"For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" (season three, episode eight; production code: 065; 8 November 1968): Wikipedia-link.
Commentary: Prior to this rewatch, I recalled the plots of many of these episodes only vaguely. With a few notable exceptions, third-season episodes do not spring readily to mind when the desire to enjoy an episode of The Original Series arises. "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" is better than I remember it being; at least, there was the seed of a good episode there, even if it was lost in execution. "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" should have been an interesting story about a generation starship, but instead it's boilerplate about primitives worshipping a computer as a god (see also: "Return of the Archons" [season one, episode twenty-one] & "The Apple" [season two, episode five]) with a melodramatic subplot about McCoy experiencing a terminal medical diagnosis & falling in love with—& marrying!—the alien culture's high priestess. Captain Kirk also married an alien culture's high priestess just a few episodes earlier, in "The Paradise Syndrome" (season three, episode three), but she is killed,leaving him a widower; McCoy simply abandons his wife once her culture's medical knowledge cures his otherwise uncurable disease. Not a good look.
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