TOS Episode - I, Mudd

Series :

The Original Series

Rating :

Disc No :

2.2

Episode :

First Aired :

3 Nov 1967

Stardate :

4513.3

Director :

Marc Daniels

Year :

2267

Writers :

Stephen Kandel

Season :

Guest Cast :

Alyce Andrece as Alice series	Colleen Thornton as Barbara series
Kay Elliott as Stella Mudd	Maureen Thornton as Barbara series
Michael Zaslow as Ensign Jordan	Mike Howden as Lieutenant Rowe
Rhae Andrece as Alice series	Richard Tatro as Norman
Roger C. Carmel as Harcourt Fenton Mudd	Starr Wilson as Maisie series
Tamara Wilson as Maisie series	Ted Legarde as Herman series
Tom Legarde as Herman series

Stunts :

Bob Bass as Engineer stunt double	Bob Orrison as Engineer stunt double
Loren Janes as Norman's stunt double	Vince Deadrick as Norman's stunt double

Plotline :

A mysterious crew member sets the Enterprise on a course for an unknown planet, booby-trapping the engines to explode if they are tampered with. Once there he takes some of the crew down to a subsurface complex populated with androids under the control of none other than Harcourt Fenton Mudd. Mudd found the planet and became the ruler of the androids, but when they refused to let him leave he convinced them that he could supply new Humans for them to serve in the form of the Enterprise crew. Kirk and his officers face a life imprisoned on a planet of androids grimly determined to serve them, unless they can somehow overload the logic centres of the androids centralised brains. Cue some truly bizzare behaviour...

Moral :

Androids :

Illogical behaviour can void your warranty

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YATI :

If Norman is the head android and none of the others can function without him, how did they function when he was light years away taking over the Enterprise?

Great Moment :

Spock talking the 'Alices' into destroying themselves.

Body Count :

Several thousand androids.

Factoid :

This episode features the return of Harry Mudd from season one episode "Mudd's Women".

Quote :

"Knowledge, sir, should be free to all." - Harry Mudd to Spock.

"What is man but that lofty spirit, that sense of ... enterprise. That devotion to something that cannot be sensed, cannot be realized, but only dreamed. The highest reality" - Kirk

"Human beings do not survive on bread alone, you poor, soulless creature, but on the nourishments of liberty. For what indeed is a man without freedom, naught but a mechanism, trapped in the cogwheels of eternity." - Harry to Norman

"Logic is a little tweeting bird chirping in a meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell bad. Are you sure your circuits are registering correctly? Your ears are green." - Spock on logic.

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