Week Six of Star Trek.
This week’s episode Mudd’s Women
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**Synopsis: ** The Enterprise rescues a smuggler and his sexy cargo. The rogue, Harry Mudd, uses an emergency to sell off his women to space miners threatening to strand the Enterprise in orbit.
his was probably the worst episode thus far.
You know I’m beginning to think Thwartme has a point about the overall lack of smarts by the crew of this ship. A bunch of attractive women come on board and every guy (with the exception of our favourite Alien) becomes a slack jawed grinning idiot.
Even the guards, watching Mudd brag on how he will use the situation to his advantage, do nothing. As he threatens to buy the ship itself and depose Captain Kirk they stand there and don’t contact the Captain. Mudd even gets access to contact the head miner and make his side deal.
Boy women of the future aren’t that different from the women today. They need husbands so desperately they take a beauty drug and travel into deep space with scoundrels to find them. Good thing that they know beauty is important to snag a guy. Let’s hope all three can cook and clean.
I don’t get how the gelatine placebo made her beautiful in the end… Kirk’s explanation was weak.
Speaking of weak those crystals that run the ship don’t take much to short out.
I liked Mudd, though, pretty funny character, not threatening, just a scoundrel.
By the way no exploring once again. Where is the Boldly going where no man has gone before?!?!
One thing that bugged me was the shots of the girls. They would use this soft focus effect with halo lighting as though their taking of the DRUG (a DRUG! ON TV!?!) would affect the surrounding air and light qualities. Cheesy effect for a cheesy idea.
And besides, the most beautiful women on that ship are still the Yoeman and that dark skinned lovely.
Now, let’s talk DRUG USE ON TV! How dare NBC and Desilu try to portray drug use as something that’s both common and marginally okay. I am morally offended. Even the placebo effect explanation at the end doesn’t outweigh the apparant condoning of drug use on TV. What’s next? Someone ODs and goes on a rampage? Why not just have a mass murderer or a rapist as a character next?
I think in the future we will be far beyond such things. Really, think about it. With all that the technology of this projec ted future offers, why would anyone take drugs? Or kill? Or even be mean to other people? The writers seem to be missing the boat here.
Star Trek was set in “space: the final frontier”. Clear analogy there to the old west in the 19th century US. Mudd is on the fringe of society and the law.
Actually I heard this was supposed to be like Wagon train except in Space. People making money shipping wives to the frontier miners was something from the old wild west so I guess this could happen in the future but seeing as Mudd is not a reputiable man it seems to be seen as a seedy business.
Kirk and crew weren’t that plussed on Mudd’s behaviour so they represent the good part of society.
Interesting note… Mudd never served prison time just psychological rehabilitation.
I guess in the future there will not be prisons.
BTW, is anyone else bothered by the excessive amount of skin being displayed on this show? Those bare arms and slinky outfits are kinda pushing the limits of good taste, especially for television. And even though clad in stockings, those mini-skirted legs are a bit much.
She became beautiful because she believed she was beautiful. Beauty isn’t just looks - it’s attitude, how you carry yourself, confidence, etc. That, and smearing a bunch of vaseline on the camera lens.
I’m not sure why you think that…but I for one think that legs that might fall off at any second are not at all titillating.
Yeoman Rand may be physically more attractive than the other women, but she’s a career woman. No man in his right mind is going to be attracted to a woman who chooses career over homemaking.
Hey that bear of a man Mudd was wearing an earring? Don’t that mean you’re a homosexual if you’re man wearing an earring. Is this “Star Trek” show gonna try to send messages?*
I liked this somewhat. Like that Eve sort of set her own rules with Childress.
I wonder if that one poster who posted a few weeks back had to let his son go to the bathroom just to get ahold of himself after having to see those scandalous scantily-clad women.
Sir Rhosis
*[2005]Remember this is supposedly from a 1966 POV, and many people would probably have latched onto something silly like Mudd’s earring. And, yes, FTR, I am aware that Roger C. Carmel was gay.[/2005]
I think the show was great. It’s about time they dealt with an important issue like interstellar sex androids of the future and the problems they pose. I would like to see other, similar problems involving interstellar sex androids of the future explored in future episode. Maybe they can do a spinoff! Call it Mudd’s Angels or something like that.
