Star Trek: The Animated Series — 1x10 — Mudd's Passion

Aired 1973-11-10

SpaceOpera.com rating:4

Average reader rating:4.65

Synopsis

The Enterprise is ordered to find Harry Mudd, a Federation outlaw, who is accused of selling a fake love potion to miners.

Remarkable scenes

Spock ruining Mudd's latest scheme.
Spock getting emotional and Chapel getting pissed at Mudd for the potion's (supposed) failure.
The whole crew being infected by the love potion.
McCoy: "If the Enterprise had a heart I'd save her too."
Spock: "That is an outstandingly stupid idea!"

Review

And another TOS rehash; this time by bringing back Harry Mudd. Captain Kirk tracks down Harry Mudd to arrest him. Once again, good continuity regarding Nurse Chapel's attraction to Spock is well exploited. Nothing too terribly interesting happens in this episode, though nothing too terribly boring either. It's safe to say it's a fairly average episode, excepting of course for some of the dumb things Nurse Chapel did.

1 reader comment

Count me among those who can't consider TAS canon. There are some potentially neat things about the concept, like Arax, and they try to tie it in with the original series with nods to Harry Mudd and the shore leave planet and the eugenics wars and whatnot, but the whole thing suffers from some really dumbed down writing. And the cat woman who sometimes sits in Uhura's seat is really annoying. Majel Barret sounds annoyed that she has to do the little meow thing after every other sentence. And we don't even get to see her hook up with Scotty on the bridge.
If this were canon, we'd have to accept that Nurse Chapel is the biggest bimbo in the galaxy. She should also be thrown in the brig for experimenting with drugs given to her by a known criminal and intentionally dosing a fellow officer.
The real kicker here, though, is when Kirk feeds the love pills to the rock monster. The only thing that makes this episode watchable is the creepy bromantic moment between Spock and Kirk while they're rolling on Mudd's ecstasy pills.
by JRPoole | 08/11/2011 at 5:15 am