Month: October 2021

Synopsis: The crew of the Enterprise is sent to obtain desperately needed zenite to end a plague on a Federation planet and confront a segregated society. There is no doubt that “The Cloud Miners” can be seen as an interpretation of a segregated society, especially given that it was produced and first aired in 1969,… Continue reading Star Trek: The Original Series Season 3, Episode 21: “The Cloud Miners”

Synopsis: The crew of the Enterprise are sent to intercept a stolen Federation shuttlecraft, which contains six individuals looking for the planet Eden. “The Way to Eden” contains at least a couple depth psychological themes. One theme, that it is not the destination but the journey to get there, is such a common tale in… Continue reading Star Trek: The Original Series Season 3, Episode 20: “The Way to Eden”

Synopsis: Searching on a small planet for a drug to cure an epidemic on the Enterprise, Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and Dr. McCoy meet a gifted and very old man. In “Requiem for Methuselah” we meet Mr. Flint, a brilliant immortal individual trying to create his ideal mate. As he is brilliant, he wants her… Continue reading Star Trek: The Original Series Season 3, Episode 19: “Requiem for Methuselah”

Synopsis: The crew of the Enterprise comes across a community of energies that will not accept their death. In “The Lights of Zetar” the life force of “the desires, the hopes the mind and the will of the last hundred of Zetar” could not only “not be wiped out” but they figured out a way… Continue reading Star Trek: The Original Series Season 3, Episode 18: “The Lights of Zetar”

Synopsis: The crew of the Enterprise comes across a planet that they cannot explain and go to investigate it. “That Which Survives” asks an interesting question: can a computer be, as Captain James T. Kirk exclaims, “too perfect”? This is especially fascinating when the reason for Kirk to make this remark is that an alien… Continue reading Star Trek: The Original Series Season 3, Episode 17: “That Which Survives”

Synopsis: On a diplomatic mission to Gideon, Captain Kirk is abducted. Just as I wrote in my last post that on its surface, “Let That be Your Last Battlefield” can easily be seen as a lesson on the irrationality of prejudice, “The Mark of Gideon” can be seen as a tale of what the possible… Continue reading Star Trek: The Original Series Season 3, Episode 16: “The Mark of Gideon”

Synopsis: The Enterprise recovers a stolen Federation shuttlecraft, and its unusual occupant. On its surface, “Let That be Your Last Battlefield” can easily be seen as a lesson on the irrationality of prejudice. Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise see the humanoid aliens Lokai and Bele as members of the same… Continue reading Star Trek: The Original Series Season 3, Episode 15: “Let That be Your Last Battlefield”

Synopsis: When Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock deliver a drug to a Federation asylum for the criminally insane, they are taken prisoner by the inmates. Although “Whom Gods Destroy” is widely considered as a reductive “reimaging” of the prior episode “Dagger of the Mind,” from a depth and archetypal psychology perspective, as the title indicates,… Continue reading Star Trek: The Original Series Season 3, Episode 14: “Whom Gods Destroy”

Synopsis: The Enterprise is sent on a top-secret diplomatic mission to provide transportation to the Dohlman of Elas to her arranged marriage on Troyius. “Elaan of Troyius” is another episode in which we see the divide between cultures that are Logos-driven, in this episode represented by Starfleet and Troyius, and those Eros-driven, embodied here by… Continue reading Star Trek: The Original Series Season 3, Episode 13: “Elaan of Troyius”

Synopsis: The Enterprise is sent to the Minarian Star System to evacuate a scientific team before the star they were observing goes nova, but instead finds the Starfleet personnel dead and a female humanoid with empathic abilities being tested by another race to see if her kind is worthy of being saved. In “The Empath”… Continue reading Star Trek: The Original Series Season 3, Episode 12: “The Empath”