The Dalek Time Controller was a Dalek from the far future with a mind more capable of understanding time. He was strategist for time missions and fought various Doctors. He serves as a major antagonist of Big Finish's Doctor Who audio dramas, acting as the main antagonist of Patient Zero, To the Death, the Dark Eyes saga and the novel The Dalek Generation.
He was voiced by Nicholas Briggs.
History[]
The Dalek Generation[]
The Dalek Time Controller first met the Doctor during a plan to use the Cradle of the Gods to turn the 400 Sunlight Worlds into copies of Skaro. He manipulated the Eleventh Doctor into assisting with the plan, posing as the Dalek Litigator and prosecuting the Doctor for "hate crimes" against the Daleks, here the Daleks were viewed as beneficial for setting up the Sunlight Worlds. However the plan was foiled when a Dalek puppet Jenibeth Blakely, turned on the Time Controller. However he escaped, nearly killing Blakely, though the Cradle of the Gods enabled her survival by reverting her back to childhood.
Master![]
Under the role of Dalek Litigator, the Dalek Time Controller was the one who executed The Master during his trial. After discovering his survival, in Master!: Vengeance the Litigator tracked him to 2223 Earth, and allied with the Daleks native to the era. Assigned on a renewed invasion of Earth, the Litigator was nominally subordinate to the Dalek Supreme who, unaware of his true nature, found himself chafing under the Litigator. Despite hiring assassins through proxy, the Dalek Litigator was unable to kill the Master, who subsequently put the Supreme under his control and tries to do the same to the Litigator, who was forced to use an Emergency Temporal Shift to escape.
Patient Zero[]
The Daleks traced viruses to the Amethyst Viral Containment Station and the Dalek Time Controller led a force to take the station through time. They met opposition from the Sixth Doctor. The Dalek Time Controller realized this was a time loop, an explosion would scatter the viruses through space and time which would lead to the Daleks tracing them back to the station. The Time Controller allowed the explosion to go ahead and the Doctor believed him destroyed in the explosion.
To the Death[]
However the Dalek Time Controller was not destroyed, but hurled back in time to the late 22nd century, where the Daleks retrieved him. He was dying from temporal decay but the Meddling Monk was contacted by the Daleks and cured him. He planned another invasion of Earth, sending the Monk to spread another plague to weaken humanity, after which the Daleks invaded Earth again. North America was dug up and a Time Warp engine was installed. The Dalek Time Controller while in the vortex had found the point in the future where the Amethyst viruses would converge and planned to pilot Earth to that point, turning it into a plague planet, then pilot it round the Universe, infecting any world it came near to. However Lucie Miller sacrificed herself by crashing a Dalek Saucer into the mine, leading to the Daleks being dragged into a time warp.
Dark Eyes[]
However the Time Controller was saved by the Time Lord Straxus, who had become sick of the actions of the Time Lords and wanted to destroy them. The Dalek Time Controller altered his DNA, after which Straxus was known as Kotris. The Daleks invaded the planet Srangor and Kotris built a relativity map and temporal chamber to create a space-time projector, enabling them to see anywhere in space-time. Retro-genitor particles were implanted inside the human Molly O'Sullivan, who met the Eighth Doctor during WWI.
The Dalek Time Controller orchestrated chasing the Doctor and Molly through space-time. Finally Molly was captured on Srangor and the Daleks and Kotris tried to use the particles in her with the space-time projector to wipe out the Time Lords. However Kotris' previous incarnation, still called Straxus, had changed the particles in Molly so they would instead destroy the Daleks. When he told a local herder Molly would still die but for a nobler cause he stopped the process, unintentionally saving the Daleks. The Time Controller then had Straxus exterminated, erasing Kotris and his actions from history, meaning Kotris didn't save him. However as the timelines shifted the Time Controller said he would remember this.
Dark Eyes 2: The Traitor[]
The Doctor met the Dalek Time Controller on Nixyce VII, a planet the Daleks had invaded. The Time Controller had created mines in the planet to create a Dalek superweapon. However, the Doctor detonated a bomb located on a nearby Dalek in the Time Controller's chamber, damaging the Time Controller and causing him to flee to his ship in orbit above the planet. Despite this, the Doctor did not destroy the weapon, put instead proposed a brief alliance with the Time Controller against the Eminence, a gaseous race that were trying to conquer the Nixyce System and which he considered a greater threat then the Daleks.
Dark Eyes 4[]
Due to his infection with retro-genitor particles, the Dalek Time Controller was banished from the Dalek Empire, and the Time Controller embarked on a scheme to create a new timeline with his own New Dalek Paradigm to conquer the universe with, forming an alliance with the Master, who would assist in stabilising the timeline in exchange for control over a select number of Dalek worlds. The Time Controller arrived in 1921 Paris in The Monster of Montmartre, where he created Adelaine Dutemps from his own DNA. The Controller then created Dalek Time Strategists from the criminal and artistic minds that Adelaine dealt with, which had an advanced understanding of temporal science that would serve as the Time Controller's personal army. The Time Controller used the Red Pagoda and the TARDIS to create a larger shell.
The Controller travelled with the Master to the control centre. The Master told the Controller that they were running out of humans to convert into Daleks, so they were now using Sontarans. The Dalek Time Controller planned to betray the Master if the Doctor was well enough. After the Master's Dalek mutiny, he escaped with Liv and Molly in the TARDIS.
The Dalek Supreme came to believe that the Time Controller was no longer a pure enough Dalek, having lived outside time through so many time shifts, and seeming destroyed him. However the Time Controller had transferred his consciousness to the gas created by Markus Schriver, joining his personality with Schriver's and thus creating the Eminence. The Dalek Supreme then commissioned the creation of a new Time Controller from the remains of Adelaine Dutemps.
Personality[]
The Dalek Time Controller, like all Daleks, was ruthless and devoted to the domination of the Dalek race. However he was more careful and patient then most Daleks due to his greater understanding of time, not wanting to cause destabilization in the Web of Time that could ultimately harm the Daleks. He didn't immediately exterminate the Sixth Doctor due to space-time protocols. He didn't exterminate the Eleventh Doctor so he could be manipulated into enabling the activation of the Cradle of the Gods.
External Links[]
- The Dalek Time Controller on the Doctor Who Wiki
