Rewatching Star Trek (The Original Series, 1966-1969)

Episode o' the Day
"The Way to Eden" (season three, episode twenty; production code: 075; 21 February 1969): Wikipedia-link.

Commentary: Dirty space hippies! The plot of "The Way to Eden" was reused twenty years later for the feature film Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (9 June 1989). Why this weak episode was chosen is anyone's guess. The differences are that "The Way to Eden's" Dr. Sevrin is genuinely malevolent whereas The Final Frontier's Sybok ultimately redeems himself, & Dr. Sevrin & his space hippies are searching for the mythical planet Eden (a non-technological utopia) wheras Sybok & his followers are searching for the mythical planet Ska Ka Ree (home of "God").