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The Final Frontier Podcast has reached the end of Star Trek: The Original Series Season 2…and somehow we’ve ended up watching an entirely different television show.
This week, Jake and Justin dive into **“Assignment: Earth,”** an episode that sends the Enterprise back to 1968, introduces the mysterious Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln, gives us a suspiciously intelligent cat, a sassy computer, some questionable time-travel logic…and leaves Kirk and Spock feeling like guest stars in their own series.
And there’s a reason for that.
We break down the bizarre story behind “Assignment: Earth” and Gene Roddenberry’s attempt to use Star Trek as a backdoor pilot for an entirely new series. Would a Gary Seven spy/sci-fi show actually have worked? Because as a Star Trek episode…we have some thoughts.
Along the way, we talk about the episode’s surprising connections to real events of 1968, Star Trek accidentally predicting the future, Gary Seven’s weirdly Doctor Who-esque gadgets, Spock dressing like he’s ready for a fishing trip, Scotty’s catastrophic hair day, the mysterious NSA, the increasingly confusing rules of transporter technology, and why the Enterprise crew may have actually made Gary Seven’s mission MORE difficult.
It’s the strange, frustrating, occasionally fascinating finale to Season 2.
🖖 Join us as we boldly go through **Star Trek: The Original Series – “Assignment: Earth!”**
What did YOU think of “Assignment: Earth”? And be honest: how quickly did you realize you were basically watching a pilot for another show?
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