Star Trek: The Animated Series

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Star Trek: The Animated Series

#10 Mudds Passion

Episode 10

Written by: Stephen Kandel

Directed by: Hal Sutherland

Airdate: Nov. 10, 1973

Stardate: 4978.5

Synopsis

Harry Mudd is once again apprehended and incarcerated by the U.S.S. Enterprise crew, after trying to sell love crystals. Mudd abducts Nurse Chapel and briefly escapes to a rocky planet in a stolen Enterprise Heavy shuttlecraft, but he is recaptured and sentenced to an indefinite period in rehabilitation therapy for violations of the Federation pharmaceutical code, including fraud, illegal drug manufacturing, swindling, and transport of a dangerous life-form (a Rigellian hypnoid).

Guest Characters:

Mudd Roger C. Carmel

Female Ursinoid miner Nichelle Nichols

Male Ursinoid miner James Doohan

Lora Majel Barrett

Human miner James Doohan

Notes:

This episode's writer Stephen Kandel wrote another animated STAR TREK episode "The Jihad". Kandel also wrote the two Harry Mudd episodes of the Original STAR TREK series, "Mudd's Women" and "I, Mudd" to which this episode was a sequel.

Actor Roger Carmel reprised his role of Harry Mudd by providing the voice of the animated Harry Mudd.

There was a visual error in this episode: one scene showed Nurse Chapel wearing a uniform with a black collar.

Another visual error in this episode showed Spock with his insignia on the wrong side of his tunic.

This episode had a very large role for Nurse Chapel, who usually had very little to do in both the original and animated series.

[Admiral Kirk 1]

I liked this episode because it had a but more mature subjects than the toos of the time or now.

Edited November 3, 2003 by Admiral Kirk