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| series = {{sT|The Original Series}}
| miniseries = [[Year Five]]
==Summary==
:''Although Captain Kirk is out of his coma thanks to the healing waters of Ayal's homeworld, I'Qos, all is not well on the deck of the ''Enterprise''. Spock is still grappling with his choice not to intervene in the I'Qosa civil war, and Sulu and Chekov are still not speaking as Sulu processes losing Ayal. The
In his guest quarters on [[Tholia]], [[Gary Seven]] gets dressed as he reflects on his upcoming mission to cut short the legacy of [[James T. Kirk]], to end the captain's interfering in his dealings with the [[Tholian]]s. Perhaps, once upon a time, Seven might have felt regret at what he will do, he did once serve with Kirk, but it has been decades for him, even longer since he last felt any regret. Beaming onto the {{uSS|Enterprise|NCC-1701}}, Seven cloaks himself as [[Isis]] hides under a chair.
Entering the room, Kirk and [[Spock]] discuss the latter's stint as acting captain and his [[first contact]] with the [[I'Qosa]]. While Kirk full-heartedly supports his second's decisions, Spock is rather more critical feeling that he generalized the situation on [[I'Qos]] and set the planet back millennia as a result. Despite Kirk's promise that aid will be rendered and Spock praised, the commander nonetheless promises to make a personal protest in his logs about any such commendations. Wearily, Kirk dismisses Spock, followed by Seven and Isis.
In engineering, [[Montgomery Scott]] and [[Nyota Uhura]] show off [[Bright Eyes]]' environmental suit before Seven decloaks and unleashes a toxic gas. Unaffected, Bright Eyes points out the intruder and fires a radiation blast at Seven, disorienting him long enough for the alarm to be raised and the section evacuated and sealed off, though Scott is quite cognizant that suffocation will likely do nothing against Seven.
Indeed, Seven has already teleported to the environmental controls, cutting through a security team and knocking out [[Pavel Chekov]]. Noting that it will be painless, he orders Isis to get to work.
In his quarters, Kirk is roused by Spock's warning about Seven before the oxygen levels begin to fall and the gravity shuts off. Unwilling to risk his crew, Kirk gives the order to abandon ship and seek shelter on [[Circe V]], much to the shock of Seven. Leaving Isis to follow the crew, hitching a ride in Spock and Chekov's [[escape pod]], Seven meets Kirk's challenge and beams to the bridge, deciding that Kirk is not [[Odysseus]] but all the predecessors of [[Theseus]] who couldn't defeat the minotaur, a monster whom Seven gladly takes on the role of.
==References==
===Background===
* Originally scheduled to be released in [[April]] [[2020]], this issue was delayed until [[3 June]] as part of the [[comic]] industry slowdowns due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
===Related media===
* {{e|TOS|Assignment: Earth (episode)}}: The crew and Gary Seven reference their prior encounter. In presumably a reference to his own spin-off appearances, Seven notes that much more time has passed for him since then.
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