TOS Episode - Assignment: Earth

Series :

The Original Series

Rating :

Disc No :

2.7

Episode :

First Aired :

29 Mar 1968

Stardate :

Unknown

Director :

Marc Daniels

Year :

2268

Writers :

Art Wallace, Gene Roddenberry

Season :

Guest Cast :

Barbara Babcock as Exceiver computer voice	Barbara Babcock as Isis's voice
Bruce Mars as Charley	Don Keefer as Mr. Cromwell
Eddie Paskey as Lieutenant Leslie	Lincoln Demyan as Sergeant Lipton
Morgan Jones as Colonel Nesvig	Paul Baxley as Ensign Freeman
Robert Lansing as Gary Seven	Ted Gehring as Second policeman
Teri Garr as Roberta Lincoln

Plotline :

In the 1960s to do historical research, the Enterprise intercepts a Human named Gary Seven who has been transported to the planet by mysterious aliens. But is he there to help Humanity - or destroy it?

Moral :

Trust :

Sometimes you just have to trust that people will do the right thing

Guest Reviews :

Rating :

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YATI :

Kirk agonises over whether to let Seven use the computer to destroy the missile, not knowing if he can trust the mysterious agent. Why doesn't he just have the Enterprise blow the missile up instead?

Great Moment :

Roberta's reaction to the alien typewriter which wrote everything she said was priceless.

Body Count :

Zero

Factoid :

This episode was intended as a spin off series for Gary Seven, but it never appeared.

Quote :

"That's why some of my generation are kinda crazy and rebels, you know? We wonder if we're going to be alive when we're thirty." - Roberta Lincoln to Gary Seven.

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