Star Trek (Season 3) DVD Review

Posted by Nick Niesen on October 27th, 2010

Winner of countless awards and unsurpassed audience devotion, the original Star Trek TV series follows the adventures of the crew aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise as they ?boldly go where no man has gone before?? Led by Captain Kirk (William Shatner), an astronaut who displays the character traits necessary for the Earth mission?s survival, the Enterprise crew includes Lt. Commander Spock (Leonard Nimoy), a retired commander and Vulcan theoretical scientist; chief medical officer Dr. Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley); and a varying and talented supporting cast including guest appearances and cameo roles by famous 1960s personalities. Together, they vow to carry out their appointed mission: ?to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations??

The Star Trek (Season 3) DVD features a number of action-packed episodes including the season premiere ?Spock?s Brain? in which the Enterprise is intercepted by a mysterious, unidentified spacecraft. An alien from the ship beams herself onto the bridge of the Enterprise and renders the entire crew unconscious. When they awaken, McCoy informs Kirk that the alien has confiscated Spock?s brain. Now, the Enterprise is tasked with locating Spock?s brain before his body decays? Other notable episodes from Season 3 include ?Plato?s Stepchildren? in which the inhabitants of the planet Platonius take advantage of the Enterprise crew?s goodwill in order to enslave them via telekinesis, and ?The Way to Eden? in which the Enterprise is hijacked by a band of Earthlings in pursuit of the mythical planet Eden, a garden-like world of health, purity, and happiness?

Below is a list of episodes included on the Star Trek (Season 3) DVD:

Episode 56 (Spock?s Brain) Air Date: 09-20-1968
Episode 57 (The Enterprise Incident) Air Date: 09-27-1968
Episode 58 (The Paradise Syndrome) Air Date: 10-04-1968
Episode 59 (And the Children Shall Lead) Air Date: 10-11-1968
Episode 60 (Is There in Truth No Beauty?) Air Date: 10-18-1968
Episode 61 (Spectre of the Gun) Air Date: 10-25-1968
Episode 62 (Day of the Dove) Air Date: 11-01-1968
Episode 63 (For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky) Air Date: 11-08-1968
Episode 64 (The Tholian Web) Air Date: 11-15-1968
Episode 65 (Plato?s Stepchildren) Air Date: 11-22-1968
Episode 66 (Wink of an Eye) Air Date: 11-29-1968
Episode 67 (The Empath) Air Date: 12-06-1968
Episode 68 (Elaan of Troyius) Air Date: 12-20-1968
Episode 69 (Whom Gods Destroy) Air Date: 01-03-1969
Episode 70 (Let That Be Your Last Battlefield) Air Date: 01-10-1969
Episode 71 (The Mark of Gideon) Air Date: 01-17-1969
Episode 72 (That Which Survives) Air Date: 01-24-1969
Episode 73 (The Lights of Zetar) Air Date: 01-31-1969
Episode 74 (Requiem for Methuselah) Air Date: 02-14-1969
Episode 75 (The Way to Eden) Air Date: 02-21-1969
Episode 76 (The Cloudminders) Air Date: 02-28-1969
Episode 77 (The Savage Curtain) Air Date: 03-07-1969
Episode 78 (All Our Yesterdays) Air Date: 03-14-1969
Episode 79 (Turnabout Intruder) Air Date: 06-03-1969