"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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References[]
Characters[]
Episode characters[]
- Beta 5 computer • Clifford Brent[1] • 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 characters[]
- Isis • James T. Kirk • Leonard McCoy • Montgomery Scott • Gary Seven • Spock • USS Enterprise computer
Starships and vehicles[]
Locations[]
- 811 East 68th Street • Asia minor • Earth • McKinley Rocket Base • New York City • Omicron III • Southeast Asia • United States of America
Races and cultures[]
States and organizations[]
Other references[]
- automobile • cat • force shield • Hydrogen bomb • Siamese cat • telephone
Appendices[]
Related media[]
"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.
| Media featuring Gary Seven | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Episode | Assignment: Earth | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Miniseries | The Peacekeeper • Convergence • The Eugenics Wars • Assignment: Earth | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Novels | Assignment: Eternity • The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 1 • The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 2 • From History's Shadow • Elusive Salvation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Short stories | "The Aliens Are Coming!" • "Seven and Seven" • "Assignment: One" • "Rocket Man" • "Time Line" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comics | "The Peacekeeper, Part One" • "The Peacekeeper, Part Two" • "Split Infinities" • "Future Imperiled" • "Brighter Than a Thousand Suns" • "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" • "My Name Is Legion" • "We Have Met the Enemy..." • "Too Many Presidents" • "Ah-Ha!" • "Medics" • "Hosts" • "1971/4860.2" • "An Unexpected Yesterday" • "Year Five, Issue 11" • "Year Five, Issue 12" • "Year Five, Issue 15" • "Year Five, Issue 16" • "Year Five, Issue 17" • "Year Five, Issue 21" • "Year Five, Issue 22" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Adaptations[]
Novelized in Star Trek 3.
Novelized in Star Trek 3 reprint.
Novelized in Star Trek 3 reprint.
Novelized in Star Trek 3 reprint.
Novelized in Star Trek 3 reprint.
German language novelization translation in Spock Läuft Amok.
German language novelization translation in Spock Läuft Amok.
Italian language novelization translation in La Pista Delle Stelle 3.
Novelization collected in The Star Trek Reader.
German language novelization translation collected in Der große Sammelband.
Novelization collected in The Classic Episodes 2.
Novelization collected in The Classic Episodes.
Images[]
Isis, appearing as a humanoid.
Gary.
Gary.
Roberta.
Beta 5.
Gary and Roberta.
Kirk.
Uhura.
Spock.
The crew.
Enterprise.
Enterprise.
The USS Enterprise.
The crew.
The crew.
Connections[]
Timeline[]
| 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
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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 links[]
- Assignment: Earth (episode) article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- Assignment: Earth article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
