WI "Assignment Earth" gets produced as a spinoff from "Star Trek"

And if Assignment Earth aired in Britain say 1970, if it was a success there, then we could have seen a second season of UFO and maybe the Doctor Who Spind Off Unit.
 
How's this: There was a sequel, where Gary Seven stepped into the background and worked through another agent, a man named Robert McCall:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088513/

They were a little cautious about revealing Control's background and how he got associated with what he did, and what McCall did . . .
 
As the OP pointed out Assignment Earth was being toyed with in case Star Trek got cancelled.

Star Trek almost was cancelled after season 2 and the executives were reluctant to commision a 3rd season. When they finally relented they moved it to a different schedule to reduce ratings.

Once executives decide to kill off a TV show they eventually win.

IMO you can't have an Assignment Earth as well as a Star Trek season 3. It's one or the other.

I like the Assignment Earth episode and Robert Lansing's screen presence seemed to eclipse Shatner and Nimoy quite easily.

OTOH I think AE would have worked better as a movie than a TV show. A TV series would look like a Doctor Who/Mission Impossible/Man from Uncle fusion and they would run out of credible ideas very quickly before shark jumping.
 
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