Daleks Victorious (audio story)

Daleks Victorious was the second story in the audio anthology Victory of the Doctor, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Felicia Barker and featured Jacob Dudman as the Eleventh Doctor, Safiyya Ingar as Valarie Lockwood, Mia Tomlinson as Roanna and Christopher Ragland as Hayden Lockwood.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

Everything dies when the Daleks arrive. Friends, loved ones, even hope itself. As the people of Medrüth are about to discover, nothing can stand in their way. After all, the Daleks won the Last Great Time War. Right?

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor and Valarie join Hoster on Medrüth, which is currently under attack from the New Dalek Paradigm. As they head to the bunker to collect Roanna and Hayden, the Daleks, who have learnt of the Doctor's existence from the Yearn, capture the TARDIS and the Doctor sends it away with his sonic screwdriver whilst Valarie and Hoster go on by jumping out of a window. A Dalek hits the Doctor with a stun ray and he wakes up with the Dalek Supreme, a Scientist, a Strategist and an Eternal, who demand to know how he survived the Time War as they believe that they won given that all other Time Lords are gone.

Roanna uses the Surge to save Valarie and Hoster from extermination and they take refuge in the bunker where they make plans to evacuate people aboard haulage freighters. Valarie sends out a message inviting people to the freighter silos and she and Roanna are caught by a Dalek, but by naming the Doctor and claiming to know of other Time Lords they ensure that they are kept alive as prisoners. The Daleks attempt to sublimate the Doctor into the Pathweb, where he encounters a Yearn which is eavesdropping on the Daleks as he does not want them to exterminate the Medrüthians and deprive his people. The Doctor's mental fortitude prevents sublimation and they torture him to break his will.

Valarie and Roanna are brought before the Dalek Supreme and claim to know the location of thousands of Time Lords and, to keep the couple from being exterminated, the Doctor summons the TARDIS with a promise to take the Daleks to the Time Lords. When he instead gets Valarie and Roanna safely inside, another attempt is made to sublimate him and he connects to the TARDIS's telepathic circuits to communicate with his friends, deciding that they need to attack the Pathweb with the help of the Yearn. Valarie and Roanna are also contacted by Hoster, who has managed to get some people aboard the freighters and is forced to close the doors on the remaining Medrüthians so that those already aboard can get away from the attacking Daleks.

Roanna pretends to agree to the Yearn's demand that the Medrüthians be kept from leaving and, after the Yearn takes control of the Daleks through the Pathweb, she reneges on her promise by telling Hoster to leave. The Daleks regain control and reduce the Yearn to base components, after which they destroy the escaping freighters and Roanna comes to regret not having given everyone the Surge as Mrs Hendricks had planned, something that the Doctor agrees would likely have saved her people from the genocide. Hayden too has been exterminated by a Special Weapons Dalek which found that three of its death rays could kill someone empowered by the Surge.

The Doctor, Valarie and Roanna leave in the TARDIS and the Prime Minister of the Daleks orders the planet's destruction, proclaiming that it is the first of many planets to fall in the New Dalek Paradigm's war against the universe. The TARDIS receives a mauve alert from the Shadow Proclamation along with numerous cries for help as the Daleks attack; the Doctor is reminded of the Time War and hopes that he will not have to become a warrior again.

Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

• The Doctor - Jacob Dudman
• Valarie Lockwood - Safiyya Ingar
• Roanna - Mia Tomlinson
• Hayden Lockwood - Christopher Ragland
• Hoster - David Dobson
• The Yearn / Darthan - Sam Clemens
• The Daleks - Nicholas Briggs

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

• Hoster tries to contact Wyler.
• The Doctor compares the Pathweb to Twitter.
• Valarie and Roanna once attended a parade.
• Critch bugs kept Valarie up all night the first time she stayed with Roanna.
• The Doctor compares the Eternal Dalek to a historian.
• The Dalek Supreme speaks with the Prime Minister at the Dalek Parliament.
• The Shadow Proclamation automatically sends out a mauve alert.
• The Daleks use the Seriphia wormhole network.
• A message is sent out to the Space Security Service.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

• The Daleks' memories of the Doctor were erased by Oswin Oswald in Asylum of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)"]. The Supreme Dalek later speaks to the Dalek Prime Minister, who is situated in the Parliament of the Daleks, seen in that same story.
• Valarie and Roanna met in the bunker in The Yearn ^[+]Loading...["The Yearn (audio story)"].
• The Doctor, Valarie and Roanna are aided by Hayden. Valarie's future death in All's Fair ^[+]Loading...["All's Fair (audio story)"] is still weighing heavily on their minds.
• The Daleks ask the Doctor how he survived the Last Great Time War, echoing a conversation between the Tenth Doctor and the Cult of Skaro in Doomsday ^[+]Loading...["Doomsday (TV story)"], and later demand to know how many others survive. Valarie mentions the Master, who escaped the Time War in his War incarnation, as explained in The Sound of Drums ^[+]Loading...["The Sound of Drums (TV story)"].
• The Eternal Dalek mentions several previous Dalek defeats:
  • Spiridon, which appeared in Planet of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["Planet of the Daleks (TV story)"].
  • Kembel, which appeared in The Daleks' Master Plan ^[+]Loading...["The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)"].
  • Exxilon, which appeared in Death to the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["Death to the Daleks (TV story)"].
  • Vulcan, which appeared in The Power of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["The Power of the Daleks (TV story)"].
• The Doctor mentions the pig slave fiasco in Daleks in Manhattan ^[+]Loading...["Daleks in Manhattan (TV story)"] / Evolution of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["Evolution of the Daleks (TV story)"].
• During the Daleks' assault on Medrüth, they employed Special Weapons Daleks, as previously used during the Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War in Shoreditch, 1963, as seen in Remembrance of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)"]. At that time, the singular Special Weapons Dalek was employed by the Imperial Daleks and was decorated in their colours of white and gold. During the Dalek invasion of Medrüth, they were bronze, much like those seen during Time War skirmishes, such as the one seen in The Mission ^[+]Loading...["The Mission (audio story)"].
• Upon listening to the slaughter of numerous worlds at the hands of the Daleks, the Doctor begs them not to turn him into a Warrior again. This references his Time War incarnation, which saw him lose the mantel of the Doctor, as witnessed in The Night of the Doctor ^[+]Loading...["The Night of the Doctor (TV story)"].
• The Doctor hears a transmission from the Shadow Proclamation. The Shadow Proclamation had been named numerous times by the Ninth and Tenth Doctors, including during the Nestene invasion of Earth of 2005, as seen in Rose ^[+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"]. The Tenth Doctor later visited the Shadow Proclamation during the Planetary Relocation Incident during the disappearance of Earth in 2009, as seen in The Stolen Earth ^[+]Loading...["The Stolen Earth (TV story)"]. During Colony Sarff's hunting down of the Twelfth Doctor, he would visit the Shadow Proclamation for information, as noted in The Magician's Apprentice ^[+]Loading...["The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)"].

• The mauve alert sent by the Shadow Proclamation echoes the Ninth Doctor's identification of the falling Chula ambulance upon Earth during The Empty Child ^[+]Loading...["The Empty Child (TV story)"] as "mauve and dangerous". It appears that "mauve [alert]" has become the standard universal term for what humans would refer to as "red alert", which the Ninth Doctor explained to Rose Tyler was viewed as "camp" by the rest of the universe.

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

• Official Daleks Victorious page at bigfinish.com