Assignment: Eternityedit

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Author(s):	Greg Cox
Artist(s):	Dru Blair
Publisher:	Pocket Books
Series:	Pocket TOS #84
Published:	1 January 1998
Pages:	278
Stardate:	6021.6, 9521.6 (2269, 2293)
Reference:	ISBN 0671001175

Contents 1 Summary 2 Background Information 3 Characters 4 References 5 External link

[edit] Summary

From the book jacket

Captain Kirk first encountered Gary Seven on twentieth-century Earth. Now Seven, a time-traveling operative for unknown alien forces, makes a surprise visit to the USS Enterprise. Kirk is on an urgent mission to bring relief to a disaster ravaged planet, but Seven has an agenda of his own -- and he's not above hijacking the Starship Enterprise and sending it on a perilous journey deep into the heart of the Romulan Empire.

Kirk must dare to trust Gary Seven once again, as he confronts the possibility that the enigmatic stranger may bring death and destruction to Kirk's own era.

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A Romulan travels to the future and assassinates Spock in 2293 during the Khitomer Peace Accords. Gary Seven's colleague, Supervisor 146 (a.k.a. Septos) alerts him, and he and Roberta Lincoln travel to 2269 to stop the Romulan and save Septos.

[edit] Background Information

• A sequel to "Assignment: Earth".
• Greg Cox would use the characters originally from "Assignment: Earth" again in The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 1 and Volume 2.
• This novel makes a reference to Star Trek: Voyager when Kirk thinks of being lost in space and spending 75 years getting back home.
• Also referenced are the events of "Unification I" and "Unification II". The attempt on Spock's life was intended to prevent these events from occurring. Also, in the epilogue Sarek introduces Spock to Senator Pardek, initiating the events in the first place.
• An extract from this novel appeared in Star Trek Monthly issue 37.

[edit] Characters

James T. Kirk

Gary Seven

Roberta Lincoln

Spock

Isis

Septos

[edit] References

USS Enterprise

[edit] External link

• Assignment: Eternity at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works

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