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*Did McCoy actually apologize for offending Spock? Aww…
*I love how all the engineers literally throw themselves at Norman to try to stop him from sabotaging the ship. THOSE ARE MR. SCOTT’S ENGINES, BUB.
*Uhura and Chekov nearly bumping into Norman is a cute touch. WHATEV, DEACTIVATED ANDROID ON THE BRIDGE, THEY HAVE SHIT TO DO.
*So the androids are identified by their halting, hesitation-ridden speech patterns. I’m surprised they didn’t go the obvious route and reveal Kirk has been an android all along.
*Spock: Five hundred of the same model. That seems rather redundant.
Mudd: I have a fondness for this particular model, Mr. Spock, that you, unfortunately, are ill-equipped to appreciate.
Off-camera, Uhura is laughing her ass off.
*Did Mudd just say “information wants to be free”? You just know Mudd’s one of those torrenters who makes you download a zip file, then you have to go to his website to get the password.
*Look at Bones’s face during the reveal of the “shrine” to Mudd’s wife.
Bones: Well, he’s a douche, but you can’t help but admire…
Kirk: NO.
*Androids: Why should we leave you?
Kirk: BECAUSE we don’t like you! (makes shooing sounds)
EPIC.
*McCoy geeking out at the science lab! I love when he’s as much of a nerd as Spock.
*You just know Scotty is still pissed about someone messing with his engines.
*Chekov: Oh well, it doesn’t make much difference, you’re both lovely.
Such. A. Pimp.
*Kirk: No, [the Enterprise] is a beautiful lady and WE LOVE HER.
*Nowadays, Mudd and his wife come off less like the Lockhorns and more like Mudd is a distant descendant of Warren Mears.
*Oh, Uhura, you were ALWAYS awesome, weren’t you?
*And now the crew has to destroy the androids by acting kooky. There’s a fanfic cliché that never caught on. “Spock, we must destroy the robots with illogic! Take off your pants!” Oh, TOS, you’re canon crackfic, aren’t you?
*Chekov’s dancing can kill robots. CANON.
*Spock loves ‘em and leaves ‘em. Don’t hate the playa, hate the game. “Faaascinating.”
*Those androids are totally following the Zeroth Law.
*So, the androids’ one weakness is performance art? I feel like that sometimes.
*Spock: …nowhere am I so eminently needed as onboard a ship full of illogical humans.
I think I got something in my eye there…
*Admittedly, that was one of the better pwnings Kirk's handed out.
So this has aged much better than Mudd's Women, with the classic "destroy computers with illogic" plot, the crew getting a chance to be whimsical (unfortunately, future Treks grew away from that grinning sense of fun and tended to replace it with self-seriousness), and of course Mudd getting a much better chance to be a foil for Kirk. Apparently, Mudd was supposed to come out of cryogenic suspension in the TNG episode The Neutral Zone, but after the actor died, the part was rewritten to be a 20th-century businessman. While it's always a shame to miss out on Mudd, I don't think the tones of Mudd and Picard would interact that well, and besides, Q filled the same archetype in a very different, very fitting way.
*Did McCoy actually apologize for offending Spock? Aww…
*I love how all the engineers literally throw themselves at Norman to try to stop him from sabotaging the ship. THOSE ARE MR. SCOTT’S ENGINES, BUB.
*Uhura and Chekov nearly bumping into Norman is a cute touch. WHATEV, DEACTIVATED ANDROID ON THE BRIDGE, THEY HAVE SHIT TO DO.
*So the androids are identified by their halting, hesitation-ridden speech patterns. I’m surprised they didn’t go the obvious route and reveal Kirk has been an android all along.
*Spock: Five hundred of the same model. That seems rather redundant.
Mudd: I have a fondness for this particular model, Mr. Spock, that you, unfortunately, are ill-equipped to appreciate.
Off-camera, Uhura is laughing her ass off.
*Did Mudd just say “information wants to be free”? You just know Mudd’s one of those torrenters who makes you download a zip file, then you have to go to his website to get the password.
*Look at Bones’s face during the reveal of the “shrine” to Mudd’s wife.
Bones: Well, he’s a douche, but you can’t help but admire…
Kirk: NO.
*Androids: Why should we leave you?
Kirk: BECAUSE we don’t like you! (makes shooing sounds)
EPIC.
*McCoy geeking out at the science lab! I love when he’s as much of a nerd as Spock.
*You just know Scotty is still pissed about someone messing with his engines.
*Chekov: Oh well, it doesn’t make much difference, you’re both lovely.
Such. A. Pimp.
*Kirk: No, [the Enterprise] is a beautiful lady and WE LOVE HER.
*Nowadays, Mudd and his wife come off less like the Lockhorns and more like Mudd is a distant descendant of Warren Mears.
*Oh, Uhura, you were ALWAYS awesome, weren’t you?
*And now the crew has to destroy the androids by acting kooky. There’s a fanfic cliché that never caught on. “Spock, we must destroy the robots with illogic! Take off your pants!” Oh, TOS, you’re canon crackfic, aren’t you?
*Chekov’s dancing can kill robots. CANON.
*Spock loves ‘em and leaves ‘em. Don’t hate the playa, hate the game. “Faaascinating.”
*Those androids are totally following the Zeroth Law.
*So, the androids’ one weakness is performance art? I feel like that sometimes.
*Spock: …nowhere am I so eminently needed as onboard a ship full of illogical humans.
I think I got something in my eye there…
*Admittedly, that was one of the better pwnings Kirk's handed out.
So this has aged much better than Mudd's Women, with the classic "destroy computers with illogic" plot, the crew getting a chance to be whimsical (unfortunately, future Treks grew away from that grinning sense of fun and tended to replace it with self-seriousness), and of course Mudd getting a much better chance to be a foil for Kirk. Apparently, Mudd was supposed to come out of cryogenic suspension in the TNG episode The Neutral Zone, but after the actor died, the part was rewritten to be a 20th-century businessman. While it's always a shame to miss out on Mudd, I don't think the tones of Mudd and Picard would interact that well, and besides, Q filled the same archetype in a very different, very fitting way.
