Season 3

September 20, 1968 - June 3, 1969

Spectre of the Gun - Kirk ignores a "Space Buoy" warning marking the edge of Melkotian space. He and his officers are beamed to the Melkot planet to re-enact the deadly western gunfight at the OK Corral as their punishment.

57.  Elaan of Troyius - Elaan is the Dohlman of Elas and she is being ferried to Troyius for a marriage intended to end centuries of war between the two populated worlds in a solar system near the Klingon Empire. The Enterprise is dogged by a Klingon battle cruiser and a spy the damages the Enterprise with the Klingons bearing down on them.



The Paradise Syndrome - As an asteroid threatens a planet, a landing party beams down, finding a peaceful native culture. When Kirk vanishes, the others return to the ship, trying to save the planet, while Kirk is absorbed into the culture and married with Spock and McCoy at each others throat after having failed to rescue him.

59.  The Enterprise Incident - When Kirk enters Romulan space and is captured, he is denounced by Spock, who is urged to defect by the female Romulan commander.

60.  And the Children Shall Lead - An evil entity has caused all the adults on Triacus to commit suicide, while their children are unharmed and strangely oblivious to the deaths of their parents. The entity sneaks aboard the Enterprise with the children. The children induce hallucinations on the crew with the power of the entity.

61.  Spock's Brain - A mysterious woman renders the crew unconscious and steals Spock's brain and takes it to her planet and uses it to control the computer which controls the planet.

62.  Is There in Truth No Beauty? - Dr. Miranda Jones escorts a Medusan, whose unprotected appearance can cause insanity in humans, aboard the Enterprise to conduct a peaceful experiment, which goes awry when her companion becomes jealous. This episode addresses "the last of our prejudices": Our preference for what our culture deems beautiful, our aversion to what our culture deems ugly.

63.  The Empath - Kirk, Spock and McCoy are seized while searching for lost researchers on a remote planet. Another prisoner, a mute empath named Gem, heals the wounds inflicted on them by the mysterious aliens who captured them.

64.  The Tholian Web - Spock is thrown into command when Kirk is lost in another dimension. Spock hopes to rescue Kirk during the next dimensional interphase despite the threats of a Tholian captain. Spock and McCoy face off in their most bitter confrontation in the series but are forced to work together after reading Kirk's prediction of their now current situation.



65.  For the World is Hollow and I have Touched the Sky - Yonada is -unknown to its people- a really huge, hollow space ship sent out long ago to colonize a new planet, but is now on a collision course with an asteroid. Kirk, Spock and McCoy try to wrest control of the ship's malfunctioning computer before the crash.

66.  Day of the Dove - The Enterprise and a Klingon ship chlas near Beta XII-A. Each side blames the other for opening hostilities, but the crew gradually realize that another force controls the battle, and is healing the wounded to prolong the fight.

67.  Plato's Stepchildren - The Enterprise receives a call from the planet Platonius requesting medical help. After beaming down the crew discovers that the Platonians possess awesome telekinetic abilities and have no intention of allowing McCoy to leave. This episode featured network television's first interracial kiss.

68.  Wink of an Eye - The Enterprise responds to a distress call from the planet Scalos. Events then prove that the Scalosians are invisible and are the survivors of a planetary disaster which left their world poisoned and their males sterile. The Enterprise is now kept on ice as a fertility bank.

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69.  That Which Survives - A geologically unstable planet draws Kirk and crew to the surface to investigate, where they encounter a beautiful woman whose touch can kill to protect a distant scientific outpost. The Enterprise is then hurled light years away, stranding the landing party.

70.  Let That Be Your Last Battlefield - The Cheronians are half black, half white people and on the planet there is extreme racial prejudice which threatens to spark a civil war and both are pleading for the federations help.

71.  Whom Gods Destroy - When Kirk and Spock beam down to deliver a wonder drug to the governor of an asylum for the criminally insane on Elba II, they find the inmates have taken over the asylum, and a force field prevents their own escape.

72.  Mark of Gideon - Kirk beams down to the planet Gideon to recruit them into the Federation, but never arrives. He finds himself alone with a beautiful woman, Odona, and an empty Enterprise, while Spock initiates a frustrating search for the lost captain. This story mostly deals with another 1960s concerns, overpopulation.

73.  The Lights of Zetar - An energy storm destroys the scholars on Memory Alpha, a federation facility, then enters Lt. Mira Romaine's body, who becomes an unwilling host for the "lights." Kirk and crew try to exorcise this deadly life-force before it kills her.

74. The Cloud Minders - An epidemic strikes the planet Merak II, and the Enterprise goes to Ardana in search of the cure. There they are caught in the middle of a class struggle between surface-dwelling miners and the ruling elite, who live in the clouds. Notably the guest star Jeff Corey was Nimoy's former acting teacher and a victim of the Hollywood blacklist.

75.  Way to Eden - Kirk gives chase to a stolen ship, the Aurora, and rescues the crew before it explodes. A rebellious group of young idealists led by an ailing and insane Dr. Sevrin, they are searching for a mythical planet called Eden.

76.  Requiem for Methusela - The Enterprise needs a substance from Holberg 917-G to cure a Rigellian fever that has stricken the crew. On the planet Kirk, Spock and McCoy meet a lonely immortal named Flint. What concern them is the mysterious benefactor and his overprotective robot. Kirk then falls in love with Flints ward but Flint won't stand for it.

77.  The Savage Curtain -  On Excalbia, the inhabitants have such a different morality that good and evil are unknown concepts. Therefore, they snatch the USS Enterprise and force its officers to participate in a contest with beings plucked from Federation history. On the planet they meet figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Genghis Khan and Surak, a Vulcan philosopher.

78.  All Our Yesterdays - Sarpeidon's sun is about to go nova. The Enterprise goes there to warn the inhabitants, but discovering that they have already moved through a time portal to the planet's past. Hearing a cry from the portal Kirk steps into it landing in an medieval jail while McCoy and Spock land in a frozen ice age. Due to the time displacement Spock's long repressed emotions surge to the fore.

79.  Turnabout Intruder - Dr. Janice Lester enacts a mind switch and takes over Kirk's body, depositing Kirk's mind in hers. In command she acts differently enough to arouse the ship's officers suspicions. This was the last Star Trek episode of the original series.

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