Assignment: Earth

This Story: Season 2 Episode 26 (production code 2.26)
TOS Overall: Story 55, Episode 56
Trek Overall: Story 55, Episode 56
Airdate: 29 Mar 1968
Written by Art Wallace & Gene Roddenberry
Directed by Marc Daniels

Notes

• This was intended to be a pilot to a spinoff series that was never made.
• Teri Garr was a guest star in this episode.  She apparently had such a miserable time making this that she refuses to talk about it to this day.
• The Beta 5 computer & the Isis the Cat vocalizations were voiced by Barbara Babcock.  She was previously in Star Trek as “Mea 3” in the episode “A Taste of Armageddon“.
• The human form of Isis the cat was played by April Tatro.
• They casually mention the time travel aspect of this story as it takes place in 1968 (real time).  The method used references (very lightly) the events of “The Naked Time“.

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