"Assignment: Earth" was the 55th episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, the 26th and final episode of the show's second season, first aired on 29 March 1968. The episode was written by Gene Roddenberry and Art Wallace, directed by Marc Daniels and novelized in Star Trek 3 by James Blish.
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Episode charactersEdit
- Beta 5 computer • Clifford Brent • Charley • Pavel Chekov • Cromwell (launch director) • Jerry Freeman • Bill Hadley • Isis • James T. Kirk • Roger Lemli • Ryan Leslie • Roberta Lincoln • Lipton • Leonard McCoy • Jack Nesvig • Montgomery Scott • Gary Seven • Spock • Hikaru Sulu • Nyota Uhura
Novelization charactersEdit
- Isis • James T. Kirk • Leonard McCoy • Montgomery Scott • Gary Seven • Spock • USS Enterprise computer
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LocationsEdit
- 811 East 68th Street • Asia minor • Earth • McKinley Rocket Base • New York City • Omicron III • Southeast Asia • United States of America
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Other referencesEdit
- automobile • cat • force shield • Hydrogen bomb • Siamese cat • telephone
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Related mediaEdit
"Assignment: Earth" was originally intended to be a back door pilot episode for a spin-off TV series from Star Trek: The Original Series. The series never made it into production but Gary Seven has subsequently been featured in numerous stories in other spin-off media. Assignment: Earth finally became a series of sorts in 2008 when IDW Publishing produced a comics miniseries inspired by the original idea of a TV series: Star Trek: Assignment: Earth, detailing the adventures of Gary Seven in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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| published order | ||
|---|---|---|
| Previous episode: The Omega Glory | TOS episode produced | Next episode: Spectre of the Gun |
| Previous episode: Bread and Circuses | TOS episode aired | Next episode: Spock's Brain |
| Previous story: The Doomsday Machine | Star Trek 3
| Next story: Mirror, Mirror |
| chronological order | ||
| Previous Adventure: The Omega Glory | Next Adventure: Spectre of the Gun | |
| Previous Adventure: Visit to a Weird Planet Re-Visited | Voyages of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) (2264 to 2270) | Next Adventure: Day of Honor: Treaty's Law |
External linksEdit
- Assignment: Earth (episode) article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- Assignment: Earth article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
