"Is There in Truth No Beauty?" is a third season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, first broadcast October 18, 1968. It is episode #60, production #62, written by Jean Lisette Aroeste, and directed by Ralph Senensky.
The title of the episode is taken from the poem Jordan by George Herbert:
Who sayes that fictions onely and false hairBecome a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?
Is all good structure in a winding stair?
May no lines passe, except they do their dutie
Not to a true, but painted chair?"Overview: The Enterprise travels with an alien ambassador whose appearance induces madness.
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