Prisoner of the Daleks is a BBC Books original novel written by Trevor Baxendale and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
[1] It features the Tenth Doctor without a companion and was released on 2 April 2009, alongside Judgement of the Judoon and The Slitheen Excursion.
They quickly trace it to the computer data core room where they find and free the Doctor, who has been sending it out with a spoon.
They manage to take off but the Daleks blow up a refuelling pump, sending debris flying into the ship through the open landing ramp, badly wounding Stella.
As the crew attempt to put her into cryo-freeze a Dalek manages to get into the ship through an air-lock, and exterminates Stella.
On the way, the Dalek's eye stalk is removed so that the crew can claim the prize-money for killing it, and it is placed in the cargo hold.
At this point in history the Daleks are locked in a huge galactic war with Earth's first empire, at a moment when victory can go either way.
Commanding the ship is Bowman, a former Earth trooper who has been fighting the Daleks for years and is a veteran of the Draconian Wars.
Scrum is the crew's technician, Cuttin' Edge is a former Space Marine who was dishonorably discharged and Stella was the ship's Medic.
The other crew member, Koral, is a humanoid alien whose planet and people of Red Sky Lost were destroyed by the Daleks.
Using the Osterhagen Principle, they detonate a series of nuclear bombs and destroy the planet to prevent it falling to the Daleks.
Furious at the loss of Stella and her home world, the crew of the Wayfarer decide to interrogate the captured Dalek.
Deciding that the Doctor is telling the truth, Bowman orders the crew to head for the remains of the planet Arkheon, which had been destroyed at the start of the war.
Whilst looking round the devastated landscape they encounter dozens of mutated Arkheonites, devolved by the radiation fallout.
After destroying their weapons the Daleks force the Doctor and the crew onto a lift, which descends down the side of the planet towards they core.
They have constructed a huge underground base where thousands of human prisoners from Auros are mining the core, looking for the Threshold.
After an unknown length of time in pain the Doctor is released from the mind probe, and shown around the base by Dalek X.
The Doctor refuse to co-operate, but the Daleks threaten to exterminate a woman and her daughter from Cuttin' Edge's and Koral's work force if he doesn't comply.
The Exterminator and its escort fleet head for Hurala, with the Doctor, the surviving Wayfarer crew members and the Dalek Temporal Research Team on board.
When they reach the TARDIS the Doctor claims to have lost the Key, saying it is in the room he was locked up in at the Dalek Base.
The Doctor is nearly finished, but realises that he can't stop the safety override by remote control.
The Doctor informs it that Arkeon has been taken by the Earth forces, the Daleks are in full retreat on all fronts and that he has sealed off the Threshold.