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.