Assignment: Earth, the Star Trek spin-off that never happened

In this Channel 73 video, Eddie discusses Assignment: Earth, the Star Trek spin-off that never happened. You might remember "Assignment: Earth" as the March 29, 1968 final episode of season 2 (starring Robert Lansing and Terri Garr). After Gene Roddenberry proposed the Star Trek Assignment: Earth spin-off to NBC and they rejected it, he re-rolled it into a Trek episode to function as a pilot (and convenient segue) for the new series. — Read the rest