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I feel bad for Assignment Earth


I wish that show had a chance and Teri looked great in it and I liked her character.

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I was just thinking about the same thing the other day. What a great idea for a series that was, and the Robert Lansing/Teri Garr pilot episode is very entertaining; it's still one of my favorite episodes of ST:TOS.

It would have been so cool to have had crossovers with Star Trek later in the series, too; that is, if ST had become the hit it deserved to have been. Oh well, things rarely happen the way we want them to.

I guess it's too bad we don't have Gary Seven and his backers watching over us, making sure everything always turns out for the best (like getting and keeping the best TV shows on the air!)

I would've trusted Mr. Seven, I think, especially with the support and common sense advice he was sure to have gotten from Miss Lincoln. (I was also very much looking forward to finding out how the relationship was going to develop between Roberta and Isis!)

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totally, they're always trying to remake british things, usually to bad results (the american Office, which i didn't like, didn't really work till they went their own way, IMHO). Here's someone with a different take on a similar idea, with the talent to actually make something of it. Ah well, he was a bit ahead of his time, since TOS didn't hit big till a few years later.

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Well thank God for fanfic sites where we can keep the series going, and the comic books that are made too. Personally I would have had a cross over between Agent Seven and Doctor Who.

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Teri Garr was very good as simple minded Roberta Lincoln in the Star Trek episode Assignment: Earth. I like the scene where men beam up to the USS Enterprise and she tries to comprehend what happened!

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I think that computer thing explained that although she appears to be simple minded, she actually has a very high IQ.

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Her character's name would've been a great name for a rock band.
Roberta Lincoln Overdrive.

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That episode showed her pretty blue eyes to great advantage. She always reminded me of a somewhat more restrained Goldie Hawn. I think she could have played most of Goldie's early parts, such as Butterflies are Free and Cactus Flower, and done justice to them. (Not that Goldie played any of them badly herself.)

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