The Best Episodes of Star Trek Season 3

The crew of the Enterprise are on a secret mission to steal a Romulan cloaking device.

Director: John Meredyth Lucas

Writer: D.C. Fontana

Kirk, Spock and McCoy are trapped in two parts of another planet's past - a world threatened with destruction when its sun goes supernova.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky

Writer: Jean Lisette Aroeste

Captain Kirk is caught between dimensions while the crew of the Enterprise works to retrieve him. All the while, the Tholians demand that the Enterprise leave their space.

Director: Ralph Senensky, Herb Wallerstein

Writer: Judy Burns, Chet Richards

An alien force drives the crew of the Enterprise into brutal conflict with the Klingons.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky

Writer: Jerome Bixby

Invisible "time-accelerated" aliens take over the Enterprise and attempt to abduct the crew for use as "genetic stock".

Director: Jud Taylor

Writer: Gene L. Coon, Arthur Heinemann

The crew of the Enterprise encounter an immortal human in this science fiction variation on Shakespeare's The Tempest.

Director: Murray Golden

Writer: Jerome Bixby

Having been found trespassers into Melkotian space, Captain Kirk and his companions are sent to die in a re-enactment of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

Director: Vincent McEveety

Writer: Gene L. Coon, Leroy Cronin

The crew of the Enterprise rush to stop an asteroid from colliding with a Federation world, but discover the asteroid is actually an inhabited generation ship.

Director: Anton Leader

Writer: Rik Vollaerts

The Enterprise encounters two duo-chromatic and mutually belligerent aliens who put the ship in the middle of their old conflict.

Director: Herb Wallerstein, Jud Taylor

Writer: Oliver Crawford, Gene L. Coon, Leroy Cronin

The USS Enterprise ferries a spoiled princess whose betrothal to a royal Troyian is hoped will bring peace to a star system at war.

Director: John Meredyth Lucas

Writer: John Meredyth Lucas

Captain Kirk races against time to acquire plague-fighting minerals from a world in the midst of a civil uprising against a grievous social class disparity.

Director: Jud Taylor

Writer: Oliver Crawford, David Gerrold, Margaret Armen

The Enterprise travels with an alien ambassador whose appearance induces madness.

Director: Ralph Senensky

Writer: Jean Lisette Aroeste

Captain Kirk faces off with a demented shape-shifting starship captain determined to control the universe.

Director: Herb Wallerstein

Writer: Jerry Sohl, Lee Erwin

The Enterprise is in danger when Janice Lester, one of Kirk's former lovers, steals his body.

Director: Herb Wallerstein

Writer: Gene Roddenberry, Arthur Singer

An alien device on a primitive planet erases Captain Kirk's memory, and he begins a new life with the planet's indigenous people.

Director: Jud Taylor

Writer: Margaret Armen

Aliens force Captain Kirk and First Officer Spock to join forces with "Abraham Lincoln" and "Surak" to battle villains in a contest of good vs. evil.

Director: Herschel Daugherty

Writer: Gene Roddenberry, Arthur Heinemann

The crew of the Enterprise encounters an ageless and sadistic race of humanoids with the power of telekinesis and who claim to have organized their society around Ancient Greek ideals.

Director: David Alexander

Writer: Meyer Dolinsky

While visiting a doomed planet, the landing party is subject to torturous experiments by powerful aliens.

Director: John Erman

Writer: Joyce Muskat

A race of overpopulated aliens abduct Captain Kirk to solve their problem.

Director: Jud Taylor

Writer: George F. Slavin, Stanley Adams

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.

Director: Herb Wallerstein

Writer: D.C. Fontana, John Meredyth Lucas

Strange incorporeal aliens threaten the Memory Alpha station and the Enterprise.

Director: Herbert Kenwith

Writer: Shari Lewis, Jeremy Tarcher

An alien female beams aboard the ship and, after incapacitating the rest of the crew, surgically removes Spock's brain. Kirk and the crew have just hours to locate and replace it before Spock's body dies.

Director: Marc Daniels

Writer: Gene L. Coon

The Enterprise picks up a group of space "hippies" looking for Eden.

Director: David Alexander

Writer: D.C. Fontana, Arthur Heinemann

On a distant planet, Kirk, Spock and McCoy find a scientific team dead, and their children who, unknown to the crew, have great powers at their disposal.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky

Writer: Edward J. Lakso