YMMV / Star Trek S1 E6 "Mudd's Women"

• Ensemble Dark Horse: Harry Mudd was so popular that he was brought back the following season. Keep in mind that at the time there was no way to watch a TV episode you missed when it first aired, ^note Unless you caught it in re-runs, (if it was re-run), and there was no way to guarantee that. and thus it was very rare for any episode to require having seen a previous one to properly understand it. He went on to make another appearance in the animated series, and would have appeared as a Human Popsicle in Star Trek: The Next Generation if not for Roger C. Carmel's untimely death. And then he was brought back in a recurring role on Star Trek: Discovery played by Rainn Wilson. He also was the subject of Pocket Book novel, and twice put in an appearance in DC's Star Trek the second time for a three-part story celebrating the franchise's 25th Anniversary.
• Funny Moments: The male crew members' reaction to the women, particular when the computer calls them out on it during the hearing about Mudd. Kirk sheepishly orders Spock to strike that information from the record.
• Hollywood Homely: When Eve's Venus drug wears off and she reverts to her alleged ugliness, it only looks like she removed her makeup and messed up her hair. This gets noticed in-universe and is part of what gives the Magic Feather game away.
• Theiss Titillation Theory: Maggie Thrett, playing the character of Ruth◊, suffered repeated wardrobe malfunctions during shooting — apparently one of her, ahem, assets refused to remain covered. (Unsurprisingly, the final version of the costume was another of Roddenberry's "improvements.") The ruined shot was saved for a Gag Reel, however.
• Values Dissonance: Let's just say this episode's on the perennial shortlist whenever it comes to TOS' sexism. Mudd, essentially a drug-dealing pimp, is treated as a Lovable Rogue by the narrative; and even if the happy ending comes from the titular women escaping him, it's into marriage with three miners so selfish they'd rather let the Enterprise burn than give up power for free, and whose idea of love is loudly criticizing everything their wives do. Hoo... ray?

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