Star Trek-RM: Mudd's Women… Grade/Discuss (Corrected)

[AstroSmurf]

This is the revised grading & discussion thread for Star Trek Remastered airing the weekend of 04/26/08.

Mudd’s Women

After detecting a cargo vessel in distress, the [FONT=&quot]U.S.S. Enterprise[/FONT] makes a dangerous rescue of its passengers from within an asteroid belt, severely damaging its engines in the process. Once the four are brought to safety, Kirk discovers he has unwittingly brought a known criminal, Harry Mudd, and his cargo, three beautiful yet bewitching females, onboard his ship. But it soon becomes apparent that these women are not all that they appear to be and that Mudd may have involved the ship in another of his illegal shenanigans. And the captain and his crew must try and figure out Mudd’s latest scheme and find a way to repair their dead warp drive.

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[AstroSmurf]

There is something about this episode that I have always liked. I think the idea of someone seeing themselves as they really are, not what they think they are, has a nice emotional resonance to it. Is Eve beautiful because she really is or because she thinks she is? Who really knows for sure and that ambiguity really makes you think. Of course this episode also introduces the legendary Harry Mudd. Who could forget that. But under all of that is this quiet little story that makes you think. I give it a B.

As for the remastering, it was pretty good. I liked the new cargo ship and its demise. The rest was more of the same. I had to give it an average.

 

[Joanna McCoy-Kirk]

I liked Harry Mudd much better in "I, Mudd", so I gave "Mudd's Women" a B-.

JL

 

[TIN_MAN]

The new 'class J cargo ship ' is nice but I wish CBS-D would have used a CG version of one of Jeffries early skeches for the big 'E'. Specifically, I'm thinking of the one that's kinda tear drop shaped, which I suspect was the inspiration for the simularly shaped vessel in the original SFX animation? If done, this would have been in keeping with the TOS production habit of using such material (as with the Botony Bay) and been a nice tip of the hat to Honor Mr. Jeffries.

 

[cooleddie74]

I liked the new J-class cargo ship and the asteroids but when the ship is hit and blows apart the bluish spray pattern of fire and debris didn't look that good. It didn't come apart very believably. I'd have rather seen a bright flash or sunburst like effect the way the original 1966 opticals did it.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

At first I wondered why they didn't use the same "J class" from Enterprise (the class that the ECS Horizon belongs to), especially since it is also a cargo freighter.

Then I decided that the version used here, since it was never seen close up, could indeed have been that same J class - but just the forward section, with all the cargo containers removed. (We saw the Horizon flying that way in ENT during the Nausicaan attack)

 

[zopman]

I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned the new aerial panorama of the Rigel 12 site. It was a good idea, but it really looked liked they tried to make it look fake, like my old cousin's model train layout with all that plastic terrain!! Yikes!! But I do agree that the opening sequence persuing Mudd's ship was well done, ...yeah, despite the not-quite-realistic explosion! Thus I give the FX an above-average.

 

[boobatuba]

Anbody else see the poor editing job when the ladies first beam in? There's a shot of McCoy in sickbay spliced into the scene that clearly takes place in the transporter room. Was it wrong in the original as well?

 

[OneBuckFilms]

I'll have to check on that.

 

[Hambone]

Anbody else see the poor editing job when the ladies first beam in? There's a shot of McCoy in sickbay spliced into the scene that clearly takes place in the transporter room. Was it wrong in the original as well?

Yeah, McCoy's uniform changes from duty to surgical and back again.

I liked the asteroid field remastering. The panorama of the planet looks a little phony but it fits in with the full-size sets, which look really phony.

 

[cooleddie74]

I think the shot of the Enterprise sailing through the asteroid shower when the "MUDD'S WOMEN" title appears on screen is a recycle of a shot from "The Doomsday Machine" when the Enterprise is shown maneuvering through CGI planet debris.

 

[SeerSGB]

First time I'd seen this episode in a while. Man I forget how much of a downer ending it actually has

 

[Cyrus]

I finally saw this one, liked all the changes.

 

[cooleddie74]

The new CGI matte of the Rigel mining settlement in the storm and dust clouds looked really nice.