Space Hippies

The Way To Eden (aka the Space Hippies episode) wasn't one of the better third season episodes of Star Trek, but it was enjoyable in another way.

The Enterprise rescues a group of space hippies from an exploding shuttle (which they stole). One of them is the son of a prominent ambassador, which prevents Kirk from throwing all of them into the brig.

Seeing that they're hippies, this means that all of the women are barefoot, including Irina Galliulin (Mary Linda Rapelye), a former flame of Chekov's from his Academy days.

Deborah Downey and Phyllis Douglas play the other two space hippie girls, whose names are not mentioned in the show (although Phyllis Douglas has been ID-ed as having the name Mavig on some sites).

For us, it's a great BF episode, but as an episode of Star Trek, it's pretty bad. It offers a real cringey look at the then-present day hippie culture (it originally aired in 1969, right at the height of the counter-culture movement).

And add to all of this the incessant singing--ugh! At least Charles Napier, who did all the singing here, went onto better things. He was the lead villain in the first Lethal Weapon film.