User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-6032121-20190914173756/@comment-6032121-20200909012216

Ah! Finally, a bit of clarity on the one remaining mystery in this thread, the intended meaning of "Davros? Who is Davros?" in Nemesis of the Daleks. I am told that Nemesis was actually originally written with the intent that it would take place some time after the Shoreditch Incident in Remembrance of the Daleks, and so, the Emperor in Nemesis was Davros himself having further degenerated himself into a Dalek. The casing is, after all, patterned after the Remembrance Emperor casing, except with an eyestalk added. And so the meaning of the line was to show that Davros himself had begun to lose his grip on his own identity, lost to the Emperor persona — the same idea later used in AUDIO: Terror Firma. The full exchange spells it out pretty clearly: "Doctor: "For pity's sake, Davros, have you lost all sense of compassion?" Emperor: "DAVROS? WHO IS DAVROS?" Doctor, quietly: "Ah… I see that you have.""

- Nemesis

…And then, Emperor of the Daleks! completely retconned the place of the events of Nemesis relative to the Imperial-Renegade Civil War and thus making it impossible for the Emperor in Nemesis to have been Davros.

I'm unsure what we should do about this.