Product Details

• Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, Roger C. Carmel
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: CBS Paramount International Television
• VHS Release Date: July 29, 1991
• Run Time: 46 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6300213455
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #268,107 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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Lovable scoundrel Harry Mudd (Roger C. Carmel) returns following his debut appearance in the first-season episode "Mudd's Women," this time as the leader of a race of helpful (and leggy) androids. Mudd tries to take control of the Enterprise, but soon finds that the androids have plans of their own. This is one of Trek's few purely comic episodes, and it hits a nice level of whimsy as Kirk and the crew fight android efficiency with good old human illogic. "I, Mudd" also sets a benchmark achievement for the Star Trek design crew: It called not just for beautiful women in revealing costumes, but for beautiful twins in revealing costumes. Truly a tough one to top, cheesily foreshadowing the "Fembots" of Austin Powers infamy. --Ali Davis

From the Back Cover

That intergalactic rogue, Harry Mudd, is back to his old tricks as one of his schemes backfires, leaving Kirk, the Enterprise crew and himself held captive by a race of androids.

TREK TRIVIA
Roger C. Carmel became the first actor to reprise a guest villain on the show, having previously portrayed Harcourt Fenton Mudd in "Mudd's Women." Casting director Joseph D'Agosta discovered twins Rhae and Alyce Andrece while they were walking their ocelot down Hollywood Boulevard!
"I, Mudd" was the series' first comedic episode, produced just before the comedy favorite "The Trouble With Tribbles."

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The best of the Mudd episodes, February 12, 2001

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jasenao (Dothan, Alabama, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Star Trek - The Original Series, Episode 41: I, Mudd [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Harry Mudd (Roger Carmel) is one of Captain Kirk's most troublesome and noted rivalries. Mudd returns in this episode as the ruler of an android (robot) civilization. Mudd has a plan in mind to take Captain Kirk and his crew as hostages, and then to take over the Enterprise by use of his androids. As powerful as the androids are, and as mischievous and sneaky as Mudd is, will Kirk and the crew have a chance to get the ship back?

For about the first 30 minutes of "I,Mudd," I didn't think I was going to like the episode because it was mostly just a lot of talking and arguing among the cast crew. However, the last half of "I, Mudd" more than makes up for the first half. It was very entertaining to watch Captain Kirk and the crew try and outwit the androids by confusing them with what is logical and what is illogical. What happens at the end of the episode is one of the most hilarious parts of any of the Star Trek episodes. I recommend anybody who likes episodes of Star Trek - The Original Series with a lot of wits and humor mixed in to get "I, Mudd."

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT HUMUR, July 15, 2000

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ken (usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Star Trek - The Original Series, Episode 41: I, Mudd [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I think the last 17 mins. {of humor}. makes it a buy, if you dont have it

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars This episode gets a C grade and is ranked 55th out of 80, October 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Star Trek - The Original Series, Episode 41: I, Mudd [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Norman, an android pretending to be a member of the U.S.S. Enterprise crew, takes control of the starship and her crew, taking them to an unnamed planet where Kirk discovers an old nemesis... Harry Mudd. Fleeing from his most recent criminal exploit, Harry crash-landed on the planet, which is inhabited by androids designed by a long-extinct race. At first their desire to fulfill his every need seemed like paradise, but Harry soon realized that precluded him ever leaving the planet. So, sending Norman to capture the U.S.S. Enterprise, Mudd hoped to trade the starship's crew for his own freedom. The androids, however, want to use the U.S.S. Enterprise as a vehicle to populate the universe, serving mankind and protecting them from themselves. Unwilling to spend their lives on the strange planet, waited on by machines, Kirk and company set about finding a way out. It is not without temptation, however. Spock is shown what is supposedly the control center for all the androids... a veritable electronics dream come true. McCoy is given an extensive lab, set up to do all the research he's ever wanted to do, while Scotty is shown the technical machine shop of his dreams. The androids offer Uhura eternal youth and beauty while Chekov contemplates a planet filled with beautiful young women. In the end, however, the crew bands together in an attempt to thoroughly confuse and, ultimately, short-circuit them. Through a series of illogical and very funny antics, the U.S.S. Enterprise crew and Mudd cause Norman, the central control for all the androids, to have an electronic "nervous breakdown." Instead of granting Harry Mudd his freedom, Kirk leaves him on the planet with the remaining androids... including many fashioned in the image of his shrewish wife, Stella, until he mends his ways.