"Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" was 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 Trek 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[]
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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 Five • 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 • wing camera
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 • 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
Timeline[]
Production history[]
- 4 June 2008
- First published by IDW Publishing.
- 29 December 2008
- Reprinted in the Assignment: Earth miniseries omnibus.
- 28 May 2013
- Collected in hardcover in The John Byrne Collection omnibus.
- 31 December 2015
- Collected in paperback in The John Byrne Collection omnibus.
- 9 November 2017
- Reprinted in hardcover in Graphic Novel Collection #23 by Eaglemoss.
Appendices[]
Related media[]
- Tomorrow is Yesterday (TOS episode) - 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.
- Assignment: Earth (TOS episode) - 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" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 |
External links[]
- Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
