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==Other media== Characters from the episode have appeared in various [[Star Trek canon|non-canonical]] ''Star Trek'' works. ===Comic books=== In 2008, [[IDW Publishing]] launched an [[Star Trek: Assignment: Earth|''Assignment: Earth'' five-issue comic book series]] written and drawn by [[John Byrne (comics)|John Byrne]]. The stories show the characters' lives from 1968 up to 1974, including Seven and Roberta's peripheral involvement in the events of a prior episode, "[[Tomorrow Is Yesterday]]" (occurring before "Assignment: Earth" for the ''Enterprise'' crew, but after for Seven and Roberta). An epilogue set in 2008 depicts an annual reunion between Roberta and Isis (in her humanoid guise) at the [[Vietnam Veterans Memorial]] to honor a friend who had been killed in that conflict.{{citation needed|date=October 2016}} In 2010, the characters appeared in issues #3 and #4 of ''Star Trek: Leonard McCoy Frontier Doctor''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.startrekcomics.info/idwmccoy.html|title=Star Trek: Leonard McCoy, Frontier Doctor from IDW 2010|website=www.startrekcomics.info|access-date=2019-03-12}}</ref> ===Novels=== Author [[Greg Cox (writer)|Greg Cox]] has included Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln in three of his ''Star Trek'' novels: ''Assignment: Eternity''; and a two-part novel, ''[[The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh]]''. In the latter two novels Seven and Roberta go on to eventually stop [[Khan Noonien Singh]] and his fellow genetically engineered humans from taking over the planet.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Star-Trek-The-Eugenics-Wars-The-Rise-and-Fall-of-Khan-Noonien-Singh/Greg-Cox/Star-Trek-The-Original-Series/9780743451635|title=Star Trek: The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh|date=2002-04-10|isbn=9780743451635|language=en|last1=Cox|first1=Greg|publisher=Simon and Schuster }}</ref> In the [[Peter Clines]] novel ''Fold'', a character comes from an alternate universe with a cat named Isis, after the cat from her favorite TV series, "Assignment Earth". She has no knowledge of the show ''Star Trek''. Her version from this dimension has a cat named [[Spock]].{{citation needed|date=December 2019}} ===Music=== The band [[Five Year Mission]] has a song based on this episode that imagines the spin-off series was actually produced, and doubles as a theme song for that show.
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