Assignment: Earth

"Assignment: Earth"
Star Trek: The Original Series episode
Episode no.Season 2
Episode 26
Directed byMarc Daniels
Story by
Teleplay byArt Wallace
Cinematography byJerry Finnerman
Production code055
Original air date29 March 1968 (1968-03-29)
Running time50 minutes
Guest appearances
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"Assignment: Earth" is the twenty-sixth and final episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Written by Art Wallace (based on a story by Wallace and Gene Roddenberry) and directed by Marc Daniels, it was first broadcast on 29 March 1968.[1]

In the episode, engaged in "historical research", the USS Enterprise travels back through time to 1968 Earth, where they encounter an interstellar agent planning to intervene in 20th-century events. Kirk and Spock are uncertain of his motives.

It was originally written as a standalone half-hour television series; when no network chose to order a pilot, the script was reworked to fit into Star Trek as a backdoor pilot for the proposed Assignment: Earth series.[2] The spin-off series was never produced.

This was Teri Garr's first significant TV role.[3]

  1. ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708419/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1. Retrieved 2 October 2018. [user-generated source]
  2. ^ "Pilot: Assignment: Earth (non-Star Trek version)". www.orionpressfanzines.com. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  3. ^ Garr, Teri; Mantel, Henriette (2005). Speedbumps: flooring it through Hollywood. Waterville, Maine: Thorndike Press. ISBN 0786282010. OCLC 61499903.

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