Mudd’s Women make me wish that I never chose Star Trek ever. I chose to watch it because, hey I’m a guy and it has a nice ring to it. Honestly though the episode is forty three minutes to pure pain and headache. While the start might seem deceptively intriguing, the plot gradually wears thin.
The story revolves around how the Enterprise on pursuit of a wanted criminal Harcourt Fenton Mudd finds out that he has with him three extremely sexy women. Mudd discloses that they were meant to be the wives of miners on a certain planet. Meanwhile the chase has practically destroyed the Enterprise’s dilithium crystals and so the starship hobbles to the nearest mining planet for a refill. Mudd secretly contacts the miners and cuts a deal with them to deliver the women if they insist on him and the girls going free in return for providing the dilithium crystals. Kirk reluctantly agrees. It soon turns out theough that the women were made artificially beautiful by taking the illegal Venus drug. The miners are outraged and hold Mudd captive. Kirk eventually show the miners the inner beauty of the women and in return gets the Dilithium crystals and Mudd back.
Overall this episode had no unique argument to take. One could argue about the inner/ outer beauty paradox but the content of the episode did not provide any material on that. At any rate I believe that both outer and inner beauty play a valuable part in love. The entire point of the episode eludes me.
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