I would have liked to see an "Assignment: Earth" TV series

[doubleohfive]

Yeah, I said it.

I rewatched the episode last night for the first time in years, and while as a Star Trek episode and as a potential back-door pilot it drags, I am still intrigued with the overall concept of Gary Seven, Roberta, Isis and their adventures.

Am I the only one who would have liked to see this develop further?

Also: Has anyone else read Greg Cox's excellent "Eugenics Wars" books? Gary Seven has a pretty large role throughout. I haven't read "Assignment: Eternity" though -- is it any good?

 

[Harvey]

I remember liking "Assignment: Eternity," though not as much as the Khan books. I think there are some Gary Seven comics as well, but I haven't read them.

 

[SonicRanger]

I want to see A:E as a series now: Star Trek + 1960s spy show like The Avengers.

You could add in bits of Torchwood, Doctor Who, Eureka, and other modern-day sci-fi shows that would really offer a whole new flavor of Trek.

 

[MANT!]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03WMQFfMOQg&NR=1[/yt]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmynXHrR74w&feature=related[/yt]

 

[Yevetha]

I am afraid a rv series would get overly preachy for me.

 

[Christopher]

I think there are some Gary Seven comics as well, but I haven't read them.

They're fun, a decent attempt to approximate what a period Assignment: Earth TV series might've been like, although a bit anachronistic at times (for instance, having a woman lead a US nuclear research project in 1969). And they're tied together with the other IDW Comics miniseries John Byrne has done -- there's a certain storyline that begins in the A:E miniseries, continues in Crew, and wraps up in Leonard McCoy, Frontier Doctor (in a storyline that also ties in with other stuff from Crew and with threads from Romulans: Pawns of War, and features a Gary Seven appearance).

I am afraid a rv series would get overly preachy for me.

Man, if you don't like "overly preachy," how did you ever become a Star Trek fan?

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

The British sort of did it. Something about a Gallifreyan bloke.

 

[Christopher]

The British sort of did it. Something about a Gallifreyan bloke.

People often make that comparison between "Assignment: Earth" and Doctor Who, but it really only works for the Third Doctor's UNIT era, when he was stuck in present-day Earth. Sure, the original unsold-pilot concept was that Gary Seven was a time traveller, but in the Trek episode he was native to the 20th century, just not born and raised on Earth. And even in the pilot, Gary would've been sent from the future to battle evil time-travellers, but his adventures would've taken place mostly or entirely on 1960s Earth.

If A:E had gone to series based on what the actual aired episode established, time travel would've been a very limited part of it, probably used mainly for Trek crossovers during sweeps months (did they have sweeps back then?). It would've been more in the vein of a sci-fi/spy show like The Avengers (which, pretty much, is what Doctor Who was trying to be in the UNIT era).

 

[BrotherofShran0]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03WMQFfMOQg&NR=1[/yt]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmynXHrR74w&feature=related[/yt]

Nice youtube videos. I like Gary Seven and Isis. I wish that the TV series would have happened. It think that it would have done well.