Pick 1 Episode, Add, Modify or Delete One Thing To Improve It

[Mytran]

The one thing I would change about this episode would be at the end to have Spock and Rand sitting in the mess with Kirk as he was explaining the Venus drug was largely fake and wondering why the crew acted so crazy. Then I'd have Spock and Rand look at each other, roll their eyes and leave.

But the Venus drug wasn't fake, just the substitute ones that were used in that final scene. Otherwise it makes the (male) crew of the Enterprise look even more incompetent!

 

[MAGolding]

What I am curious about with the Lithium Chrystal blackmail though is it seems like Mudd doesn't have much leverage. If the miners don't give them the crystals then he dies with everyone else on the ship. Also if he is free then doesn't that mean he is stuck on that planet with the minors? Exactly how does he expect to get off and also nothing really stops Starfleet's ability to come back and arrest them at a later date and that includes him as well. Plus even he will run out the Venus Drug and have no way of getting more of it on that planet. Seems to me he should be trying to bargin for a shuttlecraft and maybe a headstart before the minors give up the Crystals and then he can make a deal with the minors or the woman where he will return with more Venus Drug.

Jason

As I say in post # 123:

Note that the only reason why the miners refused to hand over the Dilithium crystals was because the women refused to marry them until they got Harry Mudd freed. And the only reason why the women refused to marry them (which was pretty much their original goal) until they got Harry Mudd freed is because Mudd got them addicted to the Venus drug and he was their only supplier and it would be hard to arrange a new one stuck out in the boondocks on Rigel XII.

And in post # 127:

There was a lot of manipulation from Mudd. Eve, Magda, and Ruth may have become addicted to the Venus Drug, or afraid to be seen without using it, and Mudd was their supplier. Mudd used his control over the Venus Drug supply to get them to insist that the miners withhold the Dilithium crystals until Mudd was freed, thus threatening the destruction of the Enteprise.

Mudd used his hold over the women to force them to get the miners to support Mudd.

 

[Commishsleer]

Does Uhura even have a line in this episode? I think she and the other crewwomen disappear for most of this episode.

Probably hiding in embarrassment over their male colleagues.

 

[Qonundrum]

"The Way to Eden" - give it a proper focal point... or failing that, at least get Adam to convince the men to wear miniskirts and thigh-high go-go boots. There's no possible way the episode could be any worse.

 

[Armus]

Operation Annihilate! Don't have Spock lose his vision only to miraculously regain it in the same episode where we learn Vulcans have some special eye protection from high intensity lights.

 

[Armus]

Space Seed. Khan should not have been given a starfleet uniform.

 

[Spock's Barber]

"The Way to Eden" - give it a proper focal point... or failing that, at least get Adam to convince the men to wear miniskirts and thigh-high go-go boots. There's no possible way the episode could be any worse.

Even Clint Eastwood hates hippies....

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[scotpens]

I have no idea if it was the writers intention or not but one way I kind of look at the over-top male reaction to the woman is that since the woman on the ship are co-workers they are not likely going to date each other. I mean we do know that has happened but I think it's rare in Starfleet. That means these new non-starfleet woman might have been the first sexy woman they have seen in awhile because they have been out in space for awhile.

I thought it was made clear that the men reacted that way because of the Venus drug. In addition to making Mudd's women more physically attractive, it seemed to have pheromone-like properties. That's why it made McCoy's diagnostic scanner go "bleep!"

 

[Samuel]

"The Way to Eden" - give it a proper focal point... or failing that, at least get Adam to convince the men to wear miniskirts and thigh-high go-go boots. There's no possible way the episode could be any worse.

Improve "The Way to Eden"? At the end when the Enterprise leaves Eden show them running at warp just ahead of some angry Romulans in Warbirds, belatedly reacting to the incursion by the Enterprise.

 

[Commishsleer]

I thought it was made clear that the men reacted that way because of the Venus drug. In addition to making Mudd's women more physically attractive, it seemed to have pheromone-like properties. That's why it made McCoy's diagnostic scanner go "bleep!"

The men didn't get the Venus drug so why would they react that way?
It the traditional love potion trope the victim gets the love potion. That happened in Mudd's TAS episode and Harry Potter etc.
We're sort of expected to accept a drug ingested by another person can make us act like a total idiot around them. And that we the audience are OK with the crew of the Enterprise doing that.

Anyway if the drug removed wrinkles and did make people look younger and more attractive Harry could make a million times more money just selling it in the beauty industry.

 

[Shawnster]

The men didn't get the Venus drug so why would they react that way?
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The Venus drug causes some measurable physiological effect in the partakers. This is made clear because the diagnostic sensor in sick bay goes "bleep."

This same physiological effect affects the men on the Enterprise and, no doubt, the miners, too.

Mudd, however, seems immune.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

He likely has the antidote and is keeping it to himself until it becomes profitable to do so. I can imagine him selling the Venus drug, and after that goes awry, his secret partner sells the antidote, and they share the profits.