📝6/10 = SLIGHTLY ENJOYABLE!

Time Lording through time and space, one victory at a time! This time: showtime of the Daleks, part I!

The Dalek fleet arrives on Islos to get to their archive and find information about the Dark Times. We meet the new, golden, and dome-headed Dalek Emperor properly, and Nick Briggs has a great time voicing him. The Dalek Strategist also appears here, so we get a good understanding of the hierarchy here.

The animation is crude, but the opening installment goes all in with a major battle scene and imaginative design, and we are shown the true power of the Daleks as they force the locals to surrender the archive. The Archivians are interesting new robotic creatures, sort of combinations between the Angel robots from Voyage of the Damned and the Daleks themselves. They also have quite a witty personality, which is fun.

The Daleks are betrayed in the end, as the Archivians and the contents of the archive escape to the Dark Times through a portal, leaving the Daleks as sacrificial lambs.