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20 "ASSIGNMENT EARTH" THE STAR TREX ENCYCLOPEDIA: A REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE FUTURE

“Assignment: Earth.” Original Series episode #55, Teleplay by ~~ SEE: actinides; Alpha Omicron system; asteroid gamma 601; Art Wallace. Story by Gene Roddenberry and Art Wallace. Babel; Bre'el IV; Chamra Vortex; class-J cargo ship; co-orbital Directed by Marc Daniels. No stardate given. First aired in 1968. satellite; Companion; cutter; Deltived Asteroid Belt; Gamma The Enterprise travels back in time to 1968, where Kirk and Spock II; Hanolin asteroid belt; Holberg 917G; Ikalian asteroid belt; help a mysterious stranger named Gary Seven avert a nuclear cri- Jeraddo; Junior; Kalandan outpost; Meltasion asteroid belt; sis. “Assignment: Earth” was an unofficial pilot episode for a pro- Memory Alpha; Metron; Miramanee's planet; New Seattle; posed television series that would have chronicled the present- nitrium metal parasites; Odin, S.S.; Orelious IX; Pelloris Field; day adventures of Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln on Earth as Penthara IV; Regula; Rousseau V; Rura Penthe; Selcundi they battled extraterrestrial invaders called Omegans. GUEST Drema; Selebi Asteroid Belt; Tessen III; Vandor IX; Viugta CAST: Robert Lansing as Seven, Gary: Teri Garr as Lincoln, asteroid belt; Yonada (pictured) Roberta; Don Keefer as Cromwell, Mr.; Lincoln Demyan as Lipton, Sergeant: Morgan Jones as Nesvig, Colonel; Bruce Mars Astral Queen. Passenger spacecraft commanded by Captain as First policeman; Ted Gehring as Second policeman; Paul Jon Daily in 2266. At the request of Enterprise captain James Baxley as McKinley, Crewman; Eddie Paskey as Leslie, Mr.; Kirk, Daily bypassed a scheduled stop at Planet Q, forcing the Barbara Babcock as Isis’s voice; Barbara Babcock as Exciever Karidian Company of Players to request passage aboard the computer voice; Majel Barrett as Beta 5 computer voice. SEE: Enterprise. (“The Conscience of the King" [TOS)). Agents 201 and 347; Beta 5 computer; exceiver; Isis; lightspeed breakaway factor; Lincoln, Roberta; McKinley Rocket Astral V annex. Historical museum and repository for classic Base; Omicron IV; Seven, Gary; Supervisor 194, spacecraft. Captain Picard suggested the Astral V annex might want to acquire the hulk of the Promellian cruiser Cleponji, disastatine. Mineral found on planet Orellius. Colonists on the plan- covered near Orelious IX in 2366, although the Promellian ship et believed astatine deposits created a duonetic field found in ~~ was destroyed before this could happen. (“Booby Trap” [TNG]). the planet's atmosphere. (*Paradise” [DS9)). An early draft script for “Booby Trap" suggested the Astral V annex was part of the Smithsonian Institution. Aster, Jeremy. (Gabriel Damon). Son of 3 Enterprise-D officer Lieutenant Marla astrometric readings. A determination of the date by observing Aster. Jeremy was orphaned when his the apparent positions of the stars. (“Future's End, Part I" [VGR]). - mother died on an away mission in 2366. [1 [4 His father had died five years earlier of a Atalia VII. Planet. Location of a vital diplomatic conference in Rushton infection. After Marla Aster's 2369. Captain Jean-Luc Picard was scheduled to be a mediator death, energy-based life-forms known as there, but was detained when Professor Richard Galen was Koinonians expressed regret at their killed. (“The Chase” [TNG]). accidental part in the incident and offered to care for Jeremy. Their care would have been delivered atavachron. Temporal portal developed on planet by a nearly identical replica of his late mother, in an environment Sarpeidon to travel back through time. The atavathat closely reproduced his home on Earth. Jeremy eventually chron altered a time traveler's cellular structure, found the courage to accept his mother's loss, and became a part making it possible to survive in earlier environments, of Worf’s family through the Klingon R’uustai, or bonding, cere- but also making it impossible to return to the present mony. Jeremy later returned to Earth to be raised by his biological ~~ without reversing the alteration. The people of aunt and uncle. (“The Bonding" [TNG]). Sarpeidon used the atavachron to escape into the past when their sun, Beta Niobe, went nova in 2269. Aster, Lieutenant Marla. (Susan Powell). Enterprise-D archaeol- (“All Our Yesterdays” [TOS)). SEE: Atoz, Mr.; Zarabeth. ogist, who was killed during an away team mission in the Koinonian ruins in 2366. Aster was killed by a bomb left over from Atheneum Vaults. A government building on planet Ventax II. an ancient Koinonian war. Koinonian energy-based life-forms ~~ The Scrolls of Ardra were stored there. ("Devil's Due” [TNG]). later created a replica of Aster in an offer to care for her orphaned son, Jeremy Aster. (“The Bonding” [TNG]). atherosclerosis. A pathological condition in some humanoid species characterized by the hardening of the arteries and asteroid belt. Band of several thousand small bodies revolving accompanied by the deposit of fat in the inner arterial walls. around Earth's sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. When Joseph Sisko developed progressive atherosclerosis, eventually Chakotay studied to be a pilot during his first year at Starfleet necessitating that he be given a new aorta. (“Homefront" [DS9)). Academy, he spent some time training in the belt, learning how to dodge asteroids. (“Future's End, Part II” [VGR]). Atlantis Project. An ambitious 24th-century proposal to create a small continent in the middle of Earth's Atlantic Ocean. Jean-Luc asteroid gamma 601. Moon-sized asteroid located in the Picard was offered directorship on the Atlantis Project when he Devolin system. This asteroid was the final resting place of the took shore leave on Earth in 2367. Picard declined the opportuniStarship Pegasus after it was believed destroyed in 2358. In ty, preferring to remain in Starfleet. Picard’s boyhood friend, 2370, the hulk of the Pegasus was discovered inside the body of Louis, was a supervisor on the project. (“Family” [TNG]). the asteroid, partially encased within the rock. The ship had apparently traveled through the asteroid in a phased state. Once atmosphere conditioning pumps. Part of a starship’s life-supinside, the phasing cloak failed, and the ship was trapped in the port system. Data, temporarily controlled by Noonien Soong in rock face. The salvage of the Pegasus involved the Enterprise-D 2367, programmed the atmosphere conditioning pumps on the also traveling inside the body of the asteroid, a first for any Enterprise-D's bridge to operate in negative mode, evacuating Federation starship. (“The Pegasus” [TNG]). SEE: Pressman, the air and rendering the bridge uninhabitable to air-breathing Admiral Erik; Riker, William T. humanoids. Doing so required Data to override seven independent safety interlocks designed to prevent just such an occurasteroid. Small, rocky celestial object, usually '™ rence. (“Brothers” [TNG]) much smaller than a planet, often irregularly PRE shaped. Asteroids often occur in orbital » bY atmospheric dissipation. Rare and unpredictable phenomenon belts within a star system, sometimes the I, A - in which severe plasmonic energy bursts rapidly burn off the debris remaining from the formation of that JE ‘ atmospheric layers of a planetary body. Once the process system, other times the fragments remaining begins, it is unstoppable by any known means. In 2370, atmosfrom the disintegration of a planet. Larger pheric dissipation struck planet Boraal Il, rendering it uninhabitasteroids are sometimes called planetoids. able in a matter of days. (“Homeward" [TNG]).