Changes: Brighter Than a Thousand Suns

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Publisher's description

From solicitations: IDW's Star Trek: Second Stage continues, as comics icon John Byrne unveils the first-ever Star Trek series of his decades-spanning career! The 1968 TV episode "Assignment Earth" had been the Season Two finale for the original Star Trek series, and was intended by Gene Roddenberry as the pilot for a spin-off series that never came to pass. Now, Byrne delivers the series 40 years after it would have debuted, recounting the adventures of interstellar agent Gary Seven and his Earth-born assistant as they covertly confront threats to the past so that they can save Star Trek's future. Byrne will both write and draw the series, which steps one year forward with each installment, beginning with 1968, the year that the spin-off series would have appeared.

Summary

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References

Characters

Bertrand Carlise • Christopher Danton • Archibald Dumont • Angela Franklin • Isis • Ivan • Thorveldt Jarrow • James T. Kirk • Roberta Lincoln • Amanda Parsons • Gary Seven • Smitty • Spock • Arthur Truman • Changming Weng • Diana Winters

Referenced only: Albertson • Jefferson • T. Jones • F. Morris • J. Robert Oppenheimer • J. Ramirez • Montgomery Scott • A. Simpson • S. Stoga • Edward Teller • P. Walker • John Wayne

Starships and vehicles

car

Referenced only: USS Enterprise

Science and technology

Apollo program • Beta Five • enhanced fusion • Gemini program • gun • hydrogen bomb • Manhattan Project • Mercury program • printed circuit • Project Hercules • servo • sub-orbital warhead • teleport • teleportation unit • transistor • transistor radio

Academic disciplines: advanced electromagnetic theory • advanced speculative physics • applied thermonuclear energy • astrophysics • biology • chemistry • electrical engineering • electronics • experimental chemistry • nuclear fusion • nuclear medicine • nuclear theory • particle physics • physics • quantum engineering • quantum mechanics • thermonuclear integration

Time

1899 • 1908 • 1918 • 1920 • 1927 • 1929 • 1930 • 1933 • 1934 • 1938 • 1942 • 1944 • 1947 • 1954 • 1956 • 1958 • 1959 • 1961 • 1965 • 1966 • 1967 • April • August • December • January • July • March • November • October • September

Other references

corporal • doctorate • immigration • mark 4 energy level • masters • movies • Nobel Prize • presidential election • romance languages • spy • steak • suma cum laudi • torture • wine • World War II

Appendices

This issue was available in two covers, the same John Byrne artwork either with, or without, cover titles.
The ten pages of editorial content in this issue include three adverts for other Star Trek comics by IDW: The next issue of the Assignment: Earth miniseries, The Enterprise Experiment and Mirror Images.

Media featuring Gary Seven
Episode	Assignment: Earth
Miniseries	The Peacekeeper • Convergence • The Eugenics Wars • Assignment: Earth
Novels	Assignment: Eternity • The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 1 • The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 2 • From History's Shadow • Elusive Salvation
Short stories	"The Aliens Are Coming!" • "Seven and Seven" • "Assignment: One" • "Rocket Man" • "Time Line"
Comics	"The Peacekeeper, Part One" • "The Peacekeeper, Part Two" • "Split Infinities" • "Future Imperiled" • "Brighter Than a Thousand Suns" • "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" • "My Name Is Legion" • "We Have Met the Enemy..." • "Too Many Presidents" • "Ah-Ha!" • "Medics" • "Hosts" • "1971/4860.2" • "An Unexpected Yesterday" • "Year Five, Issue 11" • "Year Five, Issue 12" • "Year Five, Issue 15" • "Year Five, Issue 16" • "Year Five, Issue 17" • "Year Five, Issue 21" • "Year Five, Issue 22" • "Year Five, Issue 23" • "Year Five, Issue 24"

Timeline

This issue is set in 1968, three months after the TOS episode: "Assignment: Earth".

published order
Previous comic: First issue in the miniseries	TOS comics Assignment: Earth	Next comic: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Previous story: Alien Spotlight: Romulans	Comics by: John Byrne	Next story: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
chronological order
Previous Adventure: Assignment: Earth (Past)	Memory Beta Chronology	Next Adventure: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

External link

Brighter Than a Thousand Suns article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.

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-==Introduction ([[wikipedia:blurb|blurb]])==
+==Publisher's description==
-''From solicitations'': IDW's Star Trek: Second Stage continues, as comics icon John Byrne unveils the first-ever Star Trek series of his decades-spanning career! The 1968 TV episode "Assignment Earth" had been the Season Two finale for the original Star Trek series, and was intended by Gene Roddenberry as the pilot for a spin-off series that never came to pass. Now, Byrne delivers the series 40 years after it would have debuted, recounting the adventures of interstellar agent Gary Seven and his Earth-born assistant as they covertly confront threats to the past so that they can save Star Trek's future. Byrne will both write and draw the series, which steps one year forward with each installment, beginning with 1968, the year that the spin-off series would have appeared.
+''From solicitations'': [[IDW]]'s [[Star Trek: Second Stage]] continues, as [[comic]]s icon [[John Byrne]] unveils the first-ever ''Star Trek'' series of his decades-spanning career! The [[1968]] [[TV]] [[episode]] "[[Assignment: Earth (episode)|Assignment Earth]]" had been the Season Two finale for [[TOS|the original ''Star Trek'' series]], and was intended by [[Gene Roddenberry]] as the pilot for a spin-off series that never came to pass. Now, Byrne delivers the series 40 years after it would have debuted, recounting the adventures of interstellar agent [[Gary Seven]] and his [[Earth]]-born assistant as they covertly confront threats to the past so that they can save ''Star Trek''{{'}}s future. Byrne will both write and draw the series, which steps one year forward with each installment, beginning with [[1968]], the year that the spin-off series would have appeared.
 ==Summary==
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+{{incomplete|comic}}
 ==References==
 ===Characters===
-:[[Bertrand Carlise]] • [[Christopher Danton]] • [[Archibold Dumont]] • [[Angela Franklin]] • [[Isis]] • [[Ivan]] • [[Thorveldt Jarrow]] • [[James T. Kirk]] • [[Roberta Lincoln]] • [[Amanda Parsons]] • [[Gary Seven]] • [[Smitty]] • [[Spock]] • [[Arthur Truman]] • [[Changming Weng]] • [[Diana Winters]]
+:[[Bertrand Carlise]] • [[Christopher Danton]] • [[Archibald Dumont]] • [[Angela Franklin]] • [[Isis]] • [[Ivan]] • [[Thorveldt Jarrow]] • [[James T. Kirk]] • [[Roberta Lincoln]] • [[Amanda Parsons]] • [[Gary Seven]] • [[Smitty]] • [[Spock]] • [[Arthur Truman]] • [[Changming Weng]] • [[Diana Winters]]
+{{ref}} {{dis|Albertson|20th century}} • {{dis|Jefferson|20th century}} • [[T. Jones]] • [[F. Morris]] • [[J. Robert Oppenheimer]] • {{dis|J. Ramirez|20th century}} • [[Montgomery Scott]] • [[A. Simpson]] • [[S. Stoga]] • [[Edward Teller]] • [[P. Walker]] • [[John Wayne]]
-{{ref}} [[Albertson]] • [[Jefferson]] • [[T. Jones]] • [[F. Morris]] • [[Robert Oppenheimer]] • [[J. Ramirez]] • [[Scotty]] • [[A. Simpson]] • [[S. Stoga]] • [[Edward Teller]] • [[P. Walker]] • [[John Wayne]]
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 :[[Human]] • [[Russian]] • [[Vulcan]]
 ===States and organizations===
-:[[Army Air Corps]] • [[Army Corps of Engineers]] • [[Democratic Party]] • [[KBG]] • [[NASA]] • [[Nazi]] • [[Orion Marketing]] • [[People's Army]] • [[Republican Party]] • [[Soviet Union]] • [[Swedish underground]] • [[United States Marines]] • [[United States of America]]
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 ;{{small|Institutes of education}}
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+:[[California Institute of Technology]] • [[Cambridge University]] • [[MIT]] • [[Mao Tse-Tung People's Collective University]] • [[Midwestern University]] • [[Niels Bohr Teaching Institute]] • [[Oxford University]] • [[Princeton University]] • [[William and Mary College]] • [[Yale University]]
-===Sceience and technology===
+===Science and technology===
-:[[Apollo program]] • [[Beta Five]] • [[enhanced fusion bomb]] • [[Gemini program]] • [[gun]] • [[Hercules project]] • [[hydrogen bomb]] • [[Manhattan Project]] • [[Mercury program]] • [[printed circuit]] • [[servo]] • [[sub-orbital warhead]] • [[teleport]] • [[teleportation unit]] • [[transistor]] • [[transistor radio]]
+:[[Apollo program]] • [[Beta Five]] • [[enhanced fusion]] • [[Gemini program]] • [[gun]] • [[hydrogen bomb]] • [[Manhattan Project]] • [[Mercury program]] • [[printed circuit]] • [[Project Hercules]] • [[servo]] • [[sub-orbital warhead]] • [[teleport]] • [[teleportation unit]] • [[transistor]] • [[transistor radio]]
 ;{{small|Academic disciplines}}
 :[[advanced electromagnetic theory]] • [[advanced speculative physics]] • [[applied thermonuclear energy]] • [[astrophysics]] • [[biology]] • [[chemistry]] • [[electrical engineering]] • [[electronics]] • [[experimental chemistry]] • [[nuclear fusion]] • [[nuclear medicine]] • [[nuclear theory]] • [[particle physics]] • [[physics]] • [[quantum engineering]] • [[quantum mechanics]] • [[thermonuclear integration]]
 ===Time===
 :[[1899]] • [[1908]] • [[1918]] • [[1920]] • [[1927]] • [[1929]] • [[1930]] • [[1933]] • [[1934]] • [[1938]] • [[1942]] • [[1944]] • [[1947]] • [[1954]] • [[1956]] • [[1958]] • [[1959]] • [[1961]] • [[1965]] • [[1966]] • [[1967]] • [[April]] • [[August]] • [[December]] • [[January]] • [[July]] • [[March]] • [[November]] • [[October]] • [[September]]
-===Other===
+===Other references===
-:[[corporal]] • [[doctorate]] • ''[[History of Women in Science]]'' • [[immigration]] • [[masters]] • [[Nobel Prize]] • [[presidential election]] • [[romance languages]] • [[spy]] • [[steak]] • [[suma cum laudi]] • [[torture]] • [[wine]] • [[World War II]]
+:[[corporal]] • [[doctorate]] • [[immigration]] • [[mark 4 energy level]] • [[masters]] • [[movie]]s • [[Nobel Prize]] • [[President of the United States of America|presidential election]] • [[romance languages]] • [[spy]] • [[steak]] • [[suma cum laudi]] • [[torture]] • [[wine]] • [[World War II]]
 ==Appendices==
 *This issue was available in two covers, the same John Byrne artwork either with, or without, cover titles.
 *The ten pages of editorial content in this issue include three adverts for other ''Star Trek'' comics by IDW: The [[The Enterprise Experiment, Part 1|next issue]] of the ''{{ST|Assignment: Earth}}'' miniseries, ''[[The Enterprise Experiment]]'' and ''[[Mirror Images]]''.
 ===Related stories===
 *'''{{ep|Assignment: Earth}}''' (''TOS'' episode) - This comic is the first in a spin-off miniseries based on this episode. The first page re-establishes the charters of [[Gary Seven]], [[Roberta Lincoln]] and [[Isis]] by replaying the closing scene of the episode.
+{{Gary Seven stories}}
 ===Timeline===
 *This issue is set in [[1968]], three months after the {{e|TOS|{{ed|Assignment: Earth}}}}.
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-===Images===
-<gallery>
-</gallery>
 ===External link===
-*{{memoryalpha|Brighter Than A Thousand Suns}}
+* {{memoryalpha|Brighter Than A Thousand Suns}}
-[[Category:TOS Comics]]
+[[category:tOS comics]]

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