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Star Trek The Original Series Vol 21 Episodes 41 and 42 I Mudd The Trouble With Tribbles
“I, Mudd”
Lovable scoundrel Harry Mudd (Roger C. Carmel) returns following his debut appearance in the first-season episode “Mudd’s Women,” this time as the leader of a race of helpful (and leggy) androids. Mudd tries to take control of the Enterprise, but soon finds that the androids have plans of their own. This is one of Trek’s few purely comic episodes, and it hits a nice level of whimsy as Kirk and the crew fight android efficiency with good old human illogic. “I, Mudd” also sets a benchmark achievement for the Star Trek design crew: It called not just for beautiful women in revealing costumes, but for beautiful twins in revealing costumes. Truly a tough one to top, cheesily foreshadowing the “Fembots” of Austin Powers infamy. –Ali Davis
“The Trouble with Tribbles”
It’s time to face one of the great questions of the television age: Is “The Trouble with Tribbles” really as good as everyone thinks it is? You bet. While the story might be a little slower than many of us remember, the episode is deservedly beloved for writer David Gerrold’s witty, mildly acerbic script, and the way the cast took to heightened comic possibilities against network resistance. (Heavens! Comedy on a science fiction show?) Stanley Adams is delightful as the huckster Cyrano Jones, who gives a trilling furball called a tribble to Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), who brings it aboard the Enterprise and watches it reproduce… and reproduce… and reproduce. Soon, hundreds of tribbles are in every part of the ship, making Captain Kirk (William Shatner), already grouchy about guarding a mere grain shipment from Klingons, even grouchier. There’s no question that Gerrold made a major contribution to Trek culture with this show, setting a tone that Star Trek has visited again and again, including the feature film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and sundry episodes of The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager. –Tom Keogh
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I received this item very quickly. This is a Christmas gift for my son and he is missing Vol. 21. He will be happy to add it to his collection.
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5 Stars Even as the 2nd best DVD of the series, it’s awesome!
The first best DVD is the one with “Shore Leave” and “The Squire of Gothos” on it. Ironically, the guy who played ‘The Squire’ in that fine episode, also plays THE VERY FIRST KLINGON that we ever see in “The Trouble with Tribbles”! William Campbell, as Captain Koloth, defined for us what Klingons were all about.
I have known Bill Campbell for many years and he always felt it was important to point out to fans, “I was a Klingon before they acquired the ‘nodules’ on their foreheads.” As far as I can ascertain, Bill also held one other unique position in regard to Star Trek — he was the only returning major actor to the series who ever played two different roles (unlike Roger C. Carmel who played Harry Mudd in multiple episodes).
In “The Trouble with Tribbles,” Kirk runs into big diplomatic problems with the Klingons and with The Federation’s own Administrator. Klingon agents are also wreaking havoc. And then those dang, incredibly prolific Tribbles are found eating up the Enterprise’s precious grain cargo, the Quadrotriticale (the scientific name for common wheat is Triticum aestivum). But the Tribbles might just be the answer to the whole mess…
All the “Harcourt Fenton ‘Harry’ Mudd” entries are just great, and that’s a second episode on this particular DVD.
A steal for Original Series Star Trek fans!