What would a fourth season have looked like?
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I think you would have seen a descent into Irwin Allen level of cheapness.
Shooting on location ended up being more expensive than stage work. You'll notice that season three only shot outside on one other episode, and only briefly in that case. A fourth season would have been largely stage bound.
Oh, help me! A fourth season might have brought us sequels to Spock's Brain, And The Children Shall Lead and Plato's Stepchildren. 
what was the other episode?
All Our Yesterdays, I think? There's a street scene that was shot outdoors, if memory serves.
My opinion, very much like a live action TAS but without all of the new alien designs and exotic backgrounds.
Another script to bring John Colicos back as Kor but he has to bow out yet again due to film work in Canada or Europe! 
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I see that TrekBBS user Miramanee met the same fate as TOS Miramanee. 
As much as I'd love to think the alternative, that TOS S4 would be an upswing in quality from S3, truth is this is what I thought the moment I seen the thread title
I think TOS was on a downwards trend. The budget wasn't likely to go up again after having been cut, so I reckon we'd have gotten even more shipbound episodes and probably lots of reuse of costumes from stock. I can totally imagine the cheapness becoming too much to ignore...
I see that TrekBBS user Miramanee met the same fate as TOS Miramanee.
You mess with the bull, you get the horns.
Oh, help me! A fourth season might have brought us sequels to Spock's Brain, And The Children Shall Lead and Plato's Stepchildren.
"Spocks Brain 2: You Missed a Few"
You pelted her with rocks while the doctor that can do Vulcan heart repair surgery and re-implant brains couldn't fix some contusions and let her die?
Oh, help me! A fourth season might have brought us sequels to Spock's Brain, And The Children Shall Lead and Plato's Stepchildren.
Now you forced me to think. So Shower Curtain monster (Gorgan) convinces the Eymorgs to steal Parmen's Brain to run their society but it turns out the kironide does not only work on their own planet and Parmwn's Brain goes on a rampage strangling people with it's spinal cord. But Jim'll fix it, he shows Gorgan a mirror and seeing his reflection dies of embarrassment, he then convinces Philana of her "humanity" with lots of physical contact (say no more) which then allows her trick Parmen's brain back into his body with the help of the Android Norman and Sargon and Thalasa who offer to help the poor brainless Eymorgs.
Finally, @johnnybear is captured and the Platonians' new whatever Alexander was.
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I'm wondering could the scripts produced for TAS be extended for 52 minutes for a hypothetical 4th season of TOS? Would the costumes get some alterations or would it be the same thing? I get the budget would be lower and could that have effected the featured cast like Nichelle Nichols and Walter Keonig?
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