A UNIT question

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• Sora2311 Posts: 2,309

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  24/11/13 - 18:50 #2

  No they changed name after they became a more military style taskforce

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 672

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  24/11/13 - 18:52 #3

  No, you didn't hear wrong. And you're right, it used to stand for United Nation's Intelligence Taskforce and now stands for UNified Intelligence Taskforce. They changed it because the real United Nations weren't happy about it.

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• James_Doyle Posts: 4

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  24/11/13 - 20:15 #4

  Sorry if this has been asked/answered in other topics, but how was it resolved regarding UNIT v Zygon UNIT? The last scene I saw was Osgood giving Zygon Osgood her inhaler.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 1,229

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  24/11/13 - 20:18 #5

  James_Doyle wrote: »

  Sorry if this has been asked/answered in other topics, but how was it resolved regarding UNIT v Zygon UNIT? The last scene I saw was Osgood giving Zygon Osgood her inhaler.

  
  Welcome to the forum.
  
  Please make your second post here; my threads are sinking like gangsters in concrete shoes.
  
  http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1913264

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• Sufyaan_Kazi Posts: 3,862

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  18/03/14 - 00:43 #6

  http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2014/03/unit-fannual-in-pipeline-160314082617.html

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• Simon_Foston Posts: 398

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  19/03/14 - 08:09 #7

  Sora2311 wrote: »

  No they changed name after they became a more military style taskforce

  
  They were a military style taskforce right from their first appearance in 1968. It's only in the last couple of UNIT appearances that the scientists appear to have taken over.

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• johnnysaucepn Posts: 6,775

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  19/03/14 - 09:43 #8

  James_Doyle wrote: »

  Sorry if this has been asked/answered in other topics, but how was it resolved regarding UNIT v Zygon UNIT? The last scene I saw was Osgood giving Zygon Osgood her inhaler.

  
  It wasn't resolved. Presumably once they made their compromise plans, having each considered the problem from the other's viewpoint, they or the Doctor can easily test for the real Zygons and put everything back.
  
  The inhaler scene was to show that the two Osgoods knew which one was which, but deliberately chose not to let on, showing that the Doctors' plan was working.

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• Verence Posts: 104,587

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  19/03/14 - 10:06 #9

  Simon_Foston wrote: »

  They were a military style taskforce right from their first appearance in 1968. It's only in the last couple of UNIT appearances that the scientists appear to have taken over.

  
  That's all thanks to Kate Stewart who took her father's advice that "science should lead" or wtte

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• serton Posts: 730

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  19/03/14 - 18:31 #10

  I always wondered why they couldn't just call it Unified Nations

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 260

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  19/03/14 - 19:14 #11

  serton wrote: »

  I always wondered why they couldn't just call it Unified Nations

  
  Its still owned by the UN I think and therefore they don't want to call it anything to compromise this. In the Poison Sky Colonel Mace says that the Valiant is now owned by the UN but it is quite clear that it is a military base run by UNIT.

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• johnnysaucepn Posts: 6,775

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  19/03/14 - 23:31 #12

  serton wrote: »

  I always wondered why they couldn't just call it Unified Nations

  
  Probably still a bit too close to the real thing for comfort.

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• mrprosser Posts: 2,281

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  22/03/14 - 23:58 #13

  I would also guess there are copyright and trademark issues. The BBC can't copyright or trademark an imaginary organisation they created if they have named it after a real organisation.

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