Gary Seven

Gary Seven was a character introduced in the Star Trek episode Assignment Earth.

He was portrayed by Robert Lansing.

Seven was a descendant of humans who were taken from Earth several thousand years ago by the Aegis to be trained to serve as agents of the Aegis. He was born in 1932 on an unidentified planet in the Zeta Gamma 537 system. A highly intelligent man, he was trained in multiple languages. By 1968 Seven was a supervisor, and given the code name Supervisor 194.

An alien shapeshifter known as Isis was paired with Seven. She took on the appearance of a black Terran cat, but would assume a humanoid form when required.

In 1968 he and Isis were sent to Earth to determine why the Aegis lost contact with the agents working there. His transporter beam was intercepted by the USS Enterprise. He recognized Spock as a Vulcan right away, confirming to himself that the Enterprise was from the future. Captain James T. Kirk detained him on the Enterprise, but Seven and Isis escaped the Enterprise. Seven found out that the Aegis agents working on the planet had been killed in an apparent auto accident. Working with the young Roberta Lincoln, who had been hired by the agents as a secretary, he was able to prevent mankind from launching a nuclear war by destroying a malfunctioning weapons platform 104 miles above the surface.

Seven, Isis, and Lincoln continued their partnership afterwards, with Lincoln eventually becoming a full fledged agent, and a supervisor herself after Seven retired. Together they would witness many of the most important events of the late 20th century, and work to prevent Khan Noonien Singh and his fellow supermen from taking over the planet. At the end of the Eugenics War Seven and Lincoln hijacked a DY-100 vessel Earth had been developing, and gave it to Khan in exchange for his leaving Earth. The vessel departed for a star system 100 light years from Earth.

During his years on Earth, Seven had a number of friends who worked with him, such as Guinan and Robert McCall.

On September 11, 2001 Seven delayed Shaun Christopher from boarding an airline flight, which saved his life when it became one of the planes that terrorists crashed in to the World Trade Center. Christopher went on to command the first manned mission to Saturn.

Seven would later retire to a lower gravity world.