- The Enterprise picks up untrustworthy entrepreneur Harry Mudd accompanied by three beautiful women who immediately put a spell on all the male crew members.
- After stopping a vessel in space, Kirk and the crew find a very odd captain with a very strange cargo. The captain of the vessel is Harcourt Fenton Mudd - known as Harry to his friends - and the cargo are three lovely women he is transporting as brides for lonely men on distant planets. Kirk has a major problem: while trying to rescue Mudd and his women from his disintegrating ship, the Enterprise's lithium crystals used to power the engines were destroyed. They travel to a nearby mining colony where Mudd sets about to arrange marriages for the women, interfering with Kirk's plan to buy the crystals. All the time, the ship's orbit is deteriorating and risks burning up in the atmosphere.—garykmcd
- The Enterprise pursues a vessel (a cargo vessel which was trying to run away from it and hide inside an asteroid belt. The Enterprise had to protect the vessel with its own deflector screens as the vessel's engines overheated and eventually it was destroyed) and rescues its occupants. The vessel has no registration identification and its planet of origin is uncertain. The vessel's captain gives his name as Leo Walsh and the 3 women are his cargo. Kirk says Leo is lying and convenes an inquiry on him. Walsh is confined to his quarters till the completion of the inquiry.
The 3 women smite all the men on board the Enterprise (they are dreadfully beautiful and charmingly sexy). In rescuing the occupants, the Enterprise damaged its lithium crystals (as the ship's own engines overheated during the rescue) and only one functioning left, and that too might not hold as it has an hairline crack at the base. Spock suggests a course to Rigel XII, a mining planet with a supply of lithium.. The planet is only 2 days away.
Under a lie detector machine, Leo reveals that he is Harry Mudd, an interstellar con man, who is transporting three mysteriously beautiful women to become the wives of Dilithium miners on a settlement planet Ophiuchus-3. Mudd says his profession is to recruit wives for settlers. There is no data on the 3 women Ruthie, Magda and Evie. Evie says that they come from planets with no men. She welcomes the opportunity of men waiting for them to be their husbands. As the hearing concludes the last crystal goes off and now the entire ship is dependent on batteries. Mudd is happy that the ship is going towards the lithium mines as that would also have rich miners for the girls. The ship proceeds to Rigel XII on auxiliary impulse power.
McCoy gives the medical exam to one of the girls and finds no readings for her on his scanners. Evie is tasked by Mudd to seduce Kirk but she cant do it, as she likes Kirk. Mudd takes a communicator that Magda stole and contacts Rigel XII. Meanwhile as Enterprise enters orbit around Rigel XII, the women show rapid signs of aging and want Mudd to give them the pills. Kirk meets the leader of the miners Childress & Gossett, who wants Mudd freed (charges dropped) and his girls in exchange for the Dilithium crystals. Kirk has to agree. But at the surface Evie refuses to mingle with the mining crew and escapes into the magnetic storm that suddenly engulfs the surface of the planet. Childress wont give the crystals without her.
Kirk returns to the Enterprise to search for Evie who is now lost on the planet, but the magnetic storm in interfering with the sensors (they have already been searching for 3 hrs and 18 mins) and the ship is now down to 43 mins of power as several more hours of search reveals nothing about Evie's location. Childress finds Evie and brings her to his cabin. He finds Evie getting old. As the magnetic storm eases, the Enterprise finds Evie in Childress's cabin. Kirk and Mudd enter Childress's cabin on the planet's surface, where Kirk makes Mudd reveal that he has been giving the women Venus drug, which makes them rounder and more appealing. Childress is OK with the deceit and wants the girls to stay still.. He gives the crystals to Kirk, who leaves with Mudd.
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