Gary escapes using a pen-shaped weapon; the Replica Omega watches camera zooming in on his hands and offering a close-up of his Rolex GMT Master with a Pepsi bezel.In order to discover the truth Kirk and Spock travel back in time in pursuit of Gary Seven.Through a series of action sequences, Kirk and Spock chase Gary Seven around New York City.The pursuit ends at NASA’s Cape Canaveral, in Florida, where an Apollo rocket is being launched with a test nuclear warhead aboard.Gary Seven sneaks onto the launch pad and manipulates the Saturn rocket to avoid certain catastrophe.Like all Star Trek episodes, everything works out in the end.It is intriguing to note that the young Teri Garr played Ms.Roberta Lincoln, Gary Seven’s somewhat bewildered secretary and a source of comic relief.However, the Gary Seven pilot was never picked up and the character with his Rolex GMT Master was never seen again.Most likely, he would have been like James Bond in outer space with a prominent collection of Rolex watches.Unfortunately, we will never know what the brilliant Gene Roddenberry had up his proverbial sleeve.As Spock Replica Omega watches says at the end of the episode, “May you live long and prosper.” Or, as he should have said: “May you live long and prosper with a Rolex watch on your wrist!”
On Jake Ehrlich’s recent podcast, interviewing NASA astronaut Dr.Leroy Chiao, Dr.Chiao mentioned that he had seen a Rolex GMT Master featured on an old Star Trek episode.One of the most highly decorated and accomplished astronauts alive today; Dr.Chiao is a Rolex enthusiast and proudly wears a Rolex GMT Master II.It makes perfect sense that he would recognize the watch while viewing an episode of Star Trek, a very popular show with astronauts since its original inception.Using Dr.Chiao’s comment as a guide Jake Ehrlich discovered the episode, which displays the Rolex GMT Master prominently on the wrist of the character Gary Seven.At first appearing to be a villain, Gary Seven turns out to be a hero in the end.The Star Trek episode that featured the Rolex GMT Master is named Assignment Earth (number 55).The last show (Episode 26) from the second season; it originally aired March 29, 1968.The episode was also a television pilot for a Star Trek spin-off Gene Roddenberry hoped to launch based around the character of Gary Seven.The episode begins when Gary Seven, who is attempting to beam to earth, is instead beamed onto the Enterprise transport deck by mistake.From his introduction, the Rolex GMT Master appears prominently on Gary Seven’s wrist.Played by the actor Robert Lansing, Gary Seven Replica Omega watches informs Captain Kirk that he has come from an invisible planet to save Earth from nuclear destruction in 1968.Not knowing what to do, and doubting his story, Kirk imprisons Gary Seven in a holding cell.
