"Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" is the second issue of John Byrne's TOS Assignment: Earth miniseries. It adapted TOS episode: "Tomorrow is Yesterday" as told from the point of view of Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln.
Description[]
- Telling the story of the Assignment: Earth TOS spin-off from Gene Roddenberry that never came to pass, a time-traveling U.S.S. Enterprise intersects with Gary Seven's efforts to save the future from a 1969 crisis that only he and his assistant Roberta can avert!
Summary[]
Aegis agent Seven and his associate Lincoln are preparing to go out for dinner in 1969 when the Beta 5 computer sounds an emergency alarm. It has detected the Federation starship USS Enterprise in low-Earth orbit being intercepted by a United States F-104 Starfighter. Seven and Lincoln witness on the viewscreen as the jet aircraft is crumpled by a tractor beam, but Beta 5 detects transporter activity and they know the pilot was rescued.
Realizing the temporal implications, Seven and Roberta beam to the crash site in Nebraska, but soldiers in hazard suits have already recovered the plane's wing camera. The duo head for Singleton Air Force Base to remove film footage and recordings of ground communications with the pilot. They narrowly avoid being seen by Captain James T. Kirk and Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu, who have beamed into the facility for the same purpose, but witness a security guard being beamed to the Enterprise, Kirk being apprehended, and John Christopher attempting to escape.
To be sure everything has been tidied up, Seven and Lincoln beam aboard the Enterprise in Starfleet uniforms. As the starship begins executing the light speed breakaway factor, Seven makes sure they have properly compensated for mass when transporting the guard and Christopher back into their own bodies. Satisfied, they hastily beam back to their headquarters in New York City. But due to the starship's time travel, they arrive several minutes early and meet versions of themselves from before the alarm sounded. Seven quickly knocks out the doppelgangers with his servo, then has Beta 5 place a warp field around the Enterprise. When Christopher is beamed back into his own body in the F-104, the warp field masks the starship, and he reports it as a UFO that's disappeared.
As time corrects itself, Seven and Lincoln wake up wearing their dinner clothes. They don't remember what happened and head out for dinner. Beta 5 detects anomalous records related to the alternate timeline, but can't correlate it, so it deletes it from its memory banks.
References[]
Characters[]
- John Christopher • Donner • Isis • James T. Kirk • Roberta Lincoln • Gary Seven • Spock • Hikaru Sulu
Starships and vehicles[]
- USS Enterprise (Constitution-class heavy cruiser) • Bluejay 4 (F-104 Starfighter jet aircraft) • truck
- Referenced only
- aircraft carrier • UFO
Locations[]
- Earth • New York City • Singleton Air Force Base
- Referenced only
- Alpha Centauri • the galaxy
Races and cultures[]
States and organizations[]
- Military Police • United States Air Force (Sector Nine)
Science and classification[]
- atomic bomb platform • Beta 5 computer • camera • chronometer • communicator • computer • film • laboratory • light speed breakaway factor • light warping field • memory bank • nuclear missile • scanner • servo • shield • tape • technology • teleporter • tractor beam • transporter • turbolift • typewriter • voice recognition • warp drive
Ranks and titles[]
Other references[]
- 20th century • antimatter • assignment patch • atmosphere • beam • bluff • cat • chronotropic fragment • communications • corridor • crew • English language • espionage • flight suit • foods and beverages • identification card • lifeform • map • mass • military • miniskirt • minute • museum • orbit • pajamas • security • Starfleet uniform (2265-2270) • timestream • time travel • transporter room • tree • uniform • U.S. military uniforms • year
Appendices[]
Related media[]
- TOS episode & Star Trek 2 novelization: Tomorrow is Yesterday – This story take place concurrently with the episode, showing Gary Seven's activities during the Enterprise's time travel incident to make sure the timeline is not adversely affected.
- TOS episode & Star Trek 3 novelization: Assignment: Earth – Gary and Roberta reference their previous encounter with the Enterprise from this episode.
Background[]
- This story is twenty-one, rather than the usual twenty-two, pages long.
- This issue was available in two covers: The same John Byrne artwork either with or without cover titles. The non-title version was a limited availability retail incentive.
- The eleven pages of editorial content in the issue include an advert for the next issue in the miniseries and another page advertising the Mirror Images miniseries.
Images[]
Connections[]
| Media featuring Gary Seven | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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[]
- The story takes place concurrently with the TOS episode: "Tomorrow is Yesterday", beginning moments before the episode.
| published order | ||
|---|---|---|
| Previous comic: Brighter Than a Thousand Suns |
TOS comics (Assignment: Earth) |
Next comic: My Name Is Legion |
| chronological order | ||
| Previous adventure: Brighter Than a Thousand Suns |
Memory Beta Chronology | Next adventure: Tomorrow is Yesterday |
| Previous story: The Youth Trap |
Voyages of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), Year Two | Next story: Tomorrow is Yesterday |
Production history[]
- 4 June 2008
- First published by IDW Publishing.
- 4 December 2008
- Collected in the Assignment: Earth miniseries omnibus.
- 28 May 2013
- Collected in The John Byrne Collection hardcover edition.
- 31 December 2015
- Collected in The John Byrne Collection paperback edition.
- 9 November 2017
- Collected in Graphic Novel Collection, Volume 23. (Eaglemoss Collections)
Translations[]
- 31 January 2018
- Collected in the Italian release of Graphic Novel Collection, Volume 23. (RCS MediaGroup)
External links[]
- Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.