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''Genesis'' begins with the Doctor and companions being hijacked on their way back to Nerva Beacon and deposited instead on Skaro, home planet of the Daleks. The planet is at an early stage in its history, with a long war of attrition currently ongoing between its two human-like native races, the Kaleds and the Thals. The ultimate result of this war is that the Kaleds will mutate and build themselves travel casings to remain mobile - and become the Daleks. The Time Lords instruct the Doctor to either prevent this entirely, or at least divert the Daleks' development into a more peaceful form. They give him a "Time Ring" to allow him to return to the TARDIS once this is done.
The Doctor and companions make their way past horrific mutants, victims of the war's atomic exchanges, into the Kaled bunker, where mad scientist Davros and his henchman Nyder are conducting genetic experiments to discover the final form of mutation for the Kaled race and developing a new "Travel Casing" for the results, which Sarah and the Doctor instantly recognize as a Dalek. The Doctor and Harry escape from the bunker and persuade the Kaled leaders to put a stop to the experiments, but Davros colludes with the Thals to open the Kaled City's defenses and allow it to be destroyed. He then activates his experimental Daleks and uses them to kill the Thals.
The Doctor makes his way back into the bunker and sets explosives on the Dalek breeding tanks, needing only to touch two wires together to prevent the Daleks from ever existing. However, he can't bring himself to commit genocide, and reasons that much good will come out of the undoubted evil of the Daleks, and who is he to play god like this [[Contemplate Our Navels|and so on]]. This fascinating debate is then interrupted by the arrival of a Dalek, forcing the doctor to drop the wires and leg it. As the Dalek pursues it runs over the wires, blowing up the tank anyway.
Meanwhile, some of Davros's fellow scientists are uneasy about the experiments and demand they be stopped. Davros turns the Daleks on them, but his creations then turn on their creator and Davros himself is exterminated ([[Doctor Who/Recap/S17
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* [[Absolute Xenophobe]]: [[Captain Obvious|Take a wild guess.]]
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* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: although we don't get specifics for another eighteen seasons.
* [[Black and Gray Morality]]: Both Davros and the Daleks are portrayed as utterly evil with the Thals and Kaleds paling in comparison. However the war between the two races is [[Gray and Gray Morality]] at best and comes very close to being [[Black and Black Morality]]. The Kaleds are Nazi allegories who desire the destruction of the Thals, while the Thals use disposable slave labor to build weapons and murder the vast majority of the Kaleds to bring about peace, a sentiment Davros himself echoes later in the story.
* [[The Chessmaster]]: Davros, in a way not repeated until "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S22
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The Thals have blonde hair and are warriors, the Kaleds have brown hair and are scientists. Now consider what the Daleks were inspired by, and their combined legacy is the Daleks...
* [[Domed Hometown]]: The Thal Dome and the Kaled Dome.
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* [[Land Mine Goes Click]]: "Harry. I'm standing on a mine."
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Davros. Duh.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: It only becomes obvious later that the events of this episode were the beginning of a chain of events that directly led to ''The Last Great Time War'' and the destruction of both the Daleks and the Time Lords, first mentioned in "[[Doctor Who
* [[Nuclear Weapons Taboo]]: Despite claims in much earlier and later ''Doctor Who'' canon, and the assumptions made in some of the individual trope write-ups on this page, the word "nuclear" is never mentioned in "Genesis of the Daleks", and problems that are usually associated with radiation are ascribed to mysterious "chemicals".
* [[Oh Crap]]: See [[Land Mine Goes Click]] above and [[Villainous Breakdown]] below.
* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: Davros hasn't quite got this far (''yet''), but his 'virus' speech shows us that if he had that kind of power, he would use it, just for the sake of having it.
* [[Putting on the Reich]]: Kaled dress, propaganda, medals, and salutes. As if the very nature of what Davros was [[Omnicidal Maniac|creating]] wasn't enough to clue you in.
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: Most of the surviving Kaleds try to oust Davros from his position of authority at the end. Davros proposes a vote, so he knows who to shoot.
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* [[Undying Loyalty]]: Nyder to Davros.
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Kavell, the Kaled scientist who frees Harry, Sarah and Gharman, disappears between Parts Five and Six. He's last seen midway through Part Five leaving with Gharman, but isn't with him and the other Kaleds when they're confronting Davros in Part Six. Unlike other MIA Kaleds (Ravon and Tane especially) it can't be argued he died in the Kaled dome when the Thals blew it up since that happened a couple of episodes earlier.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Davros very quickly lapses into one when his creations betray him.
* [[The X of Y]]
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