Star Trek third season

Star Trek season 3

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Spock's Brain / season 3 - episode 1
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Lee Cronin
Producer: Fred Freiberger
A mysterious woman materializes aboard Enterprise and renders the entire crew unconscious. Upon awakening, they discover the woman has disappeared - along with Mr. Spock's brain! McCoy is able to keep Spock's body alive while Kirk and the crew follow the woman's trail to ehr home planet. There, they find Spock's brain serving as a control center for the planet's power system.

The Enterprise Incident / season 3 - episode 2
Director: John Meredyth Lucas
Writer: D.C. Fontana
Producer: Fred Freiberger
Kirk appears to be suffering from a nervous breakdown and orders the Enterprise into forbidden Romulan territory. Suddenly the Enterprise is surrounded bu three Romulan ships demanding Kirk's surrender! Aboard the enemy vessel, Spock denounces Kirk and appears to show interest in the Romulan female commander. Kirk then attacks Spock, who uses the Vulcan Death Grip on his captain!

The Paradise Syndrome / season 3 - episode 3
Director: Jud Taylor
Writer: Margaret Armen
Producer: Fred Freiberger
The Enterprise's mission: to deflect an asteroid from colliding with a planet. But shortly after Kirk, Spock and McCoy beam down to survey the planet, Kirk vanishes. Spock and McCoy reluctantly beam up so Enterprise can attempt destruction of the asteroid. Meanwhile, on the planet, Kirk is assimilated into the native culture...

And the Children Shall Lead / season 3 - episode 4
Director: Marvin Chomsky
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
Producer: Fred Freiberger
On Triacus, Kirk and his crew learn that all the adults of an expedition there have committed suicide, yet their children are completely unmoved by their parent's deaths. Kirk senses "something evil" but cannot identify the source. The children beam aboard the starship and, unknown to Kirk, so does the evil entity! Chaos ensues as this "Friendly Angel" is summoned by the children at will...

Is There in Truth No Beauty? / season 3 - episode 5
Director: Ralph Senensky
Writer: Jean Lisette Aroeste
Producer: Fred Freiberger
The Enterprise beams aboard three passengers on a peaceful mission: telepath Dr. Miranda Jones, scientist Lawrence Marvick, and Medusan ambassador Kollos, a non-corporeal being concealed in a container because his appearance can drive humans insane. Marvick is jealous of Jones' telepathic relationship with the Medusan, and plots Kollos' murder. But he accidentally sees Kollos, goes mad, and hijacks the Enterprise!

Spectre of the Gun / season 3 - episode 6
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Lee Cronin
Producer: Fred Freiberger
When Kirk ignores a warning buoy guarding Melkotian space, the Melkots demand punishment for Kirk and company on their bizarre planet. In a 19th-century Earth "Wild West" town, Kirk and the others are forced to play the roles of the notorious Clanton gang. They're ordered to face the Earps in the "Gunfight at the OK Corral"! And historically, the Clantons died at that shootout!

The Day of the Dove / season 3 - episode 7
Director: Marvin Chomsky
Writer: Jerome Bixby
Producer: Fred Freiberger
Kirk receives a distress signal from a Federation colony but instead of survivors he finds a disabled Klingon ship. Kang, the Klingon commander, is convinced the Enterprise attacked his vessel, while Kirk blames the Klingons for destroying the colony. Aboard the Enterprise, Klingons take on Kirk's crew. Both sides are kept evenly matched and even fatal wounds heal instantly!

For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky / season 3 - episode 8
Director: Tony Leader
Writer: Rik Vollaerts
Producer: Fred Freiberger
The Enterprise discovers planet Yonada is on a collision course with an asteroid and Kirk, Spock and McCoy beams down to warn the Yonadans. But unknown to these people, their "planet" is actually a spaceship sent by their ancestors to colonize a new planet. The ship is controlled by the Oracle, an unrelenting computer, and all will die if Kirk and the others are unable to free the planet-ship from the Oracle's control!

The Tholian Web / season 3 - episode 9
Director: Herb Wallerstein
Writer: Judy Burns, Chet Richards
Producer: Fred Freiberger
Kirk, Spock and McCoy beam aboard the U.S.S. Defient, adrift in space, and find that her entire crew is dead. The Defiant is caught in an interphase between alternate universes, and although Spock and McCoy beam back safely, Kirk becomes trapped between dimensions! Then aliens called Tholians accuse the Enterprise of trespassing into their space and begin weaving an incredible energy web around the starship.

Plato's Stepchildren / season 3 - episode 10
Director: David Alexander
Writer: Meyer Dolinsky
Producer: Fred Freiberger
The Enterprise answers a distress call from Platonius and Kirk, Spock and McCoy beam down to help Parmen, the planet's ailing leader. Parmen and his friends have developed incredible telekinetic abilities, and they use their powerful minds to force Kirk and company to remain there. The Enterprise crew are then subjected to humiliating experiences!

Wink of an Eye / season 3 - episode 11
Director: Jud Taylor
Writer: Arthur Heinemann
Producer: Lee Cronin
Responding to a call from Scalos, Kirk and company beam down to find the city deserted, except for insectlike buzzing sounds. Then a member of the landing party sips some water and vanishes! Back aboard the Enterprise, Kirk drinks coffee and also disappears! He finds himself in accelerated time, the love-slave of the Scalosian queen, who sabotages the Enterprise and plans to use Kirk to help repopulate her planet!

The Empath / season 3 - episode 12
Director: John Erman
Writer: Joyce Muskat
Producer: Fred Freiberger
While searching for missing Federation researchers, Kirk, Spock and McCoy are captured by Vians - aliens who plan to use them for research! Materializing in an unknown location, our trio meet Gem, a mute woman and "empath" who cures injuries by absorbing the pain of others. After a demostration of her abilities on Kirk and McCoy, the Vians give her a test: her planet will be saved if she gives her life to save Dr. McCoy!

Elaan of Troyius / season 3 - episode 13
Director: John Meredyth Lucas
Writer: John Meredyth Lucas
Producer: Fred Freiberger
To promote peace between two warring planets, Elaan, the beutiful Dohlman of Elas, is to wed the leader of rival planet Troyius. Kirk and the Enterprise are assigned to deliver the reluctant bride, whose unruly behaviour threatens to cost Kirk his ship! With Klingons about to attack, Kirk has fallen hopelessly in love with Elaan, whose tears no man can resist.

Whom Gods Destroy / season 3 - episode 14
Director: Herb Wallerstein
Writer: Lee Erwin
Producer: Fred Freiberger
Kirk and the Enterprise are delivering wonder drugs to a group of criminally insane beings on Elba II. Upon beaming down, they greet the colony's governor, only to learn that he is really Garth, one of the inmates, with the power to assume any form! He captures Kirk and activates the forcefield around Elba. Garth's goal - to take over the Enterprise and become master of the Universe!

Let That Be Your Last Battlefield / season 3 - episode 15
Director: Jud Taylor
Writer: Lee Cronin, Oliver Crawford
Producer: Fred Freiberger
The Enterprise encounters a damaged, stolen shuttlecraft and Kirk beams aboard a being named Lokai, a half-black, half-white fugitive. Soon his pursuer, Bele, an alien of similar coloring, beams aboard, determined to take Lokai prisoner. When Kirk tries to intervene, Bele gains control over ther Enterprise and threatens to destroy it!

The Mark of Gideon / season 3 - episode 16
Director: Jud Taylor
Writer: George F. Slavin, Stanley Adams
Producer: Fred Freiberger
On a mission to recruit Gideon into the Federation, Kirk beams down, only to find himself aboard a totally deserted Enterprise! The only being he encounters is a mysterious and beautiful woman named Odona, who claims to know nothing. Meanwhile, Spock learns that Kirk has not reached the planet's surface, and when the Gideon council refuses to help, he suspects that the Captain may be kidnapped!

That Which Survives / season 3 - episode 17
Director: Herb Wallerstein
Writer: Micheal Richards, John Meredyth Lucas
Producer: Fred Freiberger
Kirk, McCoy, Sulu, and geologist D'Amato beam down to a geologically unstable planet. There they are greeted by Losira, a beautiful woman whose touch means instant death! Meanwhile, a power surge has hurtled the Enterprise 1000 lightyears from Kirk and company, stranding them on this histile planet. Losira has sabotaged the starship, and if Scotty can't make repairs quickly, it will explode!

The Lights of Zetar / season 3 - episode 18
Director: Herb Kenwith
Writer: Jeremy Tarcher, Shari Lewis
Producer: Fred Freiberger
Lt. Miran Romaine is being transported to Memory Alpha, a planetoid housing the Federation's central library, where she'll supervise the transfer of new equipment. But an energy "storm" destroys all life on Memory Alpha and then penetrates the Enterprise, where the "storm" - strange coloured light-entities from the planet Zetar - takes possession of Mira.

Requiem for Methuselah / season 3 - episode 19
Director: Murray Golden
Writer: Jerome Bixby
Producer: Fred Freiberger
When deadly Rigellian fever strikes the starship's crew, Kirk takes the Enterprise to a nearby planet to collect and refine ryetalyn, the only known antidote. There Kirk, Spock and McCoy encounter Flint, a strange, apparently immortal genius. Flint becomes jealous when Kirk falls in love with Rayna, his beautiful ward and uses his powers to immobilize the Enterprise!

The Way to Eden / season 3 - episode 20

Director: David Alexander
Writer: Michael Richards, Arthur Heinemann
Producer: Fred Freiberger
Kirk pursues the stolen ship Aurora and just as it explodes he beams aboard the survivos - rebellous idealists in search of the fabled planet Eden. Their leader, Dr. Sevrin, suffers from a deadly disease which has rendered him insane. After gaining Kirk's trust, Sevrin and his followers take control of the Enterprise. Their goal: Eden. Their means: Any, including the death of Kirk and his crew, if necessary!

The Cloud Minders / season 3 - episode 21
Director: Jud Taylor
Writer: David Gerrold, Margaret Armen
Producer: Fred Freiberger
When an epidemic strikes a Federation planet, Kirk and the Enterprise head for Ardena, the only planet where the antidote, zienite is mined. But Kirk discovers the miners, called Troglytes, are treated as subservients by tha planet's rulers. The Troglytes, suspicious of Kirk's motives, refuse to give up the zienite. Without it, billions will die!

The Savage Curtain / season 3 - episode 22
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Writer: Gene Roddenberry, Arthus Heinemann
Producer: Fred Freiberger
While surveying a planet composed of lava, the crew of the Enterprise is startled when Abraham Lincolm requests permission to board! Intrigued, Kirk affords him due honours; then he and Spock follow Lincoln to the planet where they meet Yarnek, a rock creature. Yarnek pits the "good" men against an equal number of tyrants, representing "evil", so his race can learn which is stronger. The stakes are high: if Kirk loses, Yarnek will destroy the Enterprise.

All Our Yesterdays / season 3 - episode 23
Director: Marvin Chomsky
Writer: Jean Lisette Aroeste
Producer: Fred Freiberger
Kirk, Spock and McCoy beam down to Sarpeidon to rescue inhabitants before its sun explodes. But they arrive to find only the planet's librarian, who has helped all the other to safety via a time machine. When Kirk accidentally enters the past, Spock and McCoy attempt a rescue, emerging in a bitter ice age! Spock, now a throwback to earlier Vulcan times, falls in love with a beautiful woman and has no intention of returning to Kirk or the Enterprise!

Turnabout Intruder / season 3 - episode 24
Director: Herb Wallerstein
Writer: Gene Roddenberry, Arthur H. Singer
Producer: Fred Freiberger
The Enterprise receives a distress call from Camus II, where they find all but two inhabitants dead from radiation. One survivor, Janice Lester, is an old friend of Kirk's. But now she despises him and uses an alien technique to change bodies with him. When Kirk/Janice tries to explain things, Spock, Scotty and McCoy are accused of mutiny and Janice/Kirk calls for the death penalty!

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