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UNIT (UNified Intelligence Taskforce, formerly United Nations Intelligence Taskforce) is a fictional military organisation from the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Operating under the auspices of the United Nations, its purpose is to investigate and combat paranormal and extraterrestrial threats to the Earth. As is common in long-running series whose back-stories are not mapped out in advance, and which are also the product of many different writers over the course of years, the fictional history of UNIT has seen retroactive changes which have caused some continuity problems. ==Pre-UNIT== Following the canon of the television show only, the roots of the organisation in the history of the ''Doctor Who'' universe lie in one extraterrestrial incursion. As seen in the Second Doctor serial ''The Web of Fear'' (1968), there was an attempt to take over London by a disembodied entity known as the Great Intelligence, using robotic Yetis and a deadly cobweb-like fungus. A small group of British infantrymen, ultimately led by Colonel Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart of the Scots Guards (assisted by the Doctor), beat back the attempted conquest in the tunnels of the London Underground. According to several sources outside of the television programme itself, UNIT also owes part of its existence to a much later television episode, the Seventh Doctor serial ''Remembrance of the Daleks'' (1988).〔Dylan, Andrew, "An Army of Shadows", ''Doctor Who Magazine'' Winter 1991 Special ("UNIT Exposed"), Marvel Comics Ltd., pp. 4-5.〕 In that incident, two Dalek factions fought a battle in London over the Time Lord artefact known as the Hand of Omega in late 1963. They were defeated by detachment of soldiers from the 'Intrusion Counter-Measures Group', commanded by Group Captain "Chunky" Gilmore, along with help from the mysterious time traveller known as the Doctor. Gilmore also had the assistance of a Scientific Advisor, Dr. Rachel Jensen. According to non-canon sources, the ICMG was a special anti-terrorist group which drew its forces from the regular Army, and also the RAF Regiment.〔Original ''Remembrance of the Daleks'' episode script and novelisation by Ben Aaronovitch〕 The Dalek incident was of course covered-up. The ICMG was disbanded shortly afterwards; however, several of its training materials and procedures were adopted by UNIT.〔Dylan, ''op. cit.'' p. 5.〕 Gilmore later served as an advisor, often lecturing for UNIT personnel.〔Novelisation of episode ''Battlefield'' by Marc Platt〕 Following the Yeti Incident, the United Nations became aware that the world faced threats from extraterrestrial sources, and that with the space programme sending probes deeper and deeper into space, mankind had drawn attention to itself. Consequently, the United Nations established UNIT with the mandate to investigate, monitor and combat such threats. The United Nations was also given jurisdiction over first contact situations in 1968, as revealed in "The Sound of Drums". Lethbridge-Stewart was promoted to the rank of Brigadier and put in charge of the British contingent of UNIT, which was apparently under the purview of the British government's Department C19. Department C19 was mentioned in the serial ''Time-Flight'', being the department at whose behest the Fifth Doctor investigated the mystery of a Concorde aeroplane that had disappeared. Several of the spin-off novels explore the idea that C19 gathers up alien technology for their own ends, as revealed in ''The Scales of Injustice'' and ''Who Killed Kennedy''. The canonicity of the novels in relation to the series is unclear. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of UNIT」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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