New Dalek Paradigm

The New Dalek Paradigm was a brand new breed of the Daleks created by "impure" Daleks made from the cells of Davros' cells. They were more powerful and much bigger than any of their predessesors.

Characteristics
The Daleks of the New Dalek Paradigm had towering casings and a bulkier, less streamlined design than their predecessors while retaining the basic Dalek structure of a dome-shaped head connected to the torso by a neck and a "skirt" of grey orbs (Black ones for Eternal Dalek). New to the design, however, was the addition of a rear compartment (replacing the basic back "skirt" panels), that was supposed to open and allow the New Daleks to access other weaponry. The overall result, however, was that of them having enlarged rear ends.

One thing that didn't change, however, was their personalities. If anything, their egos appeared to have increased in size along with the rest of them. They considered themselves invincible and boasted their superiority accordingly, even as Spitfires rained down on them. Despite the Medusa Cascade War Daleks giving them life, these new Daleks only saw them as impure trash that needed to be swept away. (DW: Victory of the Daleks)

Hierachy
These Daleks operated under a simple hierachy, with five ranks. Unlike previous Daleks thoughout Doctor Who history, the Daleks of the New Dalek Paradigm were colour-coded. The Supreme Dalek was white, the Eternal Dalek was yellow, Strategist Daleks were blue, Scientist Daleks were orange, and the Drone Daleks were red. The Supreme and Eternal Daleks were unique as there was only one of them at a time, due to the duties they were tasked to perform. The Strategist rank controlled tactical planning and manoeuvering, coordinating the Drones during battle. The Scientists' role was to examine and formulate new weapons and analyse the genetic and physiological make-up of their enemies to determine their weaknesses. The Supreme was in charge of the other Daleks until a Dalek of higher rank was made and put in charge. Eternal Daleks have an yet-to-be revealed function. (DWAN: Doctor Who The Official Annual 2011)

Origin
The Last Great Time War left only small pockets of Dalek survivors, all of which were destroyed in confrontations with the Doctor. (DW: Dalek, Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways, QR: I am a Dalek, DW: Army of Ghosts/Doomsday, DWBIT: Carnage Zoo, Flight and Fury, The Living Ghosts, Extermination of the Daleks) This left Dalek Caan of the Cult of Skaro as the last Dalek in existence. (DW: Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks) Caan travelled back to the Time War, breaking through the time-lock at the cost of his sanity. He saved Davros from the jaws of the Nightmare Child and brought him to 2008. Davros rebuilt the Dalek race, growing them from his own cells. He created the Supreme One, who considered Davros and Caan insane and locked them in the vault of the Crucible. Following Davros' plan, they teleported 27 planets -- including the Earth -- from all over space and time into the Medusa Cascade, one second out of sync with the rest of the universe, where the Tenth Doctor and the Shadow Proclamation couldn't find them. Davros planned to align them and use their energy, combined with the Crucible energy core, to create a Reality bomb that would destroy existence. The Daleks went down to Earth and arrested the humans, killing renegades.

Using the Tandocca Scale, the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble found Earth. (DW: The Stolen Earth) Banding together the Children of Time (the Doctor, Donna Noble, Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, Jack Harkness, the Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor, Mickey Smith, Jackie Tyler and Sarah Jane Smith), the Doctor went to the Crucible to stop Davros, Caan and the Supreme One. Eventually, Caan, betraying the Daleks, lowered the defences, allowing the Meta-Crisis Doctor to destroy the Crucible, Caan, Davros, the Supreme One and the Daleks. Engulfed in flame, Davros named the Doctor the Destroyer of Worlds. (DW: Journey's End) However one Dalek ship with three Daleks onboard managed to perform a time jump back to 1941, escaping destruction. (DW: Victory of the Daleks)

Creation
The three Daleks found the last surviving progenitor, a device containing pure Dalek DNA and the means to recreate the species. However, due to the circumstances of their creation, the progenitor refused to recognise them as Dalek, as they had been created from Davros's own mutated Kaled cells (DW: The Stolen Earth). To activate it, they engineered an encounter with the Eleventh Doctor: using an android to claim they were his invention and pretending to be machines for the British Army. When the Doctor arrived (after receiving a telephone call from Winston Churchill), they tricked him into calling them out - "I am the Doctor and you are the Daleks!" - so this "testimony" could be used to open the progenitor.

Five new Daleks were created, with pure DNA, a new colour-coded rank, and a white Dalek Supreme as their commander. There was also a Blue (Strategist), Orange (Scientist), Yellow (Eternal) and Red (Drone). These Daleks immediately exterminated the older three for their impurity (the three willingly allowed this to happen) and forced the Doctor to let them escape, using a bomb hidden within the Bracewell android on Earth to prey upon his compassion and make him return to Britain. While the Doctor was deactivating the bomb, they escaped through a time corridor to create a new Dalek Empire, practically laughing at the Doctor for always failing to kill them completely. (DW: Victory of the Daleks)

Empire-building
Following their escape, the Daleks discovered the lost Time Lord artefact, the Eye of Time, allowing them to alter time as they saw fit. The Daleks returned to Skaro, rebuilt their capital city of Kaalann, appointed a new Dalek Emperor and begun rebuilding their Empire. One of the Daleks' first acts with their newfound power over time was to invade London, Earth in 1963. In this new timeline, they killed every member of the human race. However, the Eleventh Doctor and Amy undid these events, leaving Earth unconquered and Kaalann still abandoned. (VG: City of the Daleks)

In the 41st century, the Daleks began another war with humanity. The Eleventh Doctor and Amy encountered a group who had been sent on a mission to find a Dalek mutant being experimented on by a scientist who tried to make them less aggressive creatures. The Daleks refered to this mutant as "the Abomination". They attacked and destroyed Earth's top secret space station, Station 7, and chased the survivors to the planet below. After slaughtering all resistance, they finally found the Abomination in a hidden base, but it escaped its container and disabled the base reactor's safety measures. An explosion destroyed the base, the Daleks, the Abonimation, and all the Dalek ships that had landed on the planet. The Doctor, Amy and Jay, an SSS officer, watched from a safe distance. The Dalek mission was a failure but the war continued. They had agents working in the SSS. (GN: The Only Good Dalek)

The Daleks joined The Alliance to imprison the Eleventh Doctor in the Pandorica to save the Universe. They arrived at Stonehenge, 102 A.D. with the rest of the Alliance and locked the Doctor in the Pandorica. (DW: The Pandorica Opens) The Daleks, along with almost the rest of the universe, were destroyed, leaving only two Stone Daleks, one of which hindered the Doctor and his companions' efforts to save the universe. Nevertheless, they were successful and the whole of reality, including the Daleks, were restored. (DW: The Big Bang)

The Daleks later planted an idea into the mind of Vorgenson, the son of the Lurman Vorg, who had invented a machine called the Miniscope, encountered by the Third Doctor. Vorgenson's idea had him create his own machine, called the Minimiser. He used it to headline a travelling show dedicated to the Doctor. It featured many mind-controlled versions of his recently encountered enemies, apart from the Daleks themselves, dismissed by Vorgenson as "too dangerous". The Daleks' plan was to attract the Eleventh Doctor to the show with Vorgenson's monsters, and capture him in the Minimiser. This plan succeeded but the audience managed to save the Doctor, and helped him release the Cybermen from the Minimiser to destroy the Daleks. (SP: The Monsters Are Coming!)

A Scientist Dalek sent an alien family plummeting through time and space to collect all the Time Orbs. The Scientist recruited many Strategist Daleks and Drones. It also recruited big armies of Cybermen and Silurians as a distraction for the Eleventh Doctor and Amy. (VG: The Mazes of Time)

Searching for information on the Silence before going to what he assumed was his death, the Doctor found a badly damaged Supreme Dalek and looked up information on the Silence in it. (DW: The Wedding of River Song)

Behind the scenes

 * The 2010 redesign of the Daleks attracted criticism from some angered fans. Mark Gatiss, who wrote their debut episode, acknowledged the controversial nature of this redesign in his in-vision commentary on the DVD box set. In conversation with principal Dalek voice artist Nicholas Briggs, and Dalek operator Barnaby Edwards, he opined that the new shape of the Daleks, especially in the dorsal region, was not particularly to his liking. Briggs agreed, but, with Edwards, swiftly noted that in their experience of taking the new Daleks on live exhibition to the public, British kids, for the most part, loved the new design. The decision was revisited in DWM 431 with critics voicing their opinions on the design. A comparison was made with the RTD-era Daleks but no conclusion as to which was the better was made.