Title

Assignment: Earth

Episode

Season 2
Episode 26

Air Date

March 29, 1968

Stardate

Unknown

Description

The Enterprise goes back in time to study 20th century Earth and gets involved with another alien who's trying to prevent an arms race on Earth.

Personal Rating

This is a worthless episode, redeemed only because it involves time travel. The similar, but earlier episode, Tomorrow Is Yesterday, is much better. This is one of several episodes to deal with the issue of nuclear annihilation, including Patterns of Force and A Taste of Armageddon.

This episode is mildly entertaining, however, despite the ridiculous premise of going back in time merely to study Earth history. At least the alien's computer has personality.

This episode is also surprisingly barren of worthwhile quotations.

Favorite Quotations

Spock, to Kirk, who has a critical decision to make: "Without facts, the decision cannot be made logically. You must rely on your human intuition."