Star Trek · S3 · E5
Is There in Truth No Beauty?
The Enterprise travels with an alien ambassador whose appearance induces madness.
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The Enterprise travels with an alien ambassador whose appearance induces madness.
Season 3

1Spock's Brain
51 minSep 20, 1968★ 6.1
An alien female beams aboard the ship and, after incapacitating the rest of the crew, surgically removes Spock's brain. Kirk and the crew have just hours to locate and replace it before Spock's body dies.

2The Enterprise Incident
51 minSep 27, 1968★ 7.9
The crew of the Enterprise are on a secret mission to steal a Romulan cloaking device.

3The Paradise Syndrome
51 minOct 4, 1968★ 6.6
An alien device on a primitive planet erases Captain Kirk's memory, and he begins a new life with the planet's indigenous people.

4And the Children Shall Lead
51 minOct 11, 1968★ 5.8
On a distant planet, Kirk, Spock and McCoy find a scientific team dead, and their children who, unknown to the crew, have great powers at their disposal.

5Is There in Truth No Beauty?
51 minOct 18, 1968★ 7.1Now viewing
The Enterprise travels with an alien ambassador whose appearance induces madness.

6Spectre of the Gun
51 minOct 25, 1968★ 6.8
Having been found trespassers into Melkotian space, Captain Kirk and his companions are sent to die in a re-enactment of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

7Day of the Dove
51 minNov 1, 1968★ 7.5
An alien force drives the crew of the Enterprise into brutal conflict with the Klingons.

8For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
51 minNov 8, 1968★ 7.1
The crew of the Enterprise rush to stop an asteroid from colliding with a Federation world, but discover the asteroid is actually an inhabited generation ship.

9The Tholian Web
50 minNov 15, 1968★ 7.5
Captain Kirk is caught between dimensions while the crew of the Enterprise works to retrieve him. All the while, the Tholians demand that the Enterprise leave their space.

10Plato's Stepchildren
51 minNov 22, 1968★ 6.9
The crew of the Enterprise encounters an ageless and sadistic race of humanoids with the power of telekinesis and who claim to have organized their society around Ancient Greek ideals.

11Wink of an Eye
51 minNov 29, 1968★ 7.4
Invisible "time-accelerated" aliens take over the Enterprise and attempt to abduct the crew for use as "genetic stock".

12The Empath
51 minDec 6, 1968★ 6.5
While visiting a doomed planet, the landing party is subject to torturous experiments by powerful aliens.

13Elaan of Troyius
51 minDec 20, 1968★ 6.9
The USS Enterprise ferries a spoiled princess whose betrothal to a royal Troyian is hoped will bring peace to a star system at war.

14Whom Gods Destroy
51 minJan 3, 1969★ 6.9
Captain Kirk faces off with a demented shape-shifting starship captain determined to control the universe.

15Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
51 minJan 10, 1969★ 7.4
The Enterprise encounters two duo-chromatic and mutually belligerent aliens who put the ship in the middle of their old conflict.

16The Mark of Gideon
51 minJan 17, 1969★ 6.7
A race of overpopulated aliens abduct Captain Kirk to solve their problem.

17That Which Survives
51 minJan 24, 1969★ 6.6
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.

18The Lights of Zetar
51 minJan 31, 1969★ 6.6
Strange incorporeal aliens threaten the Memory Alpha station and the Enterprise.

19Requiem for Methuselah
51 minFeb 14, 1969★ 7.2
The crew of the Enterprise encounter an immortal human in this science fiction variation on Shakespeare's The Tempest.

20The Way to Eden
51 minFeb 21, 1969★ 6.2
The Enterprise picks up a group of space "hippies" looking for Eden.

21The Cloud Minders
51 minFeb 28, 1969★ 7.1
Captain Kirk races against time to acquire plague-fighting minerals from a world in the midst of a civil uprising against a grievous social class disparity.

22The Savage Curtain
51 minMar 7, 1969★ 6.6
Aliens force Captain Kirk and First Officer Spock to join forces with "Abraham Lincoln" and "Surak" to battle villains in a contest of good vs. evil.

23All Our Yesterdays
51 minMar 14, 1969★ 7.9
Kirk, Spock and McCoy are trapped in two parts of another planet's past - a world threatened with destruction when its sun goes supernova.

24Turnabout Intruder
51 minJun 3, 1969★ 7.1
The Enterprise is in danger when Janice Lester, one of Kirk's former lovers, steals his body.
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