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Roberta Lincoln was a Human on 20th century Earth who served as the receptionist and fellow agent of Gary Seven.

Early Life

She was born in September 1949 in New York City, United States of America, on Earth, and was the youngest of several siblings. When she reached the correct age, she entered Mirror Lake Elementary School and made friends with a paraplegic girl named Tina whose ailment eventually claimed her life. She remained in education until high school, when she decided it was best that she dropped out. (TOS novels: Assignment: Eternity, The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 1, The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 2)

Working with Gary Seven

The Early Years

In 1968, Lincoln was looking for a job when she noticed an advert for an encyclopedia research job while reading the Village Voice newspaper. After a brief interview, she was hired as a receptionist by Agent 201 and Agent 347, two humans that were sent to Earth by the Aegis to sabotage the launch of an orbital nuclear weapon platform by United States. Another agent, Gary Seven, was sent to supervise Lincoln's employer's progress. When he was investigating their disappearance, Lincoln arrived at her workplace, the agents' office. Seven initially mistook her for Agent 201, but quickly realized the truth and told her he was working for the Central Intelligence Agency. He also revealed the several technological devices he employed, such as his servo, the Beta 5 computer, a transporter chamber and a typewriter that actually typed what was spoken at its own accord. Though she later learned that he was not American and tried to stop him, she then changed her mind and helped him complete his mission. After this success, Captain James T. Kirk remarked that many adventures would lie ahead of Lincoln and Seven. (TOS episode: "Assignment: Earth")

In 1969, Lincoln and Gary Seven sabotaged the plans of Doctor Eugene Eckhart, who was growing an army of genetically-augmented clones for use by the United States government as a replacement for "standard" front-line military troops in the Vietnam War, a conflict in which America was growing increasingly bogged-down. Seven and Lincoln activated an Aegis transporter device, teleporting some two hundred and fifty clones (and themselves) hundreds of light-years to an uninhabited alien planet, where the clones were resettled and divided up into individual tribes of their own. (TOS - Crew comic: "Shadows of the Past")

On Stardate 6021.4, in 2269, Lincoln proved herself extremely knowledgeable on people and events of her native era, mentioning Apollo I through Apollo X, The Beatles, Martin Luther King, Jr., The Monkees, Peter Max, Bob Dylan, J. Edgar Hoover, Robert A. Heinlein, Rod Serling and Zorro in a short space of time.

She also helped Seven prevent Professor Tepesch from brainwashing John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy. At the Woodstock Festival, she shared a joint with Jimi Hendrix.

Lincoln accidentally twice referred to Spock as "Dr. Spock" - meaning Benjamin Spock - rather than as "Mr. Spock", and then told him he looked like an extraterrestrial from the film The Brain Eaters.

When Spock later underwent a Vulcan mind meld with Lincoln, she accidentally revealed to him his death at Commander Dellas' hands at the Khitomer Conference in 2293.

After this, she and Seven both watched the television footage of Neil Armstrong stepping on Luna on 20 July 1969.

Lincoln assisted Seven in averting an assassination attempt on Mao Tse-Tung's life at the Great Wall of China, apprehending the Watergate burglars in Washington, DC, preventing the Three Mile Island nuclear facility incident from being worse than it was, and doing the same when Skylab crashed to Earth. She was there when Seven joined Carl Kolchak when they acquired plans from the Pentagon to build an android called Questor in 1973. (TOS novel: Assignment: Eternity)

The Eugenics Wars

On 14 March 1974, Lincoln (by then also known as Agent 368) accompanied Gary Seven on an espionage mission to East Berlin (during which Lincoln likened herself to Emma Peel). In the course of the mission she was stalked by a deranged man, who had taken on the name "Old Jack" and had eyes resembling those of Charles Manson, in Lincoln's opinion. "Old Jack" attacked Lincoln with a penknife, but Lincoln managed to overpower him, quoting Helen Reddy's "I am woman, hear me roar". (The man was presumably possessed by the Redjac entity, which also killed five women in Kiev that year, using the same or a different host.)

The day before (due to time zones), Lincoln wondered if the upcoming film Jaws would be any good after reading about it in a copy of People magazine.

From information obtained on the East German mission, Seven noted the disappearance of several noted Soviet Bloc geneticists and biochemists. On May 14, to investigate those disappearances, Lincoln was sent to the International Conference on Genetic Research and Experimentation in Rome along with Isis. Using the cover identity of "Dr. Veronica Neary", Lincoln attended the seminar Tomorrow's Medicine: The Genetics of Health, which made her think of Brady Bunch actress Florence Henderson.

At the seminar, she met Walter Takagi and Carlos Quintana, who both made her think of The Partridge Family, The Odd Couple, Mighty Joe Young and Magilla Gorilla. While waiting to meet Takagi at her hotel's bar, she "rescued" another conference attendee, marine biology grad student Gillian Taylor, from some unwanted suitors. Taylor was attending the conference for some lectures speculating on the use of genetics in preserving endangered species.

Takagi and Quintana investigated "Neary" as a possible new candidate for Sarina Kaur's Chrysalis Project. For this, they had Fyodor Leonov (an alias of Viktor Lozinak) interview her. Managing to bluff her way through the interview, Lincoln was brought to India and given a tour of Chrysalis. When Isis found Gary Seven in Chrysalis' custody, Lincoln set out to rescue him only to give herself away when she answered her servo pen when it beeped, only to discover Kaur's voice on the other end. Lincoln was consequently gassed unconscious and put in the same cell as Seven. Roused by Roberta and Isis' presence, Seven managed to break out, sending Lincoln back to New York City so she could rescue Chrysalis' children via the Beta 5 computer before Seven destroyed the facility. Lincoln subsequently distributed the children to various parts of the world so they could live normal lives.

On Halloween 1984 Lincoln was indulging in New York's celebrations before returning to the office to find that Seven had rescued Noonien Singh from India's violent anti-Sikh protests with the hopes of recruiting him into Aegis.

On 2 December 1984, Lincoln was sent to Moscow to increase Mikhail Gorbachev's chances of succeeding the near-death Konstantin Chernenko as Russia's leader.

When Pavel Chekov had accidentally left 23rd century technology behind, Lincoln infiltrated Area 51 to claim it, meeting Shannon O'Donnel.

On 10 October 1986, Lincoln served as translator for Gorbachev when he met United States President Ronald Reagan in Hofoi House in Iceland. Reagan's translator was a woman called Sommers. Lincoln and Sommers both stopped Reagan's assassination via poisoned jelly beans (a food he was known to love) by dropping them on the floor, thus assuring the unbroken chain of events which would lead to the eventual peace between the two noted world leaders.

In October 1989, Lincoln and Seven were involved in a UFO-like incident in the USSR, in which TASS said a UFO landed. They minimized the effects of this incident, which could have panicked the entire planet.

On 9 November 1989, Lincoln watched the live demolition of the Berlin Wall on television, until the door was burst open by Sibahl Khan Noonien Singh, who ignored her and instead extracted the data on Chrysalis out of the Beta 5 computer before destroying it. (TOS novel: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 1)

With their office in New York City a ruin, Seven and Lincoln relocated to London.

As Gary Seven aged, Lincoln took up the primary field duties for Aegis on Earth in the 1990s. In June 1992, she attempted to infiltrate Chrysalis Island and disrupt the launch of Khan's Morning Star satellite. While managing to reach the rocket, Lincoln was disabled by its security and taken prisoner after it launched. She was freed by Isis, on the island as part of a deep-cover project as "Ament" to keep an eye on Khan. In November of that same year, Lincoln faced off against Khan's forces that had tracked her to London on Guy Fawkes Night, seeking Aegis technology but she managed to evade her pursuers, leaving them to burn in a fire she'd started that was later blamed on Irish Republican Army. This convinced Lincoln to relocate to a remote part of Scotland where no one would be caught in the crossfire of Khan's attacks.

In 1993, Lincoln's efforts had led to the arrest of Alberto Gomez. In October, she reached out to Shannon O'Donnel again, giving the scientist the knowledge needed to accelerate the development of the DY-100 class, a contingency plan she and Seven had agreed to develop in the event they failed to prevent World War III from breaking out early.

In 1994, Lincoln went undercover at Fort Cochise to spy on the Army of Eternal Vigilance under Randall Morrison, another of Chrysalis' supermen. Under the guise of "Bobbie Landers", Lincoln uncovered Morrison's plot to bomb the grand opening of the Chunnel, which was stopped by Seven and Guinan. When Morrison chose to martyr his followers in the aftermath, Lincoln managed to free them but was overpowered by Morrison himself who claimed her servo. Driven insane by his plan's failure, Morrison turned the servo on himself, to Lincoln's horror.

In 1995, Isis discovered that Khan had acquired, and improved upon, the late Sarina Kaur's Streptococcus which would wipe out all non-Augmented humans. Lincoln hired Chen Tiejun's Amazon warriors to destroy Chrysalis Island and wipe out the Streptococcus, the attack succeeding at the cost of their lives. By Lincoln's estimate, this left Khan's faction as the last remnant of the original Chrysalis Project.

In 1996, the world governments had discovered Khan's attempted genocide and launched an open attack on his fortress in Chandigarh. Knowing Khan would activate the Morning Star to destroy all life on Earth, Seven directed Lincoln to procure the prototype DY-100, which she did with the reluctant help of Shannon O'Donnel, so they could offer it to Khan as a peace offering. While most of Khan's forces agreed to leave Earth, Joaquin Weiss remained obstinate, prompting Lincoln to make a disparaging remark about his low intellect. In a rage, Joaquin threw a knife at Roberta, only for Isis to sacrificially block the blade, Khan offering them Joaquin's life as recompense. With both disgusted at Khan's disregard for other's lives, they declined and set the ship, christened the SS Botany Bay by Khan, on a hundred year space flight to Mutara sector, though Seven warned there were no guarantees.

After Khan and his followers left Earth, Lincoln was promoted to a supervisor as Gary Seven intended to retire to a place with lower gravity. A shape-shifting feline operative named Ramses came to help her. Lincoln had hoped that Shannon O'Donnel would be her new assistant but took the lack of contact since O'Donnel had been let go from NASA, due to the loss of the Botany Bay, as indicative of her lack of interest. During her musings, Lincoln was approached by Rain Robinson who had found the Botany Bay in orbit, and tracked the transporter beam back to the house that Lincoln was staying in. Lincoln promptly offered her the position. (TOS novel: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 2)

In 2000, at the age of 52, following many long hours defusing potential Y2K problems, Lincoln retired as an agent. (TOS - Strange New Worlds 8 short story: "Assignment: One")

On 24 December 2008, Lincoln visited the Vietnam Veterans Memorial with her granddaughter Chloe. Lincoln would later introduce Isis to her granddaughter at the Smithsonian Institution. (TOS - Assignment: Earth comic: "My Name Is Legion")

Towards the end of her life, Lincoln and Gary Seven became the subject of an extremely popular series of semi-biographical adventure novels written by her granddaughter Chloe, supposedly based upon "tales" of her and Seven's exploits in decades past. However, when asked, Lincoln simply stated that the stories were the product of her granddaughter's own extremely-vivid imagination. In 2039, approximately one week prior to her ninety-first birthday, Roberta was last seen by a neighbor, walking off into the twilight, and carrying a black cat in her arms. She was never seen again. After Lincoln's assumed death, it was confirmed that all the exploits Chloe had written about had truly happened. (TOS - Crew comic: "Shadows of the Past")

In 2270, as James T. Kirk mulled over allowing the Paragon Colony to join the United Federation of Planets, Gary Seven appeared to counsel him. Noting that even the most well-intentioned genetic manipulation would eventually lead to an "Us vs. Them" mentality, Seven cited Lincoln as an example of an exceptional human being, in spite of her ordinary DNA. (TOS novel: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 2)

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Connections

Aegis intervention specialists, including agents and supervisors
By number 6 • 42 • 146 • 194 • 201 • 341 • 347 • 368 • 5746 • 6889
By name Elizabeth Anderson • Rodal Eight • Evad • Exana • Cynthia Foster • Isis • Jones • Koob • Natalie Koroma • Roberta Lincoln • Jonathan McAllister • Meneth • Mestral • Cyral Nine • Nova • Osiris • Ian Pendleton • Gary Seven • Septos • Shopay • Smith • Tallinn • Ryan Vitali

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