Harry Mudd is a classic character who earns one and a half stars by his presence alone.
The other .5 are these costumes. The purple one 🤩
But I find the story of this episode less than compelling. What are the character motivations? The consequences? What exactly is Harry Mudd's scheme? Get girls addicted to the Venus pill, marry them to men who want them to look nice and start a drug empire?
Don't get me started on the takeaway at the end. Have confidence and you're sexy without the magic pill. Not look for more than just good looks in your life partner?
Summary
The Enterprise blows its dilithium crystals saving the crew of a ship that ran into an asteroid. Four people, one man and three gorgeous women are transported on board before the Enterprise's dilithium crystals blow. With the Enterprise on limited power, the crew has no choice but to limp to the nearest planet with a dilithium mine.
Meanwhile, all men aboard the Enterprise are infatuated with the new women on board. Hijinks ensue.
Well for the time - 😬😬🔘🔘🔘
This episode is mostly fine. The Venus pill is weird, and the actresses are gorgeous even in their "ugly" forms. The ending takes this to a two 😬. I think it would have been better if Eve was just "plain." If she had a lesson to learn, it wasn't that she needed more confidence.
Characters
Kirk
Sulu
Spock
Scotty
Harcourt "Harry" Fenton Mudd
Bones
Johnny Farrell
Connors
Eve
Magda
Ben Childers
Herm Gassett
Benton
Uhura (in yellow)
Planets
Rigel XII
Ships
USS Enterprise
The other kind of ship
Spones
There's some classic ribbing at the end of the episode.
And Spock's expression when Bones is soliloquizing about how beautiful the ladies are is pretty cute
On this day, Leo Diegel defeats Johnny Farrell 6 & 4 to with the 1929 PGA Championship
On this day, Leo Diegel defeats Johnny Farrell 6 & 4 to with the 1929 PGA Championship #golf
Leo Diegel won his 2nd consecutive PGA Championship, 87 years ago… Leo Diegel in the “A” position which he experimented with. On this day, Leo Diegel defeated Johnny Farrell 6 & 4 to with the 1929 PGA Championship. It was Diegel’s second consecutive PGA Championship; he would never win any other majors. Eight times he finished the top 10 of the US Open or The Open, the only two strokeplay…
“Hello. My name is Maria De La Cuesta,” she practiced at home in the mirror. “My name is Maria De La Cuesta, how do you do?” she said to him at the club.
He looked up from his paper.
“Yeah, I know. Tiny told me on my first day.” He brushed his hair back, then lit a cigarette. The smoke-tendrils curled and beckoned around his face. “You don’t like it though.”
“No.”
“Then change it. What’s your middle name? All you Spanish broads have at least five.”
She slapped him. It happened so fast, she didn’t have time to feel sorry. The sound was like a whip crack. He smiled and rubbed his jaw.
“So you do have some Irish in ya. Okay, four.”
She geared up to do it again but he caught her hand.
“Easy, tiger. I might get to like it.”
thank you, @roboticonography!
from this fic meme. I finally got home from the war work, hit me up with an ask.
