I, Mudd
- Episode aired Nov 3, 1967
- TV-PG
- 50m
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7.3/10
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Harry Mudd returns with a plot to take over the Enterprise by stranding the crew on a planet populated by androids under his command.Harry Mudd returns with a plot to take over the Enterprise by stranding the crew on a planet populated by androids under his command.Harry Mudd returns with a plot to take over the Enterprise by stranding the crew on a planet populated by androids under his command.
Bobby Bass
- Android
- (uncredited)
Bill Blackburn
- Android
- (uncredited)
Marlys Burdette
- Female Android
- (uncredited)
Roger Holloway
- Lt. Lemli
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Gene Roddenberry
- Stephen Kandel
- David Gerrold(uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaA third-season appearance of Harry Mudd was planned but axed due to the producers' desire to move away from comedy episodes. However, Roger C. Carmel would reprise the role of Mudd as a cartoon voice in Mudd's Passion (1973). Mudd was considered for a return during the Star Trek movies in the 1980s, but Carmel's failing health nixed that.
- GoofsThe color shirt of the android who takes over the ship is blue. He keeps skipping medical appointments and Bones is concerned. However, the blue shirt is Science and Medical, which means that if anyone is transferred to the ship, both Spock and Bones would have received paperwork on the individual. They both should have known who the person was and what their purpose was on the ship. Yet, in the opening scene, Spock doesn't know him at all and Bones can't get him to keep a medical appointment.
- Quotes
Captain Kirk: Well, opinions?
Chekov: I think we're in a lot of trouble.
Captain Kirk: That's a great help, Mr. Chekov. Bones?
McCoy: I think Chekov's right, we are in a lot of trouble.
Captain Kirk: Spock, and if you say we're in a lot of trouble...
Spock: We are.
- Alternate versionsSpecial Enhanced version Digitally Remastered with new exterior shots and remade opening theme song. Highlights include a more detailed look at Norman's "innards."
- ConnectionsFeatured in Star Trek Logs: An MTV Big Picture Special Edition (1991)
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I like.
I, Mudd sees the return of scallywag Harry Mudd (played by Roger C. Carmel), last seen in the pretty awful episode Mudd's Women. Having escaped from prison, Mudd has landed on a planet inhabited by androids who proceed to worship the scoundrel, granting his every wish. However, the androids will not let Mudd leave their planet, for they want to study human behaviour and he is their only specimen. Harry therefore decides to provide the androids with alternative human subjects for their studies: the crew of the Enterprise.
The good news is that I, Mudd isn't as bad as Mudd's Women: it's still one of the show's lesser comedic episodes, but the titular character isn't quite as grating this time around, and the story is a mite more interesting, the androids planning to spread throughout the galaxy and control the human race (which isn't as terrible as it sounds since they want to serve mankind). However, Kirk isn't about to let that happen and devises a crazy plan to discombobulate the androids* and allow his crew to make their escape.
Sure, we've seen this kind of ploy before, Kirk confusing machines so much that they self-destruct or shut down, but it's never been quite so much fun, the Enterprise crew playing the fool in order to unbalance the androids' circuits. It's worth watching purely to see Scotty, Bones, Chekov and Uhura doing some really silly stuff.
6.5/10, rounded up to 7 for IMDb.
*Hard to watch without thinking of Austin Powers when he uses his mojo to cause fembots to self-destruct.
The good news is that I, Mudd isn't as bad as Mudd's Women: it's still one of the show's lesser comedic episodes, but the titular character isn't quite as grating this time around, and the story is a mite more interesting, the androids planning to spread throughout the galaxy and control the human race (which isn't as terrible as it sounds since they want to serve mankind). However, Kirk isn't about to let that happen and devises a crazy plan to discombobulate the androids* and allow his crew to make their escape.
Sure, we've seen this kind of ploy before, Kirk confusing machines so much that they self-destruct or shut down, but it's never been quite so much fun, the Enterprise crew playing the fool in order to unbalance the androids' circuits. It's worth watching purely to see Scotty, Bones, Chekov and Uhura doing some really silly stuff.
6.5/10, rounded up to 7 for IMDb.
*Hard to watch without thinking of Austin Powers when he uses his mojo to cause fembots to self-destruct.
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