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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.

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Star Trek: Assignment: Earth is a five-issue limited series , written and drawn by John Byrne , based on the events in the Star Trek second-season finale, " Assignment: Earth ". The series was published by IDW Publishing .

One notable story shows Gary Seven 's and Roberta Lincoln's peripheral involvement in the events of a prior Star Trek episode, " Tomorrow Is Yesterday "—which, due to peculiarities of time travel, happens after "Assignment: Earth" for Seven and Roberta, but before "Assignment: Earth" for the Enterprise crew.

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Assignment: Earth

The Enterprise is in Earth's orbit in the year 1968 for historical research, when the ship intercepts a transporter beam and a man named Gary Seven materializes on the ship. He claims to be a human being, sent by powerful aliens on a mission to save Earth from nuclear destruction. Gary Seven is taken into custody but escapes to his office on Earth, located in a building in New York.

Kirk and Spock find his office, but Seven is already on his way to the McKinley base to sabotage the launch of a nuclear weapons platform. Kirk and Spock follow him but are arrested by the base's security. Scotty almost succeeds in beaming him up again before he can finish his work, but thanks to the unsuspecting secretary Roberta Lincoln, who activates his transporting device, Seven materializes in his office again. When Lincoln realizes that Seven has brought the rocket off course and activated its warhead, she tries to stop the agent.

Kirk and Spock escape from McKinley and materialize in the office again. They have to trust Gary Seven that he is going to detonate the warhead in time before it can do any damage, but not without being a warning to humanity. The weapon goes off 104 miles above the ground, exactly as it was meant to happen according to historical records.

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4.5 Billion years ago , Earth was seeded with humanoid life by the Preservers . The first actual life on Earth appeared 3.5 billion years ago, over time evolving into two sentient species, Voth and Humans . Several million years ago, the Voth left Earth, leaving Humanity to become the sole sentient, humanoid species on the planet.

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In the 1960s , Humans started to explore their own solar system , including manned landings on Earth's satellite Luna . Over the next few decades, they also sent out numerous unmanned probes which landed on, flew by, or orbited Mars , Venus , and the other planets of the Sol System .

In 2063 , despite the post atomic horror from world war 3, humanity's first warp flight was conducted by Zefram Cochrane , leading to the First Contact between Vulcans and Humans . They quickly established a United Earth government and a number of offworld colonies. Earth operated a number of low-speed warp freighters under the Earth Cargo Authority, and later a military force was established, known as Starfleet , and based in San Francisco on the North American continent.

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Enterprise , Earth's first vessel capable of warp 5. She played an instrumental part in the formation of the Federation

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In the years following the launch of Enterprise , Earth began to play an increasingly important role in the politics of the Alpha and Beta Quadrant . By 2155 Earth had allied itself with Tellar , Vulcan , and Andoria , and made contact with the Klingon Empire . Earth and its allies also fought a war with the Romulan Star Empire in the 2150s.

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Isis was a shapeshifter who accompanied Supervisor Gary Seven from his secret base to Earth on a 20th century mission.

Isis was involved in the 1968 sabotage and detonation of a nuclear missile in the atmosphere just 104 miles above the surface of central Eurasia . This near-calamity made the rival governments cease, at least for a time, the deployment of nuclear weapons in orbit , and rethink their old strategy of " balance of power ".

Though she was seemingly Seven's pet cat , Isis was more than she appeared to be: she communicated with him telepathically , and understood his spoken words . She accompanied Seven wherever he went, and watched out for him. Isis was also able to take Human form. In both forms, she wore the same collar around her neck . ( TOS : " Assignment: Earth ")

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Isis in her cat form was portrayed by three cats, one of whom was named Sambo . [1] Her purrs were provided by Barbara Babcock , who received no credit for her voice performance. [2] Isis in her Human form was played by April Tatro , who was also uncredited. [3]

According to the Star Trek Encyclopedia  (3rd ed., p. 215), " Isis was apparently intended as a continuing character in the proposed series Assignment: Earth . "

In the Eugenics Wars novel The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume Two , Isis was sent by Gary Seven to spy on Khan Noonien Singh 's "Great Khanate", based out of the city of Chandigarh in northern India. She assumed the name "Ament" (the name means "one who is hidden", or "hidden goddess" as Seven put it) and became one of Khan's most trusted advisors, while at the same time providing intelligence of Khan's operations to Seven and Roberta Lincoln . After Khan was defeated and brought to the Botany Bay , Isis was killed when she stepped into the path of a knife (thrown by Khan's bodyguard, Joaquin ) intended for Lincoln.

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