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Most Trekkies could tell you that the original episode of the “Star Trek” series “Assignment: Earth” was destined to be a rear door pilot. “Assignment: Earth” presented a character then new called Gary Seven (Robert Lansing) A revival of the time of the 24th century. Gary Seven was discovered by the USS Enterprise crew after having traveled to the twentieth century for research purposes.
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Kirk (William Shatner) and Spock (Leonard Nimoy) briefly interact with Gary, but most of the episode focuses on his adventures and science fiction widgets he has at his disposal. Gary carries a futuristic device, similar to the screwdriver, calls a servo and can teleport around the earth through a high -tech portal integrated in a vault in his office. It is accompanied by ISIS, a cat that, in a mysterious turn of events, becomes a humanoid woman (April Tatro), and finally receives a modern human partner called Roberta (Teri Garr), a secretary who stumbles with her fantastic cave.
At the end of his second season, the future of “Star Trek” was still in doubt. A card writing campaign was the only thing that saved him from being canceled, forcing NBC to give the program a third season. However, if “Star Trek” had failed, the creator Gene Roddenberry had “assignment: land” as a series of support, all ready to function. Therefore, when “Star Trek” was rescued, plans for the television program Gary Seven were filed. It was the last time someone heard from Gary Seven until (disconcerting) an episode of (The very messy) “Star Trek: Picard” in 2022.
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Of course, since the Trekkies love the tradition of the expanded universe, Gary Seven had a life outside the official “Star Trek” canon. The character has appeared in numerous comics and was mentioned in several of the existing novels of “Star Trek”. The television series Gary Seven could never have become, but we have one anyway.
Gary Seven appeared in other Star Trek projects after his television program was abandoned
Gary Seven had a quite interesting background history. He was born on Earth on the year 4,000 a. C., but was kidnapped by travelers who raised him in a distant world. Then he grew up and took a job with a time travel office, winning the supervisor title. Specifically, it was Supervisor 194. Because Roddenberry wanted to leave more to explore a potential spin -he left the broadest details of Gary Seven’s life in “Star Trek.” Trekkies have never learned how, for example, ISIS could transform a cat into a humanoid woman.
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In a novel way, however, Gary Seven lived. From 2001 to 2006, Pocket Books published three novels in the series “Eugenics Wars”, a trilogy with a Greg Cox centered on the life of Khan Noonien Singh (the character played by Ricardo Montalbán in “Space Seed” and “Star Trek II: Khan’s anger”). The first two books in the trilogy (“The ascent and fall of Khan Noonien Singh” volumes 1 and 2) Detail Khan’s life from childhood in the twentieth century to “space seed” events. Trekkies can tell you that Khan was a tyrant who ruled great stripes of the Earth during the destructive wars of Eugenics. When he was finally overthrown, Khan fled the earth on a ship called Botany Bay, where he and some compatriots entered cryogenic stasis. It was defrosted many years later during the events of the “Space Seed” episode.
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It seems that Gary Seven was a key figure in Khan’s life. According to Cox’s novels, Khan was cultivated in a eugenics laboratory in 1974. The laboratory was going to be destroyed, but Gary rescued Khan and his fellow increases, hoping to use his superior strength and intelligence to mark a new era of peace on earth. This is a big problem in the “Star Trek” tradition.
Star Trek novels revealed that Gary Seven and Khan had a complicated relationship
The relationship between Khan and Gary Seven became even more complicated. It seems that Khan was too ambitious for Gary’s utopian plans, feeling that the world should govern, not to serve it. As such, he and Gary ended up alienating each other. Gary also tried to prevent Khan instithe the Eugenics wars, but was unsuccessful. They were enraged for years. When the wars began to go south to Khan, it was Gary who, feeling compassionate, provided Bay Bay before retiring as a result of all the querfuffle.
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Gary Seven also appeared in Cox’s novel in 1998 “Assignment: Eternity”, A pleasant time travel story itself that took place shortly after the events of “Assignment: Earth”. It seems that Gary, having learned that Spock was going to be killed in approximately a century, traveled to the year 2269 (which is when season 3 of “Star Trek” occurs) to stop the murder plot before he could start. (Roberta was also there). “Assignment: Eternity” also said that Gary helped reduce the effects of the disaster of the three miles of the island, stopped an attempt to murder in the life of President Mao and exposed the Watergate scandal. In a fun provocation of additional crossover, Gary said he worked with a couple of sexy British intelligent agents, which implies that “Star Trek” and the spy program of the 60s “The Avengers” take place in the same universe.
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Gary and Roberta also appeared in a five -number comics miniseries published by IDW in 2008. This was after some invited appearances in the “Star Trek” line of DC published from 1993 to 1996. However, for DC, only Gary only fell for a problem or two; He didn’t stay.
While it was not officially canonical until “Star Trek: Picard”, some authors, Greg Cox in particular, Gary Seven liked. It seems to me that a new television series Gary Seven could easily be done for Paramount+.
