Mudd's Women
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TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Carmel,+Roger+C."><U><B>ROGER C. CARMEL</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>EVE McHURON: </B><A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Steele,+Karen" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Steele,+Karen"><U><B>KAREN STEELE</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>RUTH BONAVENTURE: </B><A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Thrett,+Maggie" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Thrett,+Maggie"><U><B>MAGGIE THRETT</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>MAGDA KOVAS: </B><A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Denberg,+Susan" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Denberg,+Susan"><U><B>SUSAN DENBERG</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>LT. JOHN FARRELL: </B><A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Goodwin,+Jim+(I)" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Goodwin,+Jim+(I)"><U><B>JIM GOODWIN</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>BEN CHILDRESS: </B><A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Dynarski,+Gene" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Dynarski,+Gene"><U><B>GENE DYNARSKI</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>HERM GOSSETT: </B><A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Kowal,+John" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Kowal,+John"><U><B>JON KOWAL</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>BENTON: </B><A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Glass,+Seamon" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Glass,+Seamon"><U><B>SEAMON GLASS</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>GUARD: JERRY FOXWORTH</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <B>TELEPLAY BY: </B><A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Kandel,+Stephen" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Kandel,+Stephen"><U><B>STEPHEN KANDEL</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>STORY BY: </B><A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Roddenberry,+Gene" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Roddenberry,+Gen"><U><B>GENE RODDENBERRY</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>DIRECTED BY: </B><A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Hart,+Harvey" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Hart,+Harvey"><U><B>HARVEY HART</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>PRODUCED BY: </B><A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Roddenberry,+Gene" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Roddenberry,+Gen"><U><B>GENE RODDENBERRY</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>MUSIC COMPOSED BY: </B><A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Steiner,+Fred" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Steiner,+Fred"><U><B>FRED STEINER</B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="040f4010.gif" border=0 width="500" height="1" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>STARDATE: 1329.8 (2266) When a small, unregistered Class-J cargo vessel refuses to answer the </B><I><B>USS Enterprise's </B></I><B>hails, and then attempts to lose the starship by flying into an asteroid field, Captain Kirk is forced to use the </B><I><B>Enterprise's</B></I><B> deflector screens to protect the small ship. The effort of maintaining the deflectors around the other ship destroys five of the </B><I><B>Enterprise's</B></I><B> six lithium crystals, leaving the ship dangerously low on power. Mr. Spock and Mr. Scott are successful in beaming </B><A HREF="http://www.startrek.com/library/individ.asp?ID=116253" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.startrek.com/library/individ."><U><B>Captain </B></U></A><A HREF="http://www.startrek.com/library/individ.asp?ID=116253" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.startrek.com/library/individ."><U><B>Leo Walsh</B></U></A><B> and three women – </B><A HREF="http://www.startrek.com/library/individ.asp?ID=116931" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.startrek.com/library/individ."><U><B>Eve</B></U></A><B>, </B><A HREF="http://www.startrek.com/library/individ.asp?ID=113523" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.startrek.com/library/individ."><U><B>Ruth</B></U></A><B>, and </B><A HREF="http://www.startrek.com/library/individ.asp?ID=116883" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.startrek.com/library/individ."><U><B>Magda</B></U></A><B> – off the cargo ship before it is destroyed by an asteroid. These women, extremely beautiful, have an extraordinary, almost hypnotic, effect on the male members of the crew.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>To replenish the lithium crystals, Kirk orders a course for Rigel XII, which has a lithium mining operation. During the voyage to Rigel XII, a hearing is convened on Leo Walsh on the charges of galaxy travel without a flight plan, traveling without an identification beam, operating a vessel without a master's license, and failing to answer a starship's signal, thus effecting a menace to navigation. The hearing reveals that Leo Francis Walsh is, in fact, </B><A HREF="http://www.startrek.com/library/individ.asp?ID=71405" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.startrek.com/library/individ."><U><B>Harcourt "Harry" Fenton Mudd</B></U></A><B>, a criminal with a record of dubious minor crimes: Smuggling, transport of stolen goods, counterfeiting, petty theft, etc. Mudd's current business is wiving settlers, and the three women were en route to become wives to men on Ophiucus III. Kirk finds Mudd guilty, and orders that he be turned over to the legal authorities at the ship's earliest opportunity.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Although he is confined to quarters under guard, Mudd instructs the women to socialize with the crew. When Ruth visits sickbay, her presence near a medical scanner causes the device to temporarily malfunction, for which McCoy has no explanation. She also learns from the doctor that there are three miners on Rigel XII. Eve surprises Kirk in his quarters and attempts to seduce him, and during her walk with </B><A HREF="http://www.startrek.com/library/individ.asp?ID=116364" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.startrek.com/library/individ."><U><B>Lt. Farrell</B></U></A><B>, Magda is able to retrieve a communicator and determine the frequency for the miners on Rigel XII. Mudd uses the communicator to make advance contact with the miners, convincing them to trade their lithium crystals for the three women and his freedom.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Shortly before the miners come aboard, the three women begin to change into a less attractive appearance. Their beauty is artificial, the result of a Venus drug that enhances natural tendencies in both sexes, but the effects of the drug are temporary. The women exhibit withdrawal symptoms until Mudd gives them another dose, with Eve torn between the addiction and the moral issue of taking the "cheat."</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>While Kirk at first refuses to consider the miners' demands, the situation with the </B><I><B>Enterprise</B></I><B>, growing more desperate by the minute, forces him to concede to them. Beaming down to the miners' campsite to obtain the crystals, Kirk, Spock, and Mudd are forced to wait while the miners acquaint themselves with the women. When Eve is spurned over Magda and Ruth, she runs, upset, into the storm outside, followed by Kirk and </B><A HREF="http://www.startrek.com/library/individ.asp?ID=119895" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.startrek.com/library/individ."><U><B>Ben Childress</B></U></A><B>, the leader of the miners.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Kirk returns to the </B><I><B>Enterprise</B></I><B> to search for Eve, but Childress eventually finds her and returns her to his quarters, where they both collapse, exhausted. When they come to, Eve has begun to change again, not having the Venus drug available to her. Kirk and Mudd return to the planet, and Kirk reveals to Childress the Venus drug, explaining that he and the other two miners, </B><A HREF="http://www.startrek.com/library/individ.asp?ID=118392" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.startrek.com/library/individ."><U><B>Herm Gossett</B></U></A><B> and </B><A HREF="http://www.startrek.com/library/individ.asp?ID=113472" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.startrek.com/library/individ."><U><B>Benton</B></U></A><B> (who married Ruth and Magda the night before), were cheated by Mudd. To show Childress that he only wants what the drug provides, Eve takes another dose. Although she seems to change under the drug's effect, Kirk and Mudd inform her and Childress that she took a placebo; her belief in the Venus drug was enough to make her appear beautiful. Eve decides to stay with Childress, who gives Kirk the lithium crystals, and Kirk departs the planet with Mudd in custody.</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="040f4010.gif" border=0 width="500" height="1" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>INTERESTING POINTS</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- At this point in the show, the </B><I><B>Enterprise</B></I><B> uses lithium crystals, not dilithium crystals.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- Mudd relates in his hearing that Leo Walsh "passed away . . . suddenly." While it is out of character for Mudd to commit murder, his statement about Walsh implies that action.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- Kirk obviously trusts his crew, considering he leaves the door to his quarters unlocked. How else could Eve have entered to get away from the staring looks of the crewmen?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- The pistol phasers have white handles in the first few episodes of the show. Later in the series, the handles are painted black.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- If Eve was paying attention in Childress' quarters, she would have noticed that the placebo Venus drug lacked the iridescence of the actual pill.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- Jim Goodwin also portrays Lt. John Farrell in the episode </B><A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Enemy Within"><U><B>"</B></U></A><A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Enemy Within"><U><B>THE ENEMY WITHIN</B></U></A><A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Enemy Within"><U><B>."</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>- Roger C. Carmel reprises his character of Harry Mudd in the episode </B><A HREF="id68.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="I, Mudd"><U><B>"</B></U></A><A HREF="id68.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="I, Mudd"><U><B>I, MUDD</B></U></A><A HREF="id68.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="I, Mudd"><U><B>"</B></U></A><B> and provides Harry Mudd's voice in the </B><I><B>Star Trek</B></I><B> animated episode </B><A HREF="id113.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Animated Episodes"><U><B>"MUDD'S PASSION."</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>- Gene Dynarski played the role of a council member in </B><A HREF="id96.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Mark of Gideon"><U><B>"THE MARK OF GIDEON."</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>- Stephen Kandel also wrote the </B><I><B>Star Trek</B></I><B> animated episodes </B><A HREF="id113.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Animated Episodes"><U><B>"MUDD'S PASSION</B></U></A><A HREF="id113.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Animated Episodes"><U><B>"</B></U></A><B> and </B><A HREF="id113.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Animated Episodes"><U><B>"THE JIHAD."</B></U></A></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><U>PLOT FAULTS</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- One would think that if lithium crystals were so important to the operation of the </B><I><B>Enterprise</B></I><B>, they would keep spares on board.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- When Mudd uses the communicator to call the miners, equipment on the </B><I><B>Enterprise</B></I><B> should have detected the unauthorized transmission.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- If Mudd was confined to his quarters under guard, how did he get out to parade his women in front of the miners in Kirk's quarters?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- In the tag, Spock says, "I'm happy the affair is over. A most annoying, emotional episode." A poor choice of words for the unemotional Vulcan.</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><U>TECHNICAL FAULTS</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- In the flyby shot of the </B><I><B>Enterprise</B></I><B> entering the asteroid field, the matte effect allows the passing asteroids to be seen through the hull of the ship.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- When Kirk is asking Scotty if the Engineer was able to beam Mudd's crew over, he is talking into the intercom panel on his command chair. However, when Scotty answers, the close-up is on a wall communicator panel.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- The panels of the bridge form a continuous circle, breaking only at the turbo lift and the main view screen. However, when Kirk moves to Spock's station to use the sensors, the panel in front of him breaks the circle to allow for the positioning of the camera. The same fault occurs during a shot of Spock when the </B><I><B>Enterprise</B></I><B> enters orbit around Rigel XII.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- As the women are beamed aboard, they occupy a triangular position on the transporter platform. Their close-up, however, has them standing in a line.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- After the women are beamed aboard, the close-up of McCoy shows him standing next to a medical scanner in sickbay, not in the transporter room. The medical scanner scene occurs later in the episode.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- When Kirk, Spock, and Mudd beam down to Rigel XII, their hair is blown about by the storm. When they enter the miners' campsite, however, their hair is neatly combed.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>