"Assignment: Earth" might have been a cool show

[pookha]

So Gary 7's bosses would be?

The Preservers
The Q
Sargon & Co.
Organians

Think of the cross over potentials!

add in the vedala from the animated episode the jhad.
they recruit other people to preserve a peace.
on top of that they seem to have some control over time since they send kirk and spock back to enterpise on the completion of the mission just two minutes after they left.

and scotty says seven and isis could have come across space or time.

 

[Christopher]

I'll never understand the need to identify any given advanced Trek race with some other, already-known advanced Trek race. It's a huge galaxy, and an ancient one. The number of really old, ultra-advanced species should be vastly greater than the number of human-level species, and we know there are thousands upon thousands of human-level species. The number of super-advanced cultures encountered in Trek is bound to be only a tiny fraction of the total number that exist. So the odds that any given superrace is related to or identical with one we've already met are going to be infinitesimal.

 

[pookha]

I'll never understand the need to identify any given advanced Trek race with some other, ,,,.

because sometimes it is just fun to speculate and make connections.

 

[Kryton]

^Yeah.

Maybe it's the whale probe race!

 

[Nebusj]

So Gary 7's bosses would be?

The Preservers
The Q
Sargon & Co.
Organians

Think of the cross over potentials!

add in the vedala from the animated episode the jhad.
they recruit other people to preserve a peace.
on top of that they seem to have some control over time since they send kirk and spock back to enterpise on the completion of the mission just two minutes after they left.

and scotty says seven and isis could have come across space or time.

Organians, Sargonians, and Vedalians ruled out: Gary Seven asserts that his sponsors' homeworld will be unknown in Kirk's time, and the transporter beam is coming from a spot home to no obvious habitable planet.


Also, The Galaxy Has More Than Five People In It.

 

[Andrew Harris]

I'm looking foward to the ASIGNMENT EARTH comic series JOHN BYRNE is putting out at IDW this month...JB is the BEST writher/artist working in the field today.

There's a spanky five or six page preview on Comic Book Resources, to be found here:

http://comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=66&disp=table

And you can check out the covers for the first three issues here:

http://ryalltime.blogspot.com/2008/02/7-of-nice.html

Hope you like it!

 

[pookha]

[Organians, Sargonians, and Vedalians ruled out: Gary Seven asserts that his sponsors' homeworld will be unknown in Kirk's time, and the transporter beam is coming from a spot home to no obvious habitable planet.


Also, The Galaxy Has More Than Five People In It.

we dont know when the federation first made official contact with the vedela.
it could have been after assignment earth for that matter.
and they didnt know of the homeworld even then only of the asteroids they traveled around on.

 

[Steven Of Nine]

...Khan is portrayed sympathetically. Like it's okay he was a mass murdering tyrant because he had some childhood issues.

How is that any different from the original "Space Seed," in which Kirk, McCoy, and Scott went on about how Khan was "the best of the tyrants" who committed no massacres and never launched a war unless attacked? (Which would argue against your "mass murdering" characterization being valid.) As Kirk said, "We can be against him and admire him all at the same time."

It's completely different. It was a lot like Terminator 2, where the terminator... doesn't actually kill any humans. Even before Connor tells the Arnold Terminator not to kill, and it begins maiming, it didn't kill any one.

Khan was a ruthless tyrant. The Cox books made him a poor, downtrodden 3rd worlder, forced into megalomania by the oppression of the West.

Khan slaughtered an entire station of scientists because they wouldn't tell him where Genesis was. That doesn't fit with your 'argue against'. The books are god-awful.

In a word: Bullsh*t.

 

[Christopher]

Khan was a ruthless tyrant. The Cox books made him a poor, downtrodden 3rd worlder, forced into megalomania by the oppression of the West.

Again, the actual dialogue of "Space Seed" disproves your claim that he was a ruthless tyrant. According to canon itself, he was the least ruthless of the Eugenics tyrants. You're upset because the book contradicts your incorrect assumptions, but it's entirely consistent with the actual facts. But since you're clinging to your false belief even after having the facts pointed out, it's clear that it's a waste of time trying to convince you of anything.

 

[Swarles Barkley]

Khan was a ruthless tyrant. The Cox books made him a poor, downtrodden 3rd worlder, forced into megalomania by the oppression of the West.

Khan slaughtered an entire station of scientists because they wouldn't tell him where Genesis was. That doesn't fit with your 'argue against'. The books are god-awful.

In fairness, Khan changed a lot between the events of "Space Seed" and TWOK. He lost his wife, along with many more of his people when Ceti Alpha VI exploded (or was it Ceti Alpha V that exploded, I forget). The movie made it pretty clear that Khan had pretty much lost his marbles in those intervening years when Kirk "never bothered" to check on him and his people. That was one of the key plot elements of the movie. IIRC, the first two books that Cox wrote are about the "pre-nutjob" Khan. The Khan that killed everyone on Regula One was a guy who had completely gone nuts. So I think your criticism of the books is a bit misplaced. (I never read the third book so I can't comment on that one.)

 

[Christopher]

The "third book," To Reign in Hell, does a good job explaining the events that led to Khan's deterioration from the suave, noble empire-builder of "Space Seed" to the scenery-chewing, vengeance-crazed lunatic of TWOK. Personally, I think TWOK did a grave injustice to the character of Khan and the potential of "Space Seed" (not to mention abandoning the ethnic diversity of the original supermen in favor of a bunch of Aryans who were far too young to have been adults 15 years before), but TRiH did a lot to make sense of the changes.

 

[pookha]

Khan was a ruthless tyrant. The Cox books made him a poor, downtrodden 3rd worlder, forced into megalomania by the oppression of the West.

Again, the actual dialogue of "Space Seed" disproves your claim that he was a ruthless tyrant. According to canon itself, he was the least ruthless of the Eugenics tyrants. You're upset because the book contradicts your incorrect assumptions, but it's entirely consistent with the actual facts. But since you're clinging to your false belief even after having the facts pointed out, it's clear that it's a waste of time trying to convince you of anything.

or considering his actions in space seed they were getting a version of history he spun before he left.
remember what spock said

Records of that period are fragmentary

he acted pretty damn ruthless on enterprise.

plus remember kirk described him as the most dangerous and spock noted there was no freedom for those whom he ruled.

 

[Christopher]

^^Right. It's as I said -- real historical figures cannot be lumped into simplistic "good" or "evil" categorizations. Even the most revered leaders of history did atrocious things to gain or retain power, and even the most despised generally had some commendable traits. Usually, whether a historical leader is defined as good or evil is a function of which faction is writing the history books. "Space Seed" was intelligent in its portrayal of an intriguingly ambiguous historical figure, one with both admirable and despicable traits. TWOK dumbed the character down to a cartoon caricature of maniacal evil. I know which I prefer.