Just months after the broadcast of Victory of the Daleks, the editor of Doctor Who: The Brilliant Book 2011 suggested to showrunner Steven Moffat that the New Paradigm design introduced in that story had “split opinion” among fans. “We’re not going to lose the old [ bronze] Daleks,” replied Moffat. “We’ll just use them all at once, and have different ranks. All I’ve done is give the Daleks an officer class.”
