Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-6032121-20190914173756/@comment-6032121-20200802004141

I don't think so, no. The Dalek Prime is the first true Dalek — the one we see exterminate Davros in Genesis of the Daleks and give the "this is only the beginning" speech to the camera. Baran, by contrast, seems to be the first prototype — in a Mark 1 rather than Mark 3 travel machine.