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Aegis starship

Numerous Aegis aboard one of their starships.

The Aegis were a mysterious group of highly-advanced aliens who lived on a hidden planet and attempted to safeguard the timeline and the fates of many races and cultures throughout the galaxy.

In PIC episode: "Farewell", Wesley Crusher revealed that the supervisors and watchers were taking the actions they were as tools of the Travelers. While on the surface, this seems contradictory of the lore of the Aegis as depicted in comics and novels, it could be reconciled by either concluding that the Aegis and the Travelers are one and the same, or that the Aegis are subordinates of the Travelers or some sort of client culture taking responsibility for the administration of the supervisors and agents. By making such a conclusion, the lore of the Aegis running the supervisors fits into the continuity presented in the later canon version.

Overview[]

The Aegis have been seen in various forms, their natural form appears to be a large non-humanoid species with numerous shaggy tentacles - the same species which makes up forces of the Aegis's enemies, Counter Strike. (TOS comic: "We Have Met the Enemy...")

Humanoid Aegis

Aegis in gigantic humanoid form.

A group of Aegis have also been seen to appear as giant humanoids when interacting with the crews of the USS Enterprise-A and USS Enterprise-D following a temporal incident with Devidians. One Aegis visiting Earth following the successful thwarting of a Counter Strike attack altered his form to appear as Human for the benefit of Roberta Lincoln. (TOS comics: "Future Imperiled", "We Have Met the Enemy...")

Modus Operandi[]

The Aegis' goals were to maintain the timeline to what they considered to be the correct course, and to guide the development of other civilizations. The Aegis themselves preferred to work from behind the scenes only intervening directly on rare occasions when dealing with larger threats. For most operations the Aegis used operatives from numerous species: Through a process known as the Varley extraction, the Aegis abducted members of various species and bred and genetically engineered their children, before reintroducing them into their societies. These agents would then covertly move to prevent their races from destroying or harming themselves. (TOS comics: "The Peacekeeper", "We Have Met the Enemy..."; TOS episode: "Assignment: Earth")

The Aegis homeworld was located in a cloaked star system some fifty thousand light-years away from Earth. The planet was cosmopolitan and the Aegis had various advanced technologies, including long range transporters that allowed them to deploy their agents light-years away. They also had the ability to move their operatives through time. (TOS novels: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 1, The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 2; TOS episode: "Assignment: Earth"; TOS comics: "The Peacekeeper", "Split Infinities", "Future Imperiled")

The Aegis were "unbound by the limits of time" and could move through it as easily as other races could traverse space. They maintained scanning facilities which allowed their agents to monitor thousands of years back and forth in time and intervene when necessary. As such the Aegis and their operatives had a wide knowledge of the galaxy throughout history, allowing them to determine what was the correct state of affairs. (TOS comic: "The Peacekeeper")

Indeed, they were very strict about preserving the timeline, going so far as to keep certain information about future events secret from their own agents working in the field, so that there would be no risk of contaminating foreign eras. (DTI novel: Watching the Clock)

According to one account, Aegis resided outside the Milky Way Galaxy, literally looking down on it. According to Isis, Aegis sought to preserve galaxies by locking them at a certain point in their development, ensuring a peaceful stasis for eternity, essentially ending the galaxy's history. To do this, Aegis agents would deliver Aegian technology to the most "consonant" of species, who were deemed to be the Tholians in the case of the Milky Way. (TOS - Year Five - Weaker Than Man comic: "Issue 17")

Intervention specialists[]

The Aegis' intervention specialists came from a variety of species and were augmented, trained, and equipped by the Aegis. Human operative Gary Seven expected to live for about a thousand years and had access to advanced computer and teleportation technology. The majority of Aegis agents were also equipped with a multipurpose tool and weapon, the servo. (TOS comics: "The Peacekeeper", "Brighter Than a Thousand Suns", et al.)

Intervention specialists were ranked by at least three levels: agent; supervisor; and senior supervisor. Specialists often had a partner, generally with the outward appearance of a cat; these "cats", however, could take on humanoid form. (TOS comics: "The Peacekeeper", "Split Infinities", "Future Imperiled", "Too Many Presidents"; et al.)

Earth operatives[]

Around 1952, Cynthia Foster (Agent 6) and Ian Pendleton (Agent 42) were two of the agents assigned to Earth, both Human. (TOS novel: From History's Shadow)

Up until 1968, there were at least two agents assigned to Earth; Elizabeth Anderson (Agent 201) and Ryan Vitali (Agent 347). In 1968 both agents were killed in an automobile "accident" engineered by Counter Strike when they discovered evidence of the Aegis' nemesis working on Earth.

When the Aegis lost contact with the agents, Supervisor 194, a Human named Gary Seven, was sent to investigate and adopt the Earth assignment (though it was not until several years later that the truth of the agents' deaths was uncovered). Seven was accompanied by his cat Isis. Seven was also assisted by the previous agents' secretary, Roberta Lincoln, an Earth native Human who continued to work with Seven for many years. (TOS episode: "Assignment: Earth"; TOS comic: "We Have Met the Enemy..."; et al.)

After Gary Seven's departure, Roberta Lincoln became Supervisor, and hired Rain Robinson as her new sidekick; they were sent Ramses to replace Isis. (TOS novel: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 2)

By 2031, Lincoln and Robinson had also retired, replaced as Aegis agents by Natalie Koroma (Agent 5746) and Jonathan McAllister (Agent 6889). On March 16, McAllister was gravely injured while on assignment. Mestral, who was working as an Aegis agent, rescued him and brought him back to the Aegis base. The Aegis base was concealed in a farmhouse located somewhere along the coast of Scotland. Immediate short term medical care saved McAllister's life. In the end, he had to be transferred back to the Aegis homeworld for recovery. On November 20, 2032, Majestic 12 discovered the base's location and conducted an armed raid. After setting the base's self destruct, Koroma, Menstral, and Kristren Heffron attempted to escape via a secret exit. Koroma was killed in a shootout with forces of Majestic 12, led by Gerald Markham while Kristen Heffron and Mestral managed to escape. (TNG novel: Hearts and Minds)

Other operatives[]

Other Aegis intervention specialists included:

On-site allies[]

Aegis intervention specialists, while preferring to operate in secret, sometimes had to rely on outside help. On Earth, people with connections to Aegis activities included Mestral, a Vulcan who had crash-landed on the planet on 4 October 1957, as well as Kirsten Heffron, one-time director within MJ-12. (TNG novel: Hearts and Minds)

History[]

One of the groups the Aegis kept in check were Counter Strike, who were the same species as the Aegis but operated under a very different philosophy. Like the Aegis, Counter Strike monitored growing civilizations, but rather than guide and protect them, Counter Strike looked to destroy any civilization it saw as growing too fast or too far.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Counter Strike set its sights on Earth, seeking to lead it to destruction by seeding new technologies leading to the unbalancing of delicate political scales. Fortunately, Supervisor 194 was stationed on Earth and had undone much of their work, eventually uncovering evidence of the plot, and with the assistance of an Aegis starship was able to apprehend the Counter Strike vessel in Earth orbit and prevent further interference. (TOS comic: "We Have Met the Enemy...")

In 2290, a group of rogue agents of the Aegis attempted to capture the starship Pacific which contained a protomatter weapon. The rebels intended to use it against their Aegis masters as they had abandoned the use of weapons long ago and would not have expected the use of the protomatter. Intervention Specialist Gary Seven worked with the crew of the USS Enterprise and destroyed the Pacific along with the protomatter, ending the plot of the rebels. (TOS comic: "The Peacekeeper")

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