"The last time I didn't take a scientist seriously the world almost ended."
— Colonel Diane Foster, Abraxas (Hrodvitnon)
"In the worst days of the UNIT era there was at least a sense of tension between the Doctor and UNIT... Because the fact of the matter is that the military is, by definition, a tool of establishment power that prioritizes brute force and is organized according to an authoritarian focus on conformity for its own sake. There’s no way for the military to be anything else. This isn’t a statement of pacifist belief or anything along those lines — it’s simply an acknowledgment of how an organization like the military needs to function. And thus the Doctor — mercurial, anarchistic, and intellectual — is at the core of his concept at least mildly hostile to the military. That doesn’t mean the Doctor is a pacifist. That doesn’t mean the Doctor must always oppose the military. But it does mean that using Doctor Who to blindly and uncritically valorize the military is deeply problematic."
Carol: Dr Frankin, you have to stop them!
Professor: I'll try, Carol. But when a white coat goes up against a five-star uniform...
— MANT!
"The military was growing increasingly antagonistic to the science branch. And vice versa. The military wanted to slash and burn. The science teams wanted to study. Myself? I was getting very schizophrenic. I could see both sides of the argument. I was a scientific advisor attached to the military, except when I was a soldier sent on a scientific mission."
— Jim McCarthy, The War Against the Chtorr.
