Hey, I never noticed that before....

[Phaser Two]

I'm a girl so I'm not the best judge but I thought the girls looked attractive (not more than any in the crew) but acted skanky. I just can't see say McCoy being attracted to them.

If its just about looks then there's Rand, Uhura and practically any Yeoman. Maybe Mudd's women sultry poses and availability attracted the men.

Not sure about "skanky," but Ruth wasn't my type and the Magda actress was really bad, so. YMMV. Also, the casting of really attractive guest stars (male and female) reached ridiculous heights in some of S2 and particularly S3. Anyway, I do like how with Eve it turns out to be all about self-confidence, or whatever the show is trying to tell us at the end.

 

[plynch]

But she wasn't confident in herself; she believed in the drug, and her body was conditioned to act as if it worked; and it did so.

Right? Or does she get a talking-to at the end about how it was really herself doing it and she has a change of heart and becomes confident?

Again, I just can't watch this one. Enlighten me if I'm wrong.

 

[FormerLurker]

When Eve took the fake drug, only Childress responded to the change in her as though she was actually putting out whatever it was that makes the men act like teenagers at the Playboy Mansion. That, to me, emphasizes the placebo effect of not knowing it's fake, which Kirk and Mudd obviously did know. As such, whatever they're putting out, it's clearly not normal or natural to the human species as a whole. Whether you want to call it pheromones, or something else, it up to you. But it's clear it's the drug, not a normal function of attraction.

Like I said in my previous post, seen here, Eve and Childress thought it was the real deal, and reacted accordingly when she took it. Kirk and Mudd knew the truth, and didn't. Having taken the drug for and extended period, Eve may have even been putting off a placebo version of whatever enhanced the reaction of those around her, but, as with the difference in her looks, those that knew the truth, Kirk and Mudd, weren't affected by it.

I got the impression that Childress ultimately accepted her, with or without the enhancement, and she responded to him in kind.

 

[Doug Otte]

New topic, but related: I watched I, Mudd today for the first time in a long time. In the last scene where "Jamie" Kirk and crew bid farewell to Mudd (while cruelly leaving him on the planet for life), we see a previously unseen android wearing Ruth's gown from Mudd's Women. It's the gown with the dramatic diagonal slash down the front.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

New topic, but related: I watched I, Mudd today for the first time in a long time. In the last scene where "Jamie" Kirk and crew bid farewell to Mudd (while cruelly leaving him on the planet for life), we see a previously unseen android wearing Ruth's gown from Mudd's Women. It's the gown with the dramatic diagonal slash down the front.

Yes, the "Mudd's Women" gowns. Theiss must have made two of each for safety. So "I, Mudd" was able to put a pair of twins in the hot pink one Eve wore, and another pair of twins in the green one.

The bodice on the pink dress was altered or folded in to create a "hotter" look, or some reason,

http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x06hd/muddswomenhd091.jpg

http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/2x08hd/imuddhd0581.jpg

http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/2x08hd/imuddhd1315.jpg

http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/2x08hd/imuddhd1318.jpg

 

[Henoch]

They are all Harry Mudd originals. Harry moonlights as a women evening gown designer.

 

[johnnybear]

New topic, but related: I watched I, Mudd today for the first time in a long time. In the last scene where "Jamie" Kirk and crew bid farewell to Mudd (while cruelly leaving him on the planet for life), we see a previously unseen android wearing Ruth's gown from Mudd's Women. It's the gown with the dramatic diagonal slash down the front.

Well as I won't be watching this episode again anytime soon I'll have to take your word on that!
JB

 

[Marlonius]

I noticed on a weekend watch that in "The Immunity Syndrome", there's quite a mess of micro tapes on Kirk's bed when he and McCoy have a conversation in his quarters at about the 3/4 mark. No attention is called to them in the episode...I wonder if a cut scene explains the mess.http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/2x18hd/theimmunitysyndromehd1021.jpg

 

[Henoch]

I noticed on a weekend watch that in "The Immunity Syndrome", there's quite a mess of micro tapes on Kirk's bed when he and McCoy have a conversation in his quarters at about the 3/4 mark. No attention is called to them in the episode...I wonder if a cut scene explains the mess.http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/2x18hd/theimmunitysyndromehd1021.jpg

Good eye. I never noticed that before...

 

[Maurice]

I noticed on a weekend watch that in "The Immunity Syndrome", there's quite a mess of micro tapes on Kirk's bed when he and McCoy have a conversation in his quarters at about the 3/4 mark. No attention is called to them in the episode...I wonder if a cut scene explains the mess.http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/2x18hd/theimmunitysyndromehd1021.jpg

I looked at the "Final Draft" script dated October 17, 1967 and there are no other scenes. The content of the scene is different in this draft (there must have been page revisions) in terms of dialog (no "an-ti-bod-ies"), but what's notably different is how the scene is staged: the script says Kirk "lies back on his couch, exhausted" and then Bones comes in. They changed it so Kirk is active, using that little handheld viewer gizmo with the card slot (see photo). All those tapes are because he's desperately trying to find some answer. Bones even glances at the tapes when he walks in. It's pretty obvious in context.

 

[penguin44]

Maybe it's his porn.

 

[johnnybear]

Or his taped adventures that he loves to re-live?
JB

 

[plynch]

Those are the old 2-episodes per tape versions, why there's so many. He should get the new version, all Star Trek eps ever, on one clipboard style-PADD. He can see how that Tarentino fellow envisioned him in 2022.

 

[Phaser Two]

One tape contains 1,000 (23rd century equivalent) phone numbers. I don't know why he was consulting them at that moment.

 

[johnnybear]

I wonder if in the future we'll ever get to the technology of one of those 'tapes' as they call them holding a whole complete series of Star Trek? Just think holding all that gold in your pocket and having a vast library of shows that takes up no more space than one shelf?
JB

 

[plynch]

Gadzooks, it's unthinkable, even with 2020 foresight.

 

[IMC Headquarters]

Ah yes, exabyte "tapes"...

Soon I hope. Very soon.

 

[Warped9]

It would be interesting if tapes means something different in the 23rd century just as we reuse old words for new things. Today a tablet is a far cry from a stone slab or pad of paper that used to be referred to as a tablet.

 

[Forbin]

I wonder if in the future we'll ever get to the technology of one of those 'tapes' as they call them holding a whole complete series of Star Trek? Just think holding all that gold in your pocket and having a vast library of shows that takes up no more space than one shelf?
JB

I've got a buttload of programming on just one thumbdrive in my smart TV. I think we may be there already!

 

[IMC Headquarters]

I love how Commodore Decker rubbed them together in his hand like Captain Queeg with his ball bearings. I bet they would have sold their souls for a fidget spinner...

The tapes are interesting in that the information within each one is instantly accessible without having to plow through an acre of file headers and sub-folders. That is the truly innovative thing about them. The fact that they use an archaic name for them doesn't detract from their advanced usefulness. Just part of the charm of remembering the value of analog systems in a world run by AI systems of godlike capacity.