Gary Seven
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| Species: | Human |
| Gender: | male |
| Home planet: | Earth |
| Portrayed by: | Robert Lansing |
Gary Seven was the major character in "Assignment: Earth", the last episode of the second season of the original Star Trek television series.
This episode was a television pilot for a proposed series about Seven (Robert Lansing), an Earthman who lives on another planet, working for its inhabitants. His mission was to prevent nuclear war on Earth by stopping a missile launched by the United States. Seven is encountered by the crew of the starship Enterprise, who have been sent back in time by orders of the United Federation of Planets to find out what actually had occurred on Earth in the late 1960s. Seven's secretary, Miss Roberta Lincoln, was portrayed by Teri Garr. Seven also had a constant companion in Isis, who at first appears to be a cat, but is later shown to have great intelligence and the ability to change shape.
Some Star Trek purists resent this episode[citation needed], as time travel, never before presented as a capability of the Enterprise or 23rd century technology in general, was suddenly represented as seemingly almost routine, and also for the conclusion, in which it is determined that the time travel of the crew was just "part of what had happened on that day in 1968".
Some fans speculate that Seven may have been a temporal agent involved with the Temporal Cold War seen in the Star Trek: Enterprise series, but a connection has never been made official onscreen.
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[edit] Star Trek novels
In Greg Cox's non-canonical "Eugenics Wars" novels, Gary Seven had numerous dealings with Khan Noonien Singh and initially hopes to train Khan as his successor. Along with his now-partner Roberta Lincoln, Seven tries to prevent WWIII in a variety of ways. Seven leaves Earth in 1996, after sending Khan on the SS Botany Bay DY-100 sleeper ship.
Cox also wrote a 1998 non-canonical novel, Assignment: Eternity, featuring Seven. In this novel, the alien agency which Seven works for is called the "Aegis," though whether this refers to Seven's organization or the alien race is unclear.
[edit] Star Trek comics
According to the non-canonical Star Trek comic books released by DC Comics in the 1990s (written by Howard Weinstein and Michael Jan Friedman), Gary Seven and Isis were sent by a force known as the Aegis, who took individuals from many worlds to selectively alter historical events. They gave their agents long lifespans, estimated to be as long as 1,000 years. Not all of these interventions went well -- at least one led to an agent becoming the sole survivor of his homeworld -- leading to a small rebellion against the Aegis.
Gary Seven later went against the wishes of the Aegis when he tried to stop the Devidians from altering the timeline so that the Federation would fall to the Romulans. Seven died in an initial attempt to rescue Spock from the Devidians, but was pulled from the timeline by the Aegis prior to the moment of his death after Exana (another agent of the Aegis, who was romantically involved with Seven) stopped the Devidians with the aid of Captain Kirk and Captain Picard.
[edit] External links
- Gary Seven article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki.
