Well, season three ends on a pretty good note with Assignment: Earth, though it is more a Gary Seven episode, then a Trek one. The Enterprise travels back to 1968 to observe a turbulent period in our history, While there, they accidentally intercept a transporter beam and bring aboard a man and his cat. The man is named Gary Seven and has been on a hidden distant planet. He returns to Earth to stop a potential nuclear incident but Kirk doesn't know whether he is lying or telling the truth. Plus he talks to his cat and his cat seems to talk back, so Kirk's confusion is understandable. The cat, however, turns into 1968's Playmate of the Year, so I can see why he keeps it around. Gary has a number of neato mosquito devices and a sassy computer to help him out. This was a pilot for a show that never made it to series, written by Art Wallace and Roddenberry. Art Wallace is of course best know for working on the gothic soap Dark Shadows.
So, Season Three enhanced begins and it begins with maybe the worst episode in the series' history, Spock's Brain. A hottie alien chick pops aboard the Enterprise and steals Mr. Spock's brain, because, well, she wants it. Actually she needs it to power her underground complex. Maybe the less said about this one the better, but girls in shiny purple are always a help for even the worst scripts. I can see why Gene Coon put a pseudonym on this one. And why the ratings didn't take a surge.
Well, season three ends on a pretty good note with Assignment: Earth, though it is more a Gary Seven episode, then a Trek one. The Enterprise travels back to 1968 to observe a turbulent period in our history, While there, they accidentally intercept a transporter beam and bring aboard a man and his cat. The man is named Gary Seven and has been on a hidden distant planet. He returns to Earth to stop a potential nuclear incident but Kirk doesn't know whether he is lying or telling the truth. Plus he talks to his cat and his cat seems to talk back, so Kirk's confusion is understandable. The cat, however, turns into 1968's Playmate of the Year, so I can see why he keeps it around. Gary has a number of neato mosquito devices and a sassy computer to help him out. This was a pilot for a show that never made it to series, written by Art Wallace and Roddenberry. Art Wallace is of course best know for working on the gothic soap Dark Shadows.
So, Season Three enhanced begins and it begins with maybe the worst episode in the series' history, Spock's Brain. A hottie alien chick pops aboard the Enterprise and steals Mr. Spock's brain, because, well, she wants it. Actually she needs it to power her underground complex. Maybe the less said about this one the better, but girls in shiny purple are always a help for even the worst scripts. I can see why Gene Coon put a pseudonym on this one. And why the ratings didn't take a surge. 
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