Mudd’s Women
Episode Overview:The Enterprise recovers Harcourt Fenton Mudd from within an asteroid belt. His crew is also his cargo – wives for settlers on Ophiuchus III. These women are very beautiful, and have oddly compulsive effects on the male crewmembers. Having burned out most of her dilithium crystals protecting Mudd’s ship, Kirk detours to a Rigel mining colony to secure more. But Mudd’s women secure a communicator for him, enabling him to strike his own deal with chief miner Ben Childress and his associates. To obtain the crystals, Kirk must bring down Mudd’s women, and must agree to dismiss charges against Mudd. Added to the mix is that the women may not be all they appear to be…
Air date: 10/13/1966
Directed by: Harvey Hart
Guest Stars: Roger C Carmel as Harcourt Fenton “Harry Mudd, Jim Goodwin as Lt John Farrell, Jerry Foxworth as Guard, Gene Dynarski as Ben, John Kowal as Herm, Seamon Glass as Benton, Karen Steele as Eve McHuron, Maggie Thrett as Ruth, Susan Denberg as Magda.