User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-6032121-20190914173756/@comment-45437232-20200816141315

I had a listen to I, Davros again. In the bonus features-interviews, Nicholas Briggs says "Finally, what I think is a fantastic irony [...] is that the first Dalek is in fact a Thal that's been experimented on."

This seemingly confirms that Baran is in fact the first Dalek - the same title that Dalek Prime has. And there's no reason that the Baran-mutant couldn't survive the upgrade from a Mark I to a Mark III travel machine.

Sure, this is behind the scenes, and therefore not a valid source. But I think it should at least be mentioned somewhere that indirectly Nicholas Briggs at least considers Baran and Dalek Prime to be the same individual.