I began watching the season on Feb. 1,2012.
Spock's Brain (3x1) September 20,1968
Don't you hate it when a pretty woman mysterious appears on the bridge and steals your first officers brain?
I know I do. As we go through the third season it becomes some of the worst in the entire run of the series, so I will say, this was not a bad episode. The crew follow ion trials to a system with 3 planets that could support life. Choosing the right planet they are attacked by cave men type creatures and end up below the surface where the women live.
The landing party can communicate with Spock through the communicator and leads them to the black box where it being kept. We also met a computer that the women use, called "The Teacher", however they can only use it for brief periods of time. This reminds me of "Charly" for some reason.McCoy uses the Teacher to perform an operation that reunites Spock with his body.
The Enterprise Incident (3x2) September 27,1968
This is a 5 Star Episode.One of my favorite plot lines Kirk in a cat and mouse game with the enemy, in this case the Romulans. Joanne Linville plays maybe the second best villain behind Khan as simply The Romulan Commander.The Enterprise sets out to steal a Romulan Cloaking device, Can Spock be turned from the Federation to the Romulans ? Kirk in Romulan makeup. DC Fontana superb story line, a real treasure of an episode.
The Paradise Syndrome (3x3) October 4,1968
The Series tries to unsuccessfully do 2 plot lines here. A landing party arrives on a planet that is vaguely earth like including Native Americans. They are there because a meteor is about the crash into the planet. Upon discovering a silver oblique Kirk disappears,Spock in charge he chooses to try to alter the course of the meteor over searching for the Captain.
As The Enterprise is wasting it's engines trying to alter the course of the meteor, Kirk has amnesia and the natives assume he is a God, here Kirk find himself in Dances with Wolves. On the whole the episode tries to do too much and is a failure on many levels. A Sign of things to come.
And the Children shall lead (3x4) October 11,1968
Answering a distress call, the Enterprise comes across a Mass Suicide with only the children remaining and they seem to lost in play.In time it appears the children are lead by someone who would be the creepest Childrens TV host ever.
The Children try to take over the ship, in general get mad when they don't get their way. I will give credit for not going with the cute kid type of plot line. The Show never really did try to go that way. Really this is poorly written.
Is There in Truth No Beauty? (3x5) October 18,1968
Diana Muldaur in her second guest appearance of an otherwise forgetable episode with cool shades,murder,weird camera angles and the Medusa myth.
When I watched the show in my younger days we always noted the soft focus camera shot of the women of Star Trek. Maybe it is just me but the remastering seems to have gotten rid of the Soft focus camera shots, pity, that was a trademark of the series for us watching the show back in the day.
Spectre of the Gun (3x6) October 25,1968
Ok, a landing party is sent to Tombstone, everyone thinks they are the Clayton gang and must reenact the gunfight at the OK Corral. This is exactly the type of episode I hate,however,there is a wonderful surrealistic quality in the set designs, storefronts and interiors but no wall, so the backdrop is this weird background. It almost reminds me of a bizarre version of Our Town
Spock's Brain (3x1) September 20,1968
Don't you hate it when a pretty woman mysterious appears on the bridge and steals your first officers brain?
The landing party can communicate with Spock through the communicator and leads them to the black box where it being kept. We also met a computer that the women use, called "The Teacher", however they can only use it for brief periods of time. This reminds me of "Charly" for some reason.McCoy uses the Teacher to perform an operation that reunites Spock with his body.
The Enterprise Incident (3x2) September 27,1968
This is a 5 Star Episode.One of my favorite plot lines Kirk in a cat and mouse game with the enemy, in this case the Romulans. Joanne Linville plays maybe the second best villain behind Khan as simply The Romulan Commander.The Enterprise sets out to steal a Romulan Cloaking device, Can Spock be turned from the Federation to the Romulans ? Kirk in Romulan makeup. DC Fontana superb story line, a real treasure of an episode.
The Paradise Syndrome (3x3) October 4,1968
The Series tries to unsuccessfully do 2 plot lines here. A landing party arrives on a planet that is vaguely earth like including Native Americans. They are there because a meteor is about the crash into the planet. Upon discovering a silver oblique Kirk disappears,Spock in charge he chooses to try to alter the course of the meteor over searching for the Captain.
As The Enterprise is wasting it's engines trying to alter the course of the meteor, Kirk has amnesia and the natives assume he is a God, here Kirk find himself in Dances with Wolves. On the whole the episode tries to do too much and is a failure on many levels. A Sign of things to come.
And the Children shall lead (3x4) October 11,1968
Answering a distress call, the Enterprise comes across a Mass Suicide with only the children remaining and they seem to lost in play.In time it appears the children are lead by someone who would be the creepest Childrens TV host ever.
The Children try to take over the ship, in general get mad when they don't get their way. I will give credit for not going with the cute kid type of plot line. The Show never really did try to go that way. Really this is poorly written.
Is There in Truth No Beauty? (3x5) October 18,1968
Diana Muldaur in her second guest appearance of an otherwise forgetable episode with cool shades,murder,weird camera angles and the Medusa myth.
When I watched the show in my younger days we always noted the soft focus camera shot of the women of Star Trek. Maybe it is just me but the remastering seems to have gotten rid of the Soft focus camera shots, pity, that was a trademark of the series for us watching the show back in the day.
Spectre of the Gun (3x6) October 25,1968
Ok, a landing party is sent to Tombstone, everyone thinks they are the Clayton gang and must reenact the gunfight at the OK Corral. This is exactly the type of episode I hate,however,there is a wonderful surrealistic quality in the set designs, storefronts and interiors but no wall, so the backdrop is this weird background. It almost reminds me of a bizarre version of Our Town
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