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10 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 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.

Written by Sophie and last updated on feb 02, 2023.

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#15 - The Mark of Gideon (Season 3 - Episode 16)

Kirk beams down on a diplomatic mission... and finds himself in an Enterprise where all the crew have vanished and only a mysterious woman resides.

The episode was rated 7.04 from 250 votes.

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#14 - Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (Season 3 - Episode 15)

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The Enterprise finds itself host to two alien beings from the same planet, who share an intense and self-destructive hatred of each other.

The episode was rated 7.08 from 249 votes.

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#13 - The Savage Curtain (Season 3 - Episode 22)

Kirk and Spock meet Abraham Lincoln and Surak of Vulcan and must do battle with some of histories most terrible villians.

The episode was rated 7.12 from 250 votes.

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#12 - Spectre of the Gun (Season 3 - Episode 6)

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When coming to an exaphobic isolationist planet, Captain Kirk and his landing party are punished for trepassing. They are sentenced to death in a surreal recreation of the Gunfight at the OK Corral with the landing on the losing side.

The episode was rated 7.16 from 274 votes.

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#11 - The Cloud Minders (Season 3 - Episode 21)

Kirk must resolve a mining dispute on a the cloud city of Stratos to acquire the resources to cure a space plague.

The episode was rated 7.18 from 249 votes.

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#10 - For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky (Season 3 - Episode 8)

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The Enterprise must deflect an asteroid on a collision course with an inhabited planet... but discover the asteroid is a spaceship with a population unaware of the outside world.

The episode was rated 7.24 from 289 votes.

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#9 - Whom Gods Destroy (Season 3 - Episode 14)

Kirk and Spock investigate an insane asylum where a former Starfleet captain is being held, only to discover that he has freed the inmates and is running the place.

The episode was rated 7.28 from 254 votes.

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#8 - Turnabout Intruder (Season 3 - Episode 24)

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

The episode was rated 7.30 from 256 votes.

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#7 - Requiem for Methuselah (Season 3 - Episode 19)

While seeking a cure for a fever ravaging the Enterprise, Kirk and Spock encounter Flint, a hermit-like Earthman, and his beautiful young ward.

The episode was rated 7.34 from 254 votes.

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#6 - Is There in Truth No Beauty? (Season 3 - Episode 5)

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The Enterprise hosts an alien ambassador whose outward appearance induces madness in humanoids. When Spock is driven mad after an unfortunate oversight, only the ambassador's jealous telepathic companion can save his mind.

The episode was rated 7.36 from 263 votes.

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#5 - All Our Yesterdays (Season 3 - Episode 23)

Kirk, Spock, and McCoy become trapped in the past of another world.

The episode was rated 7.43 from 271 votes.

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#4 - Day of the Dove (Season 3 - Episode 7)

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When the Enterprise brings aboard Klingon prisoners, an alien entity pits both sides against each other in an ever-escalating struggle.

The episode was rated 7.46 from 272 votes.

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#3 - Wink of an Eye (Season 3 - Episode 11)

Invisible to humans due to their time-accelerated state, a group of aliens invade the Enterprise and attempt to abduct members of the crew to serve as breeding stock for their dying planet.

The episode was rated 7.58 from 265 votes.

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#2 - The Tholian Web (Season 3 - Episode 9)

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Captain Kirk finds himself trapped between dimensions on a disintegrating starship. The Enterprise crew works against time to rescue him as the Tholians weave a destructive energy web around their ship.

The episode was rated 7.82 from 292 votes.

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#1 - The Enterprise Incident (Season 3 - Episode 2)

An unusually tense and irritable Kirk orders his ship into the Romulan Neutral Zone, where it is promptly surrounded. Beamed to a Romulan ship, Kirk lies about the intrusion, then attacks Spock, who responds with a Vulcan death grip. While the female Romulan commander courts Spock, a secret mission unfolds.

The episode was rated 8.15 from 334 votes.

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