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 James T. Kirk with First Officer Mr. Spock, from the planet Vulcan. With a determined crew, the Enterprise encounters Klingons, Romulans, time paradoxes, tribbles and genetic supermen led by Khan Noonian Singh. Their mission is to explore strange new worlds, to seek new life and new civilizations, and to boldly go where no man has gone before.
The best episode of "Star Trek" season 3 is "Spock's Brain", rated 5.6/10 from 3737 user votes. It was directed by Marc Daniels and written by Gene L. Coon. "Spock's Brain" aired on 9/20/1968 and is rated 2.8 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Enterprise Incident".
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 crew of the Enterprise are on a secret mission to steal a Romulan cloaking device.
Director: John Meredyth Lucas
Writer: D.C. Fontana
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
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
The Enterprise travels with an alien ambassador whose appearance induces madness.
Director: Ralph Senensky
Writer: Jean Lisette Aroeste
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: Leroy Cronin, Gene L. Coon
An alien force drives the crew of the Enterprise into brutal conflict with the Klingons.
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky
Writer: Jerome Bixby
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
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: Chet Richards, Judy Burns
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
Invisible "time-accelerated" aliens take over the Enterprise and attempt to abduct the crew for use as "genetic stock".
Director: Jud Taylor
Writer: Arthur Heinemann, Gene L. Coon
While visiting a doomed planet, the landing party is subject to torturous experiments by powerful aliens.
Director: John Erman
Writer: Joyce Muskat
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 faces off with a demented shape-shifting starship captain determined to control the universe.
Director: Herb Wallerstein
Writer: Jerry Sohl, Lee Erwin
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, Leroy Cronin, Gene L. Coon
A race of overpopulated aliens abduct Captain Kirk to solve their problem.
Director: Jud Taylor
Writer: Stanley Adams, George F. Slavin
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: John Meredyth Lucas, D.C. Fontana
Strange incorporeal aliens threaten the Memory Alpha station and the Enterprise.
Director: Herbert Kenwith
Writer: Shari Lewis, Jeremy Tarcher
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
The Enterprise picks up a group of space "hippies" looking for Eden.
Director: David Alexander
Writer: Arthur Heinemann, D.C. Fontana
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
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: Arthur Heinemann, Gene Roddenberry
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
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