In the opening scenes an android dressed as crew member takes control of the Enterprise and proceeds to take it to an uncharted planet. Here Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Uhura and Chekov are 'invited' to beam down. On the planet they discover a society of androids led by an all too human master
Harry Mudd. Mudd explains that since his last encounter with Kirk he managed to escape prison and find his way to his current location where he ordered the resident androids to create more to his own specifications
not surprisingly most of the models are attractive females. It sounds like paradise for a man like Mudd but he wants to get away. They however wouldn't let him leave to he arranged for them to get more humans to serve and study. Of course things don't go as he planned and he must join forces with Kirk and his crew if the androids are to be defeated.
This is a somewhat mixed episode; it starts well and it was great to see Roger C. Carmel return as Mudd and his array of android beauties were rather fun I loved the scene where Chekov contemplates being with two such androids as he realises they were programmed by a man as depraved as Mudd! The episodes weakness is its use of that old cliché; causing a computer, or in this case the androids, to crash by behaving illogically or using a paradox some of the crew's 'illogical behaviour' is just embarrassing to watch. The episode is somewhat saved by the finale although many would argue that what Kirk does to Mudd could be construed as cruel and unusual punishment!
This is a somewhat mixed episode; it starts well and it was great to see Roger C. Carmel return as Mudd and his array of android beauties were rather fun I loved the scene where Chekov contemplates being with two such androids as he realises they were programmed by a man as depraved as Mudd! The episodes weakness is its use of that old cliché; causing a computer, or in this case the androids, to crash by behaving illogically or using a paradox some of the crew's 'illogical behaviour' is just embarrassing to watch. The episode is somewhat saved by the finale although many would argue that what Kirk does to Mudd could be construed as cruel and unusual punishment!