SLEEPY
(NA #48) - The Doctor states it is “2257” (p29).

[
493
]
Benny: Genius Loci
. It’s some “centuries” (p71) prior to 2561, so this must be the early phase of humanity’s colonial period, even though Pinky and Perky are far advanced from the technology generally available at this time.

[
494
] Dating
The Daleks
(1.2) - No date is given in the story, but the Doctor says in
The
Edge of Destruction
that “Skaro was in the future”. In
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
, the Doctor tells Ian that the first Dalek story occurred “a million years ahead of us in the future” and the twenty-second century is part of the “middle of the history of the Daleks”. Where he acquires this information is unclear - he had not even heard of the Daleks when he first met them (whereas the Monk knows of them in
The Daleks’ Master Plan
and
The Five Doctors
reveals that the Time Lords’ ancestors forbid the use of the Daleks in their Games).

However, the Thals in
Planet of the Daleks
[2540] have legends of events in
The Daleks
as being from “generations ago”.

In the original storyline for
The Survivors
(as the first story was provisionally titled), the date was given as “the year 3000”, with the war having occurred two thousand years before. A revised synopsis dated 30th July, 1963, gave the date as “the twenty-third century”.

The Terrestrial Index
and
The Official Doctor Who & the Daleks Book
both suggested that the Daleks from this story were “new Daleks” created by “crippled Kaled survivors”, and that the story is set just after
Genesis of the Daleks
- this is presumably meant to explain the Dal/Kaled question and also helps tie the Dalek history into the
TV Century 21
comic strip, although there is no evidence for it on screen.
The TARDIS Logs
dated the story as “2290 AD”. The American
Doctor Who
comic suggested a date of “300 AD”, on the grounds that the Daleks do not seem to have developed space travel. The FASA Role-playing Game dated the story as “5 BC”. “Matrix Databank” in
DWM
#73 suggested that
The Daleks
takes place after
The Evil of the Daleks
and that the Daleks seen here are the last vestiges of a once-great race. This ties in with
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
, but contradicts
Planet of the Daleks
.

Timelink
suggests 900. The Virgin version of
Ahistory
speculated that the Doctor had returned Ian and Barbara to 1963, but on the wrong side of the galaxy. If it was set at the time of broadcast, it would be a couple of months after they left London, so - stretching a little - it qualifies as “the future”.

The main problem is that, whenever it’s set, we have to reconcile the Daleks seen in first Dalek story - stuck in their city unaware of any life beyond it who are all killed - with the Daleks as galactic conquerors seen in all subsequent stories. We have to postulate (without any evidence from the series) that a faction of Daleks left Skaro at some point between becoming confined to their travel machines and the Neutronic War and they subsequently lost contact with Skaro. This faction of Daleks had a powerful space fleet (
Lucifer Rising
) invaded the Earth (
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
) and the rest of the solar system (
GodEngine
), and fought the Mechanoids (
The Chase
). They developed internal power supplies and (at some point after
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
) the “slatted” design, rather than the “banded” one seen in the first two stories. Following this - possibly licking their wounds following their defeat in
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
- the survivors of this faction returned to their home planet. They would have discovered a city full of dead Daleks - and perhaps the Doctor’s role in their cousins’ defeat.

While unsupported by evidence from the show, and a little awkward, it fits in with the facts we learn at the end of
The Space Museum
and
The Chase
- the Daleks now live on Skaro, their influence stretches across time and space, they have limited knowledge of the Doctor, advanced science and a desire for revenge specifically against the Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan.

[
495
]
The Gallifrey Chronicles

Last Contact

It’s not recorded when the Daleks discover key facts about the Doctor. By
The Chase
, they can recognise the TARDIS (which they didn’t see in the two TV stories up to that point, as it was either deep in the petrified forest or buried by rubble), and they also know the Doctor can travel in time. In
The Chase
, the Daleks refer to “The Doctor and these three humans”, which might imply that they don’t think the Doctor is human. Except that one of the other three is his granddaughter Susan, and later in the story they
do
refer to the Doctor as “human”. In
The Chase
, it doesn’t even occur to them that Susan might have left, so it’s unlikely they’ve got records of other incarnations of the Doctor or companions. They think he’s “more than human” (by virtue of his being a time traveller) in
The Evil of the Daleks
, and Chen claims that the Doctor was from “another galaxy” in
The Daleks’ Master Plan
. When the Daleks deal with the Monk and the Master, they don’t ever make the connection on screen that they are from the same planet as the Doctor.

Contrast all of this with
Resurrection of the Daleks
, where they refer (for the first time) to the Doctor as a Time Lord and identify his home planet as Gallifrey.

On the other hand, the Time Lords certainly know of the Daleks - they’re referred to in the Doctor’s trial in
The War Games
, plus the Time Lords send the Doctor on missions against them in
Planet of the Daleks
and
Genesis of the Daleks
. The Monk and the Master also know about the Daleks. In the time of Rassilon, the Daleks were banned from the Games of Death on Gallifrey, so the Gallifreyans then knew of the Daleks, but there’s no evidence that the two races made contact. There’s another continuity problem here - why is it that the Doctor and Susan
don’t
know about the Daleks before they meet them in
The Daleks
? It’s a particular problem because by
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
, the Doctor seems au fait with their complete history. It’s possible, as with so much history of that period, that the modern Time Lords had long lost or filed away their knowledge of the Daleks.

We hear the Daleks and Time Lords have all but wiped each other out in
Dalek
and
The Parting of the Ways
.

[
496
] In
The Space Museum
, the Moroks have a Dalek specimen from “Planet Skaro”, one with horizontal bands rather than vertical slats. It seems likely that the Moroks raid Skaro at some undisclosed time around
The Daleks
. It’s unlikely it was before, as it’s implied that the Daleks have no knowledge of life on other planets. Although this in turn contradicts
Genesis of the Daleks,
in which both Davros and the Dalek leader express a wish to conquer other worlds once they know the Doctor is an alien.