Season Guide
Star Trek: The Original Series Season 3
Season 3 Review
⚠ Spoiler alert Season notes below reveal how the story develops.
Season 3 of Star Trek: The Original Series premiered 1968-09-20 and ran 24 episodes through 1969-06-03.
Episodes
1
SummaryAn alien lady materializes on the bridge of the Enterprise and knocks the command crew unconscious. When they come to, they discover that Spock's brain has been stolen and they…
2
Summary Captain Kirk acts strangely and ends up taking the ship into the Romulan neutral zone where they are surrounded by Romulans, the Romulan commander then takes a interest in…
3
SummaryMr. Spock must destroy an asteroid threatening a primitive world where lost and amnesiac Captain Kirk has taken a wife.Our TakeSolid, satisfying television. The season's engine keeps turning and the…
4
Summary A group of orphaned children under an alien’s control take over the minds of the Enterprise crew. Our Take A creepy kids premise that should work but mostly doesn't.…
5
Summary Only a jealous scientist can save Spock when he goes mad after seeing a hideous Medusan. Our Take A weird, moody hour that leans hard on its ideas about…
6
Summary Powerful aliens transport the Enterprise officers into an illusionary recreation of the gunfight at the OK Corral. Our Take A strange, low-budget hour that turns its limitations into a…
7
Summary An alien which feeds on violence traps Klingons and Enterprise crewman together. Our Take A fun, pulsy premise that gives both crews an excuse to snarl at each other…
8
Summary After Dr. McCoy informs Captain Kirk that he is dying, the Enterprise crew discovers a planetoid that is on a collision course with a inhabited world. Kirk, Spock and…
9
Summary Kirk is trapped on a disintegrating star ship and drifts between dimensions while the Tholian’s create a energy web around the Enterprise to prevent them from escaping. Our Take…
10
SummaryRulers of a culture modeled after Platos Republic kidnap Kirk, Spock and Dr. McCoy.Our TakeVery good, not the series' peak, but an hour that reminds you why Star Trek: The…
11
SummaryThe dying Scalosians, invisible to humans, need the Enterprise crew to help repopulate their decimated planet.Our TakeSolid, satisfying television. The season's engine keeps turning and the character work pays.
12
Summary After arriving at a outpost to pick up the two members of a science team, Kirk, McCoy and Spock find the team missing. They are then transported to another…
13
Summary Klingons interfere when the Enterprise is ordered to transport an unwilling royal bride to her wedding in another star system. During the trip, the enterprise is sabotaged. Our Take…
14
Summary Inmates gain control of an insane asylum, taking visiting Kirk and Spock prisoner. Our Take A solid villain episode carried almost entirely by Steve Ihnat, who clearly relishes playing…
15
Summary A thousand year feud between sworn enemies threatens to destroy the Enterprise. Our Take The famous half-black, half-white faces episode, and the allegory is about as subtle as a…
16
SummaryCaptain Kirk suddenly finds himself on what appears to be the Enterprise, alone except for a beautiful alien woman while on a away mission to the planet Gideon.Our TakeVery good,…
17
SummaryThe Enterprise discovers a planet that defies the conventional theories of planetology, so Kirk, Sulu, McCoy and D'Amato (a geologist) beam down to investigate. As they depart, a mysterious woman…
18
Summary A mysterious storm has inflicted heavy – perhaps irreparable – damage on the library planetoid Memory Alpha. And it seems to have a curious affiliation with new crewmember Myra…
19
SummaryRigelian Fever rages about the Enterprise; on a small planet named Holberg 917G, the crew has discovered a source of the only cure, ryetalin. Kirk, Spock and McCoy beam down,…
20
Summary The Enterprise intercepts a stolen space yacht, whose thieves destroy it rather than face capture. But they are captured, and revealed as “counterculture” individuals looking for a mysterious planet…
21
Summary The planet Merek II is gripped by a botanical plague. The only cure is the mineral zeenite, and the only practical source of that is Ardana. But Ardana has…
22
Summary The Enterprise surveys the planet Excalbia. As its surface is the temperature of molten rock, no landing party is possible, so when the orbital survey concludes, Kirk orders the…
23
SummaryWhile trying to locate the missing population of a planet doomed by a coming nova, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy find a mysterious librarian who sends them back into the planet's…
24
Summary Janice Lester, a lover from Kirk’s past, uses alien technology to switch her consciousness into his body and vice versa, so that she can take command of the Enterprise…