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The Best Episodes of Star Trek Season 3

Every episode of Star Trek Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Star Trek Season 3!

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. 7.7/10(39 votes)

    #1 - The Enterprise Incident

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    S3:E2

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

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  2. 7.6/10(33 votes)

    #2 - All Our Yesterdays

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    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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  3. 7.4/10(39 votes)

    #3 - Day of the Dove

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    S3:E7

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

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  4. 7.4/10(40 votes)

    #4 - The Tholian Web

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    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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  5. 7.4/10(36 votes)

    #5 - Wink of an Eye

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    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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  6. 7.2/10(35 votes)

    #6 - Let That Be Your Last Battlefield

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    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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  8. 7.1/10(39 votes)

    #7 - Is There in Truth No Beauty?

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    S3:E5

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

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  9. 7.0/10(34 votes)

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

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    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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  10. 7.0/10(33 votes)

    #9 - The Cloud Minders

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    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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  11. 7.0/10(30 votes)

    #10 - Turnabout Intruder

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    S3:E24

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

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  12. 6.9/10(38 votes)

    #11 - Plato's Stepchildren

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    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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  13. 6.9/10(34 votes)

    #12 - Whom Gods Destroy

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    S3:E14

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

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  14. 6.9/10(34 votes)

    #13 - Requiem for Methuselah

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    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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  15. 6.8/10(38 votes)

    #14 - Spectre of the Gun

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    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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  16. 6.7/10(36 votes)

    #15 - Elaan of Troyius

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    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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  17. 6.6/10(41 votes)

    #16 - The Paradise Syndrome

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    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
  18. 6.6/10(34 votes)

    #17 - The Mark of Gideon

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    S3:E16

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

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  19. 6.6/10(34 votes)

    #18 - That Which Survives

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    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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  20. 6.6/10(34 votes)

    #19 - The Savage Curtain

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    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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  21. 6.5/10(33 votes)

    #20 - The Lights of Zetar

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    S3:E18

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

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  22. 6.3/10(35 votes)

    #21 - The Empath

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    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
  23. 5.9/10(37 votes)

    #22 - Spock's Brain

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    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. 5.9/10(33 votes)

    #23 - The Way to Eden

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    S3:E20

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

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  25. 5.5/10(40 votes)

    #24 - And the Children Shall Lead

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    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 7.7/10 based on 39 votes. Directed by John Meredyth Lucas and written by D.C. Fontana, it aired on 9/27/1968. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "All Our Yesterdays".