Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 6 - "Mudd’s Women"

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🗓️ 20 September 2012

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In the Star Trek: Original Series episode, “Mudd's Women,” with chicanery, bureaucracy, and misogyny, it's just another day on the 23rd Century frontier.

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0:00.0	Now entering nerdist.com.
0:05.5	Mission Log, a Rodenberry Star Trek podcast. From the loftiest admiral to the lowliest cadet. Sometimes we all need help making our way through
0:38.0	the 23rd century. Here to help with that help, I'm Can Ray. And I'm John Champion. Each week on
0:44.6	Mission Log, we watch an episode of Star Trek in order and then take it apart and see what's
0:50.2	making those engines hum. Then we'll dig a little deeper. We want to know if there's something for us to learn and if those messages still hold up
0:57.8	today.
0:58.5	On today's show, we say hello to Leo Walsh, Harcourt-Fenton-Mud, and the lovely Mudd's
1:04.1	women.
1:05.3	Well, the lovely women of mud.
1:08.8	I can't really make it sound right, dude.
1:10.6	No, you can't. No matter what. It's just an unfortunate title with lovely women.
1:17.2	Ken, would you like a little trivia about this episode?
1:19.8	Would I?
1:20.7	I knew you'd say that.
1:23.5	Mud's Women was written by Stephen Candle, or Candell, if I'm being European, and Gene Roddenberry.
1:31.0	Now, it was written very early on in Star Trek. In fact, this had a possibility of being the second pilot.
1:39.1	So instead of where no man has gone before and the awesome Gary Mitchell, Dr. Daner's story of becoming gods,
1:46.2	we would have had Mudd's women to sell Star Trek.
1:49.2	I don't know if things would have turned out as well as they did.
1:52.7	Well, I guess we'll get into it a little bit later,
1:56.0	but this feels to me like a couple of other TV shows that were on at the time.
2:00.9	Oh, yeah, for sure.
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