Star Trek - Mudd's Women

episode 1.6
Raumschiff Enterprise - Die Frauen des Mr. Mudd

USA 1966
produced by
Gene Roddenberry for Desilu, Norway Corporation/NBC
directed by Harvey Hart
starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Roger C.Carmel, Karen Steele, George Takei, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, Maggie Thrett, Susan Denberg, Gene Dynarski
screenplay by Stephen Kandel, based on a story by Gene Roddenberry, created by Gene Roddenberry, music by Alexander Courage

TV-series
Star Trek, Classic Star Trek, Star Trek (original crew), Harry Mudd

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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The starship Enterprise picks up 4 survivors from a shipwreck, intergalactic conman Harry Mudd (Roger C. Carmel) and his three mail order brides (Karen Steele, Maggie Thrett, Susan Denberg) he is to deliver to some rich customers ... and soon the Enterprise's captain Kirk (William Shatner) finds himself helping Mudd, since the Enterprise is running low on silicium crystals, and in order to get some the Enterprise has to make a stop on Rigel 12, a mining planet being populated by 3 incredibly rich but lonely miners.

On the way there, the Enterprise's male half of the crew seems to be mesmerized by Mudd's women - all but emotionless Mr Spock (Leonard Nimoy) of course. Eventually though Kirk finds out the women are a bit of a fraud, kept beautiful by the Venus-drug, while one of the girls, Eve (Karen Steele), has second thoughts about taking part in Mudd's scheme. But by then, the girls are already down with the miners, and it seems Mudd's scheme is working after all.

In an underwhelming showdown, Kirk can convince the miners to see more in the girls than just their beauty, can convince the girls that real beauty comes from the inside, and he can arrest Mudd - for minor traffic violations, actually.

A silly plot is made even sillier by its underwehlming conclusion, but on the plus side, this episode doesn't take itself too seriously to begin with, and Roger C.Carmel as Mudd makes an amusingly sleazy semi-villain, so somehow, this episode is good fun after all.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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