Mudd's Women

 This is another episode that proves it wasn't aired in the order it was shot in. Yeoman Rand is nowhere to be found and Uhura is not wearing her signature red, but a yellow dress instead.
   In this episode the Enterprise finds themselves with a shortage of Lithium crystals after doing something which I find rather stupid. They're chasing this ship and it's engines fall apart. Kirk REEEEEEEEALLY wants to speak to the captain of that ship so he puts his own ship in danger to do and destroys all but one of his Lithium crystals. Even though Scotty told him he was going to put the ship in danger by doing this Kirk does it anyway. He barely gets everyone from the other ship onto his before the other ship blows up. Kirk got his chance to talk to the captain of the ship, but lost his Lithium crystals. Rigel XII has lithium crystals but sadly is a good two days away so the ship is on battery power until then. Battery power? I didn't know a space ship could run on batteries. I kept picturing a toy spaceship that you would have to flip over and remove the back to add new batteries to.
  But the captain of the ship that blew up, Harcourt Mudd, didn't come alone. His cargo was three beautiful women: Eve, Ruth, and Magda.

   

  Something about them magnetically attracts the men of the ship. Turns out Mudd had been giving the ladies pills to make them look more beautiful. Mudd makes a scheme so that he can sell these three women and become wealthy and possibly control the Enterprise. He wants to trade the women for Lithium crystals to the miners on Rigel XII. I really don't like that. I mean I don't like the fact that the women in this episode are cargo and not people, but what really irks me is when Mudd decides to use them as currency. That's just really not okay to me. 

    On Rigel XII there's a bit where the miners are fighting over the women and Eve gets pissed and runs away...and I can't blame her. Kirk and a miner try to follow her but the dumb miner ends up getting lost to. Finally Kirk finds Eve and the miner and Eve proves that looks don't matter, it's your personality...and they fall in mutual like and all is well with the world again! YAAAAY!

   And now I leave you with a picture of Mudd because he's a space cowboy reject and I find him hysterical: