episodes placed "Day of the Dove" as the 99th best episode of all series up to that time, out of over 700 episodes of the franchise. In 2016, SyFy ranked guest star Michael Ansara as Kang (the Klingon leader), as the 13th best guest star on the original series. Ansara went on to reprise his role as Kang decades later on the Star Trek spin-offs Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. Ansara reprised the character Kang in DS9's "Blood Oath", which also featured John Colicos as Kor and William Campbell as Koloth, who, like Ansara had been guest stars in the original series playing original Klingons with that name. In 2018, Collider ranked this episode the 16th best original series episode. Home media This episode was released on LaserDisc, paired with "Spectre of the Gun" in 1987 in the United States. This episode was released in Japan on December 21, 1993 as part of the complete season 3 LaserDisc set, Star Trek: Original Series log.3. A trailer for this and the other episodes was also included, and the episode had English and Japanese audio tracks. The cover script was スター・トレック TVサードシーズン for the set. References External links "Day of the Dove" Review of the remastered at TrekMovie.com "Day of the Dove" synopsis of the story outline dated June 3, 1968 Star Trek: The Original Series (season 3) episodes 1968 American television episodes Television episodes written by Jerome Bixby Television episodes directed by Marvin J. Chomsky