3x03 The Paradise Syndrome - Star Trek: The Original Series Episode Guide

Star Trek: The Original Series

- Episode 03x03

Episode: 03x03
Title: The Paradise Syndrome
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 60043-058
First Aired: Oct. 04, 1968

Season 3 » Episode #03 - The Paradise Syndrome

Star Trek: The Original Series - 03x03 The Paradise Syndrome

Summary: The Enterprise is sent to deflect the path of an asteroid that is on a collision course with a Class-M planet. They reach there with enough time to go down to the planet's surface and explore it. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy beam down and find the planet is much like Earth. It is even populated by groups of people similar to Native Americans. Kirk goes missing and the Enterprise is forced to leave him behind and divert the asteroid's path without him.

Who appeared in this episode?

Mr. Spock

Guest Stars:

Captain James T. Kirk	played by William Shatner
Dr. McCoy	played by DeForest Kelley
Miramanee	played by Sabrina Scharf
Salish	played by Rudy Solari
Scott	played by James Doohan
Sulu	played by George Takei
Chekov	played by Walter Koenig
Goro	played by Richard Hale (II)
Nurse Chapel	played by Majel Barrett

Season 3 / Episode 3: - The Paradise Syndrome

Mr. Spock: I believe those symbols are the key.
Dr. McCoy: Well you won't read them by killing yourself. You've hardly eaten or splept for weeks. Now if you don't let up, you're going to collapse.
Mr. Spock: I am not hungry, doctor. And under stress, we Vulcans can do without sleep for weeks.
Dr. McCoy: [scanning Spock while he speaks] Well, your Vulcan metabolism is so low it can hardly be measured and for the pressure, that green ice-water you call blood...
Mr. Spock: My physical condition is not important, doctor. That obelisk is.

Season 3 / Episode 3: - The Paradise Syndrome

Mr. Spock: Lock all phasers on that mark. Maximum intensity, narrow beam. I want to split that fisher wide open.
Dr. McCoy: You sound like you're cutting a diamond.
Mr. Spock: Very astute, doctor.

[More Quotes]

MISTAKES/GOOFS

FAKE: The lower part of the sideburns on Kirk are obviously fake.
PLOT: Given the urgency of heading off the asteroid, what was Kirk & co. doing on the planet surface at the start of the story? This seems an unnecessary waste of precious time - their ability to confirm the presence of human life from orbit, via ship's sensors, had long since been established.
PLOT: When debating on where to return to the ship or search for Kirk, McCoy exclaims that the asteroid won't reach the planet for two months. However, later in the same conversation, Spock uses two rocks to show the position of the planet and the changing position of the asteroid. If the speed of Spock's "example" was correct, the asteroid should have hit the planet in mere minutes.
CONT: Miramanee rescues a drowned boy from the bottom of the river. However, as she sits the boy down, his clothing is still dry and after Kirk administers artificial respiration, the boy does not cough up any water. Had his clothes dried by sunlight, too much time would have elapsed for the boy to be revivable.