The Aegis in literature

[Therin of Andor]

Does opaque Tupperware count?

Only if you remember to burp the lid - to keep 'em Tupper fresh!

 

[Christopher]

Wasn't Gary Seven transporting through time when the Enterprise intercepted him?

Absolutely not. Seven made it very clear that he was from the 20th century, just born and raised on an alien planet. And the transporter beam was said to originate from over a thousand light-years away -- through space, not through time.

As for why the Aegis didn't help Seven complete his mission: That's because they must have already known he would succeed. Unless they grabbed 201 and 347 with their temporal transporter (substituting appropriate bodies for later discovery, of course) seconds before the crash, the Aegis must have considered them expendable...

Or maybe they simply aren't omnipotent. Just because they have access to time-travel technology doesn't mean they're able (or willing) to micromanage every event in history with godlike thoroughness. If that were so, they wouldn't need agents and supervisors on the scene at all.

And there was no "temporal transporter."

 

[Timo]

Also, Seven is insistent that tampering with history is a bad thing, even though his masters want to tamper with a key era in Earth history. This seeming contradiction could very well indicate that his masters don't time-travel or time-tamper, and don't even time-peek; they are just very good at observing, interpreting and predicting, and thus choose to interfere in 1968, in a perfectly causal manner, without the benefit of time travel. They don't have knowledge of the future, but they do have knowledge of 1968, thanks to their field agents.

Seven does know some things about the 23rd century, but those could be inference rather than authentic knowledge. Just because he says that humans side by side with Vulcans is a future thing doesn't mean he knows the future. He may simply be saying that humans side by side with Vulcans is not a 20th century thing, which logically means that Kirk must come from some point in the future. Or at least that is a reasonable guess, which Seven is entitled to.

Basically the only piece in the episode that suggests time travel is Seven's statement that "Even in your time, [the location of the masters] will remain unknown". But that could merely be faith rather than foreknowledge.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Dayton Ward]

^ Yep, it's always been consistent so far as how much is known about "the future." Looking at it from the perspective of trying to pitch "A:E" as a series, it wouldn't make much sense for Seven to have all the answers. Makes for boring television if he already knows everything about when/where he as to be, and who he's going up against.

 

[HIj'Qa]

IDW's recent Assignment: Earth series dealt, fairly lamely IMO, with the Aegis and 201 and 347.

 

[TGTheodore]

I have one possible explanation.

Oh, no ... not another TOS/CSI: Miami crossover ... talk about cliched.

--Ted

 

[Dayton Ward]

Horatio Caine stood over the body, his eyes narrowing as he studied the darkened green blood staining the strange clothes. Taking a knee, he reached across the body and brushed hair from the victim's right ear, revealing the distinctive point.

Rising to his feet, Caine reached for his sunglasses and put them on, and odd thing to do, he admitted, given that it was 11pm on a Friday night. "What we have here," he said, placing his hands on his hips as he looked up at the stars filling the Miami night sky, "is out of this world."



:: "YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" ::

 

[Turbo]

My god. The combined pauses of Horatio Caine and Jim Kirk would likely cause the weight of the unspoken drama to collapse in on itself and create a black hole.

 

[Christopher]

I'm amazed that people still equate speech pauses with Jim Kirk after... four years of... Scott Bakula's... cumbersome... and labored... delivery. Archer really talked the way Kirk is only alleged to have talked.