YOU ARE ACCESSING THE LCARS COMMAND INTERFACE -
THE ORIGINAL SERIES DATABANK
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.