April 2268 - April 2669
The Third Season of Classic
Star Trek
April 2268 - April 2269 Events of the
third year of the original Star Trek series (1968-1969
season). The U.S.S. Enterprise encounters a probe warning the
ship to stay away from the space of the Melkot; the telepathic warning is heard
in the native language of each Enterprise crew member. The Enterprise
is under orders to establish contact with the reclusive Melkotians at all costs,
so Captain Kirk orders a course farther into Melkot space. The U.S.S. Enterprise enters the disputed Tellun star
system -- near the Klingon border -- on a top-secret diplomatic mission, and
picks up Ambassador Petri of the outer planet, Troyius, and approaches the inner
planet, Elas, to pick up Elaan, the Dohlman of Elas. Captain Kirk leads a landing party to an Earthlike planet that
is on a collision course with an approaching asteroid, and finds an advanced
alien obelisk near a settlement of a primitive Native American tribe. Kirk
accedentally triggers a hidden door on the obelisk with his communicator and
falls inside, and the Enterprise crew must leave without him in order to
alter the approaching asteroid's course. Kirk emerges from the obelisk
with amnesia, and the native tribe believes he is a god. May 2268
Savage Empire Stardate
4943.5 In this short film written and produced by fans,
the crew of the Starship Exeter undercover a rebel plot on the Andorian
homeworld. (The adventures of the Starship Exeter are not
part of official Trek - this entry is simply here to acknowledge its possible
place in the timeline) Captain Kirk is showing increasing signs of stress. He orders
the Enterprise through the Neutral Zone into Romulan space, where the
ship is quickly surrounded by Romulans, now using Klingon ships. The Romulan
ships are using a new cloaking device, which allows them to move without being
detected by Federation technology.
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April 2268
Spectre of the Gun
Kirk leads a landing party to the Melkotian planet, but they find themselves
trapped in a foggy environment. A Melkotian says they will be punished for
disregarding the warning, and they find themselves in an incomplete simulation
of Tombstone, Arizona, on October 26, 1881, the day of the gun fight at the 
April 2268 Elaan of Troyius
The Troyian ambassador tells Captain Kirk that the Dohlman of Elas is to be the
wife of the Troyian ruler to bring peace to the two warring planets, now that
they have the capability to destroy one another. Ambassador Petri must teach the
disagreeable Elaan to be civilized before they reach Troyius.
May 2268 Paradise Syndrome, The
June 2268 Enterprise Incident, The
June 2268
And the Children Shall Lead
The U.S.S. Enterprise crew responds to a distress call from a science colony on Triacus, and finds Professor Starnes and the rest of his team dead, apparently from self-inflicted injuries, but their children are still healthy and happy. The children are taken aboard the Enterprise, where we learn that are secretly following the orders of an alien called the Gorgan
July 2268 Spock’s Brain
The U.S.S. Enterprise encounters an alien ship with ion
propulsion and unique technology; a humanoid woman appears on the Bridge and
incapacitates the entire crew of the Enterprise. When the crew awakens,
they find Spock's body with his brain surgically removed. The Enterprise
follows the ion trail to the Sigma Draconis star system, where Kirk learns that
Spock's brain is being used to control a computer complex, and provide for the
primitive people living on the planet.
July 2268 Is There In Truth No Beauty?
The U.S.S. Enterprise is assigned to convey the Medusan
ambassador to the Federation back to his home planet, whose formless inhabitants
are so hideous that the sight of one can bring total madness to any human who
sees one. Medusan Ambassador Kollos travels in a sealed metal container so that
no humanoids will see him, and is accompanied by Dr. Miranda Jones, a human
woman with telepathic abilities.
August 2268 The Empath
The U.S.S. Enterprise arrives at the second planet in
the Minarian star system, whose sun is entering the nova phase, to evacuate a
research station studying the dying star. Captain Kirk, Commander Spock, and Dr.
McCoy beam down to the reasearch station and find it empty, before they are
transported to an underground facility by alien Vians who are studying a mute
empathic woman.
August 2268 Tholian Web, The
The U.S.S. Enterprise is searching for the U.S.S. Defiant,
which disappeared three weeks ago. The crew locates the missing starship in an
area of space that is phasing between dimensions. Captain Kirk leads a landing
party to the Defiant, and finds the crew dead, apparently killed by each
other. The Defiant phases out of existence while Captain Kirk is still
aboard, and members of the Enterprise crew become increasingly agitated
from the dimensional interphase effects.
As the Enterprise waits for Kirk and the Defiant to phase back
into normal space, a Tholian ship arrives and Commander Loskene claims the Enterprise
is in a territorial annex of the Tholian Assembly and orders the Enterprise
to leave.
Unknown to anyone at the time, the exchange of energy weapons
between the Enterprise and the Tholians results in the Defiant being thrown out
of normal space, through the interspace rift and ultimately into the Mirror
Universe in December 2155. ("In a Mirror Darkly, parts one and
two"
September 2268
For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
The U.S.S. Enterprise encounters an asteroid 200
miles in diameter, propelled by atomic power, that is on a collision course with
Daran Five, an inhabited planet with a large population. McCoy, Kirk
and Spock transport inside the artificial asteroid ship, and enecounter whose
inhabitants believe they are on the world of Yonada.
September 2268 Day of the Dove
Captain Kirk leads a landing party to planet Beta Twelve-A,
where a Federation colony has disappeared after signalling that it was under
attack. A Klingon ship arrives, also responding to a distress signal, and is
disabled by internal explosions. Kirk beams the surviving Klingon crew over to
the Enterprise, but the Klingon commander, Kang, blames Kirk for
attacking his ship. Unknown to the crew, an alien life force is also
beamed aboard.
October 2268 Plato’s Stepchildren
The U.S.S. Enterprise answers a distress call from an
unknown planet that is rich in kironide deposits, a very rare and long-lasting
source of great power. The residents of the planet escaped from their native
star, Sahndara, millennia ago, before it went nova; they call themselves
Platonians, after the ancient Earth philosopher Plato, whom they met on Earth
before coming to this planet to create a Utopian society based on ancient Greek
civilization.
October 2268 Wink of an Eye
While exploring an outer quadrant of the Galaxy, the U.S.S. Enterprise
answers a distress call from a city on the planet Scalos; Captain Kirk leads a
landing party to the planet, but there are no visible inhabitants in the city,
and one member of the landing party vanishes from sight after drinking some
water on the planet.
After beaming up to the ship, Captain Kirk's coffee is infected with Scalosian
water, and he is shifted to the same level as the hyper-accelerated Scalosians,
who have secretly boarded the ship, moving faster than humans can see.
November 2268 That Which Survives
The U.S.S. Enterprise finds an unusual planet that has
evolved an environment similar to Earth's in only a few thousand years. As
Captain Kirk leads a landing party to the surface, the Enterprise is
knocked 990.7 light years away, stranding the landing party alone on the planet.
A projection of an alien woman appears on the Enterprise and kills two
crewmen and sabotages the warp engines, and a projection of the same woman
appears on the planet, attacking members of the landing party. The landing party
destroys the computer controlling the projections, and learns that the planet is
a Kalandan outpost, whose people all died from a disease produced when they
created the planet.z
November 2268
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
The U.S.S. Enterprise is en route to
decontaminate the planet Ariannus, when it encounters a stolen Starfleet shuttle
piloted by an alien who is white on his right side and black on the left. The
alien, named Lokai, is from Cheron, an uncharted planet in the southern-most
part of the Galaxy. An alien ship with an invisibility sheath intercepts the Enterprise
and Bele -- chief officer of the Commission on Political Traitors on the planet
Cheron -- boards the ship, claiming that Lokai was convicted of treason and
escaped.
December 2268 Whom Gods Destroy
The U.S.S. Enterprise arrives at Elba Two, a planet
with a poisonous atmosphere where the Federation maintains an asylum for the few
remaining insane criminals in the Galaxy. Captain Kirk and Commander Spock beam
down to the colony to deliver a new medicine to treat mental illness. They learn
that the newest inmate is Garth of Izar, a former starship Fleet Captain, who
has used Antosian shape-shifting techniques to take over the asylum.
December 2268 Mark of Gideon, The
The U.S.S. Enterprise arrives at the planet Gideon,
which is under negotiations for Federation membership, but has not allowed any
delegations from the Federation to visit or scan the shielded planet. Captain
Kirk has been invited to be the first Federation representative to visit Gideon,
but when he beams down, he finds himself alone inside an exact duplicate of the Enterprise,
where he meets a woman named Odona.
January 2269 Lights of Zetar, The
The U.S.S. Enterprise is en route to Memory
Alpha -- a planetoid set up as a central library containing the total cultural
and scientific knowledge of all Federation members -- with specialist Lt. Mira
Romaine aboard to supervise the transfer of new equipment from the Enterprise
to Memory Alpha.
January 2269 Cloudminders, The
A botanical plague is threatening all vegetation on Merak Two,
and the U.S.S. Enterprise heads to another Federation member world,
Ardana, the only known source of zenite, which can halt the plague. When Captain
Kirk and Commander Spock beam down to the mine entrance to pick up the needed
zenite, they are attacked by a group of disgruntled miners called Troglyte
Disrupters. Administrators from Stratos -- a floating city sustained by
antigravity high above the surface -- drive off the miners and offer Kirk and
Spock their hospitality in the floating city while the needed zenite is found.
February 2269
Way to Eden, The
The U.S.S. Enterprise is in pursuit of the stolen space cruiser Aurora, which is heading towards Romulan space. The Aurora's engines overload in the pursuit, and the Enterprise beams aboard its passengers, a group of pilgrims seeking the mythical planet Eden, including the son of the Catullan ambassador.
March 2269 Requiem for Methuselah
The U.S.S. Enterprise crew is infected with deadly
Rigelian fever, and Captain Kirk leads a landing party to a small planet in the
Omega system to find ryetalyn, the only known antidote to the fever.
On the planet, they meet a man calling himself Mr. Flint, who lives in a castle
shielded from orbital scans, containing an extensive collection of original
artwork, including several unknown da Vinci paintings, and an original waltz by
Johannes Brahms. Flint lives with a young woman named Rayna Kapek, but the Enterprise
can find no records of either of them.
March 2269 Savage Curtain, The
The U.S.S. Enterprise is scanning planet Excalbia,
which has a molten surface and toxic atmosphere, but there are unexplained life
signs detected. As the Enterprise prepares to leave, Captain Kirk is
contacted by a duplicate of Abraham Lincoln, who invites Kirk and Commander
Spock to an area of Earth-like environment on the planet. There they meet Surak,
the founder of Vulcan civilization.
April 2269 All Our Yesterdays
Three and a half hours before the star Beta Niobe is
calculated to go nova, the U.S.S. Enterprise scans Sarpeidon, the only
Class-M planet in the system. The crew finds the planet deserted, though the
planet did not have space flight capability. Captain Kirk, Commander Spock, and
Dr. McCoy beam down to a library on the planet and meet the librarian, Mr. Atoz,
and his android duplicates, who sent the world's population into the past before
the nova, using a machine called the Atavachron. As Kirk is viewing records of a
past era, he hears a woman scream and runs into a portal to investigate; he
finds himself in an ancient city, where he is accused of witchcraft.
Spock and McCoy run through the portal after the captain, but find themselves
trapped in the Sarpeidon ice age.
April 2269 Turnabout Intruder
The U.S.S. Enterprise responds to a distress call from a group of scientists exploring the ruins of a dead civilization on Camus Two; the leader of the expedition, Dr. Janice Lester, knew Captain Kirk when they were together for a year at Starfleet, but his world of starship captains doesn't admit women. When they are alone, Dr. Lester uses an alien machine on the planet to switch bodies with Kirk, and assumes his identity.
(Turnabout Intruder was the last new episode of Classic Star Trek broadcast)
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