Re: How to solve the 'last Dalek' problem...


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On 30 Apr, 18:12, "Stephen Wilson" <sr.wil...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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The Daleks are time travellers. It doesn't matter if they're all dead
NOW, when troops of Daleks from other points in time could invade. Or
is that too obvious?

The Daleks fought a time war with the Time Lords. Both sides were wiped
out,
not just from that point in time, but from all of time - past, present
and
future.

So none of the classic Dalek stories happened then? Or did they get
wiped out at a convenient point just after they'd been destroyed in
each story?

This is where the concept of time gets complicated. They happened up to the
point of the time war. Then the time war wiped out the Daleks and Time
Lords, so the classic Dalek stories unhappened. Time simply found a way of
making sure that events occurred as they should, but in a slightly different
way. The higher beings have the ability to perceive the events as they would
have been before the time war and as they are since the time war (hence
Jabe's computer recognising the Doctor as a Time Lord, but also knowing that
he shouldn't exist).



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