The BEST episodes of Star Trek season 3
Every episode of Star Trek season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Star Trek season 3!
Space. The Final Frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain James T. Kirk, who is assisted by First Officer Mr. Spock, from the planet Vulcan, and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy. With a determined crew, the Enterprise encounters Klingons, Romulans, time paradoxes, tribbles and genetic supermen led by Khan Noonien Singh. Their mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.
#1 - The Enterprise Incident
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1968
An unusually tense and irritable Kirk orders his ship into the Romulan Neutral Zone, where it is promptly surrounded. Beamed to a Romulan ship, Kirk lies about the intrusion, then attacks Spock, who responds with a Vulcan death grip. While the female Romulan commander courts Spock, a secret mission unfolds.
#2 - The Tholian Web
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/1968
Captain Kirk finds himself trapped between dimensions on a disintegrating starship. The Enterprise crew works against time to rescue him as the Tholians weave a destructive energy web around their ship.
#3 - All Our Yesterdays
Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/14/1969
Kirk, Spock, and McCoy become trapped in the past of another world.
#4 - Wink of an Eye
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/29/1968
Invisible to humans due to their time-accelerated state, a group of aliens invade the Enterprise and attempt to abduct members of the crew to serve as breeding stock for their dying planet.
#5 - Day of the Dove
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/1968
When the Enterprise brings aboard Klingon prisoners, an alien entity pits both sides against each other in an ever-escalating struggle.
#6 - Requiem for Methuselah
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/14/1969
While seeking a cure for a fever ravaging the Enterprise, Kirk and Spock encounter Flint, a hermit-like Earthman, and his beautiful young ward.
#7 - The Paradise Syndrome
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1968
Spock and the Enterprise crew race to destroy an asteroid threatening a primitive world where an amnesiac Kirk is proclaimed a god by its indigenous people.
#8 - For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1968
The Enterprise must deflect an asteroid on a collision course with an inhabited planet... but discover the asteroid is a spaceship with a population unaware of the outside world.
#9 - Spectre of the Gun
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1968
When coming to an exaphobic isolationist planet, Captain Kirk and his landing party are punished for trepassing. They are sentenced to death in a surreal recreation of the Gunfight at the OK Corral with the landing on the losing side.
#10 - Is There in Truth No Beauty?
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/1968
The Enterprise hosts an alien ambassador whose outward appearance induces madness in humanoids. When Spock is driven mad after an unfortunate oversight, only the ambassador's jealous telepathic companion can save his mind.
#11 - The Cloud Minders
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/28/1969
Kirk must resolve a mining dispute on a the cloud city of Stratos to acquire the resources to cure a space plague.
#13 - Turnabout Intruder
Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 6/3/1969
The Enterprise is in danger when Janice Lester, one of Kirk's former lovers, steals his body.
#14 - That Which Survives
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/24/1969
Kirk, McCoy, and Sulu are stranded on a barren planet where a mysterious woman attempts to kill them one at a time, while the Enterprise must travel halfway across the galaxy to rescue them.
#15 - Plato's Stepchildren
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/1968
Kirk and his crew find themselves at the mercy of powerful individuals who possess mind-over-matter powers... and plan to use the Enterprise crew for their twisted entertainment.
#16 - Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/10/1969
The Enterprise finds itself host to two alien beings from the same planet, who share an intense and self-destructive hatred of each other.
#17 - The Lights of Zetar
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/31/1969
The Enterprise must deal with discorporeal cloud-like corporeal aliens who have already destroyed the inhabitants of a library planet and plan to eliminate the Enterprise crew if they cannot acquire a human host.
#18 - Spock's Brain
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1968
Kirk leads the Enterprise in pursuit of a mysterious alien woman after she beams aboard the bridge and steals Spock's brain.
#19 - The Mark of Gideon
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/17/1969
Kirk beams down on a diplomatic mission... and finds himself in an Enterprise where all the crew have vanished and only a mysterious woman resides.
#20 - The Savage Curtain
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/7/1969
Kirk and Spock meet Abraham Lincoln and Surak of Vulcan and must do battle with some of histories most terrible villians.
#21 - The Way to Eden
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/21/1969
The Enterprise picks up a group of space "hippies" looking for Eden.
#22 - Elaan of Troyius
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/20/1968
The Enterprise must escort an alien princess to her marriage to seal an interplanetary alliance... but she becomes attracted to Kirk.
#23 - The Empath
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/6/1968
On a planet doomed to destruction, Kirk, Spock & McCoy become involved with two aliens who use them as laboratory animals in a bizarre series of tests on an alien empath who may be the savior of her planet.
#24 - And the Children Shall Lead
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/1968
The Enterprise travels to a planet where the members of a scientific team appear to have killed themselves. Their orphaned children are brought back to the ship, where they begin exhibiting odd behavior.