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Season 3 Guide (1968-1969)

	3x01 Spock's Brain A woman from a strange alien ship transports to the Enterprise. She stuns everyone on the bridge with a device on her forearm and takes an interest in ...	Sep. 20, 1968
	3x02 The Enterprise Incident Kirk has been acting irrational lately from the stress of command and orders the Enterprise into the Neutral Zone. Once there, they are quickly surrounded ...	Sep. 27, 1968
	3x03 The Paradise Syndrome 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 ...	Oct. 04, 1968
	3x04 And the Children Shall Lead The Enterprise is responding to a distress call of the Triacus Science Colony. When they arrive, they find that all but one of the adults have committed ...	Oct. 11, 1968
	3x05 Is There in Truth No Beauty? The Enterprise transports a Medusan ambassador back to his home planet along with two passengers. The Medusans are a race of aliens so vile and ugly that ...	Oct. 18, 1968
	3x06 Spectre of the Gun The Enterprise comes across a space probe as they go to establish contact with the reclusive Melkotians. The probe warns the Enterprise to immediately ...	Oct. 25, 1968
	3x07 Day of the Dove The Enterprise is investigating the distress call of the Earth colony Beta 12A. When they arrive, they find that all 100 men, women, and children are nowhere ...	Nov. 01, 1968
	3x08 For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky McCoy tells Kirk that he has become infected with a fatal disease for which there is no known cure. Shortly thereafter the Enterprise is attacked and extrapolates ...	Nov. 08, 1968
	3x09 The Tholian Web The Enterprise investigates the disappearance of its fellow starship the U.S.S. Defiant. Kirk takes a team over and they find the entire crew dead, having ...	Nov. 15, 1968
	3x10 Plato's Stepchildren The Enterprise diverts from its current heading and answers a distress call asking for medical attention. When they arrive at the planet Kirk discovers ...	Nov. 22, 1968
	3x11 Wink of an Eye The Enterprise receives and answers a distress call from the planet Scalos. When the Enterprise reaches Scalos, they are unable to locate the individuals ...	Nov. 29, 1968
	3x12 The Empath When the Enterprise arrives at Minara 2 to pick up a two-man science team because the planet's sun is going to supernova. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy find the ...	Dec. 06, 1968
	3x13 Elaan of Troyius The Enterprise goes on a top-secret mission to take Queen Elaan of Elas to neighboring planet Troyius where she has been promised to their ruler. Their ...	Dec. 20, 1968
	3x14 Whom Gods Destroy Kirk and Spock are delivering medicine to the metal health facility on Elba II. The asylum is home to the most insane criminal of the Federation. Once ...	Jan. 03, 1969
	3x15 Let That Be Your Last Battlefield The Enterprise comes across a shuttlecraft taken from Starbase 4 on their way to the planet, Arianis. The alien piloting the shuttlecraft is completely ...	Jan. 10, 1969
	3x16 The Mark of Gideon The Federation is attempting to establish relations with the planet, Gideon. Gideon refuses to allow any visitors or sensor scans, but claims to be a complete ...	Jan. 17, 1969
	3x17 That Which Survives A landing party from the Enterprise transport down to investigate a planet that is only the size of the Moon, but has the mass of the Earth. The planet ...	Jan. 24, 1969
	3x18 The Lights of Zetar While on their way to Memory Alpha, the library of all cultural history and scientific knowledge of the Federation, the Enterprise detects a mysterious ...	Jan. 31, 1969
	3x19 Requiem for Methuselah While on a planet in the Omega system trying to find ryetalyn to stop an epidemic of Rigellian Fever, Kirk, Spock and McCoy come into contact with a strange ...	Feb. 14, 1969
	3x20 The Way to Eden The Enterprise take on six passengers of the stolen space cruiser, Aurora, after they are forced to destroy it before it enters Romulan-controlled space. ...	Feb. 21, 1969
	3x21 The Cloud Minders The Enterprise goes to Ardana to obtain the only known cure to a plague that threatens to decimate the vegetation on the planet Merak II. Kirk and Spock ...	Feb. 28, 1969
	3x22 The Savage Curtain Strange readings are detected by Spock while scanning the planet, Excalbia. These reading lead Spock to believe there is carbon cycle life forms on the ...	Mar. 07, 1969
	3x23 All Our Yesterdays The Enterprise is sent to evacuate a planet's population before a supernova occurs. Kirk, Spock, and Bones beam down to the planet, Sarpedon, to figure ...	Mar. 14, 1969
	3x24 Turnabout Intruder The Enterprise speeds to help a science party on Camus II after receiving their distress call. Upon arriving at Camus II, the Enterprise's landing party ...	Jun. 03, 1969

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Season 3 Characters

Captain James T. Kirk	played by William Shatner
Mr. Spock	played by Leonard Nimoy
Dr. McCoy	played by DeForest Kelley
Scott	voiced by James Doohan
Uhura	played by Nichelle Nichols
Sulu	played by George Takei
Lt. Lemli	played by Roger Holloway
Lt. Hadley	played by Bill Blackburn (II)
Chekov	played by Walter Koenig
Nurse Chapel	played by Majel Barrett
Lt. Brent	played by Frank da Vinci
Lt. Leslie	played by Eddie Paskey
Security Guard	played by Dick Geary
Guard	played by Harv Selsby
Engineer	played by Jay D. Jones
Transporter Operator	played by Frank da Vinci
Technician	played by Libby Erwin
Klingon	played by Pete Kellett
Janice Lester	played by William Shatner
Kara	played by Marj Dusay
Deela	played by Kathie Browne
Dr. Miranda Jones	played by Diana Muldaur
Kang	played by Michael Ansara

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Season 3 Videos

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Season 3 Quotes

	Season 3 / Episode 21: - The Cloud Minders Droxine: Father, are we so sure of our methods that we never question what we do?
	Season 3 / Episode 12: - The Empath Dr. McCoy: Men weren't intended to live this far underground, it's just not natural. Captain James T. Kirk: And space travel is? Mr. Spock: Some men spend the majority of their lives in mines beneath the surface. Dr. McCoy: I'm a doctor, not a coal miner.

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Season 3 Trivia

Episode 01 - In his book, William Shatner referred to this episode as "one of the worst." Leonard Nimoy has stated that he was embarrassed during the entire shooting of this episode.
Episode 15 - Archive stock footage of World War II-era London, England burning was shown, superimposed on the fleeing scenes of Lokai and Beele.
Episode 22 - This is one of three productions in which Cengiz Khan and Abraham Lincoln (I) appear together as characters, in spite of the fact that Lincoln was born 582 years after the Khan's death. The others are Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) and "Clone High" (2002).
Episode 09 - Herb Wallerstein is the credited director of this episode. Ralph Senensky was the original director, but was fired midway through filming, and replaced by Wallerstein. Senensky refused any screen credit for this episode.
Episode 15 - First and only episode in the three seasons of "Star Trek" to show a sideways, in-alcove shot of the transporter chamber. When Commissioner Beele (Frank Gorshin) and Lokai (Lou Antonio) beam down to Charon.

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