#united nations intelligence taskforce

[presidentpoppy]

Kate Lethbridge-Stewart

[thienvaldram]

The Unified Intelligence Taskforce Official Catalogue – Detailing the Known Incarnations of the Renegade Time Lord Known as the Doctor.

(My attempt to explain the In Universe origin for the Doctor Numbering that makes sense)

General interaction protocol: Unless a specific placement in the life of a particular incarnation is evident, protocol is to assume the incarnation only has the knowledge of their predecessors life, not any encounters they themselves may have had with UNIT, unless they make specific reference to prior encounters without prompting. Encounters referenced that do not correlate to the known set of UNIT encounters with the Doctor are to be catalogued in the ‘Future Encounters’ database, subject to internal review.

The Numbered Roster, Incarnations Who Work Alongside UNIT

The First Doctor

First Official Encounter: UNIT Year 6 (Subject to Dating Protocol), Omega Incident

Important Interaction Notes: This incarnation is described as the First based on the Omega Incident and Death Zone incident, wherein this life is the earliest one present in both locations. The direct predecessor of the incarnation who first encountered UNIT, interactions with this version of the Doctor should be kept to a minimum as per the temporal protocols.

The Second Doctor

First Official Encounter: UNIT Year -4 (Subject to Dating Protocol), London Incident

Important Interaction Notes: This incarnation is the first to interact with UNIT, doing so during UNIT Year 1, The First Cyberman Incursion. As such it is to be assumed that this incarnation is unaware of UNIT or its operations unless they make specific reference to it themselves. The exception to this is encounters with a grey haired, older looking iteration, which are to be catalogued separately and not to be mentioned to future incarnations either.

The Third Doctor

First Official Encounter: UNIT Year 1, First Auton Invasion

Important Interaction Notes: As this incarnation was stranded working for UNIT until the Omega Incident, it is reasonable the majority of the time to assume any further encounters with this incarnation involve a version who is already aware of these events.

The Fourth Doctor

First Official Encounter: UNIT Year 8, K1 Incident

Important Interaction Notes: As this incarnation was born within UNIT and travelled with Sarah Jane Smith for his early life, it is reasonable to assume they are familiar with the events of the K1 Incident, First Zygon Invasion and the Krynoid Incident.

The Fifth Doctor

First Official Encounter: 1980, Discovery of the TARDIS in Pompeii

Important Interaction Notes: None to report

The Sixth Doctor

First Official Encounter: 1983, Derbyshire

Important Interaction Notes: None to report

The Seventh Doctor

First Official Encounter: 1997, Camelot Incident

Important Interaction Notes: This incarnation has been heavily involved in UNITs past prior to his first official encounter, specifically in UNIT Year 8, The Vardan Incident, among others.

The Eighth Doctor

First Official Encounter: 2003, Malebolgia Incident

Important Interaction Notes: There is a large period in which this incarnation lived on Earth (first reported in the late 19th Century until the early 21st), during this period they possessed amnesia and are to be treated as a named incarnation. (Specifically “The Amnesiac Doctor”)

The War Doctor

First Official Encounter: 2013, Operation Double

Important Interaction Notes: This incarnation, despite being chronologically between the Eighth and Ninth, was not catalogued until years later and is specially numbered as they are not to be mentioned to the subsequent three incarnations due to repressed trauma from an event known as the ‘Last Great Time War’.

The Ninth Doctor (Previously “Northern Doctor” before identification)

First Official Encounter: UNIT Year 8, Albion Defence Investigation

Important Interaction Notes: Avoid bringing up the events of the ‘Last Great Time War’.

The Tenth Doctor

First Official Encounter: 2006, Sycorax Incident

Important Interaction Notes: Do not confuse this incarnation with the ‘Fourteenth Doctor’ (First encountered 2023, The Giggle). Take extra care determining the incarnation in question and categorise as appropriate in the ‘Post-Giggle 10/14 Re-Categorisation Database’.

The Eleventh Doctor

First Official Encounter: 2011, Goruda Investigation

Important Interaction Notes: Avoid mentioning events still present in the ‘Post-Giggle 10/14 Re-Categorisation Database’. Also avoid alluding to future incarnations outright as this one believes himself to be the final one.

The Twelfth Doctor

First Official Encounter: 2014, Fracture Incident

Important Interaction Notes: Avoid mentioning events still present in the ‘Post-Giggle 10/14 Re-Categorisation Database’.

The Thirteenth Doctor

First Official Encounter: 2021, Three Minute Eclipse

Important Interaction Notes: Avoid mentioning events still present in the ‘Post-Giggle 10/14 Re-Categorisation Database’. First official encounter was during the 2017-2021 UNIT Shutdown caused by the infiltration of the organisation by an alien agent. As a result, care is to be taken regarding future encounters with this incarnation to avoid revealing the nature of said shutdown.

The Fourteenth Doctor

First Official Encounter: 2023, November 2023 UFO Incident

Important Interaction Notes: This incarnations entire life up to the events of ‘The Giggle’ is known and catalogued by testimony. Post-“Giggle Events” should be catalogued separately under the “Bigenerated Doctor” after being first placed into the ‘Post-Giggle 10/14 Re-Categorisation Database’.

The Fifteenth Doctor

First Official Encounter: 2023, The Giggle

Important Interaction Notes: Do not assume this incarnation is familiar with events that happen to the post-‘The Giggle’ Fourteenth Doctor until such a theory has been adequately tested.

Non-Numbered Incarnations of Unknown Placement

The “Bearded Doctor”

First Official Encounter: Prior to 1991 (Incident Report Lost)

Important Interaction Notes: Placement unknown, presumed to postdate the First through Eighth Doctors but that cannot be assumed.

The “Flaming Sword Doctor”

First Official Encounter: Prior to 1991 (Incident Report Lost)

Also known from the seizure of Clive Finch’s photographs of the Doctor.

Documented but not Encountered

The “Fugitive Doctor” (Active periods: 1962, 1999-2020)

The “Bearded Scholar Doctor” (Active periods: 1740-1804)

The “Detective Doctor” (Active periods: 1938-1944 – Worked with British Government)

The “Inventor Doctor” (Active periods: 1918-1955, 1975)

The “Adventurer Doctor” (Active periods: 1788-1792)

The “Ambassador Doctor” (Active periods: Pre-2005, only known from the seizure of Clive Finch’s photographs of the Doctor)

The “Enigma Doctor” (Active periods: 2472, via testimony from Jo Grant)

The “Agent Doctor”

The “Showman Doctor” (Active periods: 1960-1963, 1970)

“Dr Who” (Active periods: 18XX-Post 1963)

The “Ginger Doctor” (Active periods: 2010)

The “Wheelchair Doctor” (Active periods: Pre-2005, only known from the seizure of Clive Finch’s photographs of the Doctor)

[maniacwatchestheworld]

I... Is OWCA (Phineas and Ferb) supposed to be like... Kid's show animal UNIT (Doctor Who).....???? This... This explains a lot actually... If I just imagine that OWCA was founded and its highearchy operates in a very similar capacity to UNIT, suddenly everything about it makes sense! I understand how and why all of it works!!!

Swampy! Are you a Third Doctor era fan? I'm smelling it on you, Jeff!

[doctorkinktraveller]

[cookiepoweredtardis2]

(Was gonna post this in r/Gallifrey but they were jerks to me last time I posted so imma stay out of there for awhile)

UNIT question: are they purely a UK organization? When it was called United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, I always assumed that it had branches in many different countries.

[thedoctorwhocompanion]

Candy Jar Books Announces United Nations, One of the Last Novels in the Lethbridge-Stewart Range

Candy Jar Books has announced the third title in its final series of Lethbridge-Stewart novels. United Nations is written by Jonathan Blum, his first Lethbridge-Stewart novel, but by no means his first foray into Doctor Who fiction. During the 1990s he penned several Doctor Who novels with his partner, Kate Orman, for BBC Books, including Vampire Science and Seeing I. He also wrote the Big…

[communistdragon]

As much as I love Kate Stewart, I really don't like the focus on UNIT as a good miliary power in the current era of Doctor Who.

I love the Jon Pertwee era of the show, and I don't object to UNIT as a concept, but I do object to the way they're currently being used. They can be used to great effect, especially when they're pretty explicitly in the wrong and in conflict with the Doctor (Doctor Who and the Silurians, for instance). They're also often ineffectual ("just once, I'd like to meet an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets"), which is good. Doctor Who should not be a series where all the alien threats can be solved with a gun.

"The military is bad unless it's our own home-grown secretive armed forces" is a message that leaves a bit of a bad taste in my mouth. As much as this era is trying to be anti-fascist, any attempts to do so are undermined by the giant tower full of soldiers in London. We don't need any "militarisation is good, actually" messages in the show, especially right now.

The imprisoned aliens, concerningly labelled "assets" in the new episode, rub me the wrong way as well. Does the Doctor know about everything they have going on in that tower? They could easily and without consequence imprison an alien that's just some guy, and even the proper threats don't deserve a tiny cell like that. Send the Shreek home.

UNIT is a lot more interesting when they're more explicitly international - they are the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, after all. They ended up embroiled in international politics in the Jon Pertwee era - why are they so UK-centric now?

UNIT is also more interesting when they're not as ridiculously powerful and well-funded as they currently are. A limitation on their power and funding makes for better story writing.

What I'd like to see is UNIT get defunded, or at the very least to see a problem that UNIT handles in a terrible way that is not either justified by the narrative or the work of a rogue agent.

[someotherthingsanstuff]

"Yes, well, since the Yeti do, I've been in charge of an independent intelligence group that we call UNIT. That's United Nations Intelligence Taskforce." Some UNIT troopers, in a more 80's style, with DPM camo and flack jackets. doctor who in 28mm

[doctorwho-femslashfeb]

Day 17: Jo/UNIT

The United Nations Intelligence Taskforce!

[rowanthestrange]

I double-checked. Susan Twist is addressing an empty room, but the event was said to us to be a UN address: “And look at me now. 90 minutes' time, I address the United Nations.” “Come on, you two. In 65 minutes, it's 1500 UK time, 10am in the USA. That's when Susan Triad addresses the United Nations.”

And it’s clearly a promo with a fake standard tech bro crowd with pretend overexcited individuals, like an Apple event, and the script would suggest it’s to the general public.

It’s definitely meant to be the same speech. “She's due to make the speech at three o'clock. We've got ten minutes. I'm with the media team.”

…But the actual speech as we personally end up experiencing is to UNIT. The Unified Intelligence Taskforce. Previously United Nations Intelligence Taskforce before they politely asked us to change that.

And the audience doesn’t exist.

Definitely got to be meta.

Is this a Doctor Who Is A TV Show theory kind of meta? Something about canon flexibility? Things being true and not all at once?

If we get a Wibbly-wobbly Big Bang Three would this be a hint of the effect of the TARDIS getting all her occupants’ memories together as episodes and so remembering it as both? The TARDIS wiki is real and canon and it’s all true every bit as needed and UNIT is both United Nations and Unified?

[justwriteryan]

PART 1: Fallout

The World Security Council overrules Nick Fury and orders the launch of a nuclear missile on New York City. Before Fury can prevent the jet from launching, the Director is waylaid by Agent Jasper Sitwell, secretly acting on behalf of HYDRA.

Without advance warning from the Helicarrier, the Avengers fail to stop the missile. The jet fires its payload which makes direct impact on Stark Tower, wiping out the Avengers themselves and most of the city in an all-encompassing flash of light.

Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton and Tony Stark are incinerated by the explosion. Loki barely escapes Stark Tower before it detonates, teleporting out of the skyscraper in the nick of time. A split second decision drives him to rescue Thor from the nuclear fireball as well.

The Hulk not only survives the explosion; he attempts to absorb as much of the radiation released by the missile into his own body. While this does drastically reduce the nuclear fallout in the surrounding area, the high levels of radiation pollute the Hulk’s mind. Bruce Banner’s consciousness is essentially burned away from radiation poisoning, while the Hulk himself is reduced to animal-level intelligence and no longer capable of speech. They flee the blast site and disappear into the wilderness.

The Helicarrier, still damaged from Barton’s ambush and Hulk’s rampage earlier that day, failed to enact evasive manoeuvres against the shockwave of a nuclear explosion. The blast sends the aircraft plummeting into the Atlantic. Nick Fury, Maria Hill and all other SHIELD personnel on board lose their lives in the crash.

Loki and Thor reappear somewhere outside the city. Thor lands on the ground unconscious. The God of Thunder is badly burned. Loki looks on at the smoke rising from the ruins of Manhattan in silence. Hanging in the sky above the billowing mushroom cloud is the portal to the far reaches of space. Stark Tower was destroyed, but not before the Tesseract (or Space Stone) had become self-sufficient, capable of opening a wormhole to the end of the universe without any additional power sources. The Chitauri Loki had summoned had been wiped out, along with everyone else on the ground, but reinforcements from the mothership were still poring through, awaiting his command.

Loki spies a news van and camera crew setting up nearby. Sceptre in hand, he approaches and instructs them to record a message.

“People of Midgard, citizens of Earth. I am Prince Loki of Asgard and I came here to rule you all as one nation under one god. The devastation behind me was not my doing. I led an army into that city to quell any resistance, to do battle the honourable way. But those you task with protecting you have no honour at all. The explosion you witnessed was the result of a missile fired by the international peacekeeping taskforce known as SHIELD. They wilfully ignored all rules of engagement and massacred their own people, causing more deaths than my legions ever could. They will be held accountable for this; I swear to you. Until then; I claim what remains of New York City as my stronghold. Any attempt to trespass will be met with deadly force. Do not test me.”

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In the days following the transmission of Loki’s message, the effects of the Battle of New York rippled across the globe.

Recognising their position as the planet’s front line against a full-scale alien invasion, the United States government recalled all forces from overseas to bolster their defences against any expansion of Loki’s new territory. Any survivors in the Greater New York are were quickly evacuated and a perimeter was established fifteen miles outside the city itself. From there, the army would make unsuccessful attempts at recapture, only to be repelled by Chitauri patrols every time.

Despite the emergence of a genuine global threat growing in the U.S., the international community was reluctant to send aid. Various nations marshalled their own forces and held them at the ready for when the conflict would inevitably spread beyond America. Most parties viewed the American government’s research into the Tesseract as the root cause of the attack itself. Additionally, after Loki announced to the world that SHIELD had authorised the use of a nuclear warhead on one of the most densely populated cities on Earth, confidence in the institution plummeted. Governments, corporations and intelligence services began openly disavowing SHIELD and began to limit any communication with them.

Now that a beachhead had been secured on Earth, Loki reported to the Other, his liaison to Thanos. The Tesseract was safe, the portal was open and Earth’s protectors had fallen. With reinforcements, Loki could conquer the planet in no time at all. Thanos however, realising that his Asgardian servant now held two Infinity Stones and not trusting the would-be king, told Loki further reinforcements would take time to muster and to make use of the Chitauri he had been supplied with already. Dismayed but determined, Loki sent envoys to his ancestral people the Frost Giants of Jotunheim. Declaring himself as the long-lost son of the late King Laufey, the God of Mischief urged the Jotuns to rally to him and conquer Midgard as his father had once attempted long ago. With no other clear leadership to challenge them, the people of Jotunheim consented and within a few days an army of Frost Giants travelled through the portal, ready to battle in Loki’s name.

[beardedmrbean]

A criminal network smuggling mainly Syrian migrants from Türkiye to Western Europe has been taken down following a coordinated action led by the Bulgarian authorities and supported by Europol, the European police co-operation agency said in a statement on June 5.

Europol said that on June , law enforcement carried out raids in five major cities across Bulgaria under the supervision of the Bourgas Prosecutor’s Office.

Officers from Greece, Romania and Moldova joined Bulgarian investigators on the ground, with Europol also deployed to support the action. In total, 18 people were arrested, including a high-value target, Europol said.

The criminal network used a variety of vehicles to smuggle migrants across borders, including vans, trucks, tourist caravans and even car assistance platforms.

Many of these were fitted with custom-built hiding compartments that the members of the smuggling network patched together in Türkiye, Bulgaria and Romania. These modifications allowed the vehicles to travel directly to destination countries without stopping in shelters or transfer points along the way.

This action was part of a wider investigation under a Europol-coordinated Regional Operational Task Force based in Sofia, targeting organised crime groups smuggling migrants through Bulgaria and into Western Europe.

The criminal network – composed of Bulgarian, Romanian and Syrian nationals – smuggled mostly Syrian nationals from Türkiye through Greece and Bulgaria, using the Balkans as a key transit route.

Migrants typically paid 2000 to 2500 euro to cross from Syria into Türkiye. After several months in Türkiye, they were charged an additional 5000 to 6000 euro to be smuggled into the EU.

Smugglers recruited drivers directly in Bulgaria, while others – including Moldovans – were recruited online. In a separate case, Bulgarian intelligence led to the discovery of eight migrants hiding in floor compartments of a caravan in Türkiye.

The organised crime group used falsified documents to support their operations. These included fake driving licences issued in Romania, Greece and the United Kingdom, as well as fraudulent vehicle registration documents.

Since June 2024, 14 smuggling attempts linked to this criminal network have been detected – eight in Bulgaria, two in Greece, one in France and three in Türkiye. Five of the drivers were found with fake licences, and in 10 other cases, fraudulent vehicle documents were used.

The network relied on the underground Hawala system to move money between Türkiye and Bulgaria, with additional transfers made through Western Union by an intermediary.

Europol has supported the investigation since the outset, providing analytical and operational support through the Sofia-based taskforce. The agency also facilitated multiple coordination meetings and the exchange of operational intelligence between involved countries.

On the action day, Europol deployed an expert with specialised equipment to Bulgaria, enabling the real-time cross-checking of data and enhancing the flow of intelligence on the ground.

[6-and-7]

Spearhead from Space Forbidden to continue travelling the universe by his own people, the Time Lords, and exiled to Earth in the late 20th century, the newly regenerated Doctor arrives in Oxley Woods accompanied by a shower of mysterious meteorites. Investigating the occurrence is the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce (UNIT for short), an organisation which had previously been associated with the Doctor during the Cybermen's invasion.

Led as before by Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT is soon in action when people and meteorites start going missing. Most puzzling is the attempted kidnapping of a strange hospital patient: a man with two hearts, who insists that he knows the Brigadier.

The new Doctor soon joins forces with his old friend, with UNIT, and with the recently recruited Dr Elizabeth Shaw, but time is running out. Irregular things are happening at a nearby plastics factory, while faceless creatures lurk in the woods. The Nestenes have landed a spearhead force and plan to conquer the country by substituting plastic Auton replicas for men and women in key government and military posts.

The Vampires of Venice The Eleventh Doctor takes Amy and Rory, soon to be married, on a romantic trip to Venice, 1580 to make Amy focus on her relationship with her fiancé. However, things in Venice aren't quite what they seem. Warnings of the plague are spreading about despite it having died out years before, and pale, creepy girls who don't like sunlight are lurking around. Could it have something to do with the school run by the mysterious Rosanna Calvierri?

[shinybridge]

Something that I realized is that most of my favorite shows have the military with a prominent role/ most of the characters are in it

Despite how much it claims otherwise, Starfleet is a military. (Star Trek)

My favorite era of Doctor who is the third Doctor’s era, UNIT plays a big role there. (United Nations Intelligence Taskforce)

Stargate, the SGC is a military operation.

MASH is set in a military hospital.

Hogan’s Hero’s is set in a POW camp during ww2.

[youngmanwithaskull]

what's the unit dating scandal?

okay so . basically . in classic doctor who (this only applies to classic who in my mind) there's this military organization called unit (short for united nations intelligence taskforce back then, it's unified intelligence taskforce now because of . real life things) & they have TWO dating scandals:

one - like actual dates. and stuff . the timeline for their main era & their timeline in general is so messed up . on some accounts it takes place in the 60s, some it takes place when it aired in the 70s, some in the 80s, literally none of it is straight & it's all so confusing . sarah jane says she's from the 1980s in one episode despite that not working with literally anything else . it's wild

two - like dating as in . romantic relationships . the doctor & the brigadier have SOMETHING going on, capt. mike yates was intended to be a love interest for jo grant but that never technically went through besides jo mentioning that they were gonna go on a date, yates also asks the brigadier to do a fertility dance with him at the end of the daemons and the brig says he'd 'rather a pint' (hence the brigadier is an alcoholic and mike yates is gay), also i think yates & sergeant benton share a pair of pants at some point??? it's crazy

beloved tumblr mutual grandadtwelve made a really good post about it here

[denimbex1986]

'Doctor Who has introduced the modern "loud and proud" UNIT and freely admits it betrays the original vision of Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney). In the final Doctor Who 60th anniversary special, UNIT request the aid of the Fourteenth Doctor (David Tennant) to defeat the machinations of the Toymaker (Neil Patrick Harris) and his nightmarish giggle. However, where in the past the Doctor had been ferried in under the cover of darkness, this time he and Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) were publicly picked up by helicopter and taken to a fancy new skyscraper, complete with UNIT branding...

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 observes the key deviation from its original vision.

Kate Lethbridge-Stewart! I remember your father working night and day to keep UNIT secret. Look at you now, out and proud and defending 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 approach. The flashy new skyscraper and public presence marks the apotheosis of her fresh vision for the institution that her father helped to found. It's a betrayal of the original vision of a top-secret organization, but Doctor Who is unapologetic about this and likely for good reason.

During Jodie Whittaker's Doctor Who era, UNIT was defunded by a short-sighted government. This was largely thanks to the machinations of the Grand Serpent (Craig Parkinson), who took advantage of the Flux to place himself in a position of power and influence on Earth. Top-secret organizations are much easier for governments to dispense with, so while Kate may be betraying UNIT's original values in modern Doctor Who, it feels more like an evolution of her father's vision than a rejection of it...'