Assignment: Earth (Episode)

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Assignment: Earth

"Assignment: Earth" (TOS55)

Series	Star Trek
Season	2
Episode	26
Production Number	55
Previous	The Omega Glory (TOS54)
Next	Spectre of the Gun (TOS56)
Released	29 Mar 1968
Advertising	Amazon

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(The root of all realities)

Stardate Unknown: The Enterprise goes back in time and discovers a mysterious stranger trying to interfere with 20th-century events.

The Enterprise travels back in time to Earth in 1968 to discover how Humans managed to avoid destroying themselves. The ship intercepts an incredibly powerful transporter beam containing a humanoid named Gary Seven, en route to Earth. After a fight in which he proves immune to a Vulcan nerve pinch, Seven escapes. Kirk and Spock follow him to learn the truth about him, and to make sure that he does nothing to jeopardize the planet. Seven has been dispatched to Earth to prevent the launch of an orbital nuclear weapons platform by the United States of America. With the unwitting aid of his young secretary, Roberta Lincoln, Seven eludes Kirk and transports to McKinley Rocket Base to sabotage the rocket's controls. Scotty attempts to beam Seven aboard before his mission is completed, but Lincoln accidentally activates controls that divert Seven to his New York City headquarters. Kirk and Spock arrive and take control of the situation. Seven has diverted the rocket off course, and it is now heading back to Earth, where it will explode on impact, likely triggering a war in the process. After Spock proves unable to work Seven's computer, Beta III, Kirk permits Seven to take the controls again. He detonates the rocket, saving history from being changed. As the Enterprise returns to its own time, Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln prepare themselves for new missions.

Image Gallery

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  Earth

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  McKinley Rocket Base

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  New York City

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  Charlie (First Policeman)

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  Cromwell

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  Isis

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  Isis in humanoid form

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  Roberta Lincoln

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  Sgt. Lipton

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  Jack Nesvig

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  Second Policeman

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  Security Chief

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  Gary Seven

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  CIA ID card

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  NSA ID card

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  NYPD ID card

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  NYPD officers

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  Beta 5 computer

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  fire extinguisher

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  map

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  radar

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  replicator

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  servo

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  stopwatch

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  telephone

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  transporter

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  typewriter

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  automobiles

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  Saturn V rocket

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  food truck

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  integration facility

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  launch control

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  office

Related Data

 

Astrometrics	Africa; Asia; Canary Islands; Earth; McKinley Rocket Base; New York City; Omicron IV
Chronology	Prime Timeline; c.4000 BCE; 1948; 1968; 2268
Culture
Education	doctor; doctorate; physician
Food
People	Agent 201; Agent 347; Charlie; Pavel Chekov; Command Officer (TOS02A); Connors; Cromwell; Isis; James T. Kirk; Roger Lemli; Leslie; Roberta Lincoln; Lipton; Leonard McCoy; Jack Nesvig; Rand; Montgomery Scott; Second Policeman (TOS55); Security Chief (TOS55); Gary Seven; Spock; Hikaru Sulu; Tannoy; Transporter Operator (TOS45); Nyota Uhura
Politics	assassination; CIA; coup; FBI; NYPD; NSA; police; president; South Africa; Starfleet; Starfleet Ranks (Crewman, Ensign, Lieutenant, Starfleet Lieutenant Commander, Commander, Captain); United Federation of Planets; United States of America; United States President; World War III
Science & Technology	audio receiver; communications; communicator; computer; deflector; encyclopedia; fire extinguisher; foot; hydrogen; impulse drive; inch; IQ; light year; lightspeed breakaway factor; map; meter; microtapes; mile; nacelle; nerve pinch; orbit; PADD; phasers (Type 1, Type 2); pistol; pound; radar; replicator; revolver; sensors; shields; stopwatch; subspace; subway; telephone; time (second, minute, hour, day); time travel; transporter; tricorder; turbolift; typewriter; viewscreen; warp drive
Ships & Vehicles	automobile; Constitution class; U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701
Xenology	Augments; cats; Humans; hybrids; shapeshifters; Vulcans
Miscellaneous	bridge; briefing room; brig; food truck; Highway 949; launch control; logs; red alert; sickbay; Starfleet Uniforms (2266); transporter room

Credits

Created by
Gene Roddenberry

Starring
William Shatner

Also Starring
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
and
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy

Guest Star
Robert Lansing as Mister Seven

Teleplay by
Art Wallace

Story by
Art Wallace & Gene Roddenberry

Directed by
Marc Daniels

Produced by
Gene Roddenberry

Associate Producer
Robert H. Justman

Co-Starring
Terri Garr as Roberta Lincoln

James Doohan … Scott
George Takei … Sulu
Nichelle Nichols … Uhura
Walter Koenig … Chekov
Don Keefer … Cromwell
Lincoln Demyan … Sergeant
Morgan Jones … Colonel Nesvig
Bruce Mars … First Policeman
Ted Gehring … Second Policeman
Paul Baxley … Security Chief

Script Consultant
D.C. Fontana

Theme Music by
Alexander Courage

Assistant Producer
Edward K. Milkis

Unit Production Manager
Gregg Peters

Director of Photography
Jerry Finnerman

Art Director
Walter M. Jefferies

Film Editor … Donald R. Rode
Assistant Director … Phil Rawlins
Set Decorator … John M. Dwyer
Costumes Created by … William Ware Theiss
Photographic Effects … Vanderveer Photo Effects
Assistant to the Producer … Richard Carter
Sound Effects Editor … Douglas H. Grindstaff
Music Editor … Jim Henrikson
Re-Recording Mixer … Elden E. Ruberg, C.A.S.
Production Mixer … Carl W. Daniels
Script Supervisor … George A. Rutter
Casting … Joseph D'Agosta
Sound … Glen Glenn Sound Co.
Makeup Artist … Fred B. Phillips, S.M.A.
Hair Styles … Pat Westmore
Gaffer … George H. Merhoff
Head Grip … George Rader
Property Master … Irving A. Feinberg
Special Effects … Jim Rugg
Key Costumer … Ken Harvey

A Paramount Production
In Association With
Norway Corporation