Remember that Star Trek ep about Col. Mudd's women?

[Montauk6]

I don't recall all the details but just the general idea. Basically, you had this guy Col. Mudd who was pimping (you might as well call it that) these very glamorous robot women who were also very dangerous. I don't remember why Kirk & Crew had to stop this guy (probably he was commandeering the Enterprise) but they had to and it was impossible with these henchladies guarding him. So, Kirk and Spock figured out that their functional circuitry was contingent upon strict, cold logic. Anything that smacked of the illogical or absurd would fry out their system; so they overcame them by acting silly.

OK, you had to be there. ANYWAY...

My point is that I was amused being reminded of this episode as I thought about those die-hard freepers that STILL believe that Saddam had WMDs to the level that made the current travesty necessary. Part of their whole rigamarole is to cling to the notion that the * Administration never lied about weapons (in fact, they were totally correct in their assessments). OK, we've since learned about all the documents and memos that prove that the *Co were full of it; AND, as a bonus, most of the * muckety-mucks have said there are no WMDs and we're not looking for them anymore and it's a done deal. So, wouldn't the Freeper who still clings to this notion that * is an honest, godly man and that Saddam is still stashing WMDs have to, by the corner he's painted himself in, assert that *Co is lying now (that is, about there NOT being any weapons)?

I just picture the heads swinging back and forth, tilting, and smoke coming out of the ears.

Happy Mama's Day!!!!

[Hugin]

1. I've seen a few about to blow....

Terminal cognitive dissonance is an ugly thing.

But, these people are wired differently from Mudd's
Women.

They have an ability to write off the lies and antics
as "The ends justify the means." or "The Goon Squad knows
things I'm not allowed to know and I'm probably better off
not knowing."

Eeeyup, rule by divine right is a scary thing.

It's all a big game of TeeVee sports to them.

[Montauk6]

7. It IS a big game of Teevee sports to them!

Fox News with all the lights and colors might as well be ESPN! It's like Brent Musberger should be their main anchor.

[warrior1]

2. I think what we are trapped in is this.

Samaritan Snare

Geordi is taken hostage by the Pakleds.



The crafty Pakled



Grebnedlog the Pakled




Reginod the Pakled

[kedrys]

4. We look for things. Things that make us go.

To this day, still on my list of worst ST episodes ever. :D

[TheDebbieDee]

6. Don't be dissin' the Pakleds! The Pakleds were cool..........

in a stupid kind of way! :-)

[Montauk6]

11. Uh-oh, emergency edition of "Separated at Birth"!

Paklad and PNAC funnyman Billy Kristol

[Chipper Chat]

3. HhhaaaARRrrrrr-courrt !!!!!!

Kirk's revenge on Harry was cloning Mudd's wife - a not-too-pretty bitch as I remember. Maybe justice in this country will finally win out by SO many rightwing republican fundie nutjob clones polluting our midst that we will finally flush them all down the toilet with their hubris crapped away forever.
Incidentally, that episode was so expensive (the beautiful costumes on about 50 chicks) the Star Trek budget was fried and the numbnut ABC heirarchy said "we gotta cancel this show." Stupid.

[Ready4Change]

10. There were 2 "Mudd" episodes

The original messages description mixes the two.

In one, called "I, Mudd", the freelance trader named Harcourt Fenten (Harry) Mudd had wandered across a planet populated by various models of androids. Using them, he attempts to get control of the Enterprise, but soon finds it is the Androids who are gaining control.

The other episode, titled "Mudds Women", he is basically pimping beautiful women as wives to lonely asteroid miners. Turns out his women aren't as glamourous and sexy. They only appear that way due to an alien drug he has been giving the women, which temporarily revs them up.

[Montauk6]

12. ABC or NBC?

(just watchin' your back, bro)

[Chipper Chat]

14. Oops - it was NBC.

My apologies to ABC - the network that gives us such mature fare as the hour-long Cory Clark-Paula Abdul sex special. Beam me up!

[baldguy]

5. So, who would be "Norman"?

[TheDebbieDee]

8. Karl Rove!

[NYCGirl]

9. You're completely mixing up 2 episodes, but your point is valid.

"Mudd's Women"

The U.S.S. Enterprise pursues an unknown ship into an asteroid belt to save its crew before it's destroyed. The four people aboard are beamed on to the U.S.S. Enterprise; former nemesis Harry Mudd and three beautiful, sultry women: Ruth Bonaventure, Eve McHuron and Magda Kovacs. Mudd was transporting the three women to Ophiuchus VI to marry settlers there.

The Enterprise computers reveal that Mudd has been charged with a number of infractions of the law. In pursuit of Mudd's ship, the U.S.S. Enterprise has burned out its lithium crystals, which power the starship's engines, and Kirk orders them to proceed as quickly as possible to the nearest lithium mining planet. That planet is Rigel XII, which is inhabited by only three lithium miners.

Mudd manages to contact Ben Childress, the head miner, and make a deal with him. Mudd promises to deliver the three beautiful women to the lonely miners in exchange for lithium crystals and their help in escaping Kirk.

Upon reaching the planet, Eve tries to escape, having fallen for Kirk and not wanting to marry one of the miners, but Ben Childress brings her back. They discover that the women are using an extremely illegal Venus drug to make them beautiful and without which they become quite plain. By the time the fraud is discovered, Magda and Ruth are already married to the miners, to the satisfaction of all parties involved. Eve, who realizes that Kirk is married to his career and to his starship, settles for marrying Ben. Kirk gets the lithium crystals he needs for the U.S.S. Enterprise and Harry Mudd, on whom he has filed criminal charges.

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TOS/episode/68668.html

"I, Mudd"

Norman, an android pretending to be a member of the U.S.S. Enterprise crew, takes control of the starship and her crew, taking them to an unnamed planet where Kirk discovers an old nemesis ... Harry Mudd.

Fleeing from his most recent criminal exploit, Harry crash-landed on the planet, which is inhabited by androids designed by a long-extinct race. At first their desire to fulfill his every need seemed like paradise, but Harry soon realized that precluded him ever leaving the planet. So, sending Norman to capture the U.S.S. Enterprise, Mudd hoped to trade the starship's crew for his own freedom.

The androids, however, want to use the U.S.S. Enterprise as a vehicle to populate the universe, serving mankind and protecting them from themselves. Unwilling to spend their lives on the strange planet, waited on by machines, Kirk and company set about finding a way out. It is not without temptation, however.

Spock is shown what is supposedly the control center for all the androids ... a veritable electronics dream come true. McCoy is given an extensive lab, set up to do all the research he's ever wanted to do, while Scotty is shown the technical machine shop of his dreams. The androids offer Uhura eternal youth and beauty while Chekov contemplates a planet filled with beautiful young women.

In the end, however, the crew bands together in an attempt to thoroughly confuse and, ultimately, short-circuit them. Through a series of illogical and very funny antics, the U.S.S. Enterprise crew and Mudd cause Norman, the central control for all the androids, to have an electronic "nervous breakdown." Instead of granting Harry Mudd his freedom, Kirk leaves him on the planet with the remaining androids ... including many fashioned in the image of his shrewish wife, Stella, until he mends his ways.

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TOS/episode/68742.html

[warrior1]

13. Yesterday's Enterprise

While on a routine mission, the U.S.S. Enterprise discovers a bizarre rift in space, which reveals an unidentified vessel. Both ships are now on an alternate time line where the Federation is in the midst of a bloody war with the Klingons.


There's a line from Guinan where she states "This isn't right, things aren't what it's suppose to be." Or something like that.

I felt the same way after the election in 2000.

[kliljedahl]

15. Toon from yesterday

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