Doctor Who
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Summary
Doctor Whohas introduced the modern " loud and lofty " UNIT and freely admits it shop the original imagination of Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge - Stewart ( Nicholas Courtney ) . In the finalDoctor Who60th day of remembrance extra , unit of measurement request the aid of the Fourteenth Doctor ( David Tennant ) to defeat the machination of the Toymaker ( Neil Patrick Harris ) and his hair-raising giggle . However , where in the yesteryear the Doctor had been ferried in under the cover of dark , this time he and Donna Noble ( Catherine Tate ) were publically picked up by whirlybird and taken to a fancy Modern skyscraper , arrant with UNIT branding .
Doctor Who ’s UNITwas founded in the Wake Island of the Great Intelligence ’s attack on the London Underground in the 1968 serial publication " The Web of Fear . " design to protect the Earth from foreign threats and , crucially , keep them secret from the all-embracing populace . However , this was often easier say than done , as during the Third Doctor ( Jon Pertwee ) era , shop windowpane boob embark on a murderous rampage and the prehistoric Silurians let loose a venomous computer virus onto the London populace . It was often a struggle for the Brigadier to keep UNIT a arcanum , but it appears that the advanced foundation has no such aspiration .
UNIT has its most impressive main office yet in Doctor Who ’s 60th - anniversary special , continuing a trick about the top - cloak-and-dagger military organization .
Doctor Who Admits UNIT Is Now Betraying The Classic Era’s Values
When the Doctor and Donna land at the brand - new modern headquarters for the Unified Nations Intelligence Taskforce , he detect the key deviation from its original imagination .
Kate Lethbridge - Stewart ! I remember your father working night and solar day to keep UNIT secret . take care at you now , out and proud and defend the Earth !
When Kate Lethbridge - Stewart ( Jemma Redgrave ) was first introduced in " The Power of Three , " she told the Eleventh Doctor ( Matt Smith ) that she was embracing a new glide path . The gaudy new skyscraper and public presence marks the apotheosis of her fresh vision for the institution that her begetter helped to found . It ’s a betrayal of the original imaginativeness of a top - unavowed organization , butDoctor Whois unapologetic about this and likely for practiced reason .
DuringJodie Whittaker’sDoctor Whoera , UNIT was defunded by a short - sighted government . This was largely thanks to the machination of the Grand Serpent ( Craig Parkinson ) , who took advantage of the Flux to place himself in a location of power and influence on Earth . Top - secret organizations are much easier for government activity to dispense with , so while Kate may be cuckold UNIT ’s original values in modernDoctor Who , it feels more like an phylogeny of her father ’s imagination than a rejection of it .
Why UNIT Is Going Public In Doctor Who
Since Russell T Davies first brought backDoctor Whoin 2005 , Earth has been frequently invaded by Slitheen , Daleks , Cybermen , and Sontarans . 18 years later on , it ’s becoming increasingly intemperate to trust that the population never call up these alien incursions , while labor under the belief that outlander do n’t exist . Having UNIT go public in the third ofDoctor Who ’s sixtieth - anniversary specials feels like a statement of intention for the future of the show . UNIT is a now a public institution because humanity is finally accepting that aliens exist , and they need aegis from invaders .
Having a more public - look UNIT also avail to differentiate the institution from Torchwood in modernDoctor Who . With rumors of aUNIT spinoff on Disney+ , the show will sure enough want to stigmatize itself out as something other than a more kinsfolk friendly version of John Barrowman ’s grownup - orientedDoctor Whospinoff . Torchwood worked in secret , entail they could only handle small exotic incursion or unusual goings - on . An " out and proud " UNIT could take on much bigger and more public menace , ca-ca Kate Stewart ’s rumoredDoctor Whospinoff a far more exciting prospect for the future tense of the Whoniverse .
Doctor Whoreturns to BBC One and Disney+ on Christmas Day . All three 60th anniversary specials are available to stream now .
The latest Doctor Who series introduces the Fifteenth Doctor, joined by new companion Ruby Sunday.
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The late Doctor Who series introduces the Fifteenth Doctor , joined by new companion Ruby Sunday .
