#assignment earth

[a-most-beloved-fool]

Are there any normal cats in TOS? The only two I'm remembering are in Catspaw, which was an illusion created by an alien who looked like. THIS:

and second in Assignment: Earth, which was actually a shapeshifter whose human form looked like this:

(notably, spock pets this cat, and declares it "a lovely creature." He says he finds himself "strangely drawn to it." not sure what the writers were trying to say with that one.)

But those are. the two cats in TOS. Neither are cats. Both are, at least temporarily or by means of illusion, women. Idk if I've really got a point to make here. I just think it's funny. If I had a nickel for every TOS episode with a cat that wasn't a cat, I'd have two nickels, etc etc.

[iamenits]

Assignment: Earth

[kugelfische]

what was i to say? what can you say ,

[spirk-trek]

S2E26: Assignment: Earth ⋆.˚ ✧ · ˚⊹ ·

[naturegirly55]

Spock hiding his ears:

[olivrsm]

[borgcast]

Certainly, the cat is the best thing about this story.

Kirk- "What do you make of the cat, Mr Spock?"

Spock- "Quite a lovely animal, Captain. I find myself strangely drawn to it."

[computed-dear]

Assignment: Earth is lowkey funny because Kirk is like: Spock, how can we know what to do? Do we prevent Gary Seven's sabotage or let it happen?

And Spock, being completely unhelpful: It is difficult to know, Captain

Kirk: Okay lol, let's have no plan and do both at the same time, we'll decide at the last possible moment which one is the right choice. Put on a cute outfit, Spock, and could you also forget what the nerve-pinch is, you're gonna manhandle that secretary, we're beaming down!

[discoonthegrass]

Assignment Earth: While back in time observing Earth in 1968, the Enterprise crew encounters the mysterious Gary Seven who has his own agenda on the planet.

Dagger of the Mind: Kirk and psychiatrist Helen Noel are trapped on a maximum security penal colony that experiments with mind control and Spock must use the Vulcan mind-meld to find a way to save them.

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[proverbialschoolmarm]

[departmentq]

RIP to actor Teri Garr, who played Roberta Lincoln in the TOS episode Assignment: Earth, which was an intended pilot for a spy-fi inspired spinoff of Trek.

She appeared in some majorly impressive films in the 1970-80s, including Young Frankenstein, Mr Mom, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Tootsie

[sailor-moon-moon]

*old timey detective voice* I’ve cracked this case wide open

[thesuburbanerd]

"I know this world needs help. That's why some of my generation are kind of crazy and rebels, you know? We wonder if we're gonna be alive when we're thirty."

- Teri Garr, as Roberta Lincoln.

Star Trek, “Assignment: Earth.” S02E26

[kugelfische]

ASSIGNMENT : EARTH. click for better quality

[dark-ethereal-visions]

RIP to a talented actress, beautiful lady, and a Star Trek veteran.

[old-type-40]

Just looking around the bridge where they'd first arrived, Roberta had seen a black woman, a Japanese man, a couple of Americans, a Russian - and an honest-to-goodness alien, for pete's sake - all cooperating together peacefully. Compared to 1969, it was like some sort of wild utopian fantasy. Wow, Roberta thought, feeling deeply moved all of a sudden. It seemed like the late Martin Luther King's dream had actually come true after all: a world where no one was judged by their race or nationality. "This is fantastic," she said. - Star Trek, Assignment Eternity

Just started this book in which Roberta Lincoln and Gary Seven travel to the 23rd century to the Enterprise. And Roberta was surprised at the uniforms.

"Gee," she exclaimed, "who would have ever guessed that miniskirts and go-go boots would still be popular in the twenty-third century?"

Though Gary Seven explained that what was once old often becomes new again.