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Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 2, Episodes 4 & 5: Mudd's Women/The Enemy Within
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In Theaters : 08 September, 1966
DVD Release : 17 August, 1999
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Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 2, Episodes 4 & 5: Mudd's Women/The Enemy Within description
This second volume of episodes on DVD from the original Star Trek includes the popular and sexy "Mudd's Women," which introduces the character of interstellar huckster and fugitive Harry Mudd (Roger C. Carmel, later to return in another classic episode, "I, Mudd"). The Enterprise beams aboard Harry and three beautiful and scantily clad women whom the con man is carrying as cargo. The transport damages the starship, forcing Captain Kirk (William Shatner) to take a detour to a mining world for a supply of dilithium crystals. Harry uses the women as bait to get the miners to help him flee from the authorities--but a revelation about his liberal use of an attraction-enhancement drug adds a twist to things. This clever and novel installment in the series grafted the unlikely element of a petty, colorful crook onto a science fiction show, an obvious forerunner of Deep Space Nine's inclusion of Quark among its own major characters.

Also in this volume is another outstanding episode, "The Enemy Within." Written by renowned novelist-screenwriter Richard Matheson (The Incredible Shrinking Man), the story proposes a transporter malfunction that results in Captain Kirk being divided into two versions of himself, one aggressive and brutal, the other sensitive and good. Essentially, the personality mix that makes Kirk an effective leader and balanced man is scattered like so many marbles, and the result is one captain running around mauling women and wreaking havoc while the other is frightened and indecisive. The production is very effectively done, and Shatner's performance is among his most interesting. --Tom Keogh

Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 2, Episodes 4 & 5: Mudd's Women/The Enemy Within Customer Reviews
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♥♥♥♥♥ Just two so-so episodes
Although Shatner's acting performance in "The Enemy Within" was exceptional, and Harry Mudd would go on to be the most popular Star Trek guest star behind Kahn and tribbles, these are two pretty mediocre episodes in the mostly excellent first season.

"Mudd's Women" really didn't have much actual sci-fi elements in the episode. The Enterprise picks up con-man Harry Mudd, with a cargo of beautiful women that Mudd is trying to barter off to lonely space miners, for a profit. And the episode basically just addresses the theme of believing in one self, just the way one is. Which is fine, but not too much sci-fi there.

And "The Enemy Within" starts off with Kirk being split in two by a transporter malfunction, into one being gentle and good, the other being aggressive and bad. Not a bad start for sci-fi, but then the episode spends a lot of time on just the trio speculating about all humans' good and dark side to their personalities. This episode also had a plot hole that V'ger could've fit through. Because of the transporter malfunction, the Enterprise couldn't beam anybody else up to the Enterprise until it was corrected, with the landing party stuck on the surface in frigid night time temperatures, where they almost froze to death. But the episode never explains why they didn't use the shuttlecraft to get the landing party up to the ship.
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