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Star Trek Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 1968 - 1969
Captain Kirk, Mr Spock, Dr McCoy and the USS Enterprise crew seek out new civilisations in this seminal sci-fi series.
Episode 1
Spock's Brain
Fri, Sep 20, 1968 60 mins
Following a woman's mysterious appearance on the bridge, it is discovered that someone, using advanced medical technology, has stolen Spock's brain. Kara: Marj Dusay. Morg: James Daris. Luma: Sheila Leighton. Kirk: William Shatner. McCoy: DeForest Kelley. Spock: Leonard Nimoy.
Episode 2
The Enterprise Incident
Fri, Sep 27, 1968 60 mins
Spock finds himself in the unlikely position of being wooed by a Romulan Commander (Joann Linville) when the Enterprise is captured after entering Romulan space. Subcommander Tal: Jack Donner. Nurse Chapel: Majel Barrett. Scott: James Doohan. Spock: Leonard Nimoy. Kirk: William Shatner. McCoy: DeForest Kelley.
Episode 3
The Paradise Syndrome
Fri, Oct 4, 1968 60 mins
On a mission to save a planet from an asteroid, Kirk loses his memory and gains a wife, Miramanee (Sabrina Scharf)--a consequence of accidentally activating a cryptically inscribed obelisk. Salish: Rudy Solari. Kirk: William Shatner. Spock: Leonard Nimoy. McCoy: DeForest Kelley. Scott: James Doohan. Sulu: George Takei. Chekov: Walter Koenig.
Episode 4
And the Children Shall Lead
Fri, Oct 11, 1968 60 mins
Attorney Melvin Belli stars as Gorgan the Friendly Angel, the incarnation of pure evil who uses children to unleash the beast in human souls. Tommy: Craig Hundley. Prof. Starnes: James Wellman. Mary: Pamelyn Ferdin. Nurse Chapel: Majel Barrett. Kirk: William Shatner. Spock: Leonard Nimoy.
Episode 5
Is There in Truth No Beauty?
Fri, Oct 18, 1968 60 mins
Jealousy is the catalyst when the Enterprise picks up two passengers: an alien whose appearance drives humans mad, and his woman companion (Diana Muldaur). Marvick: David Frankham. Scott: James Doohan. Kirk: William Shatner. Spock: Leonard Nimoy.
Episode 6
Spectre of the Gun
Fri, Oct 25, 1968 60 mins
For violating Melkotian space, the crew is made to appear as the Clanton gang, to be met---and massacred---by the Earps and Doc Holliday at the OK Corral. Wyatt Earp: Ron Soble. Morgan: Rex Holman. Sylvia: Bonnie Beecher. Doc: Sam Gilman. Virgil: Charles Maxwell. Johnny: Bill Zuckert. Ed: Charles Seel. Barber: Ed McCready. Rancher: Gregg Palmer. Rider: Richard Anthony. Voice of Melkotian Buoy: James Doohan. Kirk: William Shatner. Spock: Leonard Nimoy.
Episode 7
Day of the Dove
Fri, Nov 1, 1968 60 mins
The Enterprise is invaded by an alien life-form that transfers Klingons to the starship---and arms the Klingons and the Enterprise crew with swords. Michael Ansara reprised his role as the Klingon Kodos in the episode "Blood Oath" of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine." Kang: Michael Ansara. Mara: Susan Howard. McCoy: DeForest Kelley. Chekov: Walter Koenig. Sulu: George Takei. Uhura: Nichelle Nichols. Kirk: William Shatner. Spock: Leonard Nimoy.
Episode 8
For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
Fri, Nov 8, 1968 60 mins
The Enterprise encounters a spacecraft ruled by a computer oracle that prevents the occupants from knowing they are on a collision course with a Federation planet.
Episode 9
The Tholian Web
Fri, Nov 15, 1968 60 mins
Spock takes command when Kirk vanishes and is feared dead in a hostile segment of space where matter disintegrates, and men are seized by madness.
Episode 10
Plato's Stepchildren
Fri, Nov 22, 1968 60 mins
A literal battle of wills ensues when the arrogant, telekinetic inhabitants of Platonius order the Enterprise officers to remain on their planet, forcing them to perform humiliating acts for their amusement.
Episode 11
Wink of an Eye
Fri, Nov 29, 1968 60 mins
After visiting the planet Scalos, Kirk begins to notice unusual happenings aboard the ship---and discovers something unseen has beamed up with him from the planet's surface.
Episode 12
The Empath
Fri, Dec 6, 1968 60 mins
While on a mission to pick up a pair of researchers, Kirk, Spock and McCoy encounter two robed figures who subject them to horrible tortures, and an enigmatic woman who may hold the key to their salvation.
Episode 13
Elaan of Troyius
Fri, Dec 20, 1968 60 mins
Kirk must tame a shrew when he undertakes a stormy mission of peace: taking the high priestess of a warrior people to marry an enemy ruler.
Episode 14
Whom Gods Destroy
Fri, Jan 3, 1969 60 mins
Kirk and Spock fall into the hands of Garth, the murderous, shape-shifting leader of an inmate revolt at an intergalactic insane asylum.
Episode 15
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
Fri, Jan 10, 1969 60 mins
Parable about racial intolerance in which Frank Gorshin portrays an alien named Bele, who's white on his left side and black on the right, hunting Lokai, whose colouration is reversed.
Episode 16
The Mark of Gideon
Fri, Jan 17, 1969 60 mins
Kirk vanishes while beaming down to the planet Gideon. But from the Captain's point of view, he's still on the Enterprise---and the entire crew has disappeared.
Episode 17
That Which Survives
Fri, Jan 24, 1969 60 mins
An Enterprise landing party is stranded on a planet replete with inexplicable phenomena, and a lethal siren whose touch means instant death.
Episode 18
The Lights of Zetar
Fri, Jan 31, 1969 60 mins
The Enterprise is caught in an energy phenomena of twinkling lights that enters the ship, and then the mind of a crew member, revealing that the lights are actually noncorporeal beings from a long-dead planet.
Episode 19
Requiem for Methuselah
Fri, Feb 14, 1969 60 mins
While searching for the antidote to a plague, the crew discovers a planet inhabited by two people: a man of extraordinary historical accomplishments, and his female companion.
Episode 20
The Way to Eden
Fri, Feb 21, 1969 60 mins
The Enterprise captures spaceship-snatching counter-cultural rebels who are led by a fanatic named Sevrin determined to reach the planet Eden.
Episode 21
The Cloud Minders
Fri, Feb 28, 1969 60 mins
On the planet Ardana, Kirk and Spock are drawn into a class struggle between a cloud-dwelling bourgeois society and its repressed worker class, who toil underground in dangerous mines.
Episode 22
The Savage Curtain
Fri, Mar 7, 1969 60 mins
Kirk and Spock fight alongside Abe Lincoln and Vulcan leader Surak against Genghis Khan and Klingon founder Kahless, so a powerful alien called Yarnek can observe "good and evil".
Episode 23
All Our Yesterdays
Fri, Mar 14, 1969 60 mins
Kirk, Spock and McCoy are sent through time by a machine called the Atavachron, with Kirk landing in the Middle Ages, where he's accused of witchcraft, and Spock and McCoy in the Ice Age.
Episode 24
Turnabout Intruder
Tue, Jun 3, 1969 60 mins
Kirk is victimised by paranoiac scientist Dr Janice Lester, who transfers her mind into his body---and his mind into hers.
