B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (305 page)

[
1065
] “Five hundred years” before
Snakedance
.

[
1066
]
Original Sin

[
1067
]
The Also People
adds that Roz’s clan name is “Inyathi”, which means buffalo.

Roz Forrester

A discussion document about Roz and Cwej prepared by Andy Lane for the New Adventures authors said that Roz was born in 2935. No date is given in the books themselves, and the collective evidence suggests that Roz is born a little later than that. Roz meets the Doctor in
Original Sin
(set in 2975), three years (
Original Sin
, p211) after the death of her treacherous mentor, Fenn Martle. She spent fifteen years squired to Martle, and prior to that spent five years with an offworld Adjudicator, which was preceded by two years of training on Ponten IV (
Original Sin
, p127). In
Benny: Oblivion
, Martle is “29, nine years older than Roz”. At this point, Roz has been squired to him for a year (p8). In
So Vile a Sin
(p127), Roz says she was an Adjudicator for “twenty-three years” (p293). She’s variously said to have “thirty years’ experience as an enforcer” in
Zamper
(p184), “twenty-five years on the streets” in
The Also People
(p46), and to have been an Adjudicator for “over twenty years” in
Just War
(p184). She’s cited as being “Class of 2955” in
GodEngine
(p175).

Presuming the “twenty-three years” remark should be accepted (because it’s the most specific) as marking the end of Roz’s tenure with the Adjudicators in
Original Sin
, and doesn’t count the training she received on Ponten IV, a composite of Roz’s life can be rendered... she’s born in either 2937 or 2938, she goes to train on Ponten IV at about age 12 (circa 2950), she trains for five years with the offworld Adjudicator (circa 2952-2957), but “graduates” in 2955 (an event that, depending upon the training/coursework involved, might occur in the middle of her offworld training). She’s squired to Martle at age 19 (circa 2957), Martle dies in 2972 and
Original Sin
occurs in 2975. All of which matches the New Adventures’ continual (if somewhat vague) portrayal of Roz as someone who’s closer to 40 than 30.

[
1068
] “A thousand years” before
The Blue Angel
, according to
Iris: Enter Wildthyme
.

[
1069
] “Some” Mendeb years before
Independence Day
.

[
1070
]
Original Sin
(p127).

[
1071
] Dating
Independence Day
(PDA #36) - It’s “four hundred years” after the Galactic Wars (p22), which would place it in the mid-thirtieth century.

[
1072
] Dating
Master
(BF #49) - Perfugium is a colony, part of a human empire ruled by an Empress, where Adjudicators enforce the law; so the story is set during the Earth Empire period.

[
1073
] According to Andy Lane’s discussion document about Roz and Cwej, and confirmed in
Head Games
(p205). The month and day is given in
The Room with No Doors
(p20).

[
1074
]
Original Sin
(p32, p219).

[
1075
]
Benny: Oblivion

[
1076
] This takes the Doctor’s remark to the Black Dalek in
Remembrance of the Daleks
that the Daleks are “a thousand years” from home literally, although it’s fairly clear the statement is rhetorical.

[
1077
]
Dating The Space Museum
(2.7) - There’s no date given in the story itself. However, it must fall somewhere before the collapse of the Morok Empire in Roz’s time (mentioned in
The Death of Art
), and after the Moroks capture a “banded” Dalek (ie: one with the “bands” seen in
The Daleks
and
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
, not the “slatted” ones seen in all subsequent appearances). This date is arbitrary.

[
1078
]
The Death of Art

[
1079
] Within living memory of “Children of the Revolution”, but presumably before
The Evil of the Daleks
.

[
1080
] Dating
The Evil of the Daleks
(4.9) - There is no date given for the Skaro sequences in the scripts.
About Time
and
Timelink
note that Maxtible says he and Victoria have undertaken a “journey through space” to get from Victorian England to Skaro, possibly indicating that the Skaro sequences are set in 1866. However, Waterfield calls the device used to get to Skaro a “time machine” and the story is based around the idea that humans have always beaten the Daleks in the long run - something that’s not yet the case in the nineteenth century. The Doctor murmurs that this is “the final end” of the Daleks, and some fans have taken this statement at face value when they come to date the story. However, a line cut from the camera script of
Day of the Daleks
stated that the Daleks survived the civil war and that the human-ised Daleks were defeated. The surviving telesnaps are indeterminate - at the very end of the story, a Dalek has a bit of a lifeglow, but that could just be part and parcel of the carnage around it, not an indicator from the production team that perhaps the Daleks aren’t entirely finished after all.

The Doctor knows his way into and around the Dalek city. The only previous time we’ve seen him on Skaro was in
The Daleks
, and the city is destroyed here - clearly indicating that
The Daleks
is set before
The Evil of the Daleks
. In
Mission to the Unknown
, Cory states that the Daleks have not been active in Earth’s galaxy “for a thousand years” (so, from 3000-4000), but also says that they’ve conquered one hundred and ten planets elsewhere “in the last five hundred years”, so
The Evil of the Daleks
is apparently not set between 3000 and 4000. As the Doctor sees the Daleks active in the year 4000, logically he wouldn’t think this was “the final end” of the Daleks unless he thought it was set after that date.

Taking what we’re told at face value, this story has to be set before the destruction of Skaro in
Remembrance of the Daleks
. If Skaro wasn’t really destroyed, as
War of the Daleks
states - and
Doctor Who - The Movie
and the new series imply - that needn’t be a problem. However,
Destiny of the Daleks
seems to be set in the ruins of the Dalek city (built over the Kaled Bunker seen in
Genesis of the Daleks
). Again, the Doctor knows his way around.
The Evil of the Daleks
would seem to be set before
Destiny of the Daleks
(and so, therefore, the rest of the Davros Era, including
Remembrance of the Daleks
).

The Terrestrial Index
set
The Evil of the Daleks
“a century or so” after
The Daleks’ Master Plan
. John Peel and Terry Nation “agreed that
The Evil of the Daleks
was the final story” (
The Frame
#7), but did so before
Remembrance of the Daleks
was written. Peel’s novelisation of
The Evil of the Daleks
is set around the year 5000. “A History of the Daleks” in
DWM
#77 claimed that
The Evil of the Daleks
is set around “7500 AD”.
Timelink
suggests “4066”.
About Time
equivocates, but says it’s after
The Daleks’ Master Plan
.

In
Matrix
#45, Mark Jones suggested that the Hand of Omega is sent into Davros’ future, thousands of years after Dalek History ends.

We suggest that the civil war in
The Evil of the Daleks
is not the “final end” of the Daleks, but it does represent a severe defeat, one that removes them from the Milky Way for five hundred years (as referred to in
Mission to the Unknown
). The Doctor might be referring to the “final end” of the Dalek city, the Daleks’ presence on Skaro, or the reign of the Dalek Emperor. Or he may just be optimistic (he also thinks he’s finally wiped out the Daleks in
The Daleks
,
Remembrance of the Daleks
,
Dalek
and
The Parting of the Ways
, after all).

[
1081
] Dating “Bringer of Darkness” (
DWM Summer Special 1993
) - It’s shortly after
The Evil of the Daleks.

[
1082
] “Children of the Revolution”

[
1083
]
Carnival of Monsters
, “a thousand years” after Jo’s time.

[
1084
]
So Vile a Sin
(p10, p182).

[
1085
]
The Also People
(p101).

[
1086
]
Eternity Weeps

[
1087
]
Happy Endings

[
1088
] Dating
Original Sin
(NA #39) - The Doctor tells us that this is the “thirtieth century” (p23). Although we are told at one point that “2955” was “four years” ago (p86), the year appears to be 2975 - this ties in with the birthdates established for Cwej and Forrester in Andy Lane’s discussion document, and the fact that Cwej’s father graduated “seventy years” before, in “oh-five”.

[
1089
]
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
(p17).

[
1090
]
So Vile a Sin
, with Roz declared dead “six” years beforehand. The
Decalog 4
anthology covers the history of the Forrester family; Thandiwe appears in the short story “Dependence Day”.

[
1091
]
Hope

[
1092
] Dating
So Vile a Sin
(NA #56) - The date is given (p25).

[
1093
]
So Vile a Sin
(p33). An elephant is seen in the far future in
The Ark
. Leabie surely misspeaks in claiming that elephants have been “extinct for almost two millennia”.

[
1094
]
Return of the Krotons

[
1095
]
Terror of the Vervoids

[
1096
]
Instruments of Darkness

[
1097
] Dating
Terror of the Vervoids
(23.3) - The Doctor tells the court that this is “Earth year 2986”. A monitor readout suggests it is “April 16”.

[
1098
]
The Mutants