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The Best Episodes of Star Trek Season 3

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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...

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  1. Background image for The Enterprise Incident
    8.4/10(4.2k votes)

    #1 - The Enterprise Incident

    S3:E2

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

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    8.1/10(3.7k votes)

    #2 - All Our Yesterdays

    S3:E23

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

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    8.0/10(3.7k votes)

    #3 - The Tholian Web

    S3:E9

    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.

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  4. Background image for Day of the Dove
    7.7/10(3.6k votes)

    #4 - Day of the Dove

    S3:E7

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

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  5. Background image for Requiem for Methuselah
    7.3/10(3.5k votes)

    #5 - Requiem for Methuselah

    S3:E19

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

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    7.2/10(3.7k votes)

    #6 - Spectre of the Gun

    S3:E6

    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.

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    7.2/10(3.4k votes)

    #7 - Wink of an Eye

    S3:E11

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

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  9. Background image for For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
    7.1/10(3.4k votes)

    #8 - For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky

    S3:E8

    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.

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    7.1/10(3.6k votes)

    #9 - Let That Be Your Last Battlefield

    S3:E15

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

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  11. Background image for The Cloud Minders
    7.1/10(3.3k votes)

    #10 - The Cloud Minders

    S3:E21

    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.

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  12. Background image for Elaan of Troyius
    7.0/10(3.5k votes)

    #11 - Elaan of Troyius

    S3:E13

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

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  13. Background image for Is There in Truth No Beauty?
    6.9/10(3.5k votes)

    #12 - Is There in Truth No Beauty?

    S3:E5

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

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    6.9/10(3.4k votes)

    #13 - Whom Gods Destroy

    S3:E14

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

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    6.8/10(3.3k votes)

    #14 - Turnabout Intruder

    S3:E24

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

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    6.7/10(3.6k votes)

    #15 - The Paradise Syndrome

    S3:E3

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

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    Director:Jud Taylor
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    6.6/10(3.3k votes)

    #16 - The Savage Curtain

    S3:E22

    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.

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    6.5/10(3.6k votes)

    #17 - Plato's Stepchildren

    S3:E10

    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.

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    6.5/10(3.5k votes)

    #18 - The Empath

    S3:E12

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

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    Director:John Erman
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    6.5/10(3.3k votes)

    #19 - The Mark of Gideon

    S3:E16

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

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    6.5/10(3.2k votes)

    #20 - That Which Survives

    S3:E17

    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.

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    6.2/10(3.2k votes)

    #21 - The Lights of Zetar

    S3:E18

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

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    5.7/10(3.9k votes)

    #22 - Spock's Brain

    S3:E1

    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.

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    Director:Marc Daniels
  24. Background image for The Way to Eden
    5.4/10(3.7k votes)

    #23 - The Way to Eden

    S3:E20

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

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    5.2/10(3.7k votes)

    #24 - And the Children Shall Lead

    S3:E4

    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.

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"The Enterprise Incident" is the best rated episode of "Star Trek" season 3. It scored 8.4/10 based on 4226 votes. Directed by John Meredyth Lucas and written by D.C. Fontana, it aired on 9/27/1968. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "All Our Yesterdays".