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Star Trek: The Original Series
Season Three Episode Summaries

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Spock's Brain
The Enterprise Incident
The Paradise Syndrome
And the Children Shall Lead
Is There in Truth No Beauty?
Spectre of the Gun
Day of the Dove
For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
The Tholian Web
Plato's Stepchildren
Wink of an Eye
The Empath
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
The Mark of Gideon
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah
The Way to Eden
The Cloud Minders
The Savage Curtain
All Our Yesterdays
Turnabout Intruder

THE REGULAR CAST:
Capt. James T. Kirk: William Shatner
Cmdr. Spock: Leonard Nimoy
Dr. McCoy: DeForest Kelley
Lt. Uhura: Nichelle Nichols
Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott: James Doohan
Pavel Chekov: Walter Koenig
Hikaru Sulu: George Takei
Yeoman Rand: Grace Lee Whitney
Nurse Chape: Majel Barrett

Spock’s Brain
GUEST STARS:
Kara: Marj Dusay
Luma: Sheila Leighton
Morg creature: James Daris
A mysterious young woman suddenly appears on the U.S.S. Enterprise and immediately disappears--taking Spock’s brain with her. Watch for some great moments as McCoy tries to reconnect Spock’s brain.

The Enterprise Incident
GUEST STARS:
Romulan commander: Joanne Linville
Tal: Jack Donner
Captain Kirk inexplicably takes the Enterprise into Romulan territory, where the ship is surrounded by three Romulan cruisers. As it turns out, it is all a game Kirk is playing to get a hold of the Romulans’ cloaking device.

The Paradise Syndrome
GUEST STARS:
Miramanee: Sabrina Scharf
Salish: Rudy Solari
Goro: Richard Hale
Kirk, while on a planet that’s about to be destroyed by an asteroid, is struck with amnesia and is mistaken as a god by the inhabitants, who resemble North American Natives.

And the Children Shall Lead
GUEST STARS:
Gorgon: Melvin Belli
Professor Starnes: James Wellman
Tommy: Craig Hundley
Mary: Pamelyn Ferdin
Don: Mark Robert Brown
During an expedition to the planet Triacus, a landing party discovers orphaned children whose lives are totally manipulated by an entity they refer to as their “Friendly Angel.”

Is There in Truth No Beauty
GUEST STARS:
Dr. Miranda Jones: Diana Muldaur
Marvick: David Frankham
The Enterprise is assigned the task of transporting the Medusan ambassador Kollos to his ship. The Medusan race is alleged to be so horrifying to contemplate that one look drives humans insane.

Spectre of the Gun
GUEST STARS:
Wyatt Earp: Ron Soble
Morgan Earp: Rex Holman
Sylvia: Bonnie Beecher
Virgil Earp: Charles Maxwell
Doc Holliday: Sam Gilman
Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Chekov find themselves in the Old West when they land on the strange Melkotian planet. They take the place of the Clanton gang in the famous shoot-out at the OK corral, and many factors add to this episode’s eerieness.

Day of the Dove
GUEST STARS:
Kang: Michael Ansara
Mara: Susan Howard
After beaming a group of Klingons aboard, Kirk discovers that something else is present -- an invisible creature that feeds on hatred and hostility.

For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
GUEST STARS:
Natira: Kate Woodville
Admiral Westervliet: Byron Morrow
After learning he has less than a year to live, Dr. McCoy meets and marries an alien who controls an asteroid that is run by computer. This episode delves into McCoy’s background and also the extent of Kirk and McCoy’s friendship.

The Tholian Web
Kirk becomes trapped on the derelict U.S.S. Defiant, which then disappears into another dimension, and the captain is believed to be dead. A great episode for conflict, when Spock and McCoy are left to manage the Enterprise crew.

Plato’s Stepchildren
GUEST STARS:
Alexander: Michael Dunn
Parmen: Liam Sullivan
Philana: Barbara Babcock
Eraclitus: Ted Scott
On the planet Platonius, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy meet the philosopher king Parmen, who possesses telekinetic powers. Watch for the antics the crew are made to perform by Parmen, including Kirk slapping his own face repeatedly, Spock singing a sappy song, and the first interracial kiss (between Kirk and Uhura) ever shown on North American television.

Wink of an Eye
GUEST STARS:
Deela: Kathie Browne
Rael: Jason Evers
Ekor: Eric Holland
After an expedition to the planet Scalos--which appears to be deserted--Kirk mistakenly drinks some Scalosian water, which causes his metabolism to escalate. Strong acting by both Shatner and Kathie Browne.

The Empath
GUEST STARS:
Gem: Kathryn Hays
Lal: Alan Bergmann
Thann: William Sage
Dr. Linke: Jason Wingreen
Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are captured on the planet Minara II by aliens who submit them to a series of experiments with a mute humanoid woman named Gem, whose empathic powers enable her to absorb the pain of others. A touching story in which the aliens’ means are justified by their end results.

Elaan of Troyius
In this cross between Helen of Troy and “The Taming of the Shrew”, the Enterprise crew escorts Elaan, a barbaric woman from Elas, to the planet Troyius for an arranged marriage to Lord Petri--a union that’s supposed to establish a peace agreement between the two warring planets. When en route, Captain Kirk falls victim to wily Elaan’s chemically induced tears, as hostile Klingons attack and render the U.S.S. Enterprise defenseless.

Whom Gods Destroy
GUEST STARS:
Garth: Steve Ihnat
Marta: Yvonne Craig
Cory: Keye Luke
Kirk discovers that a facility for the criminally insane on the planet Elba II has been taken over by Garth, a former starship captain gone mad. This episode features one of the numerous times when Spock is forced to determine which of two Kirks is the real one and which is the imposter.

Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
GUEST STARS:
Bele: Frank Gorshin
Lokai: Lou Antonio
Two aliens appear on the Enterprise: a law enforcement agent named Bele, and his prey, Lokai. Each has a half-white, half-black face. They both despise each other because of the differences in their appearance, but, as is the case in most prejuices, neither can justify the hatred.

The Mark of Gideon
GUEST STARS:
Odona: Sharon Acker
Hodin: David Hurst
Krodak: Gene Dynarski
Kirk suffers a memory lapse when he attempts to beam down to the planet Gideon, and instead ends up back on the Enterprise nine minutes later--the only one on the ship, except for the mysterious Odona. It turns out that he is brought in to bring a deadly virus he had as a child to the population of Gideon to solve its overpopulation problem.

That Which Survives
GUEST STARS:
Losira: Lee Meriwether
Lieutenant D'Amato: Arthur Batanides
Lieutenant Rahda: Naomi Pollack
Kirk leads a team to an unnamed planet where they encounter a ghostly woman, Losira, whose mere touch brings death. As it is later revealed, Losira is only a holographic image.

The Lights of Zetar
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Requiem for Methuselah
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The Way to Eden
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The Cloud Minders
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The Savage Curtain
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All Our Yesterdays
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Turnabout Intruder
GUEST STARS:
Dr. Janice Lester: Sandra Smith
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