EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!

The Dalek stormed through the halls of the USS Enterprise. Its mind (as all dalek minds are) was frenzied with hate and loathing for all living things. It saw red, and killed all it saw. Rather unfortunate for the red shirted engineering crew, who at this point had given up fighting and simply ran for their lives.

If, through some impossible feat of comprehending the sparsest strands of dalek sanity, you were to take the thoughts of the dalek, pass it through the strongest hatred filter in the galaxy, soak it in the whitest wash found in this quadrant, wring it out using the fluffiest towel of niceness in the universe, and blow dry it with the love of a million kittens, you might be able to make out something like this:

"Oh dear me this place is simply horrid! Crawling with all this vermin and slime, what a despicable mess this ship is in. And I suppose I have to be the one to clean up this mess, ugh, why is it always me? Couldn't Davros have assigned a janitorial squadron to this menial labour? I am an 11th ranking officer. I've fought time lords for Skaro's sake, I really deserve to be treated better. Now if you would all just stop running so I can kill you all!"

The screams of the engineering crew echoed through the halls. Equal in strength were the loud piercing screeches from the dalek's gun stick, each one signifying another death.

"Forty two, forty three, oh would you lot just be quiet when you die! It's wreaking havoc on my sensitive audio equipment. I suppose I could just mute them all and put on some nice music though. Hm…let's go for classical this time."

Of course, classical music for daleks is made up of the millions of screams of planets burning and dying painful deaths. In particular, this dalek was listening to Purge of the Theta Sigma Galaxy in B minor, Third Movement.


With the help of a strong waft of Plot Convenience, Scotty managed to make his way up to the main deck and put the ship in maximum lock down. He and five other engineers are all that are left.

Kirk, not being as stupid as he looks (as the Doctor would say), quickly jumped into command. With a quick look at Mr. Scott and a nod from Mr. Spock, he flushed the entire engineering level, throwing open every air lock. The remaining 85 members of the engineering crew, as well as the dalek were swept out into open space. Unfortunately, absolutely no lives were lost as a consequence of this action.

The Doctor gained a new begrudging respect for this Captain. Put in the same position, he would have done the same thing, but he would not have acted nearly as quickly. The Captain is more logical than he first thought. It could not have been easy making that call, knowing that people might still be alive down there.

Spock voiced his approval. Bones did not as he was utterly horrified. Clara realised she was hugging the Doctor and quickly righted herself to recapture some of her dignity. Skaropuff purred contently.

The Doctor grabbed Clara and ran back down the halls.

"Doctor, where are we going?"

"Nothing in this universe or ours can stop a Time War Dalek. But together, we might just have a chance. I need to get something form the TARDIS. Do you have Skaropuff with you?"

"Yes…why do you ask?"

"Because he's about to get some new friends."


The Dalek did not like this turn of events and was rather cross with whoever interrupted its killing spree. It quickly turned to face the Enterprise and forced open its communications.

"You ruffians! How dare you interrupt me while I was enjoying myself so thoroughly! If it wasn't for the fact that I want your ship I would blow you all out of orbit right now. Open those pod bay doors and let me back in this instant!"

Of course, that's the filtered version. What Kirk heard was this:

OPEN YOUR DOORS OR BE EXTERMINATED! YOU WILL OBEY! OBEY! OBEY! OBEY!

Kirk reacted calmly enough.

"Fire everything. Maximum power."

The Enterprise turned against the stars, facing all of its nine phaser cannons and two photon torpedo bays forwards. She towered over the dalek, being 300 times the size of the cyborg. Her weapons flashed for just an instant before delivering a hull shredding payload directly into the dalek's shell.

If the dalek could laugh, it would have. But it can't. So it blew the Enterprise's weapons to bits instead.

OPEN YOUR DOORS AND YOUR DEATH WILL BE SWIFT. OTHERWISE I WILL BLOW YOUR SHIP OUT OF THE SKY!

Spock took Kirk's stunned silence as a "temporary emotionally compromised state " (as it would say in the records) and opened communications with the dalek as the temporary Captain.

"I will open those doors after you answer a question of mine. Why do you want to kill us? We have done nothing to you."

YOU ARE AN ENEMY OF THE DALEKS. YOU MUST BE DESTROYED.

"We are a peacekeeping organization. We have made no moves against any species such as the Daleks, who have until recently not existed in this universe!"

YOU ARE NOT DALEKS. THEREFORE YOU ARE OUR ENEMY!

"You say 'therefore' as if this follows, but on what logic do you base this decision? You are ending countless lives for no reason. You have nothing to gain from killing us."

DALEKS ARE SUPREME. ALL THAT IS NOT DALEK MUST BE EXTERMINATED

"To what end? Once you've us then what? Our planet? Our galaxy? The universe?"

YOU WILL ALL BE EXTERMINATED

"So once you've killed the entire universe, then what? All life has stopped. There is nothing left in the universe but you, then what?"

THEN MY MISSION IS COMPLETE. THE UNIVERSE WILL BE THE PERFECTION THAT IS THE DALEKS

"There are no other daleks! Just you. And eventually you will die, leaving nothing."

GOOD

"You are speaking nonsense! It is illogical!"

THEN LOGIC COMES SECOND TO HATE

The dalek closed communications. It had becomes bored with talking and wanted to shoot something. So it did. If it wasn't in space, you could hear the screech the gunstick made as it fired a bolt strong enough to cleave the Enterprise in two.