History Recap / BigFinishDoctorWho015TheMutantPhase

* TemporalParadox

* TheBeautifulElite: PlayedWith when the blond and handsome Fifth Doctor gets briefly mistaken for a Thal.

Nyssa, using her skill points in ScienceHero, deduces that the Daleks use a collective gene sampling pool for their breeding stations and that wasp eggs, buried underneath a battered Dalek's skin, have caused the mutation. Several severe time paradoxes later, and with Skaro set to be destroyed in the future, the Doctor finds himself back on 22nd century Earth and facing a group of Daleks who have never even heard of him (or time travel) yet. It turns out that the Dalek Emperor avoided being destroyed along with Skaro by copying his consciousness into a Thal years ago -- the best friend of the Thal scientist. The Dalek Emperor desperately tries to explain to the 22nd century Daleks that the Doctor is their mortal enemy, that exterminating him won't help because a ''younger'' him will still defeat them all in the future, and that time travel is in fact possible. The Daleks (rather hilariously) don't believe a single word the Emperor says, but get suspicious enough to check the stung Dalek for wasp eggs, thus preventing the whole adventure from ever happening. The Thal scientist doesn't trust that solution and ''additionally'' charges forward with his antidote, and the Emperor smashes it to pieces, causing the web of time to short-circuit. When the Daleks from the mutant phase's timeline tried to capture the Doctor, they penetrated a weak point of the Vortex with their corridor, releasing a burst of temporal energy which generated a causal nexus. The centre of the paradox was the Emperor himself, who nearly created the mutant phase by going back in time to destroy it. In the normal course of things, the 22nd-century Daleks would have detected and extracted the wasp DNA from the infected Dalek themselves; if the Emperor had convinced them to use the GK-50 pesticide instead, it would have failed to kill off the infection (since it was in an early stage and not responsive to the pesticide yet), which would thus have spread through the Dalek gene pool and created the mutant phase. Since the Emperor smashed the injection probe instead, this never happened; the mutant phase never existed, the Thals never worked for the Daleks and the Emperor never travelled back in time. Skaro was never destroyed, and the Doctor is entirely unable to explain to Nyssa what happened.

* TemporalParadox

* TheBeautifulElite: PlayedWith when the blonde and handsome Fifth Doctor gets briefly mistaken for a Thal.

Nyssa, using her skill points in ScienceHero, deduces that the Daleks use a collective gene sampling pool for their breeding stations and that wasp eggs, buried underneath a battered Dalek's skin, have caused the mutation. Several severe time paradoxes later, and with Skaro set to be destroyed in the future, the Doctor finds himself back on 22nd century Earth and facing a group of Daleks who have never even heard of him (or time travel) yet. It turns out that the Dalek Emperor avoided being destroyed along with Skaro by copying his consciousness into a Thal years ago -- the best friend of the Thal scientist. The Dalek Emperor desperately tries to explain to the 22nd century Daleks that the Doctor is their mortal enemy, that exterminating him won't help because a ''younger'' him will still defeat them all in the future, and that time travel is in fact possible. The Daleks (rather hilariously) don't believe a single word the Emperor says, but get suspicious enough to check the stung Dalek for wasp eggs, thus preventing the whole adventure from ever happening. The Thal scientist doesn't trust that solution and ''additionally'' charges forward with his antidote, and the Emperor smashes it to pieces, causing the web of time to short-circuit. When the Daleks from the mutant phase's timeline tried to capture the Doctor, they penetrated a weak point of the Vortex with their corridor, releasing a burst of temporal energy which generated a causal nexus. The centre of the paradox was the Emperor himself, who nearly created the Mutant Phase by going back in time to destroy it. In the normal course of things, the 22nd-century Daleks would have detected and extracted the wasp DNA from the infected Dalek themselves; if the Emperor had convinced them to use the GK-50 pesticide instead, it would have failed to kill off the infection, which would thus have spread through the Dalek gene pool and created the Mutant Phase. Since the Emperor smashed the injection probe instead, this never happened; the Mutant Phase never existed, Ptolem and Ganatus never worked for the Daleks and the Emperor never travelled back in Time. The mutant phase never occured, Skaro was never destroyed, and the Doctor is entirely unable to explain to Nyssa what happened.

Nyssa, using her skill points in ScienceHero, deduces that the Daleks use a collective gene sampling pool for their breeding stations and that wasp eggs, buried underneath a battered Dalek's skin, have caused the mutation. Several severe time paradoxes later, and with Skaro set to be destroyed in the future, the Doctor finds himself back on 22nd century Earth and facing a group of Daleks who have never even heard of him (or time travel) yet. It turns out that the Dalek Emperor avoided being destroyed along with Skaro by copying his consciousness into a Thal years ago -- the best friend of the Thal scientist. The Dalek Emperor desperately tries to explain to the 22nd century Daleks that the Doctor is their mortal enemy, that exterminating him won't help because a ''younger'' him will still defeat them all in the future, and that time travel is in fact possible. The Daleks (rather hilariously) don't believe a single word the Emperor says, but get suspicious enough to check the stung Dalek for wasp eggs, thus preventing the whole adventure from ever happening. The Thal scientist doesn't trust that solution and ''additionally'' charges forward with his antidote, and the Emperor smashes it to pieces, causing the web of time to short-circuit. The mutant phase never occured, Skaro was never destroyed, and the Doctor is entirely unable to explain to Nyssa what happened.

Nyssa, using her skill points in ScienceHero, deduces that the Daleks use a collective gene sampling pool for their breeding stations and that wasp eggs, buried underneath a battered Dalek's skin, have caused the mutation. Several severe time paradoxes later, and with Skaro set to be destroyed in the future, the Doctor finds himself back on 22nd century Earth and facing a group of Daleks who have never even heard of him (or time travel) yet. It turns out that the Dalek Emperor avoided being destroyed along with Skaro by copying his consciousness into a Thal years ago -- the best friend of the Thal scientist. The Dalek Emperor desperately tries to explain to the 22nd century Daleks that the Doctor is their mortal enemy, that exterminating him won't help because a ''younger'' him will still defeat them all in the future, and that time travel is in fact possible. The Daleks (rather hilariously) don't believe a single word the Emperor says, but get suspicious enough to check the stung Dalek for wasp eggs, thus preventing the whole adventure from ever happening. The Thal scientist doesn't trust that solution and ''additionally'' charges forward with his antidote, causing the web of time to short-circuit. The mutant phase never occured, Skaro was never destroyed, and the Doctor is entirely unable to explain to Nyssa what happened.

Nyssa, using her skill points in ScienceHero, deduces that the Daleks use a collective gene sampling pool for their breeding stations and that wasp eggs, buried underneath a battered Dalek's skin, have caused the mutation. Several severe time paradoxes later, and with Skaro set to be destroyed in the future, the Doctor finds himself back on 22nd century Earth and facing a group of Daleks who have never even heard of him (or time travel) yet. It turns out that the Dalek Emperor avoided being destroyed along with Skaro by copying his consciousness into a human. The Dalek Emperor desperately tries to explain to the 22nd century Daleks that the Doctor is their mortal enemy, that exterminating him won't help because a ''younger'' him will still defeat them all in the future, and that time travel is in fact possible. The Daleks (rather hilariously) don't believe a single word the Emperor says, but get suspicious enough to check the stung Dalek for wasp eggs, thus preventing the whole adventure from ever happening. The Thal scientist doesn't trust that solution and ''additionally'' charges forward with his antidote, causing the web of time to short-circuit. The mutant phase never occured, Skaro was never destroyed, and the Doctor is entirely unable to explain to Nyssa what happened.

* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: Tje plants were genetically modified to attract wasps that kill harmful caterpillars. The wasps got a bit too enthusiastic and soon started killing humans. One of them got into a broken Dalek casing and laid its eggs underneath the Dalek's skin... nearly destroying the entire universe.

Nyssa, using her skill points in ScienceHero, deduces that the Daleks use a collective gene sampling pool for their breeding stations and that wasp eggs, buried underneath a battered Dalek's skin, have caused the mutation. Several severe time paradoxes later, and with Skaro set to be destroyed in the future, the Doctor finds himself back on 22nd century earth and facing a group of Daleks who have never even heard of him (or time travel) yet. It turns out that the Dalek Emperor avoided being destroyed along with Skaro by copying his consciousness into a human. The Dalek Emperor desperately tries to explain to the 22nd century Daleks that the Doctor is their mortal enemy, that exterminating him won't help because a ''younger'' him will still defeat them all in the future, and that time travel is in fact possible. The Daleks (rather hilariously) don't believe a single word the Emperor says, but get suspicious enough to check the stung Dalek for wasp eggs, thus preventing the whole adventure from ever happening. The Thal scientist doesn't trust that solution and ''additionally'' charges forward with his antidote, causing the web of time to short-circuit. The mutant phase never occured, Skaro was never destroyed, and the Doctor is entirely unable to explain to Nyssa what happened.

The Daleks have other plans for him, though, and they use a time corridor to drag the Doctor over to the distant future, where only a few humans survive on Earth and the Daleks have some serious troubles of their own. A group of Daleks have started mutating into flying insectoid creatures, breaking free of their casings and destroying everything in their paths. Including Skaro. The Dalek Emperor forces the Doctor to go back in time and prevent the mutant infection from happening in the first place. A Thal scientist is helping the Daleks, because even Daleks aren't as bad as the mutant *things* roaming around.

The Daleks have other plans for him, though, and they use a time corridor to drag the Doctor over to the distant future, where only a few humans survive on Earth and the Daleks have some serious troubles of their own. A group of Daleks have started mutating into flying insectoid creatures, breaking free of their casings and destroying everything in their paths. Including Skaro. The Dalek emperor forces the Doctor to go back in time and prevent the mutant infection from happening in the first place. A Thal scientist is helping the Daleks, because even Daleks aren't as bad as the mutant *things* roaming around.

In the 22nd century, the Daleks have occupied planet Earth. By the 43rd century, only a handful of humans survive. Still further into the distant future, a Thal scientist must choose whether to betray his heritage, or see the universe destroyed.

When the Doctor and Nyssa find themselves trapped in this deadly chain of events, they must decide who their real enemies are. What is certain, however, is that no matter where the Doctor turns… his arch enemies, the Daleks, will be waiting for him.