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Star Trek: Season 03
Running Time: 30 min.

The third and final season of Star Trek is frequently written off as the series' nadir, if only because creator Gene Roddenberryhad relinquished a great deal of his creative control to the @NBC executives and to new producer Fred Freiberger). Another reason given for the series' decline was the decision to cut the budgets to the bone, and to depend more on "house" writers than established science- fiction specialists. Also, there was a heavier reliance upon gimmickry and gadgetry than in previous years, upsetting those purists who preferred strong characterizations and story values to the standard sci-fi/fantasy cliches. But while Season Three was overall the weakest, especially in terms of ratings, several of the individual episodes are among the finest that Star Trek has to offer. We get off to a good start with the opener, "Spock's Brain", in which the titular organ is "kidnapped" from its owner Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy). Attorney Melvin Belli makes his acting debut as a sinister, corruptive life force (not a lawyer, but close!) in "And the Children Shall Lead". The crew of the Starship Enterprise is forced to sacrifice themselves during the Gunfight at the OK Corral in "Spectre of the Gun". "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" is an allegorical drama in which the fate of a civilization is determined by a duel to the death between its two last survivors (Frank Gorshin, Lou Antonio), whose faces are half-black and half-white. And in the series finale "Turnabout Intruder", the mind of Captain Kirk (William Shatner) is exchanged with that of his embittered ex-lover (Sandra Smith)--and vice versa. The season's most controversial episode was "Plato's Stepchildren", originally telecast November 22, 1968, in which Kirk and officer Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) share the first interracial kiss ever seen on network television. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Star Trek: Season 03 Cast and Crew:
William Shatner (James T. Kirk)
Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock)
DeForest Kelley (Leonard "Bones" McCoy)
James Doohan (Montgomery "Scotty" Scott)
George Takei (Hikaru Sulu)
Nichelle Nichols (Uhura)
Walter Koenig (Pavel Chekov)
Majel Barrett (Nurse Christine Chapel)

Production Credits:
Gene Roddenberry (Executive Producer)
Fred Freiberger (Producer)
Gene Roddenberry (Show Creator)


Star Trek: Season 03 Episodes:
Star Trek 56: Spectre of the Gun
Star Trek 57: Elaan of Troyius
Star Trek 58: The Paradise Syndrome
Star Trek 59: The Enterprise Incident
Star Trek 60: And the Children Shall Lead
Star Trek 61: Spock's Brain
Star Trek 62: Is There in Truth No Beauty?
Star Trek 63: The Empath
Star Trek 64: The Tholian Web
Star Trek 65: For the World Is Hollow...
Star Trek 66: Day of the Dove
Star Trek 67: Plato's Stepchildren
Star Trek 68: Wink of an Eye
Star Trek 69: That Which Survives
Star Trek 70: Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
Star Trek 71: Whom Gods Destroy
Star Trek 72: The Mark of Gideon
Star Trek 73: The Lights of Zetar
Star Trek 74: The Cloud Minders
Star Trek 75: The Way to Eden
Star Trek 76: Requiem for Methuselah
Star Trek 77: The Savage Curtain
Star Trek 78: All Our Yesterdays
Star Trek 79: Turnabout Intruder



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