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"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 ChristopherDonnerIsisJames T. KirkRoberta LincolnGary SevenSpockHikaru Sulu

Starships and vehicles[]

USS Enterprise (Constitution-class heavy cruiser) • Bluejay 4 (F-104 Starfighter jet aircraft) • truck
Referenced only
aircraft carrierUFO

Locations[]

EarthNew York CitySingleton Air Force Base
Referenced only
Alpha Centaurithe galaxy

Races and cultures[]

AndorianHumanItalianVulcan

States and organizations[]

Military PoliceUnited States Air Force (Sector Nine)

Science and classification[]

atomic bomb platformBeta 5 computercamerachronometercommunicatorcomputerfilmlaboratorylight speed breakaway factorlight warping fieldmemory banknuclear missilescannerservoshieldtapetechnologyteleportertractor beamtransporterturbolifttypewritervoice recognitionwarp drive

Ranks and titles[]

adjutantcolonelcorporalcrewmanguardlieutenantpilotsergeantsupervisor

Other references[]

20th centuryantimatterassignment patchatmospherebeambluffcatchronotropic fragmentcommunicationscorridorcrewEnglish languageespionageflight suitfoods and beveragesidentification cardlifeformmapmassmilitaryminiskirtminutemuseumorbitpajamassecurityStarfleet uniform (2265-2270)timestreamtime traveltransporter roomtreeuniformU.S. military uniformsyear

Appendices[]

Related media[]

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
Episode Assignment: Earth
Miniseries The PeacekeeperConvergenceThe Eugenics WarsAssignment: Earth
Novels Assignment: EternityThe Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 1The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 2From History's ShadowElusive 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[]

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)

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