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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
It seems like Season 3 of Star Trek - The Original Series had a large number of strange episodes, compared to the previous seasons. Part of it might have been due to the lower budget...which was a factor in the quality of the Third Season and likely contributed to getting it cancelled.
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The one with Abraham Lincoln floating outside in space and talking is worth a mention. Also the hippie episode.
The last episode of the series was an awful sexist thing where Captain Kirk swaps bodies with his jealous (and crazy) ex-girlfriend. She then spends the of the episode doing a horrible job of trying to impersonate him, attempts to execute all the senior staff for 'mutiny,' then they randomly switch back with no explanation other than the episode running out of time.
The lack of budget is also quite noticable:
In "The Enterprise Incident," the Romulans are suddenly using ships of Klingon design, presumably so they could re-use the models. (Not sure what happened to the Warbird model from "Balance of Terror." They did digitally insert some in the remaster.)
In "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield," there's an entire segment where one of the aliens arrives on an
invisible spaceship, presumably to avoid having to make a new model. Apparently special materials made it invisible, but still visible on sensors.... but then Sulu and Chekov continue to look at the viewscreen to report its movements.
In "The Mark of Gideon," somehow the aliens on a planet so overpopulated that everyone is packed shoulder-to-shoulder managed find the space and resources to build a full-scale replica of the Enterprise in order to trap Captain Kirk and use his blood to spread a deadly disease to the population. Presumably just so they could re-use the Enterprise set instead of making a new one. It was actually a pretty interesting episode up until the reveal, then it just got kind of dumb (apparently these people are too pro-life to use condoms, but killing half the population with a pandemic is perfectly fine).