Brighter Than a Thousand Suns
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| COMIC | |
| Brighter Than a Thousand Suns | |
 Cover by John Byrne | |
| Attribution | |
| Series: | The Original Series |
| Miniseries: | Assignment: Earth, No. 1 |
| Writer(s): | John Byrne |
| Artist(s): | John Byrne |
| Colorist(s): | Tom Smith |
| Letterer(s): | Robbie Robbins |
| Editor(s): | Chris Ryall |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher: | IDW Publishing |
| Published: | 21 May 2008 |
| Pages: | 32, 22 of which are story |
| No. of covers: | 2 |
| Omnibus: | Assignment: Earth |
| Chronology | |
| Date: | 1968 |
 Alternate cover, without titles | |
Contents |
[edit] Introduction (blurb)
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.
[edit] Summary
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[edit] References
[edit] 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 "Charles" Weng • Diana Winters
- Referenced only
- Albertson • Jefferson • T. Jones • F. Morris • Robert Oppenheimer • J. Ramirez • Montgomery Scott • A. Simpson • S. Stoga • Edward Teller • P. Walker • John Wayne
[edit] Starships and vehicles
- car
- Referenced only
- USS Enterprise
[edit] Locations
- Albuquerque • China • Delphi Centaurus VI • Earth • Korea • London • Moscow • New Mexico • New York City • New York • Peking • San Lobos Atomic Research Facility
[edit] Races and cultures
[edit] States and organizations
- Democratic Party • KBG • NASA • Nazi • Orion Marketing • People's Army • Republican Party • Soviet Union • Swedish underground • United States Marine Corps • United States Army Air Corps • United States Army Corps of Engineers • United States of America
- Institutes of education
- 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] Other
- 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
[edit] 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.
[edit] Related stories
- 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.
[edit] 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 |
[edit] Images
[edit] External link
- Brighter Than A Thousand Suns article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
