The Daleks (/ˈdÉ'Ë lÉ›ks/ (listen) DAH-leks) are a fictional
extraterrestrial race of mutants principally portrayed in the British
science fiction television programme Doctor Who. The Daleks were
conceived by science-fiction writer Terry Nation and first appeared in
the 1963 Doctor Who serial The Daleks, in the shells designed by
Raymond Cusick.Drawing inspiration from the Nazis, Nation portrayed
the Daleks as violent, merciless and pitiless cyborg aliens, who
demand total conformity to their will and are bent on the conquest of
the universe and the extermination of what they see as inferior races.
Collectively they are the greatest enemies of Doctor Who's
protagonist, the Time Lord known as "the Doctor." During the second
year of the original Doctor Who program (1963-1989), the Daleks
developed their own form of time travel. In the beginning of the
second Doctor Who TV series that debuted in 2005, it was established
that the Daleks had engaged in a Time War against the Time Lords that
affected much of the universe and altered parts of history.In the
programme's narrative, the Daleks were engineered by the scientist
Davros on the planet Skaro. During the final years of a thousand-year
war between his people, the Kaleds, and their enemies the Thals, many
natives of Skaro became badly mutated by nuclear war and chemical
warfare. Deciding to create a master race from the ashes of his
people, Davros genetically modified Kaleds into squid-like life forms
called Daleks, removing "weaknesses" such as mercy and sympathy while
increasing aggression and survival instinct, then integrating them
with a tank-like robotic shells equipped with advanced technology. His
creations became intent on dominating the universe, enslaving or
purging all "inferior" non-Dalek life. In the Doctor Who audio plays
produced by Big Finish Productions, it has been said it is a tradition
on Skaro to sometimes name offspring with an anagram of a parent or
relative (thus "Kaled" becomes "Dalek"). The audio plays Guilt and The
Lights of Skaro also reveal that the word "dal" on Skaro means
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