“Quarks! Destroy Them…..!” Toba – Dominator, The Dominators 1968.
Walking Dalek Mk-II?
The Dominators – were a high-tech race of war-mongering humanoid aliens, who controlled the robotic ‘Quarks’; as a personel army. They used flying-saucers to move their armies around – and ruled much of the ‘Ten Galaxy’ quadrant.
The Dominators were militaristic and single-minded in their persuit of conquest. They operated a military rank system and new leaders would be placed on a probation system until they had passed a test.
The Quark robot units themselves, were a bipedal robot unit; with a large square chest unit. Their heads were round, with protruding spikes and they had blocky legs and square arms; which both retracted fully into their bodies.
Their arms were multi-functional. Scan, manipulate objects, stun, or kill. They could also emit warning alarms; upon being attacked – or disabled.
The Second Doctor first meeting with the Quarks & The Dominators, was in The Dominators – 1968. The Dominators have landed on the planet Dulkis, and used the Quark forces to repress the indigenous inhabitants; they drill huge bore holes, so that they can harvest energy direct from the planet’s core.
The Dominators were successful aggressors, using their high-tech weapons and Quark army – to conquer entire worlds. But their ultimate downfall, was stretching their empire to wide – too quickly.
And more importantly – a number of Quarks break their enforced programming logic; to form a resistance movement. To combat this, the Dominators then begin recruiting alien slaves; to fill the gaps, in their Quark armies.
The slaves also rebelled and the remaining Quark’s could not subdue them, so the overthrow of the Dominator’s empire – had begun. A fitting universal allegory, similar to the rise and fall Roman Empire.
The Quarks were intended to feature – more often, as the Daleks and indeed replace the Daleks. However, due to a copyright dispute with the creators. They were sadly abandoned from the show; following Troughton’s departure. They did not feature again – in the classic era.
