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[chasedalek]

Dalek Sec

as seen in “Daleks in Manhattan” (S3x4)

Name : Dalek Sec

Other Aliases : Human-Dalek, The Final Experiment

First Appearance : Army of Ghosts (S2x12)

Latest Appearance : Evolution of the Daleks (S3x5)

Place of Origin : Skaro

Dalek Sec was the Leader of the Cult of Skaro. He is distingushable from his subordinants as he had a Black casing instead of the typical bronze one. This casing is made of black Metalert which is a type of Dalekanium that defensively is stronger than the basic Dalekanium. He was originally a Bronze Dalek who led the Seventh Incursion Squad as their Dalek Commander. After a sucessful mission consisting of wiping out the Mechonoids of Megalla, the Emperor summoned Sec and gave him the role of the leader of the Cult of Skaro along with his name.

Dalek Sec was the Dalek commander during the battle of Canary Wharf, he along with the rest of the Cult opened the Genesis Ark released the Dalek Army. When the Doctor opened the void sucking in both the Cybermen and the Daleks the Cult used an emergency temporal shift to escape. The Cult ended up in 1930 New York City where they set up base under the Empire State Building. It was here they tried to revive the Dalek race through new Dalek mutants but were unsucessful time and time again. Dalek Sec decided that he would become the Final Experiment, he then consumed Mr Diagoras' being and "evolved" into his Human-Dalek hybrid form. In this new form Dalek Sec experienced humanity, these new emotions led him to believe that perhaps Davros was wrong and that continuing to strive to be superior would bring the end of the Daleks. He decided to try and create a new race of Dalek Humans that would not follow the traditional Dalek beliefs even though his subordinates were not pleased with this idea. The rest of the Cult of Skaro betrayed and captured Sec as they believed he has no control over them anymore due to not being a "pure-blooded" Dalek. Dalek Sec perished saving the Doctor from being exterminated shortly after stating his belief that if the Daleks choose death they themselves will be destroyed.

[madmarkinabox]

Season 2

The Chase

The Daleks have built their own time and space machine, and their first order of business? Revenge: pursuing the TARDIS through time and space until they succeed in exterminating the travellers. Can the Doctor shake them off or will the Daleks' persistence win out?

The Chase is one I've heard a good few things about but never really had the chance to see until now. And it is truly strange. This is more like what I think The Keys of Marinus should have been: a wild adventure hopping from place to place with each episode, but while the Voort were more or less forgotten until the finale, the constant presence and threat of the Daleks here help to form a truly cohesive narrative. We meet the aquatic Aridians (who sound and act a lot like the Menoptra) on their dried out world, classic horror monsters, giant man-eating mushrooms and even some rivals for the Daleks in the form of the Mechonoids.

Top this off with some unusual humour - a Dalek coughing as it rises from the sand on Aridius, one exploding at another to effectively hurry up, the sheer surrealness of Daleks being attacked by Dracula and Frankenstein, and the Dalek who struggles to count - further development of the Daleks' mannerisms (more "exterminates", the introduction of "I obey"), a large-feeling (for the time), noisy battle between the Daleks and Mechonoids, some classically dodgy rubbery effects (looking at you, Mire Beast), ATROCIOUS American accents in a brief stop in New York, and the sudden emotionally fraught departure of Ian and Barbara, and you've got one hell of a crazy adventure. Ultimately? Yeah, I liked it! It's silly but fun. Turn off your brain, don't think about it too hard, just enjoy it.

Next time: we meet The Time Meddler.

[dwimpossblog]

The Time Meddler

The TARDIS lands in 1066, just before the Norman Invasion, where the time travellers are being watched by a mysterious monk...The Time Meddler is this week's #TBT! #DoctorWho #DrWho #TheTimeMeddler #Hartnell #Blog #Review #ClassicDoctorWho #ClassicWho #FirstDoctor

That is the dematerialising control, and that, over yonder, is the horizontal hold. Up there is the scanner; those are the doors; that is a chair with a panda on it. Sheer poetry, dear boy! Now please stop bothering me.The First Doctor Synopsis The Doctor and Vicki are surprised to discover a stow-away aboard the TARDIS and welcome Steven Taylor, who survived the destruction of the Mechonoid…

[demigodofhoolemere]

Alright, here’s where I come in to campaign for my best guy.

I feel like in a lot of these DW polls, characters from the modern series overwhelmingly dominate the classic characters because a lot of people who haven’t seen the classic run just vote for who they recognize. Steven, who seems to be widely well-loved among the Classic Who fandom, had a pretty darn close fight in the first round with Nardole, who I tend to see receiving some pretty mixed opinions, so I’m fairly sure it’s not just that y’all love Nardole that much (I personally like him, but that’s not the point).

If you have not watched Steven’s time on the show, please let me introduce you to a wonderful character.

Steven Taylor is a space pilot from around the 24th century. We meet him on the planet Mechanus, where he had a crash landing and has been imprisoned for two whole years by robots that have been keeping him locked up like a specimen in a zoo. This man has gone TWO YEARS with no human company, only a stuffed panda (his mascot, Hi-Fi 🐼) and the Mechonoids outside. He’s clearly been isolated far too long when we meet him, noticeably a little loopy in some moments, but has generally kept his sanity remarkably well and is absolutely thrilled to finally see fellow human beings again.

Fun fact: Steven is part of the club of a rare few characters in the show’s history who see the inside of the TARDIS before properly seeing the outside. He technically did see the exterior, but in a haze amidst a lot of chaos where he wasn’t really registering it (and promptly passed out), and was first properly aware of his surroundings when already inside — so rather than the ‘it’s bigger on the inside’ moment, he instead gets to laugh at fellow companion Vicki for trying to convince him that it’s much smaller outside.

His first outing as a traveler in the TARDIS is a fantastic story that includes a great little arc for him as he learns about the reality of time travel and also adjusts to interacting with people again. Steven is initially quite cynical about everything, not fully believing that they’ve really traveled in time, and gives the Doctor and especially Vicki a fair bit of grief over it. This includes one of the funniest moments in the show’s 60 years, imo:

Steven starts out having a hard time playing with others, getting into disagreements with Vicki and the Doctor as well as the local villagers. There’s an interesting shift over the course of the story as he has to learn to work with Vicki, trust and go along with what she and the Doctor say, and, in one of my favorite moments, humble himself and meet the villagers at their level. After having gotten into a pretty heated argument with some of them earlier, he is later faced with the leaders wishing him and Vicki well in their travels, offering kind ‘God be with you’s. Steven stops for a moment, having a very hard time saying thank you but seemingly cut to the core by their kindness and Vicki’s gentle prompting, and finally brings himself to thank them and reply with a ‘God be with you’ of his own. I consider this a defining moment for the character that informs his characterization from this point forward. It’s from this moment on that he is able to return to who he once was before his isolation, and truly work well with people again. Steven will always maintain his sarcasm and a certain level of cynicism, but they are now positive traits rather than negative ones, and at his core he is ultimately a good, humble man who cares for others.

From here on out he’s actually a wonderfully friendly man — which is one of the first things I think of him as, making his first story all the more interesting upon a rewatch because you can see even more how damaged he was at the beginning.

Steven quickly proves himself a very loyal person, willing to go the distance for his friends and often putting himself in harm’s way for them, from traveling to Troy with the intention of being captured so he could break Vicki out from inside to offering to make the last move against the Toymaker so that the Doctor and Dodo could get away. He is noble and upstanding to the last, always considering the welfare of anyone around him, including those who may not deserve it. He has a strong distaste for anything unfair, and one of my favorite traits of his is how baffled he is by inequality or prejudice of any kind. We see multiple times in the show and his audios that he just cannot fathom why anyone would make judgments based on ridiculous things like appearances. (In the audio An Ordinary Life he gets to punch a racist, it’s great).

Steven is grounded, honest, and trustworthy, caring very deeply for others. While he can come off as aggressive or argumentative, he's actually very friendly, kind, and genuine, and willing to hear other options. Where he does get argumentative, it is because he is absolutely just and has a strong sense of right and wrong, willing to butt heads with anyone including the Doctor if he feels that something is wrong. Over time he becomes more and more cautious, and by the time Dodo is traveling with them, he’s the picture of a protective older brother who will take care of his newfound little sister at all costs, especially after everything he’s lost up to that point. In case anyone doesn’t know, I won’t detail exactly what those losses are, but… oh boy. It’s a wonder this man is even standing after seeing the things he’s seen.

He seems to have a reputation for being angry and impatient, but as far as I’m concerned, the dude honestly has the patience of a saint considering everything he goes through. As if being isolated from all human contact for two years wasn’t enough, literally every single story after his first outing continues to pile on the pain in some way or another. Steven nearly dies of oxygen deprivation, nearly dies again when he’s stabbed with a sword and starts bleeding out and losing consciousness, suffers an absolutely OUTRAGEOUS amount of loss in extremely rapid succession, nearly dies again after having caught a spreading illness, gets stuck playing the Toymaker’s games under threat of becoming one of his dolls forever, and goes a whole story with people pointing guns at him all the time and also nearly gets hanged by them (and I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that half the time those guns are pointed at him, it’s to force him to sing). That’s not even close to truly covering everything else that happens within each of those stories, let alone in his audio stories, and not to mention his plain old terrible luck in more mundane ways. If anyone has a right to express frustration sometimes, it’s him, and frankly it’s incredibly entertaining when he does, but he’s honestly a lot more chill than people give him credit for. Steven takes all of this constant grief pretty well all things considered, and manages to go through even the worst of events with the ability to get back up and smile.

He has a great sense of humor (so many funny lines that I quote all the time) and is also, frankly, adorable. Steven can get flustered and awkward at times and I love him.

TLDR: Ultimately, Steven is just about the most long-suffering guy in the world, going through absolutely gutting heartaches and a truly disproportionate amount of peril and misfortune, and he still comes away a wonderful, decent human being who keeps moving forward and loves the people around him. In his final story, the people he will end up staying with define him this way: “The man we need must inspire trust. His judgments must come from his heart even more than his head.” And they were certainly right that Steven is that kind of a man.

Bonus, because I can, look at his great hair

and what is perhaps the best picture of Steven ever taken. You’re welcome.

Now everybody go vote Steven.

Round Two: Doctor Who Tournament

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[veshialles]

Test firing in 3... 2... 1...

[cleowho]

“Zero.”

Zero, I assume, is Mechonoid-speak for sod off.

The Chase - season 02 - 1965

[demigodofhoolemere]

Rest In Peace David Graham, one of the original two Dalek voices alongside Peter Hawkins from 1963 to 1966, as well as the voice of the Mechonoids and live action roles in The Gunfighters and City of Death, and other well-known British productions such as Thunderbirds. He passed away this Friday, September 20th 2024, at the age of 99.

[adventure-showdown]

#enemy of the world should and will win this but i voted the chase cause I knew it would be losing and it has a lot of fun stuff#they go to a spooky old house and meet a dracula and a frankenstein and frankenstein bodyslams a dalek#and when they're leaving the doctor says “that must have been some dream dimension manifesting humanity's darkest fears”#and then it cuts to a sign outside that says “haunted house”#and the mechonoids!#the mechonoid city exterior model is very cool looking#and then you have ian and barbara's departure which is very sweet (@officiallordvetinari)

What is your favourite Doctor Who story?

ROUND 3 MASTERPOST

synopses and propaganda under the cut

The Chase

Synopsis

The travellers learn from the Time-Space Visualiser (taken from the Moroks' museum) that Daleks, equipped with their own time machine, are on their trail with orders to exterminate them. They flee in the TARDIS.

Propaganda no propaganda submitted

The Enemy of the World

Synopsis

On Earth in 2018, the Doctor and his companions are enmeshed in a deadly web of intrigue thanks to his uncanny resemblance to the scientist/politician Salamander. He is hailed as the "shopkeeper of the world" for his efforts to relieve global famine, but why do his rivals keep disappearing? How can he predict so many natural disasters? The Doctor must expose Salamander's schemes before he takes over the world.

Propaganda no propaganda submitted

[vintage1981]

DALEKS! First Look Clip | Doctor Who

Debuted at #NYCC2020, check out the first clip from the Time Lord Victorious animated series, Daleks! 

Read more here: https://bbc.in/3lvrhbO

[tlv-dd]

The Restoration Empire

Eaglemods released a total of four sets of special Time Lord Victorious figures. The first 3 each came with a prose store as part of the event, in addition to a 3-part treatise on the history of The Daleks of Time Lord Victorious.

Drones

Fiercely loyal and obedient, programmed by the Emperor to ensure loyalty after the Civil War. They were sent out across the universe, wars with Mechonoids resumed. To ensure numbers, production lines focused on Drones, fewer Scientists but more power, Special Weapons Daleks become Executioners, and Dalek Command increased. Reserves of Drones were kept in storage, such as on a world in the Fifth Galaxy. The Time Squad sent to the Dark Times included Drones, on a mission to restore history, and maybe wipe out Gallifrey. One Drone survived and fell through the Vortex, embedded in an Asteroid, it attempted to send a message until boarding Starship Future to finally send it.

(Continuity Notes: Most important is that The Dalek Awakens Dalek was part to the Time Squad, a group we have barely seen thus far.)

Emperor of the Restoration

Ruthlessly efficient, this Dalek was on the Supreme Council and exterminated it's fellows to declare itself Emperor after Davros fled. It augmented it's brain capacity, and adopted a new casing (inspired by the Emperor of the TV Century 21 strips). It rebuilt Skaro, then Dalek civilisation, so the Dalek Empire could expand, then destroy the Time Lords. It took advice from an ancient Strategist. Scientists discovered evidence of Ripples in Time, threatening the Empire's existence. They invaded the Archive of Islos only the be faced with an other dimensional entity, so they allied with the Mechonoids, and discovered the Slave of The Hond. To repel the mysteriously extant Hond, they recruited the Doctor for help. Unable to reach the origin of the changes in the Dark Times, a Time Squad was ordered to get an aearlier Doctor to get them there. The Emperor knew from the message the squad would perish. It could see the efforts working, and was sure the Empire could soon challenge Gallifrey.

(Continuity Notes: For the Daleks, the Restoration Empire appears to cover the period leading up to the Time War after Remembrance of the Daleks.)

Time Commanders

Restoration Empire Commanders take orders from the Emperor alone, and a mission's failure is on the Commander. Several Commanders oversaw the invasion of the Archive of Islos on the Emperor's orders, then evacuated Skaro, and regathering forces to retake Skaro. Several Time Commanders were sent to capture the Doctor to deal with the Hond, then a Dalek Time Squad was assembled lead by a Time Commander to get the earlier Doctor's help, harvest genetic material from long extinct species, and if possible destroy Gallifrey.

(Continuity Notes: We now know what the Velosians' fate is for certain, and why the Eighth Doctor was captured in He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not.)

Scientists of the Restoration

Daleks seek as much knowledge as possible, Scientists in particular are to use this knowledge, and study the anomalies, which the Strategist secretly determines its possible the Restoration Empire was a result of the anomalies. The Time Squad had a number of scientists. On Wrax they sought Devolving Technology, which the Doctor tried to stop them gaining as they worked with the Executioner. A Scientist on the Time Squad collected living specimens, and created a Symbiont, mixing Great Vampire DNA into their own.

(Continuity Notes: Wrax is evidently the world of origin for the Master's Devolving Gun.)

Executioners

Bloodthirsty, they lead Dalek squads in battle, in various campaigns. One was placed on the Time Squad, to acquire the Devolving technology and use it on the Wraxians, and was the only one aside from the Commander aware of the Gallifrey mission. They are single minded and more durable, anything it sees a potential threat.

The Dalek Strategist

A survivor, retaining its original casing, out of pride. How long had it been around, waiting for an Emperor it could control? It alone pondered if the Restoration Empire was an anomaly. It helped raid the Archive of Islos, sacrificed soldiers against the Entity, manipulated the Mechanoids, recruited the Doctor against the Hond, manipulating him too, then another incarnation. It began manipulation in the Dark Times, and saw the Gallifrey plan fail. It died in the blast. It is a Survivor.

[autoacafiles]

Database, I have one statement and one request.

Statement: happy new year!

Request: a list of all known mechanoid species

Response to Statement: Happy New Year to you too!

Response to request:

Cybertronians, Cybertron

Lithonians, Lithone

Galvanic Mechamorphs, Galvan B

Tohun, Aqua Magna (debatable)

Cybermen, Mondas

Quintessons, ??? (also debatable)

Zoids, Zoidstar

Primordials, Cybertron

Mechonoids, Mechanus

Acrosian, Acrosia

Musume, Musuumei

[More to be Added as time marches on]

[alexkingstonflirt]

It’s River and robots! Professor River Song is an expert in many things, but her tech skills are tested in these encounters with robotic friends and foes.

Over the course of four episodes River will battle Mechonoids on an ice world, meet K9 in a ‘forever home’, and help a treasured android friend discover her destiny in the stars.

8.1 Slight Glimpses of Tomorrow by James Goss

8.2 A Brave New World by Tracy Ann Baines

8.3 A Forever Home by Alfie Shaw

8.4 Queen of the Mechonoids by Jonathan Morris (x)

[downthetubes]

The Doctor Who art of Tom Webster

The Doctor Who art of Tom Webster

Here’s Tom Webster’s full cover for the upcoming Diary of River Song audio drama release, due in January 2021 from Big Finish.

This upcoming package, available to pre-order here, finds Professor River Song her tech skills tested in encounters with robotic friends and foes.

Over the course of four episodes River will battle Mechonoids on an ice world, meet K9 in a ‘forever home’, and help a…

[timetot]

Finally forced myself to sit down and get through the last half of War of the Daleks, which goodreads is telling me I started in Sept of 2018, soooooo...

There were a few things in the first half that just kept skeeving me out. The Thals were constantly described as ‘perfect’ in a way that emphasized their blonde hair and blue eyes. HMMM. And John Peel should just never be allowed to write women. Take a shot every time Sam gets jealous of Chayn or Ayaka. They did have a few more interesting conversations about war and violence, but I had to slog through a pointless love triangle to get there.

Honestly, once it got away from the Thals and into the Davros vs. Dalek Prime civil war I was way more into it. I didn’t mind the dalek history retcon, as it seems a lot of whovians do. I found the way it united several decades’ worth of dalek TV stories into a cohesive whole actually quite satisfying. The only part I disliked was the retcon of Skaro’s destruction, bc Seven’s gambit with the Hand of Omega is one of my favorite bits of Remembrance of the Daleks. Like, yeah, ofc Skaro’s coming back at some point, but to say it was never supernova’d in the first place and that both Davros and the Doctor were being tricked kinda guts the impactful climax of Remembrance.

also I just really liked the interlude with the cute gardener mechonoid, whose completely dispassionate devotion to its roses brought this book from a 2 to a 3/5.