Assignment: Earth

[DarthPipes]

I liked this episode. It was interesting to see Kirk and Spock actually sharing screentime with someone else. Lansing was terrific as Seven and Terri Garr was pretty good as well. It's too bad it was never picked up for series but I'm glad to see some of the recent Trek EU has focused on this subject.

 

[Joanna McCoy-Kirk]

The episode is dated IMHO (only Trek ep with "groovy" in its dialog) and really isn't a "true" Trek episode, with the plot mainly focused on Seven and Ms. Lincoln. I rarely watch it (I'd even rather watch "Paradise Syndrome" than "Assignment: Earth").

 

[Nerys Myk]

The episode is dated IMHO (only Trek ep with "groovy" in its dialog) and really isn't a "true" Trek episode, with the plot mainly focused on Seven and Ms. Lincoln. I rarely watch it (I'd even rather watch "Paradise Syndrome" than "Assignment: Earth").

The episode took place in the 1960s so groovy would be appropriate slang.

 

[Jeri]

As much as I like this episode, I was a teenager in SoCal in the 1960's, and I have to say that "groovy" was not really something you'd say. I honestly don't know where people said that for real.

 

[Nerys Myk]

As much as I like this episode, I was a teenager in SoCal in the 1960's, and I have to say that "groovy" was not really something you'd say. I honestly don't know where people said that for real.

Woodstock

 

[Kelso]

It was great they showed up in the Eugenics Wars books; thanks for that.

You're welcome!

Who didn't show up in those books?

 

[Nerys Myk]

It was great they showed up in the Eugenics Wars books; thanks for that.

You're welcome!

Who didn't show up in those books?

The kitchen sink. But I could be wrong.

 

[T'Bonz]

As much as I like this episode, I was a teenager in SoCal in the 1960's, and I have to say that "groovy" was not really something you'd say. I honestly don't know where people said that for real.

I was a kid in San Diego in the late 60s, and I heard "groovy" but not as often as TV or the movies about that time frame would have you think it was said. The term that was really in vogue and meant the same thing was "bitchin'". Needless to say, I didn't use it, but my older sister did when the parents weren't around.

 

[Jeri]

Yes, I almost said that; but I figured I could always include it later on, if clarification was needed. We weren't allowed to say it either...

 

[Nerys Myk]

My teen years were in the bitchin' 70s

 

[Greg Cox]

You're welcome!

Who didn't show up in those books?

The kitchen sink. But I could be wrong.

Damn. How did I forget the kitchen sink?

 

[Hambone]

I was a kid in San Diego in the late 60s, and I heard "groovy" but not as often as TV or the movies about that time frame would have you think it was said.

I grew up during the 1960's and 70's, in a midwestern city with a large university close by. The only time I ever heard the word "groovy" was on The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family. Oh, and in the Dick Tracy comic strip. They had a young rookie officer named Groovy Grove.

High school students started using the word again during the late 1980's, about the time Phil Collins recorded his cover of "Groovy Kind of Love".

I still like to address my wife as "groovy chick"...as in "Hey there, groovy chick, you're really hip in a happenin' way!"

 

[Nerys Myk]

I was a kid in San Diego in the late 60s, and I heard "groovy" but not as often as TV or the movies about that time frame would have you think it was said.

I grew up during the 1960's and 70's, in a midwestern city with a large university close by. The only time I ever heard the word "groovy" was on The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family. Oh, and in the Dick Tracy comic strip. They had a young rookie officer named Groovy Grove.

High school students started using the word again during the late 1980's, about the time Phil Collins recorded his cover of "Groovy Kind of Love".

I still like to address my wife as "groovy chick"...as in "Hey there, groovy chick, you're really hip in a happenin' way!"

Once a phrase or a fad hits such tragically un-hip venues of the Brady Bunch, Partridge Family and Dick Tracy, it's over.

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

Anyone else noticed Gary Seven is kind of "Doctorish" with the space/time traveling, the universal (sonic) screwdriver-like gadget and the female companion?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Anyone else noticed Gary Seven is kind of "Doctorish" with the space/time traveling, the universal (sonic) screwdriver-like gadget and the female companion?

Oddly enough "Assigment Earth" and "Fury From the Deep" ( first appearence of the sonic screwdriver) were both broadcast in March of 1968.