Episode:3x01
Spock's Brain

Jack's Rating:

A mysterious woman steals Spock's brain.

Features:
Stardate: 5431.4
Air Date: 10/25/68
Director: Marc Daniels

Jack's Review
This episode gets a really bad rap, but it is actually a lot of fun.

Episode:3x02
The Enterprise Incident

Jack's Rating:

Kirk and Spock are captured by the Romulans while on a secret mission to steal a new Romulan cloaking device.

Features: The Romulans
Stardate: 5027.3
Air Date: 12/20/68
Director: John Meredyth Lucas

Jack's Review
One of only two appearances by the Romulans in the original series, this is a terrific episode. Plenty of intrigue and action. I own a t-shirt that says Vulcan Death Grip on it that uses the screenshot too.

Episode:3x03
The Paradise Syndrome

Jack's Rating:

Kirk loses his memory on a peaceful planet inhabited by descendants of American Indians from Earth.

Features:
Stardate: 4842.6
Air Date: 10/04/68
Director: Jud Taylor

Jack's Review
Another of the episodes I remember distinctly watching as a kid. While not considered to be one of the best, it certainly is a fun and watchable episode.

Episode:3x04
And the Children Shall Lead

Jack's Rating:

Children who have survived the bizarre death of their parents are possessed by the evil spirit that killed their parents.

Features:
Stardate: 5029.5
Air Date: 09/27/68
Director: Marvin Chomsky

Episode:3x05
Is There In Truth No Beauty?

Jack's Rating:

The sight of a Medusan ambassador causes insanity.

Features:
Stardate: 5630.7
Air Date: 10/11/68
Director: Marvin Senensky

Episode:3x06
Spectre of the Gun

Jack's Rating:

Kirk and company are trapped in a bizarre re-creation of the ancient American West and forced to fight in the gunfight at OK Corral.

Features:
Stardate: 4385.3
Air Date: 09/20/68
Director: Vincent McEveety

Jack's Review
I am quite the fan of western films and have done quite a bit of research on Wyatt Earp. So, while this episode is not even remotely historically accurate, it is lots of fun. I remember watching this one as a kid and the climax always blew my mind.

Episode:3x07
Day of the Dove

Jack's Rating:

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

Features: The Klingons
Stardate: Unknown
Air Date: 10/18/68
Director: Marvin Chomsky

Episode:3x08
For the World Is Hollow and I have Touched the Sky

Jack's Rating:

Dr McCoy, striken with a fatal disease, finds love on a doomed asteroid spaceship

Features:
Stardate: 5476.3
Air Date: 12/06/68
Director: Tony Leader

Episode:3x09
The Tholian Web

Jack's Rating:

Kirk disappears and is presumed dead while Spock tries to keep the Enterprise from being the victim of a weblike alien weapon.

Features:
Stardate: 5693.2
Air Date: 11/15/68
Director: Herb Wallerstein

Jack's Review
Another classic episode. The basic premise of this episode is reused (slightly) in the TNG episode, "The Next Phase". Hard to say which one is better, but the classic Trek quality of this one makes it worth watching.

Episode:3x10
Plato's Stepchildren

Jack's Rating:

Enterprise crew members are held captive by a race with psychokinetic powers.

Features:
Stardate: 5784.2
Air Date: 11/08/68
Director: David Alexander

Episode:3x11
Wink of an Eye

Jack's Rating:

The Enterprise is commandeered by aliens who exist in a hyperaccelerated time frame.

Features:
Stardate: 5710.5
Air Date: 11/01/68
Director: Jud Taylor

Jack's Review
I always used to mix this episode up with "Wink of an Eye". Thankfully, reviewing the episodes as I have helped me to sort them out. This one is a classic Trek episode: enemy takes over ship, crew in peril, Kirk kicks butt. Some things never get old.

Episode:3x12
The Empath

Jack's Rating:

On a planet doomed to destruction, Kirk, Spock & McCoy become involved with two aliens who use them as laboratory animals in a bizarre series of tests on an alien empath who may be the savior of her planet.

Features:
Stardate: 5121.5
Air Date: 11/22/68
Director: John Erman

Jack's Review
One of the more bizarre episodes of the original series, believe it or not, I watched this one for the first time back in 2007. I never saw it in syndication.

Episode:3x13
Elaan of Troyius

Jack's Rating:

The Enterprise must transport Elaan, the beautiful Dohlman of Elas, to an arranged marriage on the planet Troyius.

Features: The Klingons
Stardate: 4372.5
Air Date: 11/29/68
Director: John Meredyth Lucas

Episode:3x14
Whom Gods Destroy

Jack's Rating:

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.

Features:
Stardate: 5730.2
Air Date: 01/24/69
Director: Herb Wallerstein

Episode:3x15
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield

Jack's Rating:

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

Features:
Stardate: 5423.4
Air Date: 01/10/69
Director: Jud Taylor

Episode:3x16
The Mark of Gideon

Jack's Rating:

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

Features:
Stardate: Unknown
Air Date: 01/03/69
Director: Jud Taylor

Episode:3x17
That Which Survives

Jack's Rating:

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.

Features:
Stardate: 5725.3
Air Date: 01/17/69
Director: Herb Wallerstein

Episode:3x18
The Lights of Zetar

Jack's Rating:

The Enterprise must deal with discorporeal cloud-like aliens who have already destroyed the inhabitants of a library planet and plan to eliminate the Enterprise crew if they cannot acquire a human host.

Features:
Stardate: 5843.7
Air Date: 01/31/69
Director: Herb Kenwith

Episode:3x19
Requiem for Methuselah

Jack's Rating:

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

Features:
Stardate: 5832.3
Air Date: 02/28/69
Director: Murray Golden

Episode:3x20
The Way to Eden

Jack's Rating:

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

Features:
Stardate: 5906.4
Air Date: 02/21/69
Director: David Alexander

Jack's Review
Tied for my least favorite TOS episode (with The Alternative Factor), the much maligned "space hippies" episode is just annoying. It does have a good message buried in the schlock....if you can muddle through to the end, Herbert.

Episode:3x21
The Cloud Minders

Jack's Rating:

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

Features:
Stardate: 5818.4
Air Date: 02/14/69
Director: Jud Taylor

Episode:3x22
The Savage Curtain

Jack's Rating:

Kirk and Spock meet Abraham Lincoln and Surak of Vulcan and must do battle with some of history's most terrible villains.

Features: The Klingons
Stardate: 5906.4
Air Date: 03/07/69
Director: Herschel Daugherty

Jack's Review
This one isn't nearly as bad as folks make out. However, thanks to Presentism the act of judging the past by modern values and standards, it does have a pretty cringe-worthy moment between Lincoln and Uhura. Fortunately her response is Star Trek at its finest - something we could all stand to pay attention to these days.

Episode:3x23
All Our Yesterdays

Jack's Rating:

Spock and McCoy are trapped in a planet's distant past, where Spock finds love with an exiled woman.

Features: Time Travel
Stardate: 5943.7
Air Date: 03/14/69
Director: Marvin Chomsky

Jack's Review
Such a great penultimate episode. I would have thought, as well done as this one is, the studio would have kept the show going. I love the way the away team gets split up. Mr Atoz (yep, A to Z) is a terrific character and Mariette Hartley is amazing - although she will always be the short-lived wife of Dr. David Banner on The Incredible Hulk way back in 78. Heck, she even won an award for that role -and you can see how good she is in this early venture as well.

Episode:3x24
Turnabout Intruder

Jack's Rating:

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

Features:
Stardate: 5928.5
Air Date: 06/03/69
Director: Herb Wallerstein