OMG. I've got some catching up to do.
Episode Novelisations
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OMG. I've got some catching up to do.
And Mudd shows up in The Light Fantastic.
To be clear, that's Starfleet Academy Starship Bridge Simulator, the Super Nintendo/Sega Genesis version of the game, not the better-known PC/Mac remake that was just called Starfleet Academy and didn't include any Harry Mudd.
And I always remember Mudd in Your Eye for being the novel that killed off Captain Kirk for real without anyone noticing.
Only if Harry is really old. Roger C. Carmel was actually 18 months younger than William Shatner. There's no way a Harry Mudd who was Kirk's age could've had an adult daughter when Kirk was only 26. Granted, Mudd seemed older than Kirk, but not a whole generation older. (So maybe she's Harry's half-sister?)
It's as clear as Mudd.
Maybe that's just because you mave Mudd in Your Eye.
So I just received my first one of Blish's books in the post today (Star Trek 11), it was definitely worth getting hold of. The additions were interesting, and the differences in the scripts were as well. I just finished 'Bread and Circuses' and I really enjoy the characters' inner monologues and Blish's descriptions (my favourite being 'Merick's eyes were haunted. And he would be forever pursued by the Furies of his own self-betrayal'). It also cleared up once and for all for me whether Kirk sleeps with Drusilla...
That's the episode with the boots, right? Was there any ever doubt?
Well, some people like to think he didn't. And he is fully clothed and above the covers when we see him again. It is as ambiguous as sixties TV usually is. But I was hoping he might be above seducing a slave... I was wrong 
No, that was Deela in "Wink of an Eye."
So? Mudd himself could have been older than Kirk. The age of the actor is irrelevant.
Oh! Drusilla. The slave girl on 892-IV. Yeah, I would kind of like to think he didn't, since she was a slave, and Kirk has never been pro-slavery. I haven't read the Blish novelization... Good news, though: Not canon.
In my mind, Kirk could have spent the night in (even flirtatious) conversation, but upheld her dignity by not using her as the "Roman" official intended.
And I retract my use of the phrase "slave girl" above. "Woman who was enslaved." I should know better.
Well the novelisation still doesn't make it completely explicit. But Kirk's inner monologue stating his 'interest' makes it a much stronger hint to what he actually did. I'd prefer to think he didn't either. And as you say, 'non canon'...
Oh! Drusilla. The slave girl on 892-IV. Yeah, I would kind of like to think he didn't, since she was a slave, and Kirk has never been pro-slavery. I haven't read the Blish novelization... Good news, though: Not canon.
There is an edit function. Given you made though posts two minutes between them, I doubt anyone would have seen it in that time.
FYI, the final draft script of "Mudd's Women" gives Harry Mudd's age as 47, born on Antares Pi IV. I'm not sure if it was in dialogue or the scene descriptions, but I used that info to give Mudd a definitive birthdate when I was putting together my own TOS chronology.
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So, 47 in 2266 would mean he'd been 40 in '59. It's a bit tight for him to have a space-pirate daughter, but Harry doesn't strike me as a particularly careful man, and the half-Bajoran Mudd of the comics was depicted as pretty young, possibly even an older teenager. Harry in his early twenties could father a child who'd be in her late teens by STID (or vice-versa. As I said, Harry having a kid with an alien when he's still a kid himself is plausible).
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