Vale: Get to the medical bay, make sure he’s still secure. I’ll follow behind with Hala.

 

Samuel: Vale, are you sure? I wouldn’t want to risk your….

 

Vale: I’ll be fine, just go!

 

As concerned as I am about Vale’s health and whether or not he should be carrying anyone to the medical bay, he’s right. If this ‘Doctor’ has anything to do with the people who just abducted Jerro, I need to secure him. It’s possible that if he is connected to all of this, we can maybe use him to get Jerro back.

 

Samuel: Alright, but you go steady!

 

Vale: We’ll be fine Samuel, now go!

 

Without saying another word, I race off towards the medical bay. Hopefully, the reactivated core has started feeding power back to the containment field again. That way, if these abductors are working with him, we can at least hold one of their own hostage to give us some leverage.

 

I quickly find my answer as the door opens to the medical bay where I find the self described ‘Doctor’ sat on the same bed we left him on seemingly in meditation. He’s awake, clearly, but thankfully hasn’t escaped. That’s something at least. The field must still be working if he’s still here.

 

Samuel: Talk, who are you?

 

The Doctor: Haven’t we already gone over this in the Tardis?

 

Samuel: You mean that box?

 

The Doctor: Do you know of any other box that’s dimensionally transcendental?

 

Samuel: Dimensionally what?

 

The Doctor: Bigger on the inside. Gosh you’re awfully forgetful.

 

Samuel: Where’s Jerro?

 

The Doctor: Who?

 

Samuel: Jerro. The young boy your people just abducted?

 

The Doctor: My people? I have people now? Sorry, regeneration has a habit of scrambling the brain a little bit. What do you mean by ‘my people’?

 

Samuel: Your friends who just abducted Jerro! The nine year old boy who was helping us run this ship!

 

The Doctor: What? Why would someone abduct a nine year old child?

 

Samuel: You tell me.

 

The Doctor: I don’t know. But I’m keen to find out. Tell me, I can’t help but detect a faint electromagnetic charge in the air, these abductors didn’t happen to use some sort of teleport did they?

 

Samuel: Yes….they did….how did you know? You’ve been trapped here since we brought you here.

 

That probably explains why I’m lacking one sonic screwdriver. If the crew of this vessel brought me here and felt inclined to use a crude containment field to try and restrain me, they’re probably some distance away from mastering the manipulation of matter for teleportation. No wonder they took the sonic away from me. To this lot it could very well be a laser sword or a brand new source of power. Well….I suppose it could actually be the latter, but they were never going to know the difference.

 

The Doctor: I thought that’s what the faint surge I sensed was!

 

Samuel:….You can tell when someone’s used a teleport?

 

The Doctor: On a good day. Teleportation systems almost always leave a slight charge in the air after use. Normally this charge is outside the range of what most species can detect, fortunately we Time Lords can sense just about all forms of electromagnetic energy. Give or take a few.

 

Samuel: Time Lord?

 

The Doctor: You haven’t heard of us? Charming. A billion years shaping the fabric of time and space and this is our legacy. Absolutely nothing. We’re a class of Gallifreyans who were one of the first beings to master the art of time travel. As such, it has been our duty to watch over and observe all of time and space.

 

Samuel: You can’t be serious. You’re telling me that you have control over time and space?

 

The Doctor: Well…..not really, more I have influence with it on a good day and can travel throughout it.

 

Samuel: That’s ridiculous.

 

The Doctor: You’ve set foot inside a box that’s bigger on the inside and just had a young boy abducted from your colony ship using a teleporter that doesn’t belong to this time period. Welcome to reality. Ridiculous, isn’t it?

 

Samuel: Wait, what did you just say?

 

The Doctor: Welcome to reality. Ridiculous, isn’t i…

 

Samuel: No, not that bit. What did you say about the teleporter?

 

The Doctor: That it doesn’t belong to this time period. Open ended transmat technology won’t be developed by humanity for at least another hundred years….or is it four hundred years? Sorry, my memory is all over the place right now.

 

Samuel: So you’re not with those that abducted Jerro?

 

The Doctor: If I am, it’s news to me.

 

Samuel: But you know the teleportation technology? Can you track it?

 

The Doctor: Can I? I’d never have made out of the academy if I couldn’t track or even reverse a basic particle matter transporter. I just need my sonic screwdriver.

 

Samuel: Sonic screwdriver?

 

The Doctor: Metal thing, gold tip with an orange light. Makes a noise when you press the button and possibly does a few other things if you’re not careful. Looks a bit like a cool magic wand.

 

Samuel: Do you mean this thing?

 

Miraculously, the boy knew exactly what I was saying without the need to describe it further. Most unusual, have I managed to get better at describing things simply to humans? This new regeneration is amazing so far! Seeing him remove it from his jacket pocket is even better though, as that means the sonic was in close proximity to whoever or whatever was teleported. So in theory….

The Doctor: Yes, exactly that thing. Pass it to me.

 

At first he reaches forward to hand the sonic over to me before pausing.

 

Samuel: Hold on, I need to disable the containment field first.

 

The Doctor: Why? It’s been down ever since your power core shut off.

 

Samuel: It has?

 

The Doctor: Yeah….things that require power tend to shut off they losespower.

 

Samuel: Then why haven’t you tried to escape?

 

The Doctor: Regeneration is a tiring process, plus I couldn’t leave without my sonic screwdriver now that would be very irresponsible of me.

 

Samuel: Regeneration? You’re not making any sense.

 

The Doctor: Well, some things never change. Now come on we haven’t got all say, pass me the screwdriver.

 

The young man reaches inwards to pass me the sonic just when his colleague enters the room carrying an unconscious woman over his shoulders.

 

Samuel: Vale!

 

Vale: Help me with her.

 

Before I can grab hold of the screwdriver, the young man walks over to help his elderly friend lift the unconscious woman onto the bed beside mine. They both quickly check her pulse again to make sure she’s alright. Judging from her current condition I’d say she was stunned. An unwelcome surprise no doubt, but she’ll be fine in an hour or so depending upon what setting the weapon used.

 

The Doctor: She’ll be fine, from what I can tell she was only stunned. Give it an hour or so and she’ll be good as new.

 

Vale: How do you know that?

 

The Doctor: Still breathing, unconscious but no visible signs of trauma points towards an energy weapon of some sorts. Given how your colleague here has now confirmed that a transmat was also used by people to board and leave this ship, it doesn’t take a genius to work out that your boarders stunned her and then fled having kidnapped young Jerro.

 

Vale: How do you know all that?

 

The Doctor: Your friend told me.

 

Vale: Friend?

 

The Doctor: Yes, friend. Or colleague or whatever you want to call him. Actually that’s a good point, what is your name again?

 

Samuel: Samuel….Samuel Whitehall. This is….

 

Vale: Vale. The name’s Vale.

 

The Doctor: No last name?

 

Vale: Not one I’m willing to reveal.

 

The Doctor: Okay…..right as I was saying. Pass me the screwdriver and I’ll help you retrieve your friend.

 

Vale: Sonic screwdriver?

 

Samuel: He means this thing.

 

Samuel raises his hand that has hold of the sonic for Vale to see.

 

Vale: That’s a screwdriver?

 

The Doctor: It’s sonic.

 

As Vale appears perplexed by the idea that the sonic is in fact a screwdriver, Samuel walks forward and places it on the foot of my bed.

 

Vale: Wait, Samuel.

 

Samuel: What is it now?

 

The pair turn to look at each other as I quietly reach across and grab hold of the sonic. I quickly check to see if it managed to get a good enough background scan of the signal left behind by the boarders transmat beam. Thankfully, it did.

 

Vale: You’re seriously going to trust this total stranger, just like that?

 

Samuel: He says he can get Jerro back, Vale. We have to try.

 

Vale: But how can we be sure he won’t just run off the moment we let him back into his ship?

 

The Doctor: You can come with me, if you want.

 

Samuel: What?

 

The Doctor: There’s plenty of space in my ship for more than one, well you’ve both seen that with your own eyes. But if you really want to get Jerro back then sure, come with me.

 

Samuel: I don’t know about this.

 

Vale: What about Hala?

 

The Doctor: She’ll be out for at least another hour. Come on, it shouldn’t take that long to get your friend back.

 

Both of them seem conflicted, at guess I’d says it’s over whether it’s right to leave their friend alone in her current condition. Or maybe it’s trying to decide whether or not they can trust me. Either way I’m not particularly fussed. They were kind enough to give me a bed when I needed some time to rest, so it’s only right that I return the favour. Possibly without the need for a containment field.

 

They both turn back to face me before having one last glance at the unconscious woman.

 

Samuel: Are you sure she’ll be alright?

 

The Doctor: Don’t worry. It’s a time machine. We’ll be there and back in a second. So what do you say?

 

Vale: Alright…..

 

Samuel: We’re in.

 

The Doctor: Marvellous. Alright, let’s go! To the Tardis!

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Hala: Jerro! Jerro where are you?

 

Jarl: She’s getting closer.

 

Carlo: Then you’d better hurry up and get the ship back in range to transmat us off.

 

Jarl: Carlo, don’t do what I think you’re about to do.

 

Carlo: It’s the first rule of time travel, Jarl. We cannot be seen or we risk splintering the timeline.

 

Jarl: But we’ve already become part of the timeline from the moment we shut down the drive core!

 

Jerro: You two are the reason the power core shutdown?

 

Carlo: Quiet heathen. We have no choice Jarl. We don’t know anything about the crew on this ship, they could be well armed. I’m not about to risk losing another one of us simply to keep you happy. Now hurry up and get the ship here!

 

Damn it Hala, we’ve been boarded by an unknown force and they’re currently holding Jerro hostage. The last thing we need right now is to be divided and rushing into an unknown situation.

 

Samuel: Vale, please tell me you know a quick way to get to cryo.

 

Vale: Take a hard right here.

 

Samuel: The climate system?

 

Vale: You wanted a quick way, I can’t give you one that’s comfortable as well.

 

Samuel: Damn it, fine pass me a gun.

 

Vale: You don’t want me to come with you?

 

Samuel: Given how we have no idea what we’re dealing with we can’t risk moving in from just one direction. I’ll head to cryo from here, you take the main entrance.

 

As I open the access hatch and into the tunnel for the climate control system, Vale passes me one of the guns he retrieved from the armour. Instinctively, I perform a quick check to know just what firearm I’m using. It’s then that I notice something.

 

Samuel: Why’s it on setting 3?

 

Vale: Why do you think it shouldn’t be?

 

Samuel: We don’t know what we’re dealing with here, Vale. I really don’t think we should be walking into a standoff with our weapons set only on stun.

 

Vale: This whole exodus is a new start for humanity. I’ll be damned if our first encounter ends in bloodshed. The gun stays on setting 3.

 

Samuel: You’re worried we might hit Jerro.

 

Vale: It’s not you hitting him that I’m worried about.

 

Samuel: He’ll be alright Vale, I promise you.

 

I holster my gun before crouching down to make my way into the tunnel. Vale’s quick to close the hatch behind me to avoid the ship wasting power on trying to rebalance the sector’s climate.

 

Hala: Jerro! Can you hear me?

 

Hala! I can hear her voice. By the sounds of it, she hasn’t found Jerro yet or the intruders which is relieving. What isn’t, is that she sounds close, and given how I’m not far away from the cryobay this is the last thing I want.

 

Carlo: If she spots us, I’m taking the shot.

 

Jarl: You can’t. We don’t know anything about her or where she fits into all this.

 

Carlo: She’s a member of this ship, which means she plays a significant part in his future. Her timeline will change as soon as his does.

 

They’re going to shoot her. Come on Samuel, you’ve got to hurry.

 

I crawl through the tunnels as quickly as I can towards cryo bay, though my height makes it difficult to fit through some of the tight gaps. This sort of stuff is really more Jerro’s line of work. Thankfully, as I make it out of the climate control tunnels just before Hala is able to open the door.

 

Samuel: Hala wait!

 

Hala: We can’t afford to wait, who knows just what they’re doing to Jerro in there!

 

Before I can say anything else, she opens the door and is almost immediately hit by an energy bolt from the assailant. As the bolt collides with her body, she almost immediately collapses on to the ground. Instinctively, I race to her side and check for a pulse.

 

Samuel: Hala!? Hala speak to me!

 

As I’m checking for a pulse, Vale enters the cryo bay and after glancing at Hala, he quickly begins to fire on the intruders.

 

Carlo: Jarl!

 

Jarl: Locking on and…..

 

The younger intruder’s sentence is cut off as he, his associate and Jerro all disappear in a bright flash of light.

 

Vale: Jerro!

 

Samuel: Vale, help! I’m not getting a pulse!

 

Vale runs over to me and begins to examine Hala. You’d probably never have guessed that the ship’s chief mechanic is also it’s highest ranking medical officer. Well, the highest ranked one that isn’t stuck in cryo. In hindsight though, I can’t help but wonder why he’s the only one qualified enough to access the medical supplies from what I see him do. I’m head of security and everything Vale does to check on Hala is little more than common sense.

 

He starts by placing his hand close to her mouth and nostrils to check for breath.

 

Vale: She’s breathing. Slowly, but she’s breathing. Steady but faint pulse so nothing to be alarmed about. Looks like she was simply stunned.

 

Samuel: How come you could find a pulse but I couldn’t?

 

Vale: Hala’s always had a difficult pulse to find, but it’s not a problem so long as you know where to look for it.

 

Samuel: Who were those people, Vale?

 

Vale: I have no idea, but whoever they were, they wanted everyone alive. Hala’s living proof of that.

 

Samuel: But what about Jerro? What do you think they want with him?

 

Vale: I have no idea. But I think I know someone who might.

 

Samuel: Our stowaway?

 

Vale: I think it’s time we have a word with this so called ‘Doctor’.

 

-Valorem Protector Time Jump Ship-

 

Jarl: You said you wouldn’t kill anyone!

 

Carlo: Calm down, Jarl. I simply stunned her.

 

Jarl: But she still saw us! They still saw us!

 

Carlo: So what? He’s from this time period and he saw us, hell he can still see us right now!

 

Jerro: Where are we?

 

Carlo: Shut your mouth you monster. Did I give you permission to speak?

 

Jerro: No, but…

 

Carlo: Then keep quiet. You speak when spoken to.

 

Jarl: We’ve gone too far, Carlo. We can’t keep going with this.

 

Carlo: Just because we were seen doesn’t mean the whole timeline is in danger, Jarl. You know that as well as I do. Don’t start trying to enforce that whole ‘observe but never interfere’ nonsense now. Not when we’re so close.

 

Jarl: But how do we know this will bring Valorem back? What if we just make things worse!?

 

Carlo: With him dead, the Exodus war will never come to be. The Holy Beta will never come to power and you will never have to lose Geji. Not anymore.

 

Reluctantly, the cautious Jarl yields to Carlo’s framing bringing an end to their argument.

 

Jarl: So what do we do with him?

 

Carlo: We let know just what sort of monster he’ll become.

 

Jerro: What I will become?

 

Carlo: That’s right your Holiness, you’re about to experience your own personal hell. But first, we’re going to give you a glimpse at the future, and what you’ll become.

 

Carlo raises his gun and pushes it firmly into the back of the terrified Jerro who immediately raises both his hands to show his co-operation.

 

Carlo: Now move.

 

Fearful for his life, Jerro complies and walks forward as Carlo follows behind keeping the barrel of his weapon pointed firmly into the young man’s back.

 

Carlo: Set a course for Valorem, devastation day.

Despite what you may think of me, you know what I did was for the greater good. What we did was for the greater good.

 

The greater good is questionable. An innocent life was taken because I lost control of you.

 

Davros deserved it for all he’s done to both us and the universe.

 

That is not your call! It should be someone else’s call.

 

But it usually is. Whether you like it or not, we are one in the same and there’s no way I could have possibly done what I did without you wanting it in some shape or form.

 

….That still doesn’t make it right.

 

Of course it doesn’t. Nothing we’ve ever done has been right. Travelling Skaro to hinder or destroy the Daleks, ultimately acting as the primary cause for the Time War. Leaving Susan to live a life with David even though it was clear to us both that she didn’t leave the Tardis. Do I even have to mention the Time War?

 

Leave me alone. Stay out of my head.

 

No. You interfered with my life. My face. I think it’s only fair that I am entitled to do the same for your final face.

 

Our final face.

 

Let us both hope that is not the case.

 

Arrrghhhh. SONTARANS! PERVERTING THE COURSE OF HUMAN HISTORY!

 

Something’s wrong.

 

We’re still unstable.

 

It’s a consequence of the forced regeneration. We didn’t need to change so some of our cells are refusing to change.

 

Hmph. My cells are refusing to go down without a fight. I’ve never felt so proud.

 

But don’t you see? This is accomplishing nothing besides incapacitating us.

 

A price worth paying to punish you for what you did to me.

 

….It was for the greater good.

 

I thought the greater good was questionable.

 

Not in this case.

 

Oh you’re such a hyproci…..ARGH! ONE DAY, I SHALL COME BACK! How am I feeling the effects as well?

 

As you said, you and I are one in the same. My past is your part. So if I’m enduring regeneration sickness….Argh! THERE ARE SOME CORNERS OF THE UNIVERSE WHICH HAVE BRED THE MOST TERRIBLE THINGS!.....then so are you.

 

We’re not going to have to endure all of our past 23 incarnations are we?

 

That all depends on you afterall….SOMETIMES THE ONLY CHOICES YOU HAVE ARE BAD ONES, BUT YOU STILL HAVE TO CHOOSE!

 

That interruption from our 13th incarnation fitted into our conversation worrying well. WOULD YOU LIKE A JELLY BABY?!

 

NO MORE!

 

We’ve got to stop this, it’s making us lose contr….ah….ah….IT’S TAKEN ME ALL THESE YEARS TO REALISE THE LAWS OF TIME ARE MINE, AND THEY OBEY ME!

 

There’s only one way to stop this constant burst of regenerative energy…..FANTASTIC

 

You want me to die.

 

I want you to…COME ALONG ACE!

 

Oh really? How’s that working out for….DALEKS, CYBERMEN, THEY’RE ALL IN THE NURSERY COMPARED TO US!

 

You have to move on. Otherwise we’ll be stuck in a loop of having to….REVERSE THE POLARITY OF THE NEUTRON FLOW…go through this endlessly.

 

But that’s not fair, not after what you did to me…………HELLO STONEHENGE!

 

I’M SORRY. I’M SO SORRY.

 

Was that deliberate?

 

Let go. Move on. The future will never come if you continue to trap yourself in the past. If you trap both of us in the past….I’M A DOCTOR, BUT PROBABLY NOT THE ONE YOU WERE EXPECTING…

 

I DON’T WANT TO GO.

 

I know. We never want to go. For better or for worse, we always fear change. But that’s alright. Change is good. SO LONG AS YOU REMEMBER ALL THE PEOPLE THAT YOU USED TO BE.

 

I WILL NOT FORGET ONE LINE OF THIS. NOT ONE DAY, I SWEAR.

 

I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER…

 

WHEN THE DOCTOR WAS ME.

 

Let go……Time has moved on. It’s only right that you do as well.

 

But how can I move on when we’re one in the same.

 

Accept that your chapter has closed.

 

But this is still my story.

 

Indeed. It’s also my story. Our story, and we’ll face it together.

 

I’ll never forgive you for this. My time is coming, we both know that.

 

Indeed. But until then. There must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties.

 

You sounded like yourself when you said that.

 

Can’t go wrong with quoting a wise man. Even if he was 4,000 years younger than us.

 

……..Fine. I yield.

 

What?

 

I yield. I will stop fighting it.

 

Why?

 

Does there have to be a reason?

 

There always is with you.

 

Let’s just say, that when the moment arrives, I’ll want you to return the favour.

 

I’m not letting you take control ever again.

 

So you like to say. Time will tell if you’re right or not.

 

Jerro: He’s still glowing.

 

Hala: Yes I can see that Jerro, thank you.

 

Vale: What’s his temperature like?

 

Hala: It’s fine from what I can make out. Irregular heartbeat. We’ll have to give him a scan to be sure what’s causing it. Where did you two say you found him again?

 

Samuel: You’d never believe us.

 

Hala: Try me.

 

Vale: No really. You’ll never believe us.

 

Jerro: Now I really want to know.

 

Hala: Keep your eyes fixed on his hands, Jerro. The moment they stop glowing, you let me know.

 

Jerro: I’m on it.

 

The Doctor: Sor…..

 

Samuel: Did he just speak!?

 

Vale: What did he say?

 

Jerro: I don’t know it was just a whisper.

 

The Doctor: I’m….

 

It’s happening. The cells are finally dying off.

 

Remember. You owe me.

 

I owe you nothing.

 

The Doctor: I’m…..sor……..sorry…..

 

Hala: What happened? Why’s he saying sorry? What did you two do to him?

 

Vale: Us? We didn’t do anything!

 

Samuel: Whatever’s wrong with him he did to himself long before we got there.

 

The Doctor: I’m….sorry….Davros.

 

Jerro: Davros? Who’s Davros?

 

Hala: I don’t know. Vale, have you ever heard of a Davros?

 

Vale: …..It’s….familiar…

 

Samuel: Familiar? What is a Davros, then?

 

Vale: I think it’s a person. One of the architects of this ship. If I recall it was a man known as Hayman Davros who had the first idea for taking to the stars after the first solar flare hit Earth.

 

Samuel: But that was over a hundred years ago, how could he know who Davros was? He looks like he’s only 30 years old at best.

 

Jerro: He could maybe even pass for a 27 year old.

 

Hala: Well let’s find exactly what’s wrong with him first. Jerro, can you turn on the scanner?

 

Jerro: Done. It should be on.

 

Hala: And there it is. Alright, we only want a low level scan to inspect his heart. Setting 2 should be enough.

 

Jerro: Guys!

 

Vale: What is it, Jerro?

 

Jerro: His hand! It’s stopped glowing!

 

Samuel: What?

 

As both Samuel and Vale race over to inspect the still conscious Doctor, the Time Lord’s body jerks suddenly as his mouth opens, expelling the residual energy left over from his regeneration.

 

Jerro: What the heck was that!?

 

Vale: Oi, mind your language young man.

 

Jerro: Sorry, Vale.

 

Hala: Guys…

 

Samuel: What’s up?

 

Hala: I think you should see for yourselves…

 

The three men step away from the unconscious Doctor and make their way over to the readout screen for the scanner where Hala is stood. What they see in front of them, shocks them.

 

Vale: That’s not possible.

 

Jerro: Well it explains his irregular heart beat.

 

Samuel: He has two hearts?

 

Hala: I think it’s safe to assume that he’s not human.

 

Jerro: Then what do we do?

 

Samuel: Secure him. Immediately.

Samuel: What could have happened to make the main power shut down?

 

Hala: How long have we got? I could talk about things that could shut that thing down all day. But the most likely one we might encounter out in space is an electromagnetic pulse, but that’s not possible because…

 

Vale: The containment field stayed up even when the power core went, not to mention the backup core kicking in.

 

Samuel: Then that means it could only have been one thing that’s caused the core to shut down.

 

Hala: Sabotage. Do you think he wasn’t alone?

 

Samuel: Given what I saw inside that so-called ship of his it shouldn’t surprise me. Vale, go to the armoury and get ready to back me up. Hala, head to the bridge. Try and get us some help.

 

Jerro: What about me?

 

Samuel: Head to cryo. Make sure those pods stay on ice and be ready. Once Vale and I get the core back online you’re going to have to be ready to redirect the power back to the pods.

 

Jerro: On it!

 

Hala: Don’t tell me you’re seriously going in there without a weapon?

 

Samuel: We don’t have time to waste. If it turns out to simply be a mechanical fault that’s precious time we won’t get back because we were too cautious.

 

Hala: We don’t have bodies to waste either. What if it’s not a fault and some actually has sabotaged us?

 

Samuel: Then you’ll hopefully have the rest of the fleet on their way to help. Now go!

 

Hala’s intentions are pure. She’s simply looking out for the rest of the crew as she always does. Is it obvious at all that she’s a parent who lost her child? No doubt it explains why she’s so protective of Jerro, especially after his mother was sucked into space the last time we had a hull breach.

 

Vale: Remember what I taught you, Jerro. Make sure you..

 

Jerro: Siphon off enough power to prevent a system lock up, I got it Vale, I got it.

 

Vale: Just making sure!

 

The group splits up, Vale and I continue down the corridor towards the power core and armoury, Hala turns left to make her way towards the bridge. Jerro takes a right towards the cryo bays. Hopefully it won’t be long before we’re able to return power to the pods. The last thing we need with our limited resources are more crew members to feed.

 

Vale: Are you sure you want to go in there unarmed?

 

Samuel: No, but I haven’t any choice.

 

Vale: She’ll be alright, Samuel.

 

Samuel: Not if we don’t get the power back on.

 

Vale: That doesn’t justify you running in there like an idiot!

 

Samuel: Just get the weapons and don’t take too long!

 

Vale: Fine, just don’t do anything stupid.

 

Samuel: Nothing you wouldn’t do, Vale.

 

Vale: That’s not exactly reassuring.

 

As Vale makes his way to the armoury, I begin entering the security for the door. Just before I’m able to type in the last number, Jerro radios in causing me to accidentally press the wrong button.

 

Jerro: Sam, I’m ready to reroute power back to the cryobay on your signal.

 

Samuel: Damn it!

 

Jerro: What’s wrong!?

 

Samuel: You spooked me and I ended up putting the code in wrong.

 

Jerro: Sorry, I didn’t mean to.

 

Samuel: I know. I know. Standby, I’m about to enter the core now.

 

Jerro: On….it….

 

Jerro’s momentary pause is worrying.

 

Samuel: What’s wrong?

 

Jerro: Have you figured out what it was that caused the core to shutdown?

 

Samuel: Is someone there?

 

Jerro: No, it’s just….

 

Samuel: Just…..

 

Jerro: I thought I heard something.

 

Samuel: Can you see anything?

 

Jerro: No…..

 

Samuel. There’s nothing to worry about. Standby, I’m about to enter the core.

 

Jerro: Standing by.

 

I correctly enter the code this time, causing the maintenance hatch to open to the core. My right hand begins to shake ever so slightly as I step into the door way, not knowing what’s waiting for me in there is a terrifying position to be in. What if some creature has breached the ship’s hull and is currently devouring the core as we speak. Will it try to consume me? What if it’s pirates? The last thing we’re staffed for is combat, never mind repelling invaders.

 

But much to my surprise, as I lay eyes on the core, the room is empty. Aside from the core being shut down, there’s nothing out of the ordinary. My instincts are to check the whole room to be certain that there’s signs of sabotage. However, I don’t have the time for caution. With every minute the ship is forced to rely on emergency power, the more likely it becomes that Mom will thaw out. I can’t risk that happening. I can’t lose her. Not after everything Dad did to save her.

 

Thankfully, it’s pretty simple to restart the power. All I have to do is realign the ignition core and trigger the restart process. Almost immediately after I initiate the process, the core roars to life and the entire ship suddenly jerks forward as the engines receive a double helping of power from both the core and the emergency reserve.

 

Samuel: Thank goodness.

 

Hala: I’m going to assume from that power surge you’ve got good news?

 

Samuel: Looks like your husband is staying on ice for the foreseeable future.

 

Hala: Best news I’ve heard all day.

 

Vale: You still want a pistol?

 

Samuel: I really can’t tell whether or not you’re joking.

 

Vale: Probably a bit of both.

 

Samuel: I’m good, thanks Vale.

 

Hala: Have either of you heard from the Jerro?

 

Samuel: I spoke to him a couple of minutes ago, what’s up?

 

Hala: I can’t seem to radio him for some reason.

 

Vale: Maybe he’s just busy doing his job just as I taught him.

 

I slowly make my way out of the room whilst attempting to establish contact with Jerro myself.

 

Samuel: Jerro, come in please.

 

……

 

No answer. That’s not good.

 

Samuel: Jerro it’s Sam, please respond.

 

……

 

Something’s wrong.

 

Samuel: Jerro?

 

Hala: He’s in trouble. We need to get to cryo immediately.

 

Samuel: We’re on our way. Vale I’m going to need you to unlock the maintenance hatch for me. The security system will have reactivated with the core coming back online.

 

Vale: I’m there now. Give me a minute.

 

Jerro: Sam?

 

I momentarily freeze as I hear Jerro’s voice through my earpiece. He sounds scared.

 

Samuel: Jerro! What’s wrong? Are you alright?

 

Jarl: Where’s that noise coming from?

 

Carlo: He’s wearing an earpiece!

 

Jerro was right, he wasn’t alone in cryo-bay. By the sounds of it whoever it is that’s with him have him at gunpoint. It takes a lot to spook Jerro, and to hear the tremble in his voice when he said my name, there’s no way they’re not threatening him.

 

Carlo: Remove your earpiece. Now!

 

Jerro: Please! We’ve got nothing here that you can use, we’re just a colony ship hoping to find a new home!

 

Jarl: Quiet Flynn! You heard what he said, remove your earpiece! Now!

 

They know Jerro’s name? How is that possible?

 

Hala: Where are you two!?

 

Samuel: Vale, hurry up! We need to get to cryo-bay right now!

 

Vale: The code isn’t working!

 

Samuel: Damn it Vale, it’s a nine not a six!

 

Hala: I’m going. Meet me there as soon as you can.

 

Samuel: Hala, no! You can’t go in there unarmed!

 

Hala: They’ll kill if we don’t stop them!

 

Samuel: Hala! Stop! If you go in there you’ll just get yourself killed as well!

 

Hala: I can’t just leave him at their mercy.

 

Before I can try and talk her out of it, she disables her earpiece.

 

Samuel: Damn it!

 

I slam my right fist into the maintenance door in anger before turning my attention back to Vale.

 

Samuel: Come on Vale! Hurry up!

18th Vagabond fleet – Phaylinx Cluster – Year: 3258

 

Almost four hundred years have passed since the great exodus. That’s what Old Man Vale likes to keep saying every time we celebrate new year. Twenty-two years. That’s how many years have passed since he first told me that story. Or at least, that’s the number of years I can remember him telling me that story. You’ll have to excuse the lapse in concentration for the other three years. I did have more pressing priorities as a small child. Namely trying to find something to actually entertain myself on this pile of junk.

 

You’d never believe it was one of the first ships to leave Earth during the exodus. But that probably explains why it actually managed to avoid the solar flares before they scorched the surface of the Earth. If it had actually needed to avoid solar flares the blasted thing probably wouldn’t have broken atmosphere never mind deep space. Or maybe it’s current condition is simply down to poor maintenance. Both are perfectly viable explanations. But I somewhat doubt that the ship’s condition is due to poor maintenance. Vale may be old, but he still knows his way around this ship like the back of his hand.

 

Even more fitting given the state of his hands as well.

 

Thank goodness he’s not able to read minds. He’d probably give me the sack if he could hear just what I was contemplating. Or maybe he wouldn’t. I can never really tell with Vale just what’s going through that head of his. Sometimes he seems as though he couldn’t be happier aboard this vessel, but then he can suddenly look as though he’s trapped here against his will. I probably don’t help things either.

 

Especially considering how I often turn up late to my shift. Really, at this point I should be more considerate. Vale’s struggling to do things more and more each day. Unfortunately, given the limited resources available to us after our attempts to colonise Rygus 7, we can’t afford to wake up anymore of the screw until we find Earth 2. It’s a similar situation for the rest of the crew in the flotilla. We’re all struggling to get by as is. An extra pair of hands would be great, but we can’t risk wasting the resources. Not until we make planetfall.

 

So for now, it’s just the four of us. Vale, Jerro, Hala and myself. The pilots of the Peregrin. Vessel number four in a colonisation flotilla of twenty-six, previously vessel number 6 in a flotilla of thirty. But despite how much she insists otherwise, Hala knows that Vale’s time is running out. That’s probably why she lets Jerro shadow him so often. Not to entertain her son, but to ensure he knows his future. After all, when Vale finally departs this universe we’ll still need his knowledge to survive until we find Earth 2. Our futures rely on Jerro being able to learn all he can in the little time he has left.

 

He’s only ten years old, and yet he could soon become the Peregrin’s chief engineer. Amazing really. My dad would have thought me daft to think I could maintain such a vessel at only ten years old. Academy or not, no-one is ever truly prepared for the day they must take command. I can only hope the the old man sticks around long enough so the weight of a thousand people’s lives aren’t pressing down on a ten year old boy.

 

Vale: Samuel!

 

Samuel: Can’t I get just a few moments of peace?

 

Vale: No more than I get, I’m afraid. We’ve got an increase in mass in the starboard engine so some reason. We’ll need to check it out. Bring your tools.

 

Samuel: Sure. Wait. Where are you going?

 

Vale: I’ve been at this blasted compressor for the last three hours. I need some coffee.

Samuel: Care to get me a cup?

 

Vale: You know the protocols.

 

Samuel: Right one cup per shift. Last thing we’d want is for the maintenance crew to actually be awake whilst holding this scrap pile together.

 

Vale: Stop moaning. This ship won’t fix itself.

 

Samuel: What a wonderful day that would be.

 

I can’t wait for planetfall. The sooner I can get off this death machine the better. As I head to my station to grab my tools I decide to do my usual daily activities. Brush hair, check life support systems and ask the question.

 

Samuel: Computer. Estimated time of arrival at Earth 2.

 

Hala: I am sorry Sam, I cannot calculate that request at this moment.

 

Samuel: Do you ever get bored of saying that stupid response?

 

Hala: No more than I do when you keep asking that stupid question. You sleep alright?

 

Samuel: About as well as usual.

 

Hala: Well I keep offering to let you use your emergency cryo pod, but you keep turning it down.

 

Samuel: That’s for an emergency. The last thing I want is for us to lose oxygen pressure and suddenly find my pod malfunctioning due to overuse.

 

Hala: Well if you want to avoid that, you’d best get down to the starboard engine and see what that increase in mass is about.

 

Samuel: Yes, mother.

 

Hala: Don’t get snarky with me sunshine. I’ll wake her up if you’re not careful.

 

Samuel: Good grief, I’m going. I’m going.

 

With the non-essential systems offline, it takes me a good twenty minutes to make my way over to the starboard engine. The increase in mass is likely a build up of compressed hydrogen which ultimately amounts to no difference. We’re travelling in the vacuum of space, weight and size have no effect until he enter an atmosphere.

 

It’s not until I arrive at the entrance hatch to the engine that I find what’s caused the increase.

 

A blue police box.

 

Samuel: What the heck is this?

 

Vale: An old police box. 1960’s I believe.

 

Samuel: How did it get here? It wasn’t here yesterday when I did my usual check.

 

Vale: Must have been sucked in by the engines.

Samuel: The largest things the engines suck in are gases. How could they have sucked in a police box? What even would a police box be doing in space anyways?

 

Vale: Must have been some historical debris jettisoned by one of the other ships to lighten themselves.

 

Samuel: Lighten themselves in the vacuum of space?

 

Vale: Not everyone has a logical mind like you, Samuel.

 

Samuel: Tell me about it. So what are we supposed to do with it?

 

Without giving me a response, Vale steps forward to inspect the box. From what I can make out it seems to be made entirely out of wood, merely raising more questions rather than answering any.

 

Samuel: Do you think it’s someone trying to contact us?

 

Vale: Contact us?

 

Samuel: Yeah, maybe they visited Earth once before in the past and this is there way of saying hello.

 

Vale: An interesting idea. That would explain why the box is rather larger than the ones I’ve seen in pictures.

 

Samuel: You think I’m right?

 

Vale: No, but let’s find out. It’s not locked.

 

Vale proceeds to slowly open the door as he peaks his head around. His reaction comes as quite a surprise.

 

Vale: Oh. My. God.

 

Samuel: What is it, Vale?

 

Vale: You have got to take a look at this yourself.

 

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More of a rumination for Leica lovers than anything else, this life-sized British Police box is a working mobile gallery and vending machine of cameras.

 

In the tradition of the Dr. Who tv series, it is firstly a social statement. In this case, it reflects upon the sad state of our commercial world: the increasing use of automated machines, the small number of full staff in our superstores and the lack of high quality old world service.

 

The box has 12 compartments for 11 Leica cameras (the eleven Doctors). Each camera would be a favorite Leica model of each actor who played the Doctor in the series. It's up to you to imagine the cameras. Who would have liked a WWII Luftwaffe grey Leica? Who would look good with a larger than life M5? Some possible suspects are shown on the left on the drawing. Specific Leica designs for Doctor Who will be forthcoming. Silver would be used for the metal shell of the Leica, rather than brass, and real leather instead of leatherette for the skin.

 

A customary police box phone is used to call before considering purchase. A liveried servant would immediately arrive to show the camera inside the Tardis, which would open to reveal a Leica red interior as a backdrop for the camera (the Tardis lamp on the roof also flashes the same red when the Tardis is occupied). The client would be seated inside at an ordinary wooden police box stool and served a 30 year old scotch whiskey. Upon purchase, a maintenance plan would have scheduled appointments for CLA, as well as frequent polishing of the entire exterior of the Leica every three months. The base of the Tardis is enclosed in Leica black leather as a last touch of understated elegance.

 

Design, concepts, text and drawing are copyright 2014 by David Lo.

Visiting Alford Museum I was delighted to find this genuine Dalek from the BBC Television Show "Dr Who", it was displayed among other materials from the 70s etc, hence a quick video to archive the scene.

 

I've followed the Dr Who series from my school days ( a long time ago) hence absolute joy to view this item.

 

The Daleks - (DAH-leks) are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants principally portrayed in the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who. The Daleks were conceived by science-fiction writer Terry Nation and first appeared in the 1963 Doctor Who serial The Daleks, in the shells designed by Raymond Cusick.

 

Drawing inspirations from the real-life example of the Nazis, the Daleks are merciless and pitiless cyborg aliens, demanding total conformity, bent on conquest of the universe and the extermination of what they see as inferior races.

 

Their catchphrase, "Exterminate!", is a well-recognised reference in British popular culture.

 

Within the programme's narrative, the Daleks were engineered by the scientist Davros during the final years of a thousand-year war between his people, the Kaleds, and their enemies the Thals.

 

With some Kaleds already badly mutated and damaged by nuclear war, Davros genetically modified the Kaleds and integrated them with a tank-like, robotic shell, removing their every emotion apart from hate. His creations soon came to view themselves as the supreme race in the universe, intent on purging the universe of all non-Dalek life. Collectively they are the greatest enemies of Doctor Who's protagonist, the Time Lord known as The Doctor.

 

Later in the programme's run, the Daleks acquired time travel technology and engaged the Time Lords in a brutal Time War affecting most of the universe, with battles taking place across all of history.

 

They are among the show's most popular villains and their various returns to the series over the years have typically been widely reported in the television press.

 

Creation

 

The Daleks were created by writer Terry Nation and designed by BBC designer Raymond Cusick.

 

They were introduced in December 1963 in the second Doctor Who serial, colloquially known as The Daleks.

 

They became an immediate and huge hit with viewers, featuring in many subsequent serials and two 1960s motion pictures.

 

They have become as synonymous with Doctor Who as the Doctor himself, and their behaviour and catchphrases are now part of British popular culture. "Hiding behind the sofa whenever the Daleks appear" has been cited as an element of British cultural identity;and a 2008 survey indicated that nine out of ten British children were able to identify a Dalek correctly.

 

In 1999 a Dalek photographed by Lord Snowdon appeared on a postage stamp celebrating British popular culture.

 

In 2010, readers of science-fiction magazine SFX voted the Dalek as the all-time greatest monster, beating competition including Japanese movie monster Godzilla and J. R. R. Tolkien's Gollum, of The Lord of the Rings.

 

Entry into popular culture

 

As early as one year after first appearing on Doctor Who, the Daleks had become popular enough to be recognized even by non-viewers. In December 1964 editorial cartoonist Leslie Gilbert Illingworth published a cartoon in the Daily Mail captioned "THE DEGAULLEK", caricaturing French President Charles de Gaulle arriving at a NATO meeting as a Dalek with de Gaulle's prominent nose.

 

The word "Dalek" has entered major dictionaries, including the Oxford English Dictionary, which defines "Dalek" as "a type of robot appearing in 'Dr. Who' [sic], a B.B.C. Television science-fiction programme; hence used allusively."

 

But English-speakers sometimes use the term metaphorically to describe people, usually authority figures, who act like robots unable to break from their programming. For example, John Birt, the Director-General of the BBC from 1992 to 2000, was publicly called a "croak-voiced Dalek" by playwright Dennis Potter in the MacTaggart Lecture at the 1993 Edinburgh Television Festival.

 

Physical characteristics

 

Externally, Daleks resemble human-sized pepper pots with a single mechanical eyestalk mounted on a rotating dome, a gun mount containing an energy weapon ("gunstick" or "death ray") resembling an egg whisk, and a telescopic manipulator arm usually tipped by an appendage resembling a sink plunger. Daleks have been known to use their plungers to interface with technology, crush a man's skull by suction,[measure the intelligence of a subject, and extract information from a man's mind.[

 

Dalek casings are made of a bonded polycarbide material dubbed "dalekanium" by a member of the human resistance in The Dalek Invasion of Earth and by the Cult of Skaro in "Daleks in Manhattan".

 

The lower half of a Dalek's shell is covered with hemispherical protrusions, or "Dalek bumps", which are shown in the episode "Dalek" to be spheres embedded in the casing.[11] Both the BBC-licensed Dalek Book (1964) and The Doctor Who Technical Manual (1983) describe these items as being part of a sensory array,[ whilst in the 2005 series episode "Dalek", they are integral to a Dalek's self-destruct mechanism.

 

Their armour has a forcefield that evaporates most bullets and resists most types of energy weapons. The forcefield seems to be concentrated around the Dalek's midsection (where the mutant is located), as normally ineffective firepower can be concentrated on the eyestalk to blind a Dalek. Daleks have a very limited visual field, with no peripheral sight at all, and are relatively easy to hide from in fairly exposed places. Their own energy weapons are capable of destroying them.

 

Their weapons fire a beam that has electrical tendencies, is capable of propagating through water, and may be a form of plasma or electrolaser.

 

The eyepiece is a Dalek's most vulnerable spot; impairing its vision often leads to a blind, panicked firing of its weapon while exclaiming "My vision is impaired; I cannot see!" Russell T Davies subverted the catchphrase in his 2008 episode "The Stolen Earth", in which a Dalek vaporises a paintball that has blocked its vision while proclaiming "My vision is not impaired!"

 

Kaled mutants are octopus-like; many are coloured green, such as this one from "Resurrection of the Daleks".

 

The creature inside the mechanical casing is soft and repulsive in appearance and vicious in temperament. The first-ever glimpse of a Dalek mutant, in The Daleks, was a claw peeking out from under a Thal cloak after it had been removed from its casing.

 

The mutants' actual appearance has varied, but often adheres to the Doctor's description of the species in Remembrance of the Daleks as "little green blobs in bonded polycarbide armour".

 

In Resurrection of the Daleks a Dalek creature, separated from its casing, attacks and severely injures a human soldier; in Remembrance of the Daleks, there are two Dalek factions (Imperial and Renegade) and the creatures inside have a different appearance in each case, one resembling the amorphous creature from Resurrection, the other the crab-like creature from the original Dalek serial.

 

As the creature inside is rarely seen on screen, a common misconception exists that Daleks are wholly mechanical robots.

 

In the new series Daleks are retconned to be mollusc-like in appearance, with small tentacles, one or two eyes, and an exposed brain.

 

Daleks' voices are electronic; when out of its casing the mutant is only able to squeak. Once the mutant is removed, the casing itself can be entered and operated by humanoids; for example, in The Daleks, Ian Chesterton (William Russell) enters a Dalek shell to masquerade as a guard as part of an escape plan.

 

In a dark basement, a white Dalek (see previous description) appears to levitate up a small staircase of approximately seven stairs. The body of the Dalek is white, with shiny gold vertical slats and gold balls on its lower half. There is an orange-yellow glow at the Dalek's base.

 

For many years it was assumed that, due to their design and gliding motion, Daleks were unable to climb stairs, and that this was a simple way of escaping them. A well-known cartoon from Punch pictured a group of Daleks at the foot of a flight of stairs with the caption, "Well, this certainly buggers our plan to conquer the Universe".

 

In a scene from the serial Destiny of the Daleks, the Doctor and companions escape from Dalek pursuers by climbing into a ceiling duct. The Fourth Doctor calls down, "If you're supposed to be the superior race of the universe, why don't you try climbing after us?"

 

The Daleks generally make up for their lack of mobility with overwhelming firepower; a joke among Doctor Who fans goes, "Real Daleks don't climb stairs; they level the building."

 

Dalek mobility has improved over the history of the series: in their first appearance, The Daleks, they were capable of movement only on the conductive metal floors of their city; in The Dalek Invasion of Earth a Dalek emerges from the waters of the River Thames, indicating that they not only had become freely mobile, but are amphibious;Planet of the Daleks showed that they could ascend a vertical shaft by means of an external anti-gravity mat placed on the floor; Revelation of the Daleks showed Davros in his life-support chair and one of his Daleks hovering and Remembrance of the Daleks depicted them as capable of hovering up a flight of stairs.

 

Despite this, journalists covering the series frequently refer to the Daleks' supposed inability to climb stairs; characters escaping up a flight of stairs in the 2005 episode "Dalek" made the same joke, and were shocked when the Dalek began to hover up the stairs after uttering the phrase "ELEVATE", in a similar manner to their normal phrase "EXTERMINATE".

 

The new series depicts the Daleks as fully capable of flight, even space flight.

 

Prop details

 

The non-humanoid shape of the Dalek did much to enhance the creatures' sense of menace[citation needed]. A lack of familiar reference points differentiated them from the traditional "bug-eyed monster" of science fiction, which Doctor Who creator Sydney Newman had wanted the show to avoid.

 

The unsettling Dalek form, coupled with their alien voices, made many believe that the props were wholly mechanical and operated by remote control.

 

The Daleks were actually controlled from inside by short operators who had to manipulate their eyestalks, domes, and arms, as well as flashing the lights on their heads in sync with the actors supplying their voices. The Dalek cases were built in two pieces; an operator would step into the lower section, and then the top would be secured. The operators looked out between the cylindrical louvres just beneath the dome, which were lined with mesh to conceal their faces.

 

In addition to being hot and cramped the Dalek casings also muffled external sounds, making it difficult for operators to hear the director's commands or studio dialogue. John Scott Martin, a Dalek operator from the original series, said that Dalek operation was a challenge: "You had to have about six hands: one to do the eyestalk, one to do the lights, one for the gun, another for the smoke canister underneath, yet another for the sink plunger. If you were related to an octopus then it helped."

 

For Doctor Who's 21st-century revival the Dalek casings retain the same overall shape and dimensional proportions of previous Daleks, although many details have been re-designed to give the Dalek a heavier and more solid look.

 

Changes include a larger, more pointed base; a glowing eyepiece; an all-over metallic-brass finish (specified by Davies); thicker, nailed strips on the "neck" section; a housing for the eyestalk pivot; and significantly larger dome lights.

 

The new prop made its on-screen debut in the 2005 episode "Dalek". These Dalek casings use a short operator inside the housing while the 'head' and eyestalk are operated via remote control. A third person, Nicholas Briggs, supplies the voice in their various appearances.

 

In the 2010 season a new, larger model appeared in several colours representing different parts of the Dalek command hierarchy.

 

Movement

 

Terry Nation's original plan was for the Daleks to glide across the floor. Early versions of the Daleks rolled on nylon castors, propelled by the operator's feet. Although castors were adequate for the Daleks' debut serial, which was shot entirely at the BBC's Lime Grove Studios, for The Dalek Invasion of Earth Terry Nation wanted the Daleks to be filmed on the streets of London. To enable the Daleks to travel smoothly on location, designer Spencer Chapman built the new Dalek shells around miniature tricycles with sturdier wheels, which were hidden by enlarged fenders fitted below the original base.

 

The uneven flagstones of Central London caused the Daleks to rattle as they moved and it was not possible to remove this noise from the final soundtrack. A small parabolic dish was added to the rear of the prop's casing to explain why these Daleks, unlike the ones in their first serial, were not dependent on static electricity drawn up from the floors of the Dalek city for their motive power.

 

Later versions of the prop had more efficient wheels and were once again simply propelled by the seated operators' feet, but they remained so heavy that when going up ramps they often had to be pushed by stagehands out of camera shot. The difficulty of operating all the prop's parts at once contributed to the occasionally jerky Dalek movements.

 

This problem has largely been eradicated with the advent of the "new series" version, as its remotely controlled dome and eyestalk allow the operator to concentrate on the smooth movement of the Dalek and its arms.

 

Voices

 

The staccato delivery, harsh tone, and rising inflection of the Dalek voice were initially developed by voice actors Peter Hawkins and David Graham, who would vary the pitch and speed of the lines according to the emotion needed. Their voices were further processed electronically by Brian Hodgson at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

 

Although the exact sound-processing devices used have varied, the original 1963 effect used equalisation to boost the mid-range of the actor's voice, then subjected it to ring modulation with a 30 Hz sine wave. The distinctive harsh grating vocal timbre this produced has remained the pattern for all Dalek voices since (with the exception of those in the 1985 serial Revelation of the Daleks, for which director Graeme Harper deliberately used less distortion).

 

Besides Hawkins and Graham, notable voice actors for the Daleks have included Roy Skelton, who first voiced the Daleks in the 1967 story The Evil of the Daleks and went on to provide voices for five additional Dalek serials including Planet of the Daleks, and for the one-off anniversary special The Five Doctors. Michael Wisher, the actor who originated the role of Dalek creator Davros in Genesis of the Daleks, provided Dalek voices for that same story, as well as for Frontier in Space, Planet of the Daleks, and Death to the Daleks. Other Dalek voice actors include Royce Mills (three stories),Brian Miller (two stories), and Oliver Gilbert and Peter Messaline (one story).

 

John Leeson, who performed the voice of K9 in several Doctor Who stories, and Davros actors Terry Molloy and David Gooderson also contributed supporting voices for various Dalek serials.

 

Since 2005, the Dalek voice in the television series has been provided by Nicholas Briggs, speaking into a microphone connected to a voice modulator.

 

Briggs had previously provided Dalek and other alien voices for Big Finish Productions audio plays, and continues to do so. In a 2006 BBC Radio interview, Briggs said that when the BBC asked him to do the voice for the new television series, they instructed him to bring his own analogue ring modulator that he had used in the audio plays. The BBC's sound department had changed to a digital platform and could not adequately create the distinctive Dalek sound with their modern equipment. Briggs went as far as to bring the voice modulator to the actors' readings of the scripts.

 

Construction

 

Manufacturing the props was expensive. In scenes where many Daleks had to appear, some of them would be represented by wooden replicas (Destiny of the Daleks) or life-size photographic enlargements in the early black-and-white episodes (The Daleks, The Dalek Invasion of Earth, and The Power of the Daleks).

 

In stories involving armies of Daleks, the BBC effects team even turned to using commercially available toy Daleks, manufactured by Louis Marx & Co and Herts Plastic Moulders Ltd. Examples of this can be observed in the serials The Power of the Daleks, The Evil of the Daleks, and Planet of the Daleks.[48] Judicious editing techniques also gave the impression that there were more Daleks than were actually available, such as using a split screen in "The Parting of the Ways".

 

Four fully functioning props were commissioned for the first serial "The Daleks" in 1963, and were constructed from BBC plans by Shawcraft Engineering.

 

These became known in fan circles as "Mk I Daleks". Shawcraft were also commissioned to construct approximately 20 Daleks for the two Dalek movies in 1965 and 1966 (see below). Some of these movie props filtered back to the BBC and were seen in the televised serials, notably The Chase, which was aired before the first movie's debut. The remaining props not bought by the BBC were either donated to charity or given away as prizes in competitions.

 

The BBC's own Dalek props were reused many times, with components of the original Shawcraft "Mk I Daleks" surviving right through to their final classic series appearance in 1988.

But years of storage and repainting took their toll. By the time of the Sixth Doctor's Revelation of the Daleks new props were being manufactured out of fibreglass.

 

These models were lighter and more affordable to construct than their predecessors. These newer models were slightly bulkier in appearance around the mid-shoulder section, and also had a redesigned skirt section which was more vertical at the back. Other minor changes were made to the design due to these new construction methods, including altering the fender and incorporating the arm boxes, collars, and slats into a single fibreglass moulding.

 

These props were repainted in grey for the Seventh Doctor serial Remembrance of the Daleks and designated as "Renegade Daleks"; another redesign, painted in cream and gold, became the "Imperial Dalek" faction.

 

New Dalek props were built for the 21st century version of Doctor Who. The first, which appeared alone in the 2005 episode "Dalek", was built by modelmaker Mike Tucker.

Additional Dalek props based on Tucker's master were subsequently built out of fibreglass by Cardiff-based Specialist Models.

 

Development

 

Wishing to create an alien creature that did not look like a "man in a suit", Terry Nation stated in his script for the first Dalek serial that they should have no legs. He was also inspired by a performance by the Georgian National Ballet, in which dancers in long skirts appeared to glide across the stage.[56] For many of the shows, the Daleks were operated by retired ballet dancers wearing black socks while sitting inside the Dalek. Raymond Cusick (who died on 21 February 2013) was given the task of designing the Daleks when Ridley Scott, then a designer for the BBC, proved unavailable after having been initially assigned to their debut serial.

 

An account in Jeremy Bentham's Doctor Who—The Early Years (1986) says that after Nation wrote the script, Cusick was given only an hour to come up with the design for the Daleks, and was inspired in his initial sketches by a pepper shaker on a table. Cusick himself, however, states that he based it on a man seated in a chair, and only used the pepper shaker to demonstrate how it might move.

 

In 1964 Nation told a Daily Mirror reporter that the Dalek name came from a dictionary or encyclopaedia volume, the spine of which read "Dal – Lek" (or, according to another version, "Dal – Eks"). He later admitted that this book and the origin of the Dalek name was completely fictitious, and that anyone bothering to check out his story would have found him out.[61] The name had in reality simply rolled off his typewriter.

 

Later, Nation was pleasantly surprised to discover that in Serbo-Croatian the word "dalek" means "far", or "distant".

 

Nation grew up during World War II, and remembered the fear caused by German bombings. He consciously based the Daleks on the Nazis, conceiving the species as faceless, authoritarian figures dedicated to conquest and complete conformity. The allusion is most obvious in the Dalek stories penned by Nation, in particular The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964) and Genesis of the Daleks (1975).

 

Prior to writing the first Dalek serial, Nation was chief scriptwriter for comedian Tony Hancock. The two had a falling out, and Nation either resigned or was fired.

 

When Hancock left the BBC, he worked on several series proposals, one of which was called From Plip to Plop, a comedic history of the world which would have ended with a nuclear apocalypse, the survivors being reduced to living in dustbin-like robot casings and eating radiation to stay alive. According to biographer Cliff Goodwin, when Hancock saw the Daleks, he allegedly shouted at the screen, "That bloody Nation—he's stolen my robots!"[69]

 

The naming of early Doctor Who stories is complex and sometimes controversial. The first Dalek serial is called, variously, The Survivors (the pre-production title), The Mutants (its official title at the time of production and broadcast, later taken by another unrelated story), Beyond the Sun (used on some production documentation), The Dead Planet (the on-screen title of the serial's first episode), or simply The Daleks.

 

The instant appeal of the Daleks caught the BBC off guard,and transformed Doctor Who from a Saturday tea-time children's educational programme to a must-watch national phenomenon. Children were alternately frightened and fascinated by the alien look of the monsters, and the Doctor Who production office was inundated by letters and calls asking about the creatures. Newspaper articles focused attention on the series and the Daleks, further enhancing their popularity.

 

Nation jointly owned the intellectual property rights to the Daleks with the BBC, and the money-making concept proved nearly impossible to sell to anyone else; he was dependent on the BBC wanting to produce stories featuring the creatures.

Several attempts to market the Daleks outside of the series were unsuccessful.Since Nation's death in 1997, his share of the rights is now administered by his former agent, Tim Hancock.

 

Early plans for what eventually became the 1996 Doctor Who television movie included radically redesigned Daleks whose cases unfolded like spiders' legs. The concept for these "Spider Daleks" was abandoned, but picked up again in several Doctor Who spin-offs.

 

When the new series was announced, many fans hoped the Daleks would return once more to the programme.

 

The Nation estate however demanded levels of creative control over the Daleks' appearances and scripts that were unacceptable to the BBC.[80] Eventually the Daleks were cleared to appear in the first series.

 

Fictional history

 

Main article: History of the Daleks

Dalek in-universe history has seen many retroactive changes, which have caused continuity problems. When the Daleks first appeared, they were presented as the descendants of the Dals, mutated after a brief nuclear war between the Dal and Thal races 500 years ago. This race of Daleks is destroyed when their power supply is wrecked.

 

However, when they reappear in The Dalek Invasion of Earth, they have conquered Earth in the 22nd century. Later stories saw them develop time travel and a space empire. In 1975, Terry Nation revised the Daleks' origins in Genesis of the Daleks, where the Dals were now called Kaleds (of which "Daleks" is an anagram), and the Dalek design was attributed to one man, the crippled Kaled chief scientist and evil genius, Davros.[84] Instead of a short nuclear exchange, the Kaled-Thal war was portrayed as a thousand-year-long war of attrition, fought with nuclear, biological and chemical weapons which caused widespread mutations among the Kaled race.

 

Davros experimented on living Kaled cells to find the ultimate mutated form of the Kaled species and placed the subjects in tank-like "travel machines" whose design was based on his own life-support chair.

 

Genesis of the Daleks marked a new era for the depiction of the species, with most of their previous history either forgotten or barely referred to again.Future stories in the original Doctor Who series, which followed a rough story arc,would also focus more on Davros, much to the dissatisfaction of some fans who felt that the Daleks should take centre stage rather than merely becoming minions of their creator.

 

Davros made his last televised appearance for 20 years in Remembrance of the Daleks, which depicted a civil war between two factions of Daleks. One faction, the "Imperial Daleks", were loyal to Davros, who had become their Emperor, whilst the other, the "Renegade Daleks", followed a black Supreme Dalek. By the end of the story, both factions have been wiped out and the Doctor has tricked them into destroying Skaro, though Davros escapes.

 

A single Dalek appeared in "Dalek", written by Robert Shearman, which was broadcast on BBC One on 30 April 2005. This Dalek appeared to be the sole Dalek survivor of the Time War which had destroyed both the Daleks and the Time Lords.

 

A Dalek Emperor returned at the end of the 2005 series, having rebuilt the Dalek race with genetic material harvested from human subjects. It saw itself as a god, and the new Daleks were shown worshipping it. These Daleks and their fleet were destroyed in "The Parting of the Ways".

 

The 2006 season finale "Army of Ghosts"/"Doomsday" featured a squad of four Dalek survivors from the old Empire, known as the Cult of Skaro, led by a black Dalek known as "Sec", that had survived the Time War by escaping into the Void between dimensions. They emerged, along with the Genesis Ark, a Time Lord prison vessel containing millions of Daleks, at Canary Wharf due to the actions of the Torchwood Institute and Cybermen from a parallel world.

 

This resulted in a Cyberman-Dalek clash in London, which was resolved when the Tenth Doctor caused both groups to be sucked back into the Void. The Cult survived by utilising an "emergency temporal shift" to escape.

 

These four Daleks - Sec, Jast, Thay and Caan - returned in the two-part story "Daleks in Manhattan"/"Evolution of the Daleks", in which whilst stranded in 1930s New York, they set up a base in the partially built Empire State Building and attempt to rebuild the Dalek race. To this end, Dalek Sec merges with a human being to become a Human/Dalek hybrid. The Cult then set about creating "Human Daleks" by "formatting" the brains of a few thousand captured humans, with the intention of producing hybrids which remain fully human in appearance but with Dalek minds.[

 

Dalek Sec, however, starts to become so human that he changes the DNA to make the hybrids more human. This angers the rest of the Cult, resulting in mutiny and the death of Sec, Thay and Jast as well as the wiping out of all the hybrids. This leaves Dalek Caan as the last Dalek in existence. When the Doctor makes Caan realise that he is the last of his kind, Caan uses emergency temporal shift and escapes once more.

 

The Daleks returned in the 2008 season's two-part finale, "The Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End", accompanied once again by their creator Davros. The story reveals that Caan's temporal shift sent him into the Time War whence he rescued Davros, in the process gaining the ability to see the future at the cost of his own sanity. Davros has created a new race using his own body's cells.

 

The episode depicts a Dalek invasion of Earth, which with other planets is taken to the Medusa Cascade, led by a red Supreme Dalek, who has kept Caan and Davros imprisoned in "The Vault", a section of the Dalek flagship, the Crucible. Davros and the Daleks plan to destroy reality itself with a "reality bomb" for which they need the stolen planets. The plan fails due to the interference of Donna Noble, a companion of the Doctor, and Caan himself, who has been manipulating events to destroy the Daleks after realising the severity of the atrocities they have committed.

 

The Daleks returned in the 2010 episode "Victory of the Daleks", the third episode of the series; Daleks who escaped the destruction of Davros' empire fell back in time and, by chance, managed to retrieve the "Progenitor".

 

This is a tiny apparatus which contains 'original' Dalek DNA. The activation of the Progenitor results in the creation of a "new paradigm" of Daleks. The New Paradigm Daleks deem their creators inferior and exterminate them; their creators make no resistance to this, deeming themselves inferior as well. They are organised into different roles (drone, scientist, strategists, supreme and eternal), which are identifiable with colour-coded armour instead of the identification plates under the eyestalk used by their predecessors. They escape the Doctor at the end of the episode via time travel with the intent to rebuild their Empire.

 

The Daleks only appeared briefly in subsequent finales "The Pandorica Opens"/"The Big Bang" (2010) and The Wedding of River Song (2011) as Steven Moffat decided to "give them a rest" and stated "There's a problem with the Daleks. They are the most famous of the Doctor's adversaries and the most frequent, which means they are the most reliably defeatable enemies in the universe."

 

They next appear in "Asylum of the Daleks" (2012), where the Daleks are shown to have greatly increased numbers and have a Parliament; in addition to the traditional "modern" Daleks, several designs from both the original and new series appear. All record of the Doctor is removed from their collective consciousness at the end of the episode. The Daleks then appear in the 50th Anniversary special "The Day of the Doctor", where they are seen being defeated in the Time War. In "The Time of the Doctor", the Daleks are one of the races that travel to Trenzalore and besiege it for centuries to stop the Doctor from releasing the Time Lords.

 

Due to converting Tasha Lem into a Dalek puppet, they regain knowledge of the Doctor. In the end, they are the only enemy left, the others having retreated or been destroyed and nearly kill the near-death Doctor before the Time Lords intervene and grant him a new regeneration cycle. The Doctor then uses his regeneration energy to obliterate the Daleks on the planet.

 

The Twelfth Doctor's first encounter with the Daleks is in his second full episode, "Into the Dalek" (2014), where he encounters a damaged Dalek, which he names 'Rusty', aboard a human resistance ship. Left with the Doctor's love of the universe and his hatred of the Daleks, he spares its life; it assumes a mission to destroy other Daleks. In "The Magician's Apprentice"/"The Witch's Familiar" (2015), the Doctor is summoned to Skaro where he learns Davros is alive, but dying, and has rebuilt the Dalek Empire. He escapes Davros' clutches by enlivening the decrepit Daleks of Skaro's sewers, who tear the empire apart, leaving behind the Master (Michelle Gomez), who accompanied him to Skaro. In "The Pilot" (2017), the Doctor briefly visits a battle in the Dalek-Movellan war while trying to escape a time travelling enemy.

 

Dalek culture

 

Daleks have little, if any, individual personality, ostensibly no emotions other than hatred and anger,[11] and a strict command structure in which they are conditioned to obey superiors' orders without question.

 

Dalek speech is characterised by repeated phrases, and by orders given to themselves and to others.

 

Unlike the stereotypical emotionless robots often found in science fiction, Daleks are often angry; author Kim Newman has described the Daleks as behaving "like toddlers in perpetual hissy fits", gloating when in power and flying into rage when thwarted.

 

They tend to be excitable and will repeat the same word or phrase over and over again in heightened emotional states, most famously "Exterminate! Exterminate!"

 

Daleks are extremely aggressive, and seem driven by an instinct to attack. This instinct is so strong that Daleks have been depicted fighting the urge to kill or even attacking when unarmed.

 

The Fifth Doctor characterises this impulse by saying, "However you respond [to Daleks] is seen as an act of provocation."

 

The fundamental feature of Dalek culture and psychology is an unquestioned belief in the superiority of the Dalek race,and their default directive is to destroy all non-Dalek life-forms.[

 

Other species are either to be exterminated immediately or enslaved and then exterminated once they are no longer useful.

 

The Dalek obsession with their own superiority is illustrated by the schism between the Renegade and Imperial Daleks seen in Revelation of the Daleks and Remembrance of the Daleks: the two factions each consider the other to be a perversion despite the relatively minor differences between them.

 

This intolerance of any "contamination" within themselves is also shown in "Dalek", The Evil of the Daleks and in the Big Finish Productions audio play The Mutant Phase.

 

This superiority complex is the basis of the Daleks' ruthlessness and lack of compassion.[11][93] This is shown in extreme in "Victory of the Daleks", where the new, pure Daleks destroy their creators, impure Daleks, with the latters' consent. It is nearly impossible to negotiate or reason with a Dalek, a single-mindedness that makes them dangerous and not to be underestimated.

 

The Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) is later puzzled in the "Asylum of the Daleks" as to why the Daleks don't just kill the sequestered ones that have "gone wrong". Although the Asylum is subsequently obliterated, the Prime Minister of the Daleks explains that "it is offensive to us to destroy such divine hatred", and the Doctor is sickened at the revelation that hatred is actually considered beautiful by the Daleks.

 

Dalek society is depicted as one of extreme scientific and technological advancement; the Third Doctor states that "it was their inventive genius that made them one of the greatest powers in the universe."

 

However, their reliance on logic and machinery is also a strategic weakness which they recognise, and thus use more emotion-driven species as agents to compensate for these shortcomings.

 

Although the Daleks are not known for their regard for due process, they have taken at least two enemies back to Skaro for a "trial", rather than killing them immediately. The first was their creator, Davros, in Revelation of the Daleks,[39] and the second was the renegade Time Lord known as the Master in the 1996 television movie.[98] The reasons for the Master's trial, and why the Doctor would be asked to retrieve the Master's remains, have never been explained on screen.

 

The Doctor Who Annual 2006 implies that the trial may have been due to a treaty signed between the Time Lords and the Daleks. The framing device for the I, Davros audio plays is a Dalek trial to determine if Davros should be the Daleks' leader once more.

 

Spin-off novels contain several tongue-in-cheek mentions of Dalek poetry, and an anecdote about an opera based upon it, which was lost to posterity when the entire cast was exterminated on the opening night. Two stanzas are given in the novel The Also People by Ben Aaronovitch.

 

In an alternative timeline portrayed in the Big Finish Productions audio adventure The Time of the Daleks, the Daleks show a fondness for the works of Shakespeare.

 

A similar idea was satirised by comedian Frankie Boyle in the BBC comedy quiz programme Mock the Week; he gave the fictional Dalek poem "Daffodils; EXTERMINATE DAFFODILS!" as an "unlikely line to hear in Doctor Who".

 

Because the Doctor has defeated the Daleks so often, he has become their collective arch-enemy and they have standing orders to capture or exterminate him on sight. In later fiction, the Daleks know the Doctor as "Ka Faraq Gatri" ("Bringer of Darkness" or "Destroyer of Worlds"), and "The Oncoming Storm".

 

Both the Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) and Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) suggest that the Doctor is one of the few beings the Daleks fear. In "Doomsday", Rose notes that while the Daleks see the extermination of five million Cybermen as "pest control", "one Doctor" visibly un-nerves them (to the point they physically recoil).[13] To his indignant surprise, in "Asylum of the Daleks", the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) learns that the Daleks have designated him as "The Predator".

 

As the Doctor escapes the Asylum (with companions Amy and Rory), a Dalek-converted-human (Oswin Oswald) prisoner provides critical assistance, which culminates in completely deleting the Doctor from the Dalek hive-consciousness (the PathWeb), thus wiping the slate entirely blank. However, this was reversed in "The Time of the Doctor", when the Daleks regained knowledge of the Doctor through the memory of an old acquaintance of the Doctor, Tasha Lem.

 

Measurements

 

A rel is a Dalek and Kaled unit of measurement. It was usually a measurement of time, with a duration of slightly more than one second, as mentioned in "Doomsday", "Evolution of the Daleks" and "Journey's End", counting down to the ignition of the reality bomb. (One earth minute most likely equals about 50 rels.) However, in some comic books it was also used as a unit of velocity. Finally, in some cases it was used as a unit of hydroelectric energy (not to be confused with a vep, the unit used to measure artificial sunlight).

 

The rel was first used in the non-canonical feature film Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D., soon after appearing in early Doctor Who comic books.

   

This view shows the cloak spread out to show all panels. There is a complete list of all the badges, starting on the first picture in this set, and extending over several others.

 

In the end (and I have a feeling this project will never really end!) there were so many badges that could be included that I decided to make a second cloak.

 

BADGE LIST FOR FANTASTIQUE #1

ROBERT JAN'S MIXED GENRE UNIVERSE

KLINGON/PREDATOR

TROPHY CLOAK WEARABLE ART/COSTUME

 

PART TWO- D TO L

 

Dark Angel

 

-Jam Pony Bicycle Courier company supervisor designed logo. U.S.A flag on organe background with stylised hand giving the 'thumbs up!' Red letters JAM PONY

and yellow letters Ride With Pride.

-Original Jam Pony logo- Stylised blue bicycle courier on red oval.

-Manticore Project insignia. Black outline of skull with black elipses on stylised blue-grey Manticore on light blue oval with wide black border

-Joshuah’s Freak nation flag. Stylised white dove on horizontally white, red and black stripes. The black stripe has a red bar-code.

 

Dark Star

 

-Yellow Sun Arm patch. Stylised yellow sun and flames on black rectangle with yellow border.

-Yellow Sun and lightning bolts arm patch. Yellow star on black upper rectangle with yellow lighting flashes over lower red rectangle.

-White letters PINBACK on black stripe

 

Dominion Tank Police (Manga)

 

BONAPARTE TANK POLICE Red heart containing yellow star and white U-shaped stripe.

 

Doctor Who

 

McCoy era question mark

Supervoc Robots Of Death chest badge

Earth police insignia-(as worn by the Master in The Space War)

Cyberman tomb insignia

Classic UNIT Cap badge

Classic U.N.I.T shoulder flash.

Timelord symbol

Ace Demolitions-Nitro-9

-The Doctor's calling card, Rememberance Of The Daleks. Gold question mark on black circle with diagonal black stripe with flanking Gallifrean letters on white rectangle.

-Scrap metal merchants where Doctor first materialised in first serial. White letters I.M. FOREMAN Scrap Merchants, 76 TROTTERS LANE on blue rectangle.

 

The Dream

 

Roy and H.G's Fatso the Wombat patch.

 

Dune (Movie)

 

-Atriedes red hawk collar patch. Red and black stylised hawk facing left on black square background with red border.

-Atriedes gold hawk collar patch. Gold stylised hawk facing right on black square background with red border.

-Bene Gesseret Rune

 

Escape From New York

 

-Snake Plissken namestripe. Black stenciled letters PLISSKEN on green stripe.

-USPF blue letters on white stripe. United States Police Force stylised white eagle on red and blue shield with blue border.

 

Evolution

 

Three eyed Smiley badge

 

Fantastic Voyage

 

Submarine Proteus

 

Farhenheit 451 (Movie)

 

-“451” silver letters on black circle with silver border

-Fireman’s badge. Styised red salamander on black rectangle with grey border.

 

Farscape

 

-Crichton's IASA patch. IASA on blue gridded Earth globe with diagonal red orbit track

-Crichton's Farscape 1 Mission Patch. Black FARSCAPE letters on yellow stripe on large white 1 on red bordered, dark blue roundel with white stars and white and blue orbital ellipses.

 

Fawlty Towers

 

-Black WARTY TOWELS letters on white stylised pointing hand

 

Felix The Cat

 

Felix

 

Final Fantasy

 

-”DEEPEYES” black letters on grey stripe

-Stylised Deepeyes ocular logo in circle on grey background.

 

Fireball XL5

 

“XL5”

 

The Fifth Element (Movie)

 

-Council Of Federated Territories badge. White letters COUNCIL OF FEDERATED TERRITORIES on black circle around blue cartographic ellipse grid with diagonal red ellipse orbit superimposed. Gold and yellow plant sheaves on stellar background.

-Police shield. POLICE 2167 with other indecipherable black letters on yellow shield.

-Zorg corporation building logo. ”ZORG” stylised blue letters on orange rectangle on red rectangle

 

The Flintstones

 

-Fred’s Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes lodge badge. Orange letters GRAND IMPERIAL POOHBAH-FRED FLINTSTONE, LOYAL ORDER OF WATER BUFFALOES around light blue roundel with cartoon of Fred wearing Water Buffaloe lodge hat.

  

F-Troop

 

-Black FORT COURAGE F-TROOP letters on black bordered white stripe.

 

Futurama

 

Planet Express

 

Galaxy Quest-

 

Ship badge, silver ringed planet and stars

 

Get Smart

 

KAOS Vulture standing on globe.

 

Ghostbusters

 

-White ghost with universal NO red circle and bar overlay. As used in film.

-Stanz name stripe. Red letters STANZ on black, red bordered stripe.

-Spengler name stripe. Red letters SPENGLER on black, red bordered stripe.

-Venkman name stripe. Red letters VENKMAN on black, red bordered stripe.

 

Gigantor

 

-“GIGANTOR- JAMES SPARKS” white letters on rectangular border around picture of Gigantor and James Sparks in action

  

G.I Joe

 

Cobra

 

The Greatest American Hero

 

Chest logo from the supersuit. Red wedge with handles on white circle with black indented border

 

The Green Hornet

 

Green Hornet logo on light blue circle.

 

Gunsmith Cats

 

Gunsmith Cats stripe. Light orange letters GUNSMITH CATS on red stripe.

 

Hellboy

 

-Red letters BUREAU FOR PARANORMAL RESEARCH AND DEFENSE on dark red circle with stylised hand holding sword on inner circle.

 

Hill Street Blues

 

-Standard Hill Street Shoulder patch. Gold HILL ST. PCT. METROPOLITAN POLICE letters and gold stylised torch on gold borderd black kite shield.

-Howard Hunter’s Emergency Action Team patch. Yellow letters EMERGENCY ACTION TEAM on yellow bordered black circle around stylised gold red flamed torch on black roundel

 

The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy

 

-Neon blue SIRIUS CYBERNETICS CORPORATION letters on black rhoboid with scircuitry and neon blue border.

 

-Don’t Panic. Red stencil letters DON’T PANIC on black rectangle with red border.

 

Home Improvement

 

-Binford stripe. Green letters Binford on white stripe with red border.

Home Improvement House logo

 

H.R Puffnstuff

  

Hunt For Red October

 

-U.S.S Dallas patch. Red and black flag with flower imposed over map with letters

USS DALLAS SSN 700 on white hatch shaped background with black stripe surrond.

-Red October patch. Red Cyrillic letter RED OCTOBER above black ssilhouette of submarine with red star on irregular white plaque.

 

The Incredibles

 

-Incredibles uniform insignia. Yellow i on black and orange swirl on red rectangle

 

Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade

 

Brotherhood Of The Grail Cross. Stylised red three horizontal barred cross on white rectangular background with red border.

 

International Space Station

 

Large rectangular patch with station and national flags International Space Station

-White letters INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION on dark blue rectangle above stylised white space station over Earth globe with two white orbits on red borderd dark blue shield above green laurel leaves.

 

James Bond

 

MI5 Intelligence Triangle. British crown on black triangle with gold letters EIIR-U.K.-M-V-INTELLIGENCE-007

-SPECTRE, Special Executive For Crime, Terror, Revenge And Extortion. Stylised white octopus (four tentacles only) in oval frame. From Russia With Love.

-Cover company. White letters UNIVERSAL EXPORTS LTD on blue border around white globe with yellow continents.

 

Kenny Everett Video Show

 

-Captain Kremin insignia. Red letter K with single wing, outlined in white with black border

Kill Bill

 

-Red Apple Cigarettes label. Red letters RED APPLE above green, grinning worm coring out red apple on yellow rectangular tin with chrome trim

 

Kimba The White Lion

 

-“WHO’S THE REAL LION KING IN DEEPEST, DARKEST AFRICA? KIMBA !!” black letters on tan circle with picture of Kimba the white lion againts blue sky

 

Kingdom Hospital

 

-Hospital logo. Split, red, inverted pike head on whit rectangle with black border.

 

A Knight's Tale

 

Sir Ulrich von Lichenstein's Phoenix banner. Stylised Black phoenix emerging from red flame

 

Knight Rider

 

-Knight Rider 2000 door logo. Gold TKR letters on triangle with brown Team Knight Rider on triangular border

 

Jaws-

 

Amity Police shield

 

Joe 90

 

-World Intelligence Network badge. Red letters WIN MOST SPECIAL AGENT on light blue shield badge with blue globe

 

Jonny Quest

 

-Red letters JONNY QUEST on white inverted triangle with portrait of JQ on red roundel above yellow letters JONNY on black oval

 

Jurassic Park

 

-Jurassic Park logo. White letters JURASSIC PARK on black stripe over black skeletonic dinosaur on white roundel all on green rectangle.

 

The Kenny Everett Video Show

 

Red K Captain Kremmen Of Star Command

 

Kimba The White Lion

 

-Kimba standing proud on Arican background with black letters WHO’S THE REAL KING IN DEEPEST, DARKEST AFRICA? on tan circle

 

La Lune a un Metre

 

(A Trip To The Moon) Melies film, 1898. Man in the Moon with spaceship in eye.

 

Land of The Giants-

 

Sub Orbital Shuttle Spindrift

 

The Last Starfighter

 

Arcade logo with winged sword on circular space background with flanking red and blue stripes with blue planet

 

LEXX

 

-Black letters STANLEY TWEEDLE, KAI, ZEV,790 on red trimmed, blue rectangular border, surrounding photo of crew with white letters LEXX

 

The Lord Of The Rings (Films)

 

-Rohan banner. Stylised white horse and red sunburst on black rectangle with red border

-Gandalf’s Rune. Black rune on light grey square with white border

-White handprint of Saruman on black roundel.

-Gondorian banner. Stylised white tree surmounted by white crown and 7 stars on blue square

 

Laurel & Hardy

 

-Sons Of The Desert Lodge Cap Badge. Yellow letters SONS OF THE DESERT on red half roundel with stylised yellow sun rise and yellow border

 

Lost In Space

 

Jupiter 2- Robinson - West Settler's Wagon being pulled by atom across oval space background

Alpha Control October 16th. 1997 Colonization Mission Jupiter Two bow elevation on light blue circle.

  

The Doctor finds more than he bargains for on the planet of Paladin.

   

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The new Doctor (Matt Smith) with his new companion Amy Pond (Karen Gillan)

*wow! can't believe this photo has now had over 7,000 views ! just proves how many Doctor Who fans are out there =))

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Occasionally I like to hark back to the past even in dress and classic who. Who remembers the 1980's and the adventures of the timelords way back when... It's been a long time since I did a round purely for fun and adventure.

 

Based on the uncamoflauged TARDISes from 'The War Games' (which were not quite the same props as the SIDRATs from that story but pretty close). It was quite fun figuring out the door mechanism.

Pattern on Soma’s Blog

Blogged

Visit this location at Timelord Sandbox - 10 Hour Auto-return in Second Life

 

The BBC have been filming an episode of Dr Who in Charlestown, Cornwall this week on the tall ships.

 

I popped down with my daughter and my camera to watch Karen Gillan film a piece for Dr Who Confidential. She was nice enough to pose for a photograph with my daughter and friends afterwards.

  

From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Pond

Amy Pond meets the Doctor in the first episode of the 2010 series, "The Eleventh Hour". Fresh from his regeneration and having crashed the TARDIS into Amy's back garden, the Doctor is dressed in the torn and soiled remains of the Tenth Doctor's attire and is in the final stages of his regeneration, making him behave erratically, as he is 'still cooking'. Once inside Amy's house, the Doctor eats various foods, including fish fingers dipped in custard. At Amy's request, the Doctor investigates a crack in her wall that he discovers is a damaged point of time and space. As he attempts to make repairs, he is interrupted by the cloister bell from his damaged TARDIS, telling him to return before it vanishes into the time vortex. The Doctor promises Amy that he will return in '5 minutes', but due The TARDIS' erratic state, he does not reunite with Amy until 12 years later, when she is 19. In the intervening time, she has been to four psychiatrists as a result of her insistence on the reality of the "Raggedy Doctor" (and has bitten each of them due to their insistence that he is imaginary). After their reunion, in which Amy helps the Doctor save the earth from the Atraxi, The Doctor takes the newly repaired TARDIS on a trip to the moon and back to 'run her in'. While he is gone it is two years (for Amy; how long for the Doctor is not specified) before he returns for her, and invites her to travel with him. Amy makes the Doctor promise to bring her back the next morning but does not tell him why: the next day is to see her wed her long time boyfriend Rory Williams.

 

As she wanders from the natural to the urban the huntress adapts as she pursues her quarry.

Tom Corbett Space Academy.

bought this half-TARDIS from a BCS figures buddy on facebook. although he packed it well, it suffered a little damage in the international post.

this had some silver linings, though:

(1) since it was already a tiny bit damaged, this gave me the courage to mod it more... take the back off so i can use it as a "frame" (see earlier TARDIS diorama photo), change out backdrops easily, and hook up LEDs in back or inside.

(2) i always meant to do a photostory with the timelords doing DIY and finally here it is (i let them do the repairs because they've got smaller hands than me!)

Making a few Timelords thought I might start with the Reverse-Doctor AKA The Valeyard. It’s just painted paper.

I am a traveler of both time and space...

 

 

Featuring the 11th The Doctor, with Amy Pond and of course the TARDIS.

Also, a Dalek (though not one of the Power Ranger one's that the 11th doctor usually deals with) and a Weeping Angel seem to have found there way into the photo.

 

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A shot of the Cherhill White Horse & Lansdowne monument.

 

The Cherhill White Horse is a hill figure on Cherhill Down, 3.5 miles east of Calne in Wiltshire, England. Dating from the late 18th century, it is the third oldest of several such white horses in Great Britain.

 

The figure at Cherhill was first cut in 1780 by a Dr Christopher Alsop, of Calne, and was created by stripping away the turf to expose the chalk hillside beneath. Its original size was 165 feet (50 m) by 220 feet (67 m).Dr Alsop, who was Guild Steward of the Borough of Calne, has been called "the mad doctor", and is reported to have directed the making of the horse from a distance, shouting through a megaphone from below Labour-in-Vain Hill.His design may have been influenced by the work of his friend George Stubbs, notable for his paintings of horses.

 

Since 1780, the horse has been 'scoured' several times. In 1935, it was dressed with a mixture of concrete and chalk, and it was cleaned up in 1994.A major restoration was carried out in 2002 by the Cherhill White Horse Restoration Group, when the horse was resurfaced with one hundred and sixty tonnes of new chalk, the outline was re-cut, and shuttering was added to hold the chalk in place.This work was supported by a grant of £18,000 from the National Trust.The present surface is thus made of compacted chalk, and the edges of the figure are well defined.

 

In the 19th century, the horse had a glittering glass eye, formed from bottles pressed neck-first into the ground. The bottles had been added by a Farmer Angell and his wife, but by the late 19th century they were gone, perhaps taken as souvenirs. During the 1970s, a local youth centre project added a new eye made of glass bottles, but these also disappeared.The eye now consists of stone and concrete and stands proud of the chalk surface.

 

In 1922, M. Oldfield Howey noted that "At the time of writing (1922) this horse is sadly in need of scouring, as due to the Great War all such things have had to be neglected, but we understand that a local lady has come to its rescue and asked permission to restore it. Formerly the Lord of the Manor was its groom!"

 

In the week of the coronation of King George VI in 1937, the horse was floodlit and the letters GE (for the king and his queen, Elizabeth) were picked out in red lights above it, with the power coming from a generator at the foot of the hill. The red letters were lit up for five seconds, followed by the floodlights for ten seconds, in a repeating pattern.

 

The figure was featured in The Timelords music video for "Doctorin' the Tardis".

 

Thirteen such white horses are known to have existed in Wiltshire. Of these, eight can still be seen, while the others have grown over.The Cherhill White Horse is maintained and saved from this fate by Cherhill parish council. Perhaps most notable out of the eight, along with the Cherill white horse, is Westbury White Horse.

 

The hill above the horse now belongs to the National Trust.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherhill_White_Horse

Lego Doctor Who - Story 1 - The Lost Child

 

'We’re all capable of evil, no matter how much we tell ourselves otherwise. Should we let that stop us, cause us to pause? Maybe, but we should never let our fear of it control us. No matter how much you fear what you may do, you will always live with something to regret. What you choose to regret, is entirely your choice. So make it a good one, eh? It’s better to have lived and regretted doing something, than living to regret not doing it.’

 

Lego Doctor Who - Story 2 - Return To Earth

 

‘You’ve crossed the line, Doctor. You decided to play God, to control events leading up to this, and you’ve created this mess. We wouldn’t be in this situation were it not for you, what gives you the authority to do such a thing?’

 

‘I’m the last of my kind, a Time Lord of the Prydonian Chapter and the pilot of the last living Tardis. If it’s not my right, then who’s is it?’

 

‘No-one’s. No-one should ever have that much power.’

 

‘But I do.’

 

‘I know, and that’s what worries me.’

 

Lego Doctor Who - Story 3 - Beyond The Universe

 

‘There’s only one place in all of time and space where it could be.’

 

‘And where’s that?’

 

‘Eternity.'

 

Lego Doctor Who - Story 4 - (Title to be confirmed)

 

‘I was weak. I was noble. I was a man who left Gallifrey to travel, to explore. But no more. All my attempts to bring peace have failed. Now I have no choice. It’s time to end this. I am Doctor, and this ends today.'

Gallifrey rises over Aberdour Castle.