Your Top Five Season 3 Episodes

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  1. AtoZ

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    Budget cuts, the absence of Roddenberry and Coon, the "Freidberger effect", Shatner's penchant for over-acting seemingly at a high point and some quirky moments where our characters seemed to step out of character based on script, S3 grows on me more and more.

    There are some excellent stories and concepts from S3 that are among my favorites of the whole series. And there are some episodes that although very good, had they been done in S1 they would have perhaps had enough breathing space to make them fantastic (The Enterprise Incident)

    I happen to love these ones, flawed as they be to some:

    Spectre of the Gun
    The Tholian Web
    All Our Yesterdays
    The Paradise Syndrome
    The Enterprise Incident

    Honorable mention: Wink of an Eye/The Cloud Minders/The Savage Curtain

    What are your top five S3 episodes:
     
  2. Winterwind

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    With one exception, my list would be the same as your list. While I like The Paradise Syndrome, I prefer The Empath.
     
  3. tomalak301

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    There are many episodes from the third season I like. Actually, I think it get's unfairly bashed more often than not:

    Tholian Web
    The Enterprise Incident
    All Our Yesterdays
    Day of the Dove
    Requiem For Methuselah
     
  4. Greg Cox

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    In no particular order:

    1. "Is There in Truth No Beauty?"
    2. "The Day of the Dove"
    3. "All Our Yesterdays"
    4. "The Enterprise Incident"
    5. "The Paradise Syndrome"

    I'm actually in the process of watching Season 3 again, so this could change once I actually see some of these episodes for the first time in years.
     
  5. Knight Templar

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    The Tholian Web
    The Enterprise Incident
    Day of the Dove
    Spectre of the Gun
    Elaan of Troyius

    Honorable mention

    Spock's Brain (it isn't nearly as bad as its reputation or the awful title).
     
  6. lurok

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    Only ones find re-watchable:

    The Enterprise Incident
    Is There In Truth No Beauty?
    Elaan Of Troyius
    Day of The Dove (but only for Kang)

    for cheese value:
    Wink of An Eye
    Spock's Brain
    Cloud Minders
    Way To Eden
     
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    The Tholian Web
    Spectre of the Gun
    The Enterprise Incident
    All Our Yesterdays
    Is There in Truth No Beauty?
     
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    The Tholian Web
    The Enterprise Incident
    All Our Yesterdays
    The Empath
    Elaan of Troyius
     
  9. Octubre

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    1-4 are not only my favourite eps from season 3, they are my favourite from the whole TOS.
    1. Is There in Truth No Beauty? (odd one and essence of the whole series at the same time)
    2. All Our Yesterdays (beautiful and poetic like the first. It's a pity Aroeste didn't write more)
    3. The Enterprise Incident
    4. Spectre of the Gun (these two episodes don't seem old-fashioned even now)
    and
    5. Plato's Stepchildren (if Is There in Truth No Beauty is essence of TOS, this one is essence of the third season for me. Weird, creepy, decadent, colorful, campy and having too much emotional power - but that power really works here)
    Honorable mention: The Way to Eden and The Cloud Minders.
     
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  10. Kelso

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    "All Our Yesterdays"
    "The Empath"
    "Day of the Dove"
    "Spock's Brain"
    "The Cloud Minders"
     
  11. Lucky

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    1. All Our Yesterdays
    2. The Enterprise Incident
    3. The Tholian Web
    4. Day of the Dove
    5. Whom Gods Destroy
     
  12. BillJ

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    Day of the Dove
    Spectre of the Gun
    Elaan of Troyius
    The Tholian Web
    Turnabout Intruder
     
  13. Ssosmcin

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    You saved me the trouble of typing this out myself. My exact picks.
     
  14. LibraryComputer

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    All Our Yesderdays
    Spectre of the Gun
    Day of the Dove
    The Enterprise Incident
    The Tholian Web
     
  15. Noname Given

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    In no particular order, I have 4 from the third season I find re-watchable at anytime:

    The Enterprise Incident
    The Tholian Web
    Elaan Of Troyius
    Day of The Dove

    and if I have to pick a fifth, occassionaly:

    That Which Survives

    But overall, it has earned the fan nickname of 'the turd season'. ;)
     
  16. Harvey

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    The best three are:

    "Spectre of the Gun"
    "The Tholian Web"
    "Day of the Dove"

    I'm not sure about my other two picks; it's been a while since I saw the third season.
     
  17. gottacook

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    The third-season episodes are the only ones I saw first-run (about half of them). My top five - assuming that I had to jettison the other 19 and never see them again - are these:

    "Is There in Truth No Beauty?"
    "The Empath"
    "The Enterprise Incident"
    "Elaan of Troyius"
    "All Our Yesterdays"

    The first four of these were produced relatively early in the season and I chose them mostly because I like their original music scores by, respectively, Duning, Duning, Courage, and Steiner.

    The last one, I chose because of Mariette Hartley's last look into the camera as Zarabeth, in her furs, before she turns and walks back through the snow to her again-lonely cave. She conveys more with that look than Sabrina Scharf did in a whole episode's worth of dialogue as Miramanee.

    Honorable mention: "The Way to Eden." As mentioned on other threads, I see this episode as nothing more or less than Star Trek's response to the musical Hair, and enjoyable to the extent that one enjoys the original cast recording of Hair (which I do).
     
  18. CaptPapa

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    I like quite a few of the third season episodes, and feel that even though there were budget cuts and creative abandonment, most of the season stands up well. My favorites . . .

    The Enterprise Incident
    The Tholian Web
    All Our Yesterdays
    Elaan Of Troyius
    Is There In Truth No Beauty?

    and a few more since I had a bit of trouble getting down to five - these in production order . . .

    Spectre Of The Gun
    Wink Of An Eye
    That Which Survives
    The Mark Of Gideon
    Requiem For Methuselah
     
  19. JimZipCode

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    Top list:

    Turnabout Intruder
    Cloud Minders
    Enterprise Incident
    Way to Eden
    Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (mostly for the ultra-awesome destruct sequence; also has some nice lounge scenes)

    I'm one of the only people in the world who thinks Turnabout Intruder is excellent, I have it in or near my top ten.

    Utter stinkers:

    Savage Curtain
    And the Children Shall Lead
    Requiem for Methuselah
    Wink of an Eye
    Empath

    All Our Yesterdays is quite frustrating to me, because of the absence of story. I want to condemn it utterly. But goddam Mariette Hartley is something.