Biography[]

Afraid of the possibility of a Dalek incursion anyday, Major McLinn oversaw a secret SSS operation to mutate wounded soldiers into fake Daleks, planning to use them to infiltrate the enemy. When the temporal scientist on the project, Arborecc, was accidentally mutated by his own time engine McLinn had him placed in a Dalek casing, viewing it as making the best of a bad situation.

When the Tenth Doctor, Anya Kingdom and Mark Seven arrived on the station looking for Arborecc, McLinn denied he’d ever been there. He caught the Doctor investigating the secret part of the station dedicated to the project, and had him guarded by a fake Dalek. He returned to find the Doctor had opened the casing and caused the mutant to remember its former identity as Arborecc, so killed it to end its suffering. McLinn and the Doctor argued over the morality of the project, the Doctor protesting that McLinn's test subjects had never given their consent to be transformed in this manner. Refusing to consider the idea that his plan was flawed, McLinn eventually took the Doctor to the time engine to mutate him, only for the Doctor to sabotage it after a final look in McLinn's eyes 'assured' the Doctor that he shouldn't regret what he was about to do. When his Daleks began to turn on him after the Doctor inspired them, McLinn fled to his office but became trapped there by one. It informed him it was not going to kill him, but would prevent him escaping the station’s self destruct which the fake Daleks had initiated to end the project. (AUDIO: The Trojan Dalek)