Genetics of the Daleks (audio story)

Genetics of the Daleks was a special release from Big Finish Productions in conjunction with the Time Lord Victorious series. It served as a prequel to the Escape Room A Dalek Awakens. It was written by Jonathan Morris and featured Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor.

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

There are 10,000 humans in stasis aboard Starship Future. Ten thousand humans expecting to wake up on a distant planet, their new home. But twenty years into their journey, Starship Future takes on board fuel – and something else. Something that's been waiting, frozen in space, for a very long time.

Something malevolent.

Something with a plan.

Unless the Doctor can help, it looks like the people of Starship Future have no future at all...

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

• The Doctor - Tom Baker
• Captain Graff - Pippa Haywood
• Pilot Finlay - Joseph Kloska
• Medical Officer Chuke - Clive Mantle
• Professor Brooke - Andrew James Spooner
• Security Officer Swann - Nina Toussaint-White
• The Dalek / Dalek Mutant - Nicholas Briggs

Uncredited cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

The same uncredited voice featured in A Dalek Awakens ^[+]Loading...["A Dalek Awakens (escape game)"] portrayed the Future's AI - Helix.

Some of the cast^[who?] also did 'wildtracking' as Dalek mutants. (BFX: Genetics of the Daleks)

Crew[[edit] | [edit source]]

• Producer - Emma Haigh
• Cover Art - Tom Webster
• Director - Jamie Anderson
• Executive Producers - Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs
• Music and Sound Design - Toby Hrycek-Robinson
• Script Editor - Jacqueline Rayner
• Writer - Jonathan Morris
• Senior Producer - David Richardson
• Daleks created by Terry Nation

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

• Jake Finlay went into stasis on 12 April 2965, 45 days and 20 years ago.
• The Starship Future is going to Tiergarten's Star.
• The Doctor believes he has been sent to Starship Future by the Time Lords.
• The Starship Future has been invaded by a syndicate.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

• The ending of this story is a cliffhanger leading into the escape room A Dalek Awakens.
• This story was recorded remotely on 15 and 30 September 2020.
• The BBC approached Big Finish with the offer of writing this story, reaching out to them to see if they had interest in writing a companion piece to the Escape Hunt games. Meetings were then had between staff from Big Finish, the BBC and Escape Hunt. (BFX: Genetics of the Daleks)
• In this story, the starship is referred to as "the Starship Future" by Pilot Finlay, and this is also used by the synopsis. However, Jonathan Morris instead refers to it as "the terraforming spaceship Future" in BFX: Genetics of the Daleks (which seems more in line with how it is referred to as "The Future" in A Dalek Awakens).

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

• The Dalek was found floating in the Oort cloud. (PROSE: The Last Message)
• Brooke steals duralinium (TV: Colony in Space) and polycarbide. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)
• The uncased Dalek mutant can take control of a human and use them as a servant. (TV: Resolution, Revolution of the Daleks)
• The Dalek identifies the Doctor as being "the Fourth Doctor" in its databanks, telling him that one of his future incarnations was responsible for the destruction of the Dalek Time Squad. (AUDIO: Mutually Assured Destruction)
• The Dalek also tells the Doctor that another future incarnation will break the Laws of Time and commit genocide, becoming the "Time Lord Victorious". (PROSE: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead)

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

• Official Genetics of the Daleks page at bigfinish.com