"Time Line" was the first of four short stories within the "Speculations" category of the anthology Strange New Worlds 10. Written by Jerry M. Wolfe, it was published in July 2007 and featured Aegis agent Gary Seven.
Summary
While on a mission to Uzbekistan, Gary Seven meets a young boy named Khan Noonien Singh.
References
Characters
- Beta 5 computer • Isis • Roberta Lincoln • Gary Seven • Khan Noonien Singh • "Vorsokov" • Zagor
- Referenced only
- Charles Grayson • Hinkeldorff • Gerald Jetter • Jacob Jetter • James T. Kirk • Hans Kommer • Ivan Kotov • Boris Pachenko • Sanjo • Spock • Wernher Von Braun
Starships and vehicles
- Referenced only
- aircraft • USS Enterprise (Constitution-class heavy cruiser)
Locations
- Earth (Tehran, India • Manhattan • New York City • Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
- Referenced only
- Berlin, Germany • Oxnard, California • Canada • Soviet Union • Swiss Embassy
Races and cultures
- Human (superhuman • Chinese • German • Russian)
States and organizations
- CIA • Jetter Pharmaceuticals • KGB • Nazi • Soviet Union • University of British Columbia
Science and classification
- antimatter • bomb • genetic manipulation • graviton • graviton pulse • interstellar vehicle • lifeform • long distance transporter • long range scanner • nuclear warhead platform • pen • television • time travel • transporter • transporter beam
Occupations and titles
- biochemist • biologist • colonel • commander • director • doctor • geneticist • physicist • president • professor • scientist • secret agent • security guard
Other references
- alien • August • atmosphere • barbed wire • cheese • chromium • civilization • civilization • Cold War • desert • diary • dog • evolution • far future • fog • glue • grilled cheese sandwich • hawk • humanoid • kilometer • kitchen • kitten • mayonnaise • memory • minute • newspaper • orange juice • panther • photograph • pickle • potato chip • prison • Russian language • second • space-time • tea • timeline • toad • vodka • war • year
Chronology
- August 1945
- German eugenics director Hans Kommer is reported deceased.
- 1964
- A newspaper reports that geneticist Charles Grayson is missing.
- 10 September 1965
- A number of genetically engineered embryos are produced.
- 15 June 1966
- 128 superhuman babies are born.
- 5 November 1967
- Charles Grayson writes in his diary that the babies are progressing well.
- 1968
- Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln interact with crew from the time traveling USS Enterprise.
- 29 June 1970
- Grayson writes that the engineered children have become ruthless beasts.
- 1971
- Events of the story.
Appendices
Background
- Khan Noonien Singh's personal timeline being under assault would be further explored in canon in SNW episode: "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow". Temporal interference allowed for this story and the events of The Eugenics Wars trilogy both to have occurred in different iterations of the prime reality despite all three stories telling incompatible versions of Khan's origins.
- The notion of Gary Seven being married to Roberta Lincoln was unique to this source.
- It took longer for Isis and Roberta to become friends in the New Visions comics. In that series, they were still at odds in 1972.
Connections
| Media featuring Khan Noonien Singh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Episodes/Movies | "Space Seed" • The Wrath of Khan • Into Darkness • "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Podcasts | Star Trek: Khan ("Paradise" • "Scheherazade" • "Do Your Worst" • "Magical Thinking" • "Imagination's Limits" • "The Good of All" • "I Am Marla" • "Original Sin" • "Eternity's Face") | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Novels/Short stories | Space Seed • The Wrath of Khan • The Eugenics Wars (The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 1 • Volume 2 • To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh) • "Time Line" • Seeds of Dissent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comics | The Wrath of Khan (1 • 2 • 3) • Khan: Ruling in Hell ("The First Six Months" • 2 • 3 • 4) • Khan (1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5) • Stranger Worlds (2 • 3 • 4 • 5) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Speculations collected short stories | |
|---|---|
| Strange New Worlds | VI ("Our Million-Year Mission" • "The Beginning") • VII ("Guardians" • "The Law of Averages" • "Forgotten Light") • 8 ("A & Ω" • "Concurrence" • "Dawn") • 9 ("Remembering the Future" • "Rocket Man" • "The Rules of War" • "The Immortality Blues" • "Orphans") • 10 ("Time Line" • "Echoes" • "Brigadoon"• "Reborn") |
Timeline
| published order | ||
|---|---|---|
| Previous story: You Are Not in Space |
Strange New Worlds 10 | Next story: Echoes |
| Previous story: Orphans Strange New Worlds 9 |
speculations short stories | Next story: Echoes Strange New Worlds 10 |
| Previous story: Out of the Box, Thinking Strange New Worlds III |
Stories by: Jerry M. Wolfe |
Next story: most recent work |
| chronological order | ||
| Previous adventure: Elusive Salvation chapters 12 - 14 |
Memory Beta Chronology | Next adventure: Khan, Issue 1 1971 flashback |