Mudd’s Women

Episode 193

Friday 24 July 2026

It's Harcourt Fenton Mudd, a round-faced young man with a smug expression and an impressively waxed moustache. He wears his hat with panache, and a bauble dangles from his left ear.

Star Trek: The Original Series

Series 1, Episode 6

Stardate: 1329.8

First broadcast on Thursday 13 October 1966

It’s 1966 on board Enterprise this week, with all the horrific male chauvinism that implies. Three glamorous women beam aboard wearing fashionably asymmetrical sequinned dresses, evidently in search of rich lonely men to marry. And leading them is the charmingly ridiculous Harcourt Fenton Mudd, with his gap-toothed smile and alarming chest hair. It’s kind of fun, but is the chauvinism too high a price to pay?

Episode 193: Mudd’s Women

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Star Trek: The Original Series

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